Re: Political Music
Posted: 2016-06-15, 4:20
This (from 10:06 to 15:23 in the video) is a Malayalam communist campaign song from a 1985 movie with the same title (it's the third song in the list). I feel the musical style changes abruptly four times (it starts with a quick march, then changes to a Muslim folk song, then goes back to the quick march, then changes again to...I'm not sure what to call it, but that fast-paced drumming style that's so common in South Indian music, and then back to a quick march again). I remember listening to this song (and the first one in the list) ever since I was a child and know the lyrics by heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgt-NFb ... u.be&t=606
This Hindi song was the regimental quick march of the Indian National Army (INA) and is now used in the same capacity in the Indian Army. It is also the only song my grandfather specifically mentions in his memoirs (well, unless something changes in the last 15 pages
) because one day, he and his colleagues had some INA soldiers as visitors and one of them played a violin as the others sang and danced to this song all evening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQxWFawxbqc
EDIT: See here for some more information on the second song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgt-NFb ... u.be&t=606
This Hindi song was the regimental quick march of the Indian National Army (INA) and is now used in the same capacity in the Indian Army. It is also the only song my grandfather specifically mentions in his memoirs (well, unless something changes in the last 15 pages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQxWFawxbqc
EDIT: See here for some more information on the second song.