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Wedding Reception Hindi Songs List Indian Marriage

Posted in: Uncategorized | January 21st 2010 | no comments

The moment of a wedding is thoroughly thought of even long before the actual planning begins. The importance of such an event is regarded with solemnize and the people involved first in the planning and later in the actual celebration pay a lot of attention in including and performing several events that are seen as emphasizing notions to relate to the emotions encompassed in the wedding festivity. Sometimes more than the ceremonial, the wedding reception contains events that are supported by various factors able to define the presence of these events, making them significant in the evolution of the Indian wedding.

Traditionally, every wedding reception consists of elements that relate to feelings captured throughout time and as such becoming relevant symbols inside the unfolding of a wedding party. These symbols are rendered also by the presence of songs performed with dominant emotions and with lyrics to describe the variety of beliefs and feelings. And to complete the spectacle of displaying emotions, dances are introduced to be relevant parts of the music played inside a wedding reception. Indian people are remarkable in this aspect: they run their wedding celebration in showers of Hindi songs and dancing that are performed with moves to symbolically stand for the musical compositions.

I suppose that many of you are familiar with the songs included in Indian movies, the ones referred as Bollywood songs. These ones are performed in Hindi language, most commonly met in India, but also present as “Urdu” language in Pakistan. These songs that are included in Indian movies and through their lyrics emotionally emphasize the plot of the movie, its lines and actors’ attitude, as well, are written for ordinary people having themes encountered in everyday life. And as such the wedding reception Hindi songs list for Indian marriage can successfully contain Bollywood’s songs lyrics and tunes.



These songs are described by the presence of ‘rasa’ which is a dominant emotion that is found in the displaying of a Hindi song. As such nine types of ‘rasa’ are identified, but the ones easy to be recognized in a wedding reception Hindi songs are: ‘milan’ – which stands for being together, ‘hasya’ – for making someone happy or smile, and ‘shanta’ – for contemplation and peacefulness. Some of these songs are happily and sometimes emotionally encompassed in the list of preferences for wedding reception Hindi songs list for Indian marriage. “Hawa Mein Udta Jaye” is a song that has become a classic one being joyful and describing the feelings of a young woman in love who allows the world to see the gleeful look of her happy face once the feeling of love has nestled inside her soul.



“Jaane kyaa tune kahii” is also one of the classics depicting the onset of the most wanted feeling: the feeling of love and the passion that comes with it. “Chandan saa badan, chanchal chitavan” is one song that is composed in the classic ‘milan’ of the rasa, showing that exchanging glances is seen as the most erotic part of in the manifestation of flirting. “Phuulon ke rang se” is a love song about the lover who can not forget his beloved one, dreaming of her, each moment spent without her being considered his torture for his longing soul.



A playful, tumultuous song which is generally performed with a group of dancers, is “Khaike paan banaras wala”. Another one which is considered to be somehow mysterious in its lyrics due to a double interpretation is “Chaiyya Chaiyya”, its double meaning revealing it as either a love song or the one that prays the Lord.
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Wedding Songs