Mile Sur Mera Tumhara
"Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" | |
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Kona Prabhakar Rao, Aarti Gupta & Kailash Surendranath with Lok Seva Sanchar Parishad, India |
"Ek Sur" (transl. One tune) or "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" (transl. "As our tune(s) merge together") as it is better known, is an Indian song and accompanying video promoting national integration and unity in diversity.
The concept for Mile Sur was developed in 1988 by Lok Seva Sanchar Parishad and promoted by
The
Mile Sur was telecast for the first time on Independence Day, 1988, after the telecast of the Prime Minister's speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort.[3]
Languages used
Hindi (Bhimsen Joshi and Lata Mangeshkar's parts, among others), and chronologically, the others were: Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bangla, Assamese, Odia, Gujarati and Marathi.[4] (Among the languages present, then in 1988, in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India).
Cast
- Singers and musicians: Kavita Krishnamurthy, Shubhangi Bose, Suchitra Mitra, R A Rama Mani, Ananda Shankar
- Poets: Nirendranath Chakravarty, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Javed Akhtar
- Actors:
- Cricketers: Narendra Hirwani, Arun Lal, Diana Edulji
- Footballers: Pradip Kumar Banerjee, Chuni Goswami
- Hockey-Players: Leslie Claudius, Gurbux Singh
- Badminton-Player: Prakash Padukone
- Basketball-Player: Gulam Abbas Moontasir
- Dancers: Sudharani Raghupathy, Amala Shankar, Mallika Sarabhai, Sathyanarayana Raju[5]
- Others: cartoonist Mario Miranda, filmmaker Mrinal Sen, architect Kalpana Kuttaiah,[6] motoracer Jagat Nanjappa,[6] television host A. V. Ramanan
Production
It is widely reported that the idea for the song was formed by
Producer and director Kailash Surendranath filmed the opening sequence with Pandit Bhimsen Joshi at Pambar Falls in Kodaikanal, where Surendranath had previously filmed a famous ad for
Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara
Twenty years after the tune's debut, it was re-recorded with an updated cast for telecast on 26 January 2010 by
The new version featured the following people:
- Musicians: A. R. Rahman, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Anoushka Shankar, Shivkumar Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Zakir Hussain, Bhupen Hazarika, Sivamani, L. Subramaniam, Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Khan, Ayaan Ali Khan, Louis Banks, Darshan Doshi, Siddharth Mahadevan
- Singers: , N. C. Karunya, Shreya Ghoshal, Amitabh Bachchan.
- Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Vikram, Suriya, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Mahesh Babu, Juhi Chawla, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Shilpa Shetty, Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Mammootty, Shobana, Sonali Kulkarni, Atul Kulkarni, Aamir Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan.
- Sportspeople: Sushil Kumar, Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal
- Others: Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik, choreographer Shiamak Davar, film director Karan Johar
References
- ^ a b "DD releases patriotic song ahead of Independence Day". Livemint. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ a b "5 things you didn't know about 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara'". Condé Nast Traveller India. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Mile sur: The unofficial Indian anthem". The Financial Express. 26 April 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^ "Remember Mile Sur Mera Tumhara? The song late singer M Balamuralikrishna will be most remembered for". India Today. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "On My Pinboard". Deccan Herald. 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Twitter". Twitter. 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ a b Goyal, Sandeep (14 August 2017). "Remembering 'Mile sur mera tumhara', the song of united India". Campaign India. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ "Sindhis Demand Their Place in 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara'". Outlook India. 14 February 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Sachin called in to save Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara". News18. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Roy, Saumya (17 February 2010). "'Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' Fails To Rekindle Emotions". Forbes India. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
External links
- Mile Sur Mera Tumhara on YouTube
- Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara on YouTube