This is one man whose genius blows me away. Sahir Ludhianvi may be one of the exceptions. There are none whom I idolize and place on a pedestal and see no wrong in. There are some whom I especially like, there are some for whom I will watch a film just because they’re in it. I tend to say that so-and-so song or film, for instance, is among my favourites the same goes for actors, singers, directors, and so on. I am leery of attaching ‘best’ and ‘most favourite’ appellations to anybody or anything, no matter how much I may be fond of the person/creation/whatever in question. After all, a festival is cause for celebration, and what better way to celebrate than with a song? With, almost invariably, a bonus: a song attached to the festival. Some are celebrated pretty much across the country some are so confined to a particular region that they’re rarely even known of outside that locale.Īnd these festivals, naturally, show up in Hindi cinema. As a result, there’s a merry mix of religious festivals, seasonal festivals related to harvest/sowing/etc, as well as secular festivals and celebrations. Part of the reason probably is our immense diversity: we have people from widely differing regional cultures here, and following different faiths. I don’t know if there’s a definitive answer for the question “Which country has the most festivals in the world?” but I could lay a safe bet that India would be pretty much among the top of the pack. “And then there’ll be a lull all through the summer and the monsoon,” we’re told, every year. Dussehra/Durga Puja, Govardhan Puja, Karva Chauth, Diwali, Bhai Dooj, and a gazillion smaller festivities, some which I didn’t even know about a few years ago. Every year, come October, a relative of ours says, “The festival season has begun.” She goes on to list every single celebration coming up over the next several months.
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