Awara Hoon
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Awara Hoon also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...
: आवारा हूँ; Urdu: آواره هوں; Russian
Russian language
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: Авара Гу) was an internationally popular song from the 1951 classic Hindi film
Bollywood
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, Awaara
Awaara
Awaara is a 1951 Hindi film directed and produced by Raj Kapoor who also plays the leading role. His real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor stars as his on-screen father Judge Raghunath. Kapoor's youngest real-life brother Shashi Kapoor plays the younger version of his character...
, starring Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor
Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...
. The song was written in the Hindi-Urdu or Hindustani language by lyricist Shailendra
Shailendra
Shankardas Kesarilal , popularly known by his pen name Shailendra, was a popular Indian Hindi lyricist.-Career as a lyricist:...
and sung by Mukesh
Mukesh
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. Awara Hoon immediately struck "a chord in audiences from various classes and backgrounds all over India and beyond: in China, in the Soviet Union, in the Middle East." In China, "both the song and film were said to be Chairman Mao
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
's favourites."
Local versions
The popularity of Awara Hoon led to the creation of localized versions of the song in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, China, and Romania.Example verse
The refrain of the song is Awara Hoon, which means I am a vagabondVagabond
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/tramp
Tramp
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. The song is in Hindi-Urdu, which is usually written in either Devanagari
Devanagari
Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...
or Nastaliq. It has a catchy, rhythmic tempo with several short lines interposed with a few slightly longer ones.
Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi... |
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