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Languages of India

The languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-European languages—Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian languages...

), or "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" as it is better known, is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n 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 Doordarshan

DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...

(then India's sole TV broadcaster) and India

India

's Ministry of Information. The song was composed by Ashok Patki, co-composed & arranged by Louis Banks

Louis Banks

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, written by Piyush Pandey

Piyush Pandey

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(then an Account Manager and presently the Executive Chairman and Creative Head of Ogilvy and Mather, India). The project was conceived and directed by Suresh Mullick (then all India Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather) and recorded by a group of people from all walks of life, including a supergroup of popular Indians - musicians, sports persons, movie stars, etc.

The national integration video was intended to instill a sense of pride and promote unity amongst Indians, highlighting the different linguistic communities and societies that live in India - India's unity in diversity, so to speak.

Mile Sur was telecast for the first time on Independence Day

Independence Day (India)

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1988, after the telecast of the Prime Minister’s speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

It quickly captivated India, gaining and maintaining near-anthem status ever since.

Lyrical format

The song's lyrics are unique; One phrase, repeated in fourteen Indian languages: "Milē sur mērā tumhārā, tō sur banē hamārā", meaning "When my tune and yours merge, it becomes our song". The lyrics in different languages are given below:
The song itself ends by fading into the final notes of the Indian National Anthem

Jana Gana Mana

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Languages used

Hindi

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, Kashmiri

Kashmiri language

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, Urdu, Punjabi

Punjabi language

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, Sindhi

Sindhi language

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, Tamil

Tamil language

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, Kannada

Kannada language

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, Telugu

Telugu language

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, Malayalam

Malayalam language

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, Bangla, Assamese

Assamese language

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, Oriya

Oriya language

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, Gujarati

Gujarati language

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and Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

. (Among the languages present, then in 1988, in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India

Constitution of India

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, Kamal Hassan, Amitabh Bachchan

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, Mithun Chakraborty

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, Tanvir Ashai , K. R. Vijaya

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, Revathi

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, Jeetendra

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, Waheeda Rehman

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, Tanuja, Sharmila Tagore

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, Om Puri

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Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

Twenty years after the original debut, the song was re-recorded with an updated cast for telecast on January 26, 2010 by Zoom TV. This version titled Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara features Indian musicians, singers, sportspersons and film personalities from the current generation. The current version (16 min 17 sec) runs longer than the older version (6 min 9 sec) and has been directed by Kailash Surendranath

Kailash Surendranath

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who had produced the original version of Mile Sur Mera Tumhara as well. The new version also retains music composer/arranger Louis Banks

Louis Banks

Louis Banks is a Grammy Award nominated film composer, record producer, jazz musician-keyboardist and singer...

who had co-composed/arranged the original Mile Sur Mera Tumhara as well. It attracted tremendous amount of criticism in a large section of population among them were the Sindhi community which were hurt over the deletion of the Sindhi lines "Mohnja sur tohi desa pyara mile jadein Geet ashaanjo madhur tarano bane tadein" present in the original Mile sur mera tumhara. Furthermore, criticism arose over many notable personalities such as, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Sachin Tendulkar and Vishwanathan Anand, not featuring in the song. According to the critics, the new Phir mile sur mera was not able to bring patriotism among a large section of population and is considered to be a huge failure.

External links

New version
http://www.assamtimes.org/blog/3702.html
http://www.fyoq.com/2010/01/25/mile-sur-mera-tumhara-new-version-as-phir-mile-sur-90042/
http://www.speakbindas.com/phir-mile-sur-lacks-the-touch/
(inspired) - Yahoo version
(inspired) - Intel version
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