Our films celebrate all festivals with much gusto and one of the most popular festivals is Navratri where garba and dandiya, originally from Gujarat, is played throughout the nine days all over India. Presenting some popular dandiya songs that are mandatory at every garba pandal
Main to bhool chali babul ka des
Film: Saraswatichandra (1968)
Music: Kalyanji Anandji
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
Nutan features in this vintage song and the way she moves to the rhythm should give new dancing goals to our current heroines.
Hey naam re
Film: Suhaag (1979)
Music: Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Singers: Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha steam it up in this evergreen song. It may be a garba song but they have eyes only for each other.
Disco dandiya
Film: Love Love Love (1989)
Music: Bappi Lahiri
Singers: Alisha Chinoy and Vijay Benedict
Aamir Khan kills it in this modern interpretation of the traditional dandiya song. You can see he’s having lots of fun acting in it.
Radha kaise na jale
Film: Lagaan (2001)
Music: AR Rehman
Singers: Asha Bhosle, Udit Narayan, Vaishali Samant
Aamir Khan and Gracy Singh play Radha and Krishna in this dramatic song. She’s jealous of him being overfriendly with the foreigner Elizabeth and it’s apparent in her body language.
Dholi taro dhol baaje
Film: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999)
Music: Ismail Darbar
Singers: Kavita Krishnamurthy, Vinod Rathod, Karsan Sagathia
Aishwarya Rai and Salman Khan weave their magic in this fast moving number. They were said to be much in love with each other at the time and it shows in the song.
Nagada sang dhol
Film: Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013)
Music: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Singer: Shreya Ghoshal
Deepika Padukone looked ethereal in this song where she’s giddy with love and let’s everyone know it.
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