Kannada film music

[Sudarshan C R]

Here is a song from the film ‘nAMdi’ a b/w film released during the year 1964.
For the first time, the plight of deaf people was captured in a commercial film.
This film gained national and international recognition during that period.
It was Shri N Lakshminarayan’s debut film as Director.
It was debut film for Actor Dinesh as supporting role.
The song is a patriotic song written by Shri R N Jayagopal and the music is by Shri Vijaya Bhaskar.

More details of the film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naandi_(film)#References
https://kannadamoviesinfo.wordpress....9/naandi-1964/

Lyric goes here:

chitra: nAMdi 1964
gAyana: pi bi shrInivAs kOras
saMgIta: vijaya bhAskar
sAhitya: Ar en jayagOpAl

Tune is set into rAga: shaMkarAbharaNa

namma tAyi bhArati namma nADu bhArata
namma rIti namma nIti namma usiru bhArata /namma/

hakkiyaMte hAri nAvu nADa nODuva..
hattu dEshadalli tAya kIrti hADuva..
shAMti snEha prEmada saMdEshava sAruva /namma/

ELu baNNa sEri biLiya baNNavAyitu
ELu svaravu sEri saMgItavAyitu
sa ri ga ma pa da ni
sa ni da pa ma ga ri
vividha nuDiyu vividha naDeyu
kaleta vividha bhArati /namma/

namma nADu naDedu baMda hAdi neneyuva..
Ada tappanella aritu pATha kaliyuva..
karmavIrarAgi pragati pathadi muMde sAguva /namma/

namma tAya sEvegAgi nAvu duDiyuva..
namma nADa rakShaNege niMtu maDiyuva..
jAti matada bhEdagaLanu toredu oMdugUDuva /namma/

Meaning of the song:

Our (namma) Mother (tAyi) is BHARATI (bhArati)
Our (namma) land (nADu) is BHARATHA (bhArata)
Our (namma) manner (rIti), integrity (nIti), breath (usiru) is BHARATHA (bhArata)

Let us (nAvu) fly (hAri) like a bird (hakkiyaMte) and see (nODuva) our land (nADa)
Praise (hADuva) our mother-land's (tAya) glory (kIrti)
in ten (hattu) countries (dEshadalli)
Announce (sAruva) the message (saMdEsha) of peace (shAMti),
friendship (snEha) and love (prEmada)

WHITE (biLiya) colour (baNNavAyitu) is made of 7 (ELu) different colours (baNNa)
Seven (ELu) notes (svaravu) combine (sEri) together became MUSIC (saMgItavAyitu)
sA ri gA ma pA da nI
sA ni dA pa mA ga rI
Different (vividha) languages (nuDiyu), customs (naDeyu) joined (kaleta)
to make VIVIDHA BHARATHI (vividha bhArati)

Let us remember (neneyuva) the path (hAdi) that our (namma)
land (nADu) travelled (naDedubaMda)
Let us learn (kaliyuva) the lesson (pATha) by knowing (aritu)
the mistakes/faults (Ada tappanella)
Let us become working-professionals (karmavIrarAgi) and
go ahead (muMde sAguva) with progress (pragati pathadi)

Let us (nAvu) work hard (duDiyuva) to serve (sEvegAgi) our mother (tAya) nation
Let us stand firm (niMtu) to give up our life (maDiyuva)
and protect (rakShaNege) our land (namma nADa)
Let us unite (oMdugUDuva) together by drive away (toredu)
the differences (bhEdagaLanu) of caste (jAti), creed/religion (matada)

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View the song here:
Rajkumar and children on the screen:
View the film 'nAMdi'. Song starts at 00:50:00
You can see the parts of famous Nandi hills (near Bangalore) in this song.

Audio only: