Kannada film music

[Sudarshan C R]

Here is a song from the film ‘bhale jODi’, a B/W film released during 1969.

Lyric follows:

citra: bhale rAja 1969
gAyana: pi sushIla
saMgIta: satyaM
sAhitya: sOraT ashvath/kaNagAl prabhAkara shAstri

Notes of this song indicates mixture of rAga: kharaharapriya and shaMkarAbharaNa

A.. A..
kaNNu EnEno katheyella hELitu
alli ninnaMda tAnAgi tuMbitu /kaNNu/

bRuMdAvanada aMgaLadalli
madhu caitra mAsada saMjeyalli..
punnAga saMpige hUgALiyalli
pannIra jAji hUbeLeyalli /kaNNu/

A.. A...
muraLi gAnada guMginalli
mOhAnurAgada amalinalli..
rasarati lIla vilAsadalli
maimaretu mAtADo rasa ghaLigeyalli /kaNNu/

Meaning of the song:

Though what all (EnEno) stories (katheyella)
expressed (hELitU) by the eyes (kaNNu)
your beauty (ninnaMda) stayed (tuMbitu) there (alli)
itself (tAnAgi) in the eyes

in the court-yard (aMgaLadalli) of brundavan (bRuMdAvanada)
an evening (saMjeyalli) of sweet (madhu) autumn (caitra) month (mAsada)
cool breeze (hUgALiyalli) brouhgt the fragrance of champak flower (punnAga saMpige-variety of Champak)
in the garden (hUbeLeyalli) with jasmine flowers (pannIra jAji-variety of Jasmine)

immmersed (guMginalli) in the tune (gAnada) of flute (muraLi)
intoxicated (amalinalli) with love affair (mOhAnurAgada)
delighted with playfulness of joy (rasarati lIla vilAsadalli)
joyous moment (rasa ghaLigeyalli) of speaking (mAtADo) and forget oneself (maimaretu)

View the song here:
Ranga and Jaikumari on the screen:

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