"Lilabali" is an almost-two-century-old Bangladeshi wedding song, originally written by Sree Radha Raman Dutta, a reverend prolific Bangladeshi musician. This English rendition is done by Mozammal Hoque Tipu, a literary translator of Bangladesh. The song features the bride's grooming-up by her buddies and their expression of demanding the befitting ornaments to be obtained from the groom or groom's guardian.
The song "Lilabali" name-drops a list of outfits and accessories to groom up the bride with as a part of the bride's preparation. The list not only includes a fancy list of outfits and ornaments but also specifies the intended quality and glamour of those accessories. The list goes on to include a head locket and a lace of jewelry for the bride's hair part, an emerald stoney nose-pin, purely pearly ear-cuffs, a diamond necklace, gold bangles, silvery waist chain, anklets with silvery jingle bells, a fancy sharee and a scarf hemmed with jewelry.
The inner meaning of their demand is that their "bride" is so valuable that the groom is lucky enough to marry such a worthy bride and so he should be great enough to gift all the ornaments demanded by the buddies of the bride. This particular occasion is marked by some friendly quarrelling and sometimes a loud one and still is a source of amusement for all especially the children around. Such a moment is a long desired one for not only the bride herself but also for all her family members and all her kith and kin and all and sundry of the vicinity. The occasion is marked by dancing and singing of the children and also grown-ups especially the grandmoms and siblings and cousins and friends of the bride. Lastly, the song resonates the merriment centering round the occasion of a Bangladeshi wedding that hints the prosperity, happiness and cultural soundness of this region of 19th century.
"Lilabali" is an almost-two-century-old Bangladeshi wedding song, originally written by Sree Radha Raman Dutta, a reverend prolific Bangladeshi musician. This English rendition is done by Mozammal Hoque Tipu, a literary translator of Bangladesh. The song features the bride's grooming-up by her buddies and their expression of demanding the befitting ornaments to be obtained from the groom or groom's guardian.
The song "Lilabali" name-drops a list of outfits and accessories to groom up the bride with as a part of the bride's preparation. The list not only includes a fancy list of outfits and ornaments but also specifies the intended quality and glamour of those accessories. The list goes on to include a head locket and a lace of jewelry for the bride's hair part, an emerald stoney nose-pin, purely pearly ear-cuffs, a diamond necklace, gold bangles, silvery waist chain, anklets with silvery jingle bells, a fancy sharee and a scarf hemmed with jewelry.
The inner meaning of their demand is that their "bride" is so valuable that the groom is lucky enough to marry such a worthy bride and so he should be great enough to gift all the ornaments demanded by the buddies of the bride. This particular occasion is marked by some friendly quarrelling and sometimes a loud one and still is a source of amusement for all especially the children around. Such a moment is a long desired one for not only the bride herself but also for all her family members and all her kith and kin and all and sundry of the vicinity. The occasion is marked by dancing and singing of the children and also grown-ups especially the grandmoms and siblings and cousins and friends of the bride. Lastly, the song resonates the merriment centering round the occasion of a Bangladeshi wedding that hints the prosperity, happiness and cultural soundness of this region of 19th century.
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