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"Nagada Sang Dhol" is a Garba song from the 2013 Hindi film, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela. Composed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the song is sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Osman Mir,[2] with lyrics penned by Siddharth-Garima.[3] The song features Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Supriya Pathak in the video.[4]
"Nagada Sang Dhol" is recorded at AVA Studios in Mumbai. The song is mixed and mastered by Tanay Gajjar[5] and arranged and produced by Tubby-Parik.[6] The song was choreographed by Samir & Arsh Tanna.[7] The duo complimented Deepika Padukone for her efforts though she sustained major bruises and swellings on her feet while performing some heavy-duty dance steps.[8] It was reported that the actress stuck to the routine and shot for the song on the allotted schedule sporting medical braces to relax her movements.[9] The shooting of the song took ten days at an expensive set put up at Film City.[10] Sanjay Leela Bhansali brought over traditional Garba dancers from Gujarat to teach the Garba in the traditional way to Padukone.[11]
A promo of the song was uploaded on Eros Now YouTube page on 1 October 2013.[12] The full audio song was released on 2 October 2013 along with other songs of the album.[13] The number was released just in time for the Navratri festival that has Dandiya nights for nine days, full of Garba dance.[14] The song was available at iTunes[2] the same day of release and for online streaming at Saavn[15] on 7 October 2013 and at Gaana[16] the following day.
The video of the song shows Deepika Padukone performing Gujarati traditional garba dance in a red lehenga choli. The song begins with a teary-eyed Deepika lighting up diyas and performing garba with vengeance.[8] The song's video was praised highly for Padukone's dancing skills and its Gujarati flavour.[17]
Upon its release, the song was compared with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's "Dholi Taro Dhol Baaje"[18] in Bhansali's 1999 superhit, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam for the similarities.[citation needed]
The song turned extremely popular among youth and garba lovers. It was reportedly heard playing during the entire Dandiya festival that year.[19] Due to its popularity and high demand, the singer of the song, Shreya Ghoshal, performed this number in many of her concerts.[20] On September 30, 2013 the limited video of the song was released on the YouTube channel of Eros Now and had 95,463,174 views as of February 22, 2019. The full video of the song was released on February 27, 2014 and had 154,848,066 views as of April 30, 2020.[21]
Apart from the folk music composition by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shreya Ghoshal's rendition of the song is acclaimed.Critic Mohar Basu, reviewing the song for Koimoi, praised Ghoshal's singing and its "charming" folk music and selected it as her personal favourite.[22] Critic Rajiv Vijayakar, reviewing for Bollywood Hungama, praised the composition and the "electrifying" vocals by Ghoshal and described the song as the "piece-de-resistance" of the album.[23] Critic Joginder Tuteja, reviewing for Rediff.com considered the song to be the highlight of the album.[24]
Ram-Leela received eight nominations at the Filmfare Awards, winning three including Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Padukone and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for Pathak. At the International Indian Film Academy Awards, it received nine nominations, including for Best Film, and won two.
During Holi, Ram boldly enters the Sanera house and flirts with Leela. The two fall in love and plan to elope, but a grim turn of events follows when Leela's elder brother, Kanji Bhai, accidentally kills Ram's brother, and is, in turn, killed by Ram. Ram and Leela elope and marry anyway but before they can consummate their marriage, Ram's friends betray him by informing Leela's family of their location. She is forcibly taken back home by Bhavani, her cousin, while Ram is hailed a hero by his clan for soiling her reputation. He is rewarded by being made the new chieftain.
Leela's mother, Dhankor Baa, arranges her engagement with an NRI. Leela refuses, citing Ram's wedding ring she wears; in response, her mother chops off Leela's finger. Upon learning of this, Ram chops off his own finger. Leela sends Rasila, the widow of Kanji, to give Ram an ultimatum to take her away. Rasila is assaulted by Ram's friends, and when Dhankor Baa learns of this, she sends her men to assault Kesar, Meghji's widow.
In response to this, Ram storms into Leela's house and requests Dhankor Baa to consider peace. She invites him to celebrate Navratri with the intention of killing him. However, Bhavani secretly shoots Dhankor Baa instead to place the blame on the Rajadis. With her mother injured, Leela is made chieftain. She bitterly carries out a negotiation with Ram, dividing the travel routes and trades, with the condition that the Saneras and Rajadis will never interact again.
Bhavani deceives Leela into signing a document that orders the killing of the entire Rajadi clan. During Dusshera, as the Ramlila parade is ending, many of the Rajadis are killed, and the village is on the brink of war. Ram and Leela realise that they can never be together like this and shoot one another dead, oblivious to the fact that Dhankor Baa has had a change of heart and killed Bhavani, ordering that peace be made with the clans. She is too late to save the lovers and the two clans come together to cremate their bodies.
Bhansali conceived Ram-Leela while directing Khamoshi: The Musical. The latter was critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful, leaving Bhansali with no money to fund Ram-Leela. He next directed Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam instead, which was also set in Gujarat like Ram-Leela. Feeling that directing two films set in the same place would be repetitive, Bhansali waited. He intended the film to be a tribute to Gujarat, saying, "I am Gujarati at heart. I love Gujarat's music, culture and food and I want to take all this back to the people." The film was dedicated to Bhansali's mother Leela.[4] According to him, Ram-Leela was his "most violent film" at that point, while the filmmaking style was similar to his previous directional ventures Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas.[5]
Bhansali called it a "desi adaptation" of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet.[5] He clarified that Ram-Leela is not related to Ramaor Krishna and that the character Ram does not depict the Hindu god.[6] Speaking about the influence of his childhood environment on the film, Bhansali said that his family members used to speak "the most outrageously uninhibited things as though they were the most natural". He felt that the language heard by him were idioms for the current generation, who speak directly. Bhansali found it "very liberating to explore the union of body and mind in a love-relationship" and felt that it wasn't enough "to show a boy and a girl looking at one another when they fall in love". The lovers don't have sex together in the film as Bhansali felt the importance of showing the lovers "united completely in death".[7]
Terming Romeo and Juliet as "the mother of all love stories", Bhansali wanted to make a different story with it, one that was not yet explored in cinematic adaptations. While changing many aspects of the film, Bhansali kept the theme of "misunderstanding between star-crossed lovers", while transposing them to another level. The idea of a feud between two families that destroys everything really appealed to him. According to Bhansali, "the whole execution of Shakespeare is more flirtatious and voluptuous" and he felt his film was the best interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. When asked about the extensive violence and guns in the film, he said that violence is "an integral part" of Romeo and Juliet, also stating how important it was for a filmmaker "to get out of his comfort zone".[7]
The screenplay was written by writing duo Siddharth-Garima. Producer Sandip Ssingh offered the duo three films; they chose Ram-Leela over the other two. They were impressed by its outline and felt that it was similar to Australian writer Baz Luhrmann's films. In addition to writing, they collaborated with Bhansali for the costumes, recces, shoot days, editing, subtitling, and post production. After writing the initial screenplay draft, Siddarth-Garima were sent to Gujarat for researching dialect, slang and accent.
Rhyming couplets from Romeo and Juliet were translated into Hindi and used in the film, with more emphasis on innuendo and humour as they felt that the elements were "overshadowed" by tragedy in the original play.[8]
Pakistani actor Imran Abbas was the first choice for Ram, he rejected the role due to "contractual obligations".[9] Bhansali offered the role to Sushant Singh Rajput, but he had to turn down the role over scheduling issues.[10][11] Kareena Kapoor and Ranveer Singh were cast in the lead roles in the film.[12] Singh later confirmed the news and conveyed his excitement on working with Kapoor.[13] Bhansali was impressed with Singh's performance in Band Baaja Baaraat and cast him for the film.[14] However, Kapoor walked out of the film 10 days before the shoot began and instead did Dharma Productions's romantic comedy Gori Tere Pyaar Mein.[15] With already-complete sets and an approaching filming schedule, Bhansali approached Priyanka Chopra who agreed to do the film.[16] Chopra was officially cast for Leela in July 2012 and was to start filming in August.[17] However, before the filming started Bhansali brought Deepika Padukone in the film. After this unpleasant experience with Bhansali, Chopra stopped talking to Bhansali, as confirmed by the CEO of Bhansali Productions.[16] In August 2012, Padukone had publicly expressed her desire to be a part of the film.[18] After wrapping the filming of his previous film Lootera, Singh confirmed that he was signed on for the film in August 2012.[19][20]
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