video: ‘Bumbro, Bumbro’, 1964

Came across this mesmerising bit in A Bhaskar Rao’s “The Dancing Feet” (1964), a Shantaram Production about folk dance forms of India. [link for full movie at NFDC channel, where they had trouble dating the film]

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Notice the same place on the

 Bank of Jhelum, Srinagar, 1906

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Got names of some of the people in the video from readers via Facebook page of the blog

The woman in red: Raj Dulari, was a teacher at Lal Ded school

Zia Durrani and Nancy Gwash Lal, who were members of the original opera too.

One of the singers is Raj Begum.

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