Dhamail Song
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- Dhamail song was very popular among people of East Bengal or Bangladeshi origin, especially in sylheties?
- Now with time this song and dance form is diminishing and losing its popularity due to next generation creativity types and technology advancements.
- This song is extremely popular as a marriage ceremony song similar to sangeet and also popular in every auspicious occasions.
- It’s a popular flok song and dance form which originated in Barak valley, sylhet district of Bangladesh.
- Dhamail song is still popular and underrated in these states: West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura.
- Radha Raman Dutta (1833 to 1915) was an famous sylheti folk music composer and poet who is considered as the father of Sylheti Dhamail Gaan (Song) Form.
- Dhamail songs are similar to musical chairs and are performed by a group of ladies. The songs are first sung by a female leader, and then the other females join the chorus.
- The lyrics mainly relate to lord Krishna and Radha.
- All ladies wearing saree in Bengali styles during performing.
- All the ladies move in a circle, clapping their hands to the beat of the music.
- Dhamail is performed during all occasion including marriage and it’s vary from occasion to occasion or festival to festival or rituals to rituals.
- There have different dhamail song in marriage, annaprasan, Dol purnima.
- Dhamail is a fully instrument-less song, apart from handclaps. Sometimes karatal and mridanga are used in this song.
