![]() The poem reads, “ Meri behane maange Azadi, meri bachhi maange Azadi, naari ka naara Azadi…” (My sisters want freedom, my daughter wants freedom, every woman’s slogan is freedom). She was accompanied by a group of women who chanted with her. ![]() The origins of ‘ Azadi’ in India traces back to a 1991 conference at Jadavpur University in Kolkata where well-known feminist activist Kamla Bhasin first recited her poem titled ‘ Azadi’. So, when and where did ‘Azadi’ originate?Īlso read: What ‘Gully Boy’ Got Right Kanhaiyya Kumar | Image Source: DailyO However, he wasn’t the first and will definitely not be the last to use it. From the slums of Dharavi, he strives for freedom from poverty, freedom to have a dream, freedom to love and to break from the shackles of his father. In the context of Gully Boy, the song ‘ Azadi’ is Murad’s inner voice as he is bogged down by the pressures of love, poverty, dreams, and family. Dub Sharma’s version of the song picks up directly from Kanhaiya Kumar’s rousing chants in Jawaharlal Nehru University from 2016, where he demanded Kashmiri rights to self-determination and protests against AFSPA. However, Azadi, which means ‘freedom’, will never truly lose its value. It has been used and thrown around quite often, much to the displeasure of the government. The recent controversy around Zoya Akhtar’s film Gully Boy using the song ‘Azadi’ has led to a lot of questions about what the chants of ‘Azadi’ mean and how it came to be. ![]()
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