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'''Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaye''' is a popular [[Hindustani classical music]] song ([[thumri]]) in [[Raag Bhairavi]].

==History==
The song was written by [[Nawab Wajid Ali Shah]], the 19th-century [[Nawab of Awadh]] as a [[lament]] when he was exiled from his beloved Lucknow by the [[British Raj]] before the failed [[Rebellion of 1857]], where he uses the metaphor of ''[[Hindu wedding|bidaai]]'' (bride's farewell) of a bride from her father's ([[Babul (Hindi word)|babul]]) home, and his own banishment from his beloved Lucknow, to far away Calcutta, where he spent the rest of his years.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.indian.classical/browse_thread/thread/72692da1fc29a68b ''Nawab Wajid Ali Shah''] ''Great Masters of Hindustani Music'' by Susheela Mishra. Hem Publishers, 1981.</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Kuldeep Kumar |url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article2032061.ece |title=Arts / Music : Melody lane |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=2011-05-19 |accessdate=2012-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2011/03/04/stories/2011030450130200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204024529/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2011/03/04/stories/2011030450130200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-02-04 |title=Friday Review Delhi / Events : In celebration of rhythm |date=2011-03-04 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=2012-01-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050116/spectrum/main3.htm |title=The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |date=1947-01-18 |accessdate=2012-01-02}}</ref>

It was also popularised by the legendary classical vocalist, [[Pandit Bhimsen Joshi]].

==Bollywood version==
The most remembered version of the song is by actor-singer [[Kundan Lal Saigal]] for the Hindi movie ''[[Street Singer (1938 film)|Street Singer]]'' (1938) directed by [[Phani Majumdar]], live on camera, under the music direction of [[Rai Chand Boral]], just as [[playback singing]] was becoming popular.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Babul+mora+&search_type=&aq=-1&oq= video search for Kundan Lal Saigal's 1938 rendition]</ref> [[Jagjit Singh|Jagjit]] and [[Chitra Singh]] also sang a version of the song in film ''[[Avishkaar]]'' (1973), set to music by [[Kanu Roy]]. Recently [[Arijit Singh]] has also sung a version of the song in a 2017 movie [[Poorna: Courage Has No Limit]].

==Text and translation==
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{{Verse translation|italicsoff=y|rtl1=y|{{lang|ur|بابُل مورا، نیہر چھُوٹو ہی جائے
بابُل مورا، نیہر چھُوٹو ہی جائے

(چار کہار مِل، موری ڈولِیا سجاویں (اُٹھایّں
مورا اَپنا بیگانا چھُوٹو جائے ، بابُل مورا۔۔۔

آںگنا تو پربت بھیو اؤر دیہری بھیی بِدیش
جائے بابُل گھر آپنو میں چلی پیّا کے دیش ، بابُل مورا ۔۔۔}}|
{{lang|hi|बाबुल मोरा, नैहर छूटो ही जाए
बाबुल मोरा, नैहर छूटो ही जाए

चार कहार मिल, मोरी डोलिया सजावें (उठायें)
मोरा अपना बेगाना छूटो जाए {{!}} बाबुल मोरा ...

आँगना तो पर्बत भयो और देहरी भयी बिदेश
जाए बाबुल घर आपनो मैं चली पीया के देश {{!}} बाबुल मोरा ...}}
}}|O My father! I'm leaving home.
O My father! I'm leaving home.

The four (palanquin) bearers lift my [[palanquin]].
I'm leaving those who were my own.

Your courtyard is now like a mountain, and the threshold, a foreign country.
I leave your house, father, I am going to my beloved's country.}}

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[[Category:Indian songs]]
[[Category:Hindi songs]]
[[Category:19th-century poems]]
[[Category:Thumri]]
[[Category:History of Lucknow]]
[[Category:Indian Rebellion of 1857]]
[[Category:Exile]]
[[Category:19th-century songs]]
[[Category:Year of song unknown]]