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"'''Awaara Hoon'''" is a song from the 1951 Indian film ''[[Awaara]]'', directed by and starring [[Raj Kapoor]], which was internationally popular.<ref name="ref24hovij">{{Citation | title=Traditions in world cinema |author1=Linda Badley |author2=R. Barton Palmer |author3=Steven Jay Schneider |year=2006 | publisher=Rutgers University Press, 2006 | isbn=978-0-8135-3874-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FKdY0HVF0ukC | quote=''... To this day 'Awaara hoon' ('I'm a vagabond'), the title song of Raj Kapoor's Awaara ('The Vagabond', 1951) remains well known throughout Russia, which the director- star visited, and China, where both the song and film were said to be Chairman Mao's favourites ...''}}</ref><ref name="ref19camuj">{{Citation | title=World cinemas, transnational perspectives | author=Natasa Ďurovičová | date=31 August 2009 | publisher=Taylor & Francis, 2010 | isbn=978-0-415-97653-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtHiGs5e2w8C | quote=''... hearing the hit theme song “Awaara Hoon” (“I am wayward”) hummed on the streets of Nanjing. Then, traveling through a small town in a more remote part of China, Seth has to perform the song on request at a local gathering: 'No sooner have I begun than I find that the musicians have struck up the accompaniment behind me: they know the tune better than I do ...''}}</ref> The song was written in the [[Hindi-Urdu]] language<ref>{{cite news |title=This Chinese man singing Raj Kapoor's Awara Hoon will light up your day |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/this-chinese-man-singing-raj-kapoor-s-awara-hoon-will-light-up-your-day-1196169-2018-03-23 |accessdate=18 July 2020 |work=[[India Today]] |date=23 March 2018 |quote=The song was written in [[Urdu]] and immediately became a favourite of many people around the globe.}}</ref> by lyricist [[Shailendra (lyricist)|Shailendra]], and sung by [[Mukesh (singer)|Mukesh]].<ref name="ref46helop">{{Citation | title=Light of the universe: essays on Hindustani film music | author=Ashraf Aziz | year=2003 | publisher=Three Essays Collective, 2003 | isbn=978-81-88789-07-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOUIAQAAMAAJ | quote=''... Its title song Awaara hoon, written by Shailendra, remains the best-appreciated Hindustani film song in foreign countries ...''}}</ref> "Awaara Hoon" immediately struck "a chord in audiences from various classes and backgrounds all over India and beyond: in China, in the Soviet Union, in the Middle East."<ref name="ref47lepoy">{{Citation | title=Mourning the nation: Indian cinema in the wake of Partition | author=Bhaskar Sarkar | date=20 May 2009 | publisher=Duke University Press, 2009 | isbn=978-0-8223-4411-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wghFNlpM3PIC | quote=''... When Raj sings cheerfully about the pleasures of being a street-smart vagabond (“Awaara Hoon”), he strikes a chord in audiences from various classes and backgrounds all over India and beyond: in China, in the Soviet Union, in the Middle East ...''}}</ref> In China, "both the song and film were said to be [[Mao Zedong|Chairman Mao]]'s favourites."<ref name="ref24hovij"/> In a May 2013 BBC poll, the song was rated the second-greatest Bollywood song of all time.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/vote/top-songs/ "100 Greatest Bollywood Songs of All Time"]</ref><br />
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==Local versions==<br />
The popularity of "Awaara Hoon" led to the creation of localized versions of the song in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, China,<ref name="ref04gegax">{{Citation | title=Bollywood: a guidebook to popular Hindi cinema | author=Tejaswini Ganti | date=25 June 2004 | publisher=Psychology Press, 2004 | isbn=978-0-415-28853-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdH0vxihcS8C | quote=''... Their title track for Awaara, “Awaara Hoon” (I'ma vagabond) was immensely popular world-wide, leading to local versions of the song in Greece, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China ...''}}</ref> and Romania.<br />
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==Example verse==<br />
The refrain of the song is "Awaara Hoon", which means "I am a [[vagabond (person)|vagabond]]/[[tramp]]", here the world vagabond symbolises the free and resilient spirit of singer and he have no sorrow or tentions on his face , his verses symbolizes hope and optimism in the world of harships . It has a catchy, rhythmic tempo with several short lines interposed with a few slightly longer ones. It is still considered to be a timeless song of much of [[South Asia]], [[China]], the [[Balkans]], [[Russia]], and [[Central Asia]].<br />
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<blockquote><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
Or I am a star in the sky, doing its circuits<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
No true Home<br><br />
No social world<br><br />
No one loves me <br><br />
No one loves me <br><br />
now there is no longing in my heart to meet someone on the other side (most possibly referring to women by "other side")<br> <br />
No one loves me<br><br />
No one loves me <br><br />
i am the love of deserted towns and unknown streets<br> <br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
Or I am a star in the sky, doing its circuits<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
Yes , i am devastated<br><br />
But i sing songs of happiness<br><br />
My heart is full of wounds<br><br />
But still my carefree gaze laughs to fullest<br><br />
World!(*2)<br><br />
Your arrows<br><br />
Or the fates<br><br />
Have hit hard on me<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
Or I am a star in the sky, doing its circuits<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
I am a vagabond<br><br />
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==See also==<br />
*''[[Awaara]]''<br />
*[[Raj Kapoor]]<br />
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[[Category:Mukesh (singer) songs]]<br />
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by Shailendra (lyricist)]]<br />
[[Category:Songs with music by Shankar Jaikishan]]<br />
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