Popular Songs in Hindi Cinema about the Ganga.
The Ganga (Ganges) flows for a distance of 2,525 km, all the way from the Himalayas, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal . It is the holiest river for the people of India. Hindi cinema has embraced it wholeheartedly, Many film titles and songs have been written on this river. Raj Kapoor had a great fascination for Ganga, he made two films with Ganga in the title Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai(1960) and Ram Teri Ganga Maili(1985) and recall the song 'Bol Radha Bol' from the 1964 film Sangam. Since the beginning of sound cinema, many songs have been written praising Ganga by almost all lyricists. The first song on Ganga as per my research was written by Pt. Niranjan Sharma ‘Ajit’, for the 1939 film 'Sach Hai'. Song of Sach Hai 1939 Gori Mose Ganga Ke Paar Milna Song of Basant 1942 Mirza Ghalib, the great 19th-century poet,...