Professor croons Bollywood songs in Sanskrit, and he totally rocks it
- 8 years ago
Pankaj, who is pursuing his PhD in Sanskrit grammar at the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, has sung Dheere Dheere Meri Zindagi – a famous song from Aashiqui – in the ancient tongue. And his video is going viral online.
But how did Pankaj come upon the idea of melding Bollywood music and Sanskrit – both characteristic factors of apparently divergent worlds – into a single entity? "I came upon the idea in class. A student wanted to know if Sanskrit dealt only with old stories and shlokas. I told him there were songs as well. The kid then challenged me to render a Sanskrit version of the recently released song Dheere Dheere Se Meri Zindagi by Honey Singh. I translated the entire song in class," Pankaj told Hindustan Times.
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But how did Pankaj come upon the idea of melding Bollywood music and Sanskrit – both characteristic factors of apparently divergent worlds – into a single entity? "I came upon the idea in class. A student wanted to know if Sanskrit dealt only with old stories and shlokas. I told him there were songs as well. The kid then challenged me to render a Sanskrit version of the recently released song Dheere Dheere Se Meri Zindagi by Honey Singh. I translated the entire song in class," Pankaj told Hindustan Times.
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