A Mirror of Indian Folk Ballads

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Simply ballad means a poem or song, narrating a story in many stanzas. It is one of the oldest and most loved forms of poetry. The languages of most of the ballads are usually simple to understand. The Indian ballads are commonly known as ‘Folk Ballad’or ‘Folktales’ or ‘Lok Gatha’ or ‘Lok katha’. In India, there are many famous ballads or folk ballads are present i.e. HeerRanjha, Shobha Nayaka Banjara, Bihulabala Lakhandar, Raja Vijaymal, Raja Gopichand, SohniMahiwal, etc. Among all these ballads, the common aspect is that the story is revolving to the main lead character and this main lead character is the hero or heroine of the story. The main advantage of the folk ballad is people know about the untold stories of our culture, society and history, which may be blurred as the passage of the time. Folk ballad is a combination of stories or tales, which is partially based on the true events and partially created to entertain the society. Whatever the stories of the ballads are, the main thing is people like and enjoy the Indian Folk Ballads, because they are always represented in the form of Music and drama.

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