The " JAGGO " ceremony.

The jaggo group

This is being written by me, for spreading the knowledge of the famous ceremony in a punjabi wedding, called " jaggo ". Its a punjabi word means to be asleep, basically it is a ceremony which was traditionally performed in the villages where the members of the wedding family wants the whole village to be asleep and tell them not to sleep as there is a wedding in the village and they should celebrate with them.

It is a ceremony which performed by the family members one night before the wedding. The pot or the "gaggar" is full with the candles or the " dias " which is carried on the head and the person who carries the pot gets a sagan (gift/money) from the parents of the bride/bridegroom.

There is a tradition in which the whole group ( i should say a jaggo group ) roams around the village and tell the persons where they reach to fill some oil in the " dias " which are placed very beautifully in the pot. The ladies carrying the pot dances and the whole group dances and  celebrate. Meanwhile the male members of the family are enjoying the whiskey at home, ( this is important for a punjabi family, you are not respecting them if you are not telling them to drink more ).

Punjabis are the people who never celebrates their happiness alone, the want that they should involve the whole pind ( village ) with them, therefore the jaggo say them to wake up and celebrate with us.

There is a famous song in the jaggo is " jatta jaag bai hun jaggo ayi aa " ( hey, farmer wake up its a jaggo and  celebrate with us ). There is also a  "chajj patna " which is basically a desi filter used for filtering the grains, which is used here for making a sound so that hype can be created and people will have attention and will have fun.

The whole environment gets filled with joy and happiness, ladies members are into so much makeup and have very brighter suits. The dances of the ladies are the clap dances in a pair of two.

Nowadays people don't have the actual jaggo there are electrical versions of the same ( u know the technology ! ) but the fun and the happiness remains the same.

Its a true fact that punjabi where ever goes, in any part of the world, they make the new punjab over there, we live in Indore (M.P) in India which is a bit away from punjab but the families here also celebrates the same way as in punjab.

Sharing few pictures.

Hope u like this article....
Keeping alive the culture.

Anshul Verma.
: )

The jaggo clap dance ( gidda )

Electronic jaggo :)

PUNJABI BHANGRA- FAMOUS DANCE FORM OF PUNJAB


Hello and satshrikal to everyone, as stated in the earlier post i will be sharing about the famous folk dance of punjab called BHANGRA...

Bhangra is a folk dance of punjab(India). It is the famous and most colorful dance form. It is derived from the word called "BHANG" which is a drink in India which intoxicates the person and the person feels full of zest and enthusiasm. It is said that when person drink BHANG he do bhangra..

This way the bhangra invented in early days of punjab. The most favorite and full of celebration form of dance is all of punjabis in punjab as well as in outer parts of punjab. The following are the facts related to punjabi bhangra...enjoy reading it:

DHOL

TUMBI

•  Invented over 500 years back in the fields of pu njab-India.
• Mainly performed by the farmers called JATTS in India.
•  As it is performed by farmers therefore many of its steps are related with ploughing, sowing, and, harvesting.
• Basically it is form of dance to celebrate the hard brown color of the crops as they are ready to harvest and its time to get a nice amount of cash for a JATT.
• But in the modern world it is being performed other than fields especially in punjabi weddings and particular get together.
• The instruments used in performing bhangra are: DHOL, TUMBI, SAPP, CHIMTA, SAPERA, DHOLKI which creates various music and prosperity in the dance. 
• The modern bhangra is somewhat changed to the traditional one as the younger generation continuously making changes to it and making it more advanced by use of computer systems.
• All the sounds are now being generated through system and being composed.
• Many famous DJs are doing very well in the world of punjabi music known as DJ sanj, DJ vix, Dr.zeus, rishi rich etc.
• Many institutes of punjab organizes bhangra compitsions which encourges youth to participate in that and make bhangra alive.    

THE RICHNESS AND ROYALTY OF THE GREAT PUNJABI CULTURE

Satshrikal punjabio and my other friends,

This is the new blog i am starting which has a niche in punjabi culture and the punjabi tradition this blog will provide you the experience of the punjabi culture, music, dressing, behavior etc etc.

I will be writing about the culture and want that my culture and tradition will remain alive in the youth and hope u will enjoy it !!!

coming soon with the topic called  "PUNJABI BHANGRA- FAMOUS DANCE FORM OF PUNJAB"

THANKS