![]() ![]() The accompanying music gradually rises in pitch and the dance reaches its climax. The circle expands and contracts as the dance progress. The dance performers move in a circle, striking small sticks and keeping rhythm with special steps. Kolkali is a folk art performed in North Malabar region of Kerala State in south India. Mappila Paattu form an integral part of the heritage of Malayalam literature today and is regarded by some as the most popular branch of Malayalam literature, enjoyed by all communities in Kerala They deal with themes such as religion, love, satire and heroism, and are often sung at occasions of birth, marriage and death. The songs often used words from Persian, Urdu, Tamil, Hindi apart from Arabic and Malayalam, but the grammatical syntax was always based on Malayalam. ![]() Mappila songs have a distinct cultural identity, while at the same time, remain closely linked to the cultural practices of Kerala. Mappila Paattu or Mappila Song is a folklore Muslim song genre rendered to lyrics in colloquial Mappila dialect of Malayalam laced with Arabic, by the Mappilas of Malabar. ![]() markose ramla beegum Vilayil Fazeela Rahna ![]()
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