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- 1 2 Linda Badley; R. Barton Palmer; Steven Jay Schneider (2006), Traditions in world cinema, Rutgers University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8135-3874-7,
... To this day 'Awaara hoon' ('I'm a vagabond'), the title song of Raj Kapoor's Awaara ('The Vagabond', 1951) remains well known throughout Russia, which the director- star visited, and China, where both the song and film were said to be Chairman Mao's favourites ...
- ↑ Natasa Ďurovičová (31 August 2009), World cinemas, transnational perspectives, Taylor & Francis, 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-97653-4,
... hearing the hit theme song "Awaara Hoon" ("I am wayward") hummed on the streets of Nanjing. Then, traveling through a small town in a more remote part of China, Seth has to perform the song on request at a local gathering: 'No sooner have I begun than I find that the musicians have struck up the accompaniment behind me: they know the tune better than I do ...
- ↑ "This Chinese man singing Raj Kapoor's Awara Hoon will light up your day". India Today . 23 March 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
The song was written in Urdu and immediately became a favourite of many people around the globe.
- ↑ Ashraf Aziz (2003), Light of the universe: essays on Hindustani film music, Three Essays Collective, 2003, ISBN 978-81-88789-07-8,
... Its title song Awaara hoon, written by Shailendra, remains the best-appreciated Hindustani film song in foreign countries ...
- ↑ Bhaskar Sarkar (20 May 2009), Mourning the nation: Indian cinema in the wake of Partition, Duke University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8223-4411-7,
... When Raj sings cheerfully about the pleasures of being a street-smart vagabond ("Awaara Hoon"), he strikes a chord in audiences from various classes and backgrounds all over India and beyond: in China, in the Soviet Union, in the Middle East ...
- ↑ "100 Greatest Bollywood Songs of All Time"
- ↑ Tejaswini Ganti (25 June 2004), Bollywood: a guidebook to popular Hindi cinema, Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-28853-8,
... Their title track for Awaara, "Awaara Hoon" (I'ma vagabond) was immensely popular world-wide, leading to local versions of the song in Greece, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and China ...
