Millions of homes in Maharashtra woke up to him singing the abhangs, or hymns, of the medieval Marathi saint-poets on the early-morning programme on All India Radio's Bombay station.

印度孟买广播电台大清早就会播放他演唱的由中世纪马拉地语的圣诗改编的abhang或者颂歌，马哈拉施特拉邦上百万的居民每天就是在他的歌声中醒来的。

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In the film Shabnam, there was the first multi-lingual film song with stanzas in Bengali, Marathi and Tamil, telling the audience that they were all part of India while poking gentle fun at the stereotypes it created.

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