Priya Ragu - Kamali (Official Video)

This goes out to all my beloved viewers. Thank you all for watching, showing love and supporting me on this journey.

In 2019 someone sent me the link of the short film Kamali and wrote: you have to make a music video with her. The movie is about a seven year old girl, Kamali, the only female skater in Mahabalipuram in India who goes against the grain and takes ownership of her life with the support of her mother. I was so moved and inspired by her story and sent it right away to my brother Japhna and told him to watch it. A day later he called me up saying how he wrote this song with tears in his eyes. Kamali.

In so many ways I could relate to this little girl. Growing up, we look at the world with curiosity and envision infinite possibilities without any limitation. For a lot of us, these possibilities and dreams get blurry by the way the roles of men and women are dealt out. It is culturally rooted in ancient traditions where we are only good enough to become wives & mothers...where our life's purpose is to fulfil our duties of raising our children and taking care of the household. This still exists! I want to speak to all the Kamalis in the world to think bigger than that, to look further than that.
If we can birth life, imagine what we can create if we are fully off the leash?! With this song I want to be another crack in the cycle, so that one day we can fully break it together.

‘Kamali' out now: https://priyaragu.co/Kamali
Listen to the new mixtape 'damnshestamil' out now: https://priyaragu.co/damnshestamil

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Credits

Artist Management: Verdigris Management

Director: Sasha Rainbow
Producer: Kavita Babbar
Executive Producer: Maurizio Von Trapp
Production Manager: Tara Sadeghi
Production Company: Academy Films
Commissioner: Dominic McKiernan

DOP: Nathalie Pitters
Gimbal Operator: Josh Birch
Focus Puller: Catharina Scarpellini
Clapper Loader: Lou Macnamara
DIT: Felix Bos
Camera Kit: Mungo Penfold

1st Ad: Yasmin Tippett
Runner: Queen Banerbie
Runner: Alice Kavanagh
Runner: Drew Abakporo
Runner: Ben Chaplin

Gaffer: Ben Law
Electrician: Deimante Sprainaityte
Electrician: James Davies
Trainee Electrician: Brook Williams

Production Designers: Sets Appeal
Construction: Cous De La
Production Design Assist: Elliot Rooney
Production Design Assist: Rana Fadavi

Movement Coach: Kieran Daley-ward
Stylist: Neesha Champaneria
Stylist Assist: Jamie Bull
Hair: Wilson Fok
Make-up: Bari Khalique
BTS: Benji Gershon

Editor: David Higgs
Colourist: Jax Harney
Grade Producer: Franky Chadwick
Titles: Juliette Duffy

Lyrics

Verse 1:
omg here's another for you baby
you’ve been on my mind lately
never seen a force like this
never heard a tamil like this
they never wanna see us godly
devis and maharanis
bout to flip the script
2020 issa plot twist

stay with me oh stay with me
they cannot believe
how you have faith in me

Hook:
ye, kamali kamali kamali
ni odu naan varen velli ni
(take the lead and I will follow you)
en kaiyil ellame sollu ni
(go and say, that you have control over it all)
ni sonnal un vaazhkai vellum di
(if you say so, you are in it to win it)

Verse 2:
lock all your hopes away
lock all your hopes away
what we tell them, we say: ey!
kick and push over these lanes
they don't wanna see these waves
we make make way

they will sell a dream on a screen ye ye
tell you all the tales about how you've been saved
they don't see these waves that we create
go make way ye ye

Bridge:
ah un varthai palikum amma
(your words will become reality my dear)
ni ninaithal nadakum amma
(if you believe, it will happen my dear)
un thunaiai varuven amma
(i will accompany you along the way my dear)
un kanavugal nejam than
(your dreams are real)

Hook:
ye, kamali kamali kamali
ni odu naan varen velli ni
(take the lead and I will follow you)
en kaiyil ellame sollu ni
(go and say, that you have control over it all)
ni sonnal un vaazhkai vellum di
(if you say so, you are in it to win it)

Outro:
anandam thedi povoma
(shall we go on a quest to find bliss)
ullahathai papom varuvaya
(lets discover the world, you in?)
ammavuku kovil katalama
(shall we build temples for our mothers?)
tholil valatha kadavul amma
(cause they’re the goddesses who raised us on their shoulders)

aah aah aah aah
kamali kamali kamali
aah aah aah aah
kamali kamali kamali