Nagagenous releases official Christmas music video
Morung Express News
Dimapur | December 13
The simple rustic life of the old times’ Christmas without any urban influence of expensive gifts, modern decorations, bursting crackers etc but with love and camaraderie accompanied with group carolling is the best Christmas.
This message is what the Nagagenous projects in its official Christmas music video titled “Christmas is best in my village” released on Tuesday.
It is sang in Sumi dialect and runs a sub-title in English. The video is set in a Naga morung showing the Nagagenous team gather to celebrate birth of Baby Jesus in the village style by pounding sticky rice which is later steamed and wrapped in banana leaves. That the villagers happily relished axone chutney and axone with pork are also depicted in the video. The lyrics starts with “kong kong kong” imitating the sound of log drum beats and rice pounding.
A part of the lyrics reads, “It doesn’t snow in my village, Santa Claus is unfamiliar to us, though we don’t get Christmas cake, yet Christmas is best in my village; Reindeers don’t roam in our forest, exchanging Christmas gifts is not our tradition, Bethlehem is a place we’ve never seen, yet Christmas is best in my village.” The birth of baby Jesus is also depicted in the music video.
Song Writer and Composer, Hojevi Kappo who is also the Director of Nagagenous in the song script recalls that the villagers during his boyhood stopped their daily life of going to the fields and that everyone would wear their best and finest traditional shawls and happily sing Christmas carols in the Church and around the village.
Banana stumps placed at the village or Church gate or big leafy and bushy trees used as Christmas tree and the abundance of Poinsettia were all what Christmas decorations meant.
In contrast to the olden days, the composer points out the expensive crackers burst during the season polluting not only the air and sound but leading to illness among children and poultry loss. Exchange of expensive Christmas gifts, cakes, idols of Santa Claus, Reindeers are the in thing now, he adds.
“Whatever changes have come, Christmas is best in my village because I find great love, joy and peace and this is what Christmas means to me,” Hojevi said and thanked all those who made the project a success.
The music video album was dedicated by Executive Secretary, WSBAK, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi and released by Joint Director, Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Hotokhu Chishi at WSBAK Centre Akuvuto, Thahekhu on Tuesday.
The music video has been uploaded on youtube and people can view or download it with the link: https://youtu.be/ctuALWBUU7I.
