Clip from: "SINLUNG: A DOCUMENTARY ON HMAR TRIBE" (c) 2012
"FAHRELTAWK LÂM" which literally means 'Dance over clashing pestles' also called Bamboo Dance is a traditional dance of the Hmar Tribe where the dancers put their best dresses and the ladies tied their heads with headbands and decorated it with flowers. The dance is performed on important occassions.
FAHRELTAWK LÂM
Zântieng vangkhuo sumtuol zâwlah lenruol kimte’n nun kan nuom
Pheivâwr sieu sieu châwnbân vai mawi a ri’n vangkhuo a nghawr vêl
Thleng thleng tet tet, thleng thleng tet tet
Chînlai lenruol zaleng anmawi sawrthlapui eng riei hnuoi ah
Tîna pi pu’n “Tuolfasumsuk” “Lasi Khuovang” ti’n lo ṭi
Keini ruolthar nunkhaw nuomna Sikpui khuongchawi ieng lo nih
Lêngi kân rawh Vâlmawi zui rawh
Ngûr sakhming mawi Kawrvaipa tuolzawlah kan rem vâwr siu siu
(In the evening, we friends and fellows enjoy life entirely on the street
The sound of stepping feet and waving hands echo around the street
Click click clack clack, Click click clack clack
Hordes of childhood friends are so graceful under the soft moonlight
Forefathers in ancient days feared pounding sound in open air for taking it to be the act of ghosts
However, it is the merry making of us new generations like in Sikpui festival
Miss Lengi skip over it, Mr Valmawi follow her suit
In the street of plain people, we unanimously together sing the fame of the great and the famous)
