A Casual Talk with Vilayil Faseela – Yesteryears’ Mappilapaattu Singer
We are so pleased to feature one of the most popular Mappilapaattu singer from Kerala through our channel. She sang more than 3000 songs during 80’s and 90’s.
Mappila songs (or Mappila Paattu) are a folklore Muslim song genre rendered to lyrics, within a melodic framework (Ishal), in colloquial Mappila dialect of Malayalam laced with Arabic, by the Mappilas of the Malabar region in Kerala, India.[1] Mappila songs have a distinct cultural identity, while at the same time remain closely linked to the cultural practices of Kerala