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Song lists · 2026 wedding season

The baraat street set

Loud, short, and it has to survive being played on a trolley speaker.

tracks
6 tracks
set lists
10 set lists

Where this belongs

The procession. Thirty to sixty minutes, moving.

  1. Dhol only

    First ninety seconds. No track. See the dhol-only opener.

  2. Kala Chashma

    Baar Baar Dekho

  3. Aankh Marey

    Simmba

  4. London Thumakda

    Queen

  5. Morni Banke

    Badhaai Ho

  6. Jhoome Jo Pathaan

    Pathaan

    Arrival at the gate.

The mistake this list exists to prevent

Anything with a quiet intro. On a street, through a trolley speaker, a slow build is silence — every track here needs to land inside four seconds.

Titles only — we host no audio and link to none. Your DJ has the music; what is usually missing is the order.

Running this set

How long should this set run?

The procession. Thirty to sixty minutes, moving. These 6 tracks are the spine of it, not the whole running order — a DJ will fill between them. What matters is that the shape holds: if the tracks that carry the room land in the wrong half hour, adding more music does not fix it.

What should open it?

Dhol only. First ninety seconds. No track. See the dhol-only opener. An opener that demands dancing before anyone is ready leaves the floor empty and makes the next three tracks harder, which is the most common way a good playlist still fails.

What should it end on?

Jhoome Jo Pathaan (Pathaan). Arrival at the gate.

Can we just hand this list to our DJ?

Yes — that is what it is for, and the notes matter more than the titles. Any DJ in Gujarat already has this music; what they do not have is your family's read on when the older relatives will be on the floor and when they will have gone to sit down. Send the list with the notes attached, and treat it as the argument for the order rather than a fixed tracklist.

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