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Bolo Ta Ra Ra..

album by Daler Mehndi

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ45925486 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bolo Ta Ra Ra.. is the 1995 debut album of Punjabi-language Bhangra singer Daler Mehndi. The album remains the top-selling non-film music Indian pop album. The album sold 20 million units, including more than a million in Kerala alone. It was released first on 23 January 1995 on cassette and then on 1 September 1995 on audio CD format.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bolo Ta Ra Ra..” as album by Daler Mehndi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bolo, album and Daler.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bolo, album and Daler providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bolo Ta Ra Ra..”, the useful work is to connect “album by Daler Mehndi” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q45925486. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

Critical limits

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  2. Expand the search: follow Bolo Ta Ra Ra.. primary sources, Bolo Ta Ra Ra.. archive and Bolo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bolo Ta Ra Ra..” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.