A large, colorful festival.

festival or fair, usually Hindu

'fair' - used of Sikh festivals which are not gurpurbs

S. I. Parent mode; 72 in all; See Mela chart

a grouping of svara-s of specific intervals (measured in terms of Sruti-s) which can fit several melodies or rAga-s

An early term synonymous with that in art music. It is the fundamental, generative arrangement of notes both in aroha and avaroha. The arrangement functions as the parent scale from which raga is generated. The mela system came in vogue to replace the murchhana-system around the fifteenth-sixteenth century. Each mela was named after the important raga it generated and such a raga was called melakarta.

a complete motion picture which takes you through the carnival of emotions with its three main characters ,Kishan Pyare (Aamir Khan), Shankar Shane (Faisal Khan) and Roopa (Twinkle Khanna)

apple apple mela

black (_Melaleuca_ = "black" (trunk) + "white" (branches)) mel

(or mElam) abbreviation for mElakarta