Some time back one of my friends had posted a video link in Facebook - of that of 'Lambada' band in the 'Idea India Rocks' finale. The performance, for many of us, was nothing short of spectacular!
It has been quite some time now that I have consciously abstained from active-television-watching, partly influenced by my parents' complete disregard to "child's" TV watching needs, however every now and then, I do see some wonderful and talented people who perform at various levels.
This guy from the Lambada group ( Jasraj Joshi) is fantastic...
Listen to this track :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBq7vGasoM4
Now, as much as I try not to, I can't stop drawing parallels to the original. A lot of you would curse me for trying to compare the 'old' with 'new' ; the 'orthodox' with the 'modern' so on and so forth... 'yeh apple wali baat nahi hui' some would say !
But ki kariye .. control nahi haunda.. Check this track :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIX3a84v8g
This is from the movie 'Basant Bahar' - 1956; Bharat Bhusan, Nimmi starer, music by Shankar-Jaikishen. This song ( Ketaki Gulab Juhi) was sung by Pt.Bhimsen Joshi and Manna De.
Panditji would have been 34 years when this movie was released. Not sure about Jasraj's age.. may be late twenties. Similar age.. I would say, when both sang the song. What amazes me is the starling difference in caliber and voice quality.. what finesse ... what class.. wonder how many zillion hours of riyaz would have gone behind scenes to create such gifted talent... Bharat Ratna in the true sense. ( OK agreed.. this tribute is 102 days late.. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi died on 24-Jan-2011)
Not satisfied with the information available in the Internet about the song, I called up my friend in Delhi.. he is an RJ... he is a treasure trove of knowledge!! He gave me some interesting trivia about the song :
- It is based on raag 'Basant'
- Shankar ( of the SJ duo) had quite a liking for Manna De and hence you would notice that many of RK songs were sung by Manna De, before, due to some strange political reasons, it became a complete Mukesh bastion.
- When Manna De came to know that he has to "compete and win" against Panditji , he developed cold feet and wanted to chicken-out. His mallu wife ( Sulochana Kumaran) apparently coaxed ( reprimanded, I am told) to go ahead.. and the song went on to become a hallmark of the 'golden era of hindi film music', albeit the irony !
- The irony, which Manna De ( and rest of music loving world) would not have ever imagined, if not for the 1968 Sunil Dutt starer Padosan, where the legendary Manna De had to suffer defeat in the hands of Kishore Kumar ( ek chatur naar). Ignominy.Indeed. Irony.Indeed.Karma. Indeed...
It has been quite some time now that I have consciously abstained from active-television-watching, partly influenced by my parents' complete disregard to "child's" TV watching needs, however every now and then, I do see some wonderful and talented people who perform at various levels.
This guy from the Lambada group ( Jasraj Joshi) is fantastic...
Listen to this track :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBq7vGasoM4
Now, as much as I try not to, I can't stop drawing parallels to the original. A lot of you would curse me for trying to compare the 'old' with 'new' ; the 'orthodox' with the 'modern' so on and so forth... 'yeh apple wali baat nahi hui' some would say !
But ki kariye .. control nahi haunda.. Check this track :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIX3a84v8g
This is from the movie 'Basant Bahar' - 1956; Bharat Bhusan, Nimmi starer, music by Shankar-Jaikishen. This song ( Ketaki Gulab Juhi) was sung by Pt.Bhimsen Joshi and Manna De.
Panditji would have been 34 years when this movie was released. Not sure about Jasraj's age.. may be late twenties. Similar age.. I would say, when both sang the song. What amazes me is the starling difference in caliber and voice quality.. what finesse ... what class.. wonder how many zillion hours of riyaz would have gone behind scenes to create such gifted talent... Bharat Ratna in the true sense. ( OK agreed.. this tribute is 102 days late.. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi died on 24-Jan-2011)
Not satisfied with the information available in the Internet about the song, I called up my friend in Delhi.. he is an RJ... he is a treasure trove of knowledge!! He gave me some interesting trivia about the song :
- It is based on raag 'Basant'
- Shankar ( of the SJ duo) had quite a liking for Manna De and hence you would notice that many of RK songs were sung by Manna De, before, due to some strange political reasons, it became a complete Mukesh bastion.
- When Manna De came to know that he has to "compete and win" against Panditji , he developed cold feet and wanted to chicken-out. His mallu wife ( Sulochana Kumaran) apparently coaxed ( reprimanded, I am told) to go ahead.. and the song went on to become a hallmark of the 'golden era of hindi film music', albeit the irony !
- The irony, which Manna De ( and rest of music loving world) would not have ever imagined, if not for the 1968 Sunil Dutt starer Padosan, where the legendary Manna De had to suffer defeat in the hands of Kishore Kumar ( ek chatur naar). Ignominy.Indeed. Irony.Indeed.Karma. Indeed...
