Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Music Mania

Music... Oh..la la laaaaa...

According to me 9 out of 10 people have Music in the list of their hobbies. I am also not an exception. I love music a lot. Well I don't have flair for singing, but I am a good listener.
Interest towards Music
Don't know when this worm entered into my body. But, it may be during years 1989-90. My father brought first(for our family) Television for us. I was only 9 years old that time. We used to enjoy the serials, and movies a lot. But among my list of favourites was programs telacasted on Sunday. There was several reason behind it, first it was holiday, and that time there was only Doordarshan, and Sunday was famous for the best programs(Serials, Movies & Rangoli).

Rangoli was my most favourite program, bcoz it was collection of Best Hindi Songs. Even today it is better than several music programs being telecasted on different channels. In begining I only watched the songs, I was not so mature to understand the lyrics. But I was aware with the faces of almost every actor & actoress(old or new). So it was the inception days of my interest towards Music & Songs.

I was basically fan of old hindi songs that time, because like today there was No Music & FM Channels. Even on Radio there was very few programs of recent movies songs.

Favourite Male Singer
Well I like good music & melodious songs, not only singer. But I m fan of Late Mukesh. Because he was the singer whose voice and songs touches my soul. He was master of everything. Some people say that he was master in singing Sad Songs. Then what about Romantic songs of Mukesh like:-

  • Chandan Sa Badan...
  • Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein ...
  • Chand Si Mehbooba Ho meri..
  • Phool Tumhen Bheja Hai Khat mein..

And there are many more in the list. Mukesh could breathe a thousand shades of despair and distill a lifetime of heartache in the few minutes it took to record a song. No other singer was capable of projecting emotions in their raw, unfurnished state the way he could. His was a voice that could on one hand be deeply melancholic and on the other hand exude a profoundly innocent and mellifluous sweetness. It was an exquisite blend of torment and anguish, tenderness and joy. To quote music maestro Salil Choudhury, "Each word from his lips was a pearl. No one could sing the way Mukesh did with the right diction, inflexion and intonation. His vocal timbre was out of this world."

Mukesh flourished right through the 1960s and mid 1970s with soulful hits like Main to Ek Khwab Hoon (Himalay ki God Mein (1965)), Jeena Yahaan Marna Yahaan (Mera Naam Joker), Maine Tere Liye hi Saat Rang ke Sanpne Chune (Anand (1970)), Main na Bhoolonga (Roti, Kapda Aur Makan (1974)) and of course Main Pal do Pal ka Shayar Hoon and Kabhi Kabhie (Kabhi Kabhie (1976)).

Some of my all time favourite songs are :

  • “Aawara Hoon-Awara(1951),
  • “Ye Mera Deewanapan Hai-Yahudi(1958)“,
  • “Aasoon Bhari Hai-Parvarish(1958)“,
  • “Sab Kuch Seekha Hamne-Anadi(1959)“,
  • “Dost Dost Na Reha-Sangam(1964)“,
  • “Duniya Banane Wale-Teesari Kasam(1966)“,
  • “Chal Akela-Sambandh(1969)“,
  • “Jis gali mein tera Ghar-Kati Patang(1970)“,
  • “Jane Kehan gaye Wo Din-Mera Naam Joker(1970)“,
  • “Kai Baar Yun Bhi Dekha Hai-Rajnigandha(1974),
  • “Ek Din Bik Jayega-Dharam Karam(1975)“ and the last in List is
  • “Kabhi Kabhi.. & Main Pal do Pal Ka Shayar-Kabhi-Kabhi(1976).“

Favourite Female Singer
Ofcourse Lata Mangeshkar. Who else? From childhood to this age always I liked her songs. Either that is songs of initial days of Hindi Cinema like "Aa Jao Tadapte Hain Arman.. Ab Raat gujarne wali hai" or recent songs of Veer-Zara like "Tere Liye" or "Do Pal Ka", Lata Ji is always the best among Best.

She has been active in all walks of Indian popular and light classical music having sung film songs, ghazals, bhajans and pop. She is the supreme voice of popular Indian music, an Indian Institution. Until the 1991 edition, when her entry disappeared, the Guinness Book of Records listed her as the most recorded artist in the world with not less than 30,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs recorded in 20 Indian languages between 1948 and 1987. Today the number might have reached 40,000!!!

My Favourite Songs by Lata JI:-

  • Jiya Bekarar hai (Barsat-1949)
  • Aayega Aanewala (Mahal-1949)
  • Ye Jindagi Usi Ki Hai (Anarkali-1953)
  • Man Dole mera (Nagin-1954)
  • Rasik Balma (Chori Chori-1956)
  • Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh(Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayee-1960)
  • Aapki Nazron Ne Samjha (Anpadh-1962)
  • Aaj Fir Jine ki Tamanna Hai (Guide-1965)
  • Aa Jaanejaa (Inteqam-1969)
  • Chalte-Chalte (Paakeezah-1972)
  • Ae Dil-E Nadan (Razia Sultan-1980)
  • Dikhayee Diye Yun (Bazaar-1982)
  • Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon (1962 During Indo-China War)

And two of her songs “Aa Jao Tadapte Hain Arman” & “Ye Sham Ki Tanhaiaan Aise mein tera Gam” are really Precious for me. Whenever I listen these two songs I became totally hypnotised.

Well music listening habbit is situation & mood dependent, I'll write abt my mood and such habbits in next blog.

5 comments:

  1. i salute mr vashisth babu.but due to mistake of our bloody system we lost a grate scientists, he only make us proud in 21st century,

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  2. the father of mathematics mr vasisth narayan singh, we need you,we should help this wizard,please get well soon.

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  3. Anonymous12:15 PM

    I want to know abot him. Thanks a lot.

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  4. Really good one!!!!!

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  5. Some people born genius..... Just like Dr. V.N.Singh......

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