Date: 10th June 2007
This event was a much anticipated one. It had a lot of firsts. It was the first time that the organizer was not going to be Subash Bhatt. Kushal Gopalka, anardent music lover was going to host this session.
Also, instead of songs being played from a cassette a compact disc was going to be used. Kushal also brought in a Mixer. It was a Yamaha EMX 2300. The mixer was being handled by a person called Kishore. Three musicians from Pancham’s camp were present, viz Kancha, Y. S. Mulkhi and Homi Mullah.
The first song was ‘Ghar Aaja Ghir Aayee’ from Chote Nawab. Here we were informed by Kushal that Acharya had played the sitar for this song. Herein it was mentioned that Laxmikant Pyarelal had complimented Rahul Dev Burman on the song ‘Piya Tu Ab Tho Aaja’. From the sixties it was a giant leap to the 70’s with the next song ‘Aapsa Koi Haseen’ from Chandi Sona. After this song, Homi Mullah expressed condolences to Dattaram, who had passed away a week back.
The next song was ‘Achi Nahin Sanam Dillagi’ from Rakhi Aur Hathkadi. Kushal remarked that Majrooh Sultanpuri had always maintained that he loved working with Pancham the most. Then Amit Kumar’s ‘Bade Acche Lagthe Hain’ from Balika Badhu was played. Followed by, Asha’s seductive ‘Aao Naa Gale Laga Lo’ from Mere Jeevan Saathi. The triangle in this track is by Homi,
with Manohari on the flute. Homi mentioned that he was nervous when he saw around 100 musicians working for Pancham. Then the folkish song ‘Dilbar Dilbar’ from Caravan was played. Anil Biswas had complimented Pancham on this song. Kawas Lord had played the Bongos. And Amrut Rao had played the Tamarind. The next song was the Bhupinder-Lata duet ‘Beethi Na Bithayi Raina’ from Parichay. Followed by, ‘Gum Hain Kisi Ke’ from Rampur Ka Lakshman. Basu Manohari and Maruti Rao were the assistants in this film. The next song was the Bhupinder ‘Ek Hi Khwaab Kahin Baar’ from Kinara. Bhupinder used to play guitar in the Mehboob Studios during those days. The next song to follow was the Mukesh-Lata evergreen duet ‘Kahin Karthi Hogi Woh Mera’ from Phir Kab Milogi. The clarinet piece in this composition is by Manohari.
The band wagon jumped backwards with the Popular Padosan song ‘Main Chali Main Chali’. Homi played the cycle bells in this composition. Then again it was a giant leap to 80’s with ‘Kya Yehi Pyar Hai’ from Rocky. The introduction piece was a discovery actually. Bhanu Gupta was playing this tune just off record when Pancham suddenly heard it and was impressed by it. The rest is history. The next piece was the Sholay sound track. The tabla tarang was by Abhayankar. The use of stereophonic record was done for the first time. After that the song ‘Sargam Ke Saathi’ from Parichay was played. The romantic track ‘O Hansini Kahaan Udh Chali’ from Zehreela Insaan followed next. The Rhythm was played by Kawas. Accordion was by Kersi Lord. The session went into a classical mood with the ‘Gori Tori Painjaniyaan’ from Mehbooba. Followed by, the haunting ‘O Majhi Re’ from Khushboo. The work on the bottle is by Basu. One of the flute is played by Manohari while the other by Hariprasad Chaurasia. What better song to follow this song than ‘O Mere Dil Ke Chain’ from Mere Jeevan Saathi. The Duggi is by Homi. Then ‘Thak Jhoom Naacho,
Nashe Mein Chur’, another folkish number from Kaala Sona was played. Afterwards, Mahendra, one of the members of the Gujarati Seva Mandal felicitated Mulkhi, Homi Mullah and Kancha. A person from Colaba, Mr. Parvez Katrak was also honoured. There was an interval after the felicitations.
Post interval session started with ‘Maine Poocha Chand Se’ from Abdullah. Here we all were introduced to C.I.D Vijay from the nearby police station. After that Aandhi’s duet ‘Tere Bina Zindagi Se was played. The Madhak was played by Kancha for this composition.
Then ‘Tumhein Chodke Tho’ from Basera was played. The Base Guitar is by Tony Vaz. It was a giant leap backwards, some 20 years behind to be precise. ‘Hawa Ke Saath Saath’ from Seeta Aur Geeta was next. Base Guitar was played by Charanjeet for this number. Then the romantic ‘Phir Wohi Raat Hain’ from Ghar was played. The 4 Madhals were used by Kancha. ‘Yeh Zamin Gaa Rahi Hain’ from Teri Kasam was the second last song. Followed by, ‘Rimjhim Gire Sawaan’ from Manzil. The organizers requested Y. S. Mulkhi to say something about his earlier works. Mulkhi began by saying that he along with Bhanu Gupta had been playing Flute and Guitar respectively since 40’s. They had worked under Salil Choudhury, Ravindra Jain and Jaidev to name a few. He had patronized Pankaj Udhas, Anup Jalota and Peenaz Masani under Polydor as Arranger. The session ended with Mr. Katrak reciting some dohas of Kabir.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Manna Dey Event In Mumbai
Manna Dey ----- Ek Shaam Hamare Manna Da Ke Naam
Even though I came to know of this event rather late, I was able to book my ticket for the programme and attend it altogether in a single day. I purchased Balcony seats early morning and rushed back to my office by around 1 P.M.
The programme was in the evening. I left my office by around 6 P.M. Thanks to a colleague who offered me a lift up to the station. She was however little bit surprised that I was going all alone.
I reached the Auditorium by around 7 P.M. It took some five more minutes before I had occupied my seats. The curtains were there still so I was not that late. Just ahead of me a person was sitting. I casually asked him If Manna Dey had arrived. He looked rather surprised. He said that obviously he must have come. As we started talking Perry, for that was his name said that he was in two minds while coming to this event, whether to attend or not? He did consider Manna Dey the only living legend so this must be worthwhile. Perry has some talent. He takes notes and makes tunes.
I glanced across the stage. Still the Curtains were there. There were some video songs played of his on the Video screen. Songs included Professor, Awaara, Love & God, Raat Aur Din, Shree 420, Ujala, Bawarchi and Waqt.
Then there was an announcement that Manna Dey had arrived. Then Khurana Saab, who has been accompanying Manna Dey in all his programmes, came to take centre stage when the Curtains were drawn finally. He introduced us to Shailaja Subramaniam who was going to sing some songs before Manna Dey would take over.
Shailaja started with ‘Raina Beethi Jaayein’. Then went on to sing ‘Yeh Hain Reshmi Zulfon Ka Andheraa’ and ‘Kuch Dil Ne Kahaan’ .This was followed by the introduction of another singer, this time a male—Rana Chatterjee. He started with ‘Aa Chalke Tujhe Main Leke Chalun’ and then sang ‘Mohabbat Zinda Rehti Hain’.
Then Khurana Saab announced the arrival of the Legend, Manna Dey. All rose to give him a thundering applause. Manna Dey seated himself on a cushion with a harmonium in front of him. He started with ‘Bhay Banjana Vandana Sun Hamaari’. Before singing, the song Manna Dey had mentioned that he would start with some songs then will sing some audience choices. Luckily, for me, even before I could think whether I would be able to listen to one of my favourite songs, I was pleasantly surprised when he mentioned about Kanu Roy and how he had died in a very young age. He then sang ‘Hansne Ki Chaah Ne’. Followed by ‘Phool Gendwa Na Maaro’, ‘Jhanak Jhanak Tori Baaje Payaliya’, ‘Abhi Tho Haath Mein Jaam Hain’, ‘Aye Meri Zohra Zabeen’.
The one non-film song he sung was ‘O Sajni, Sajni, Nathni Se’.
Then Sheela, another female singer accompanied Manna Dey in singing some duets such as ‘Sochke Yeh Gagan Jhoome’, ‘Dil Ki Girah Khol Do’, ‘Main Tere Pyar Main’ before stopping for an interval.
Anil Trivedi the organizer announced the intermission. Post interval Sheela Verma came on to sing songs ‘Rasm-E-Ulfat Ko’, ‘In Aankhon Ke Masthi Ke’ and ‘Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Situm’. Then Anil Trivedi called the Guest of Honour Mr. Nautiyal on to the stage. He mentioned that Manna Dey had sung for as many as 19 languages and overall 2,500 songs.
After that, Anand Daulat felicitated him with a shawl and bouquet of flowers. When the felicitation was over Manna Dey resumed with his songs. He sang some verses of ‘Madhushaala’. On request from some of the Bangla audience, he sang one Bangla number, which had lyrics by Pulok Banerjee. It went something like ‘Tumi Ek Jhot Ne’.
He followed this song with ‘Poocho Na Kaise Maine Rain’, ‘Aayo Kahaan Se Ghanshyam’, ‘Laaga Chunri Mein Daag’, and finally ‘Aye Mere Pyare Watan’, which was the last song.
Anil Trivedi then came along to mention the names of the members of the musical troupe. Mahendra Gokhale was on the synthesizer, Guitar by Richard, Tabla by Indranath Mukherjee, Dholak by Shyam and Side Rhythm by Waman Kohli.
I returned home remembering an evening well spent.
Even though I came to know of this event rather late, I was able to book my ticket for the programme and attend it altogether in a single day. I purchased Balcony seats early morning and rushed back to my office by around 1 P.M.
The programme was in the evening. I left my office by around 6 P.M. Thanks to a colleague who offered me a lift up to the station. She was however little bit surprised that I was going all alone.
I reached the Auditorium by around 7 P.M. It took some five more minutes before I had occupied my seats. The curtains were there still so I was not that late. Just ahead of me a person was sitting. I casually asked him If Manna Dey had arrived. He looked rather surprised. He said that obviously he must have come. As we started talking Perry, for that was his name said that he was in two minds while coming to this event, whether to attend or not? He did consider Manna Dey the only living legend so this must be worthwhile. Perry has some talent. He takes notes and makes tunes.
I glanced across the stage. Still the Curtains were there. There were some video songs played of his on the Video screen. Songs included Professor, Awaara, Love & God, Raat Aur Din, Shree 420, Ujala, Bawarchi and Waqt.
Then there was an announcement that Manna Dey had arrived. Then Khurana Saab, who has been accompanying Manna Dey in all his programmes, came to take centre stage when the Curtains were drawn finally. He introduced us to Shailaja Subramaniam who was going to sing some songs before Manna Dey would take over.
Shailaja started with ‘Raina Beethi Jaayein’. Then went on to sing ‘Yeh Hain Reshmi Zulfon Ka Andheraa’ and ‘Kuch Dil Ne Kahaan’ .This was followed by the introduction of another singer, this time a male—Rana Chatterjee. He started with ‘Aa Chalke Tujhe Main Leke Chalun’ and then sang ‘Mohabbat Zinda Rehti Hain’.
Then Khurana Saab announced the arrival of the Legend, Manna Dey. All rose to give him a thundering applause. Manna Dey seated himself on a cushion with a harmonium in front of him. He started with ‘Bhay Banjana Vandana Sun Hamaari’. Before singing, the song Manna Dey had mentioned that he would start with some songs then will sing some audience choices. Luckily, for me, even before I could think whether I would be able to listen to one of my favourite songs, I was pleasantly surprised when he mentioned about Kanu Roy and how he had died in a very young age. He then sang ‘Hansne Ki Chaah Ne’. Followed by ‘Phool Gendwa Na Maaro’, ‘Jhanak Jhanak Tori Baaje Payaliya’, ‘Abhi Tho Haath Mein Jaam Hain’, ‘Aye Meri Zohra Zabeen’.
The one non-film song he sung was ‘O Sajni, Sajni, Nathni Se’.
Then Sheela, another female singer accompanied Manna Dey in singing some duets such as ‘Sochke Yeh Gagan Jhoome’, ‘Dil Ki Girah Khol Do’, ‘Main Tere Pyar Main’ before stopping for an interval.
Anil Trivedi the organizer announced the intermission. Post interval Sheela Verma came on to sing songs ‘Rasm-E-Ulfat Ko’, ‘In Aankhon Ke Masthi Ke’ and ‘Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Situm’. Then Anil Trivedi called the Guest of Honour Mr. Nautiyal on to the stage. He mentioned that Manna Dey had sung for as many as 19 languages and overall 2,500 songs.
After that, Anand Daulat felicitated him with a shawl and bouquet of flowers. When the felicitation was over Manna Dey resumed with his songs. He sang some verses of ‘Madhushaala’. On request from some of the Bangla audience, he sang one Bangla number, which had lyrics by Pulok Banerjee. It went something like ‘Tumi Ek Jhot Ne’.
He followed this song with ‘Poocho Na Kaise Maine Rain’, ‘Aayo Kahaan Se Ghanshyam’, ‘Laaga Chunri Mein Daag’, and finally ‘Aye Mere Pyare Watan’, which was the last song.
Anil Trivedi then came along to mention the names of the members of the musical troupe. Mahendra Gokhale was on the synthesizer, Guitar by Richard, Tabla by Indranath Mukherjee, Dholak by Shyam and Side Rhythm by Waman Kohli.
I returned home remembering an evening well spent.
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