In the non-orchestra round, Parthiv Gohil sang this song which was sung originally by Ustaad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Pt. Jasraj for the movie 'Baiju Bhaavra'. Parthiv is singing this song in front of Pt. Jasraj, who had tears in his eyes. Very very tough song and Parthiv sang it without any accompaniments to help! Gifted voice. Now see this video:
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Saregama Mega final 1998 - Parthiv Gohil
I saw Parthiv Gohil singing in this video just now! Got goose pimples!
Gajendra Singh's choice of singers is superb!This song of S.D. Burman is from the Film 'Pyaasa' sung by Mohammad Rafi. Guru Dutt acted for this song. Beautiful song with very minimum orchestra. All the songs in this film are superb. Parthiv is singing with so much concentration and involvement. He really feels the emotion of this song. He is one of our favourite singer of this programme. There are some more! All were good in their own way! After this programme, when we heard the songs sung by Parthiv or Shiv Prasad or Shreya, we did not connect the actors faces to the song, but these singers' faces came to our mind!
You can see Pt.Jasraj, Pt. Chaurasia, Music directors Naushad, Khayyam, OP Nayyar, Kalyanji Anandji etc. enjoying this song. Earlier, we knew about the music directors by name. This programme made us recognise them.
Thank you Gajendra Singh and of course, our Sonu Nigam!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Mohammad Rafi - the immortal singer of Hindi Film music.
Mohammad Rafi - The golden voice of Hindi film music! Even now, when we hear his songs, we get goose pimples. So many good songs are there in his voice. Even younger generation love his songs. We can see in the reality (music talent search) shows, how people enjoy and the youngsters enjoy his songs. Hear this one. This video has got his and his family's photographs. Great man, indeed!
Saregama - 1998 Mega Final
Sonu Nigam - the current No.1 playback singer participated in Zee TV's Antakshari programme as a participant. He was a small boy of 18 or 19 years of age and was mimicking Kishore and Rafi's voice in that show itself! This programme was produced by Gajendra Singh and I think it ran for more than 12-13 years. Annu Kapoor who was the anchor became very famous through this programme. Our whole family loves music and we used to watch it regularly on Friday nights.
Then, Gajendra Singh produced this programme 'saregama' (I feel like writing TVS saregama - TVS was the sponsor and it feels odd to just say 'saregama!) and Sonu Nigam was the anchor. Youngsters who were proficient in classical and film music were selected and were given this platform to prove themselves. One segment had 13 episodes. The judges were prominent singers, music directors, classical singers etc. The quality of the singers was extremely good. I think after some 16 segments or something, 'Mega Final' episode was made with the winners of these segments. Many famous music directors and singers and classical singers participated as judges and I feel it was the golden period of music by Gajendra Singh. We can see Naushad, Anil Biswas, Kalyanji(of Kalyanji Anandji)etc., who are no more. We can see Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ustaad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Ramnarayanji and many more stalwarts. We are still nostalgic about those episodes!
We had been looking in stores for the cd/dvd's of these episodes, but couldn't find. Does anyone know if they are available in the market?
I came across some songs of the 'Mega Final' of 'saregama' and you can see the quality of the show. You too enjoy like we did.
Sonu Nigam is singing here with the contestants. Ameya Date is singing in concerts everywhere. Bela was very good. Parthiv was the best. Sonu Nigam was conducting very nicely. He is completely different here, hair style etc.! We admired him a lot in these episodes. Very very polite Sonu!
Then, Gajendra Singh produced this programme 'saregama' (I feel like writing TVS saregama - TVS was the sponsor and it feels odd to just say 'saregama!) and Sonu Nigam was the anchor. Youngsters who were proficient in classical and film music were selected and were given this platform to prove themselves. One segment had 13 episodes. The judges were prominent singers, music directors, classical singers etc. The quality of the singers was extremely good. I think after some 16 segments or something, 'Mega Final' episode was made with the winners of these segments. Many famous music directors and singers and classical singers participated as judges and I feel it was the golden period of music by Gajendra Singh. We can see Naushad, Anil Biswas, Kalyanji(of Kalyanji Anandji)etc., who are no more. We can see Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ustaad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Ramnarayanji and many more stalwarts. We are still nostalgic about those episodes!
We had been looking in stores for the cd/dvd's of these episodes, but couldn't find. Does anyone know if they are available in the market?
I came across some songs of the 'Mega Final' of 'saregama' and you can see the quality of the show. You too enjoy like we did.
Sonu Nigam is singing here with the contestants. Ameya Date is singing in concerts everywhere. Bela was very good. Parthiv was the best. Sonu Nigam was conducting very nicely. He is completely different here, hair style etc.! We admired him a lot in these episodes. Very very polite Sonu!
Sonu Nigam - Our current Mohammad Rafi/Kishore Kumar!
I came across this video of Sonu Nigam, singing Laxmikant Pyarelal's songs in a medley form. I enjoyed it very much. We can see the videos of the music director duo creating music and Mohammad Rafi singing ....I loved this video:
