His career is a testament to the pervasive appeal of ghazal, for Pankaj Udhas, among the foremost who brought the perceived elitist genre of music into the popular sphere, hailed well beyond its prime catchment area, but mastered the form with dedication and performed it with panache.
Pankaj Udhas, who passed away on Monday aged 72, is usually – and erroneously – seen as a purveyor of the ghazal’s “maikhana” tradition.
This is chiefly due to his famous renditions of “Mujhko yaaron muaaf karna, main nashe mein hoon”, “Thodi thodi piya karo”,”Sharab cheez hi aisi”, “Ek taraf us ka ghai ek taraf maikada”, “Sabko maloom hai main sharabi nahi” and several other vintage melodies, but there was more range to his velvet-rounded voice.
Recall the ebullient “Chandi jaisa rang hain tera”, the pensive “Kabhi saaya hai kabhi dhoop” or “Aap jinke kareeb hote hai”, the lightly mournful “Deewaron se milkar rona...
Pankaj Udhas, who passed away on Monday aged 72, is usually – and erroneously – seen as a purveyor of the ghazal’s “maikhana” tradition.
This is chiefly due to his famous renditions of “Mujhko yaaron muaaf karna, main nashe mein hoon”, “Thodi thodi piya karo”,”Sharab cheez hi aisi”, “Ek taraf us ka ghai ek taraf maikada”, “Sabko maloom hai main sharabi nahi” and several other vintage melodies, but there was more range to his velvet-rounded voice.
Recall the ebullient “Chandi jaisa rang hain tera”, the pensive “Kabhi saaya hai kabhi dhoop” or “Aap jinke kareeb hote hai”, the lightly mournful “Deewaron se milkar rona...
- 2/26/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Pankaj Udhas earned his first accolade as a singer when he was 11 years old. He sang the patriotic song ‘Ae mere watan ke logon’ at a public event in his hometown Rajkot when the Sino-Indian War was raging in 1962, and he so impressed a member of the audience that he gifted the young singer what was then a princely sum of Rs 51.
Udhas, who passed into eternity on Monday, February 26, at the age of 72, however, had not planned to become a singer. He was training to play the tabla at the Sangeet Natya Academy in Rajkot, where he had been enrolled along with his brothers by his father, Keshubhai Udhas, a government official who had learnt to play the dilruba from Ustad Abdul Karim Khan.
Seeing his father play his favourite dilruba in his spare time inspired Udhas to pursue music seriously. His elder brothers, Manhar and Nirmal Udhas, also...
Udhas, who passed into eternity on Monday, February 26, at the age of 72, however, had not planned to become a singer. He was training to play the tabla at the Sangeet Natya Academy in Rajkot, where he had been enrolled along with his brothers by his father, Keshubhai Udhas, a government official who had learnt to play the dilruba from Ustad Abdul Karim Khan.
Seeing his father play his favourite dilruba in his spare time inspired Udhas to pursue music seriously. His elder brothers, Manhar and Nirmal Udhas, also...
- 2/26/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Veteran filmmaker Saawan Kumar Tak – who made blockbusters like ‘Souten’ – passed away following multiple health issues here on Thursday, his family said. Tak was 86 and is survived by his wife and eminent music director Usha Khanna, and other relatives.
He breathed his last following a heart attack at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, after battling lung and chest related diseases for the past few days, his nephew Navin told the media.
Tak launched his film career in 1967 by penning the script for the superhit musical ‘Naunihal’ for which the Mohammed Rafi song ‘Meri Awaz Suno’ was shot during the funeral procession of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Over his 55-year-long Bollywood career, Tak had made over 20 films including the musical blockbuster ‘Souten’ (1983) starring Rajesh Khanna, Tina Munim (Ambani) and Padmini Kolhapure.
Other major films from his creative stable included ‘Gomti Ke Kinare’ (1972), his debut directorial venture which was...
He breathed his last following a heart attack at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, after battling lung and chest related diseases for the past few days, his nephew Navin told the media.
Tak launched his film career in 1967 by penning the script for the superhit musical ‘Naunihal’ for which the Mohammed Rafi song ‘Meri Awaz Suno’ was shot during the funeral procession of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Over his 55-year-long Bollywood career, Tak had made over 20 films including the musical blockbuster ‘Souten’ (1983) starring Rajesh Khanna, Tina Munim (Ambani) and Padmini Kolhapure.
Other major films from his creative stable included ‘Gomti Ke Kinare’ (1972), his debut directorial venture which was...
- 8/25/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Forty-four were invited to join the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, including Kendrick Lamar, whose contributions to the “Black Panther” soundtrack are riding high on the album charts; songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who won an Oscar for her song for “An Inconvenient Truth”; and recent Oscar nominees Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka (“Lion”), Sufjan Stevens (“Call Me By Your Name”), Carlinhos Brown (“Rio”) and Benoit Charest (“The Triplets of Belleville”).
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.
Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.
Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
It’s where Amitabh Bachchan took Jaya on one of their first dates, where Infosys co founder Nandan Nilekeni had proposed to his wife, where artists like Mf Hussain and Tyeb Mehta would sit doodling for hours, where poet Nissim Ezekiel would hold fort with young students from Elphinstone college next door and where cartoonists like Mario Miranda, writers like Behram (Busybee) Contractor and filmmakers like Shyam Benegal would measure out their lives in tea spoons dreaming of their next creative venture.
And now after 50 glorious years, is bidding adieu, downing its shutters, shutting shop, saying goodbye. And in an age of fast food, ephemeral relationships and franchise coffee it will be the end of an era.
An era of grace, hospitality and good wholesome food, when a young Usha Khanna, back from a stint in France where her husband the documentary film maker Rajbans Khanna had been awarded the...
And now after 50 glorious years, is bidding adieu, downing its shutters, shutting shop, saying goodbye. And in an age of fast food, ephemeral relationships and franchise coffee it will be the end of an era.
An era of grace, hospitality and good wholesome food, when a young Usha Khanna, back from a stint in France where her husband the documentary film maker Rajbans Khanna had been awarded the...
- 3/21/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Singer Vaishali Samant who has sung many chartbusters in Marathi and Hindi (A R Rahman's 'Chalka Chalka Re' in Saathiya and 'Taal Se Taal Mila' in Taal) is all set to compose music for a Marathi film based on the life of the 19th century social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. Vaishali has convinced the reclusive Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar to record a song in Marathi for the film. The recording is to be held on Wednesday. This would be a rare song of Lataji tuned by a lady composer. Says the Nightingale, "At the very beginning of my singing career, I recorded a song with Saraswati Devi who was the first music director of Hindi cinema. Then for a very long time, I worked only with male music directors because there were hardly any women doing music direction. Then after a very long time came Usha Khanna. I sang several songs...
- 2/1/2014
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Nomadic music composer Sneha Khanwalkar who wowed listeners with her new-age sound in Gangs Of Wasseypur has been missing from action in spite of all the raves and wah-wahs for her eclectic sound that she culled and collected from all across the world. In fact producers desirous of the most innovative music composer of Indian cinema since A R Rahman have been wondering where to find the Wasseypur ki Womaniya. Well, now it can be told. The shy Sneha has been out of circulation since March because of her fractured arm. Says Sneha, "Can you believe it? On Women's Day (March 8) I fell right on my right hand. So I've been nursing my arm for the past three months." Sneha's hand would heal not before July. But let's make it very clear that she is not interested in doing another music score until she is fully convinced about it. Says Sneha,...
- 6/20/2013
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Mumbai, Sep 22: There aren't too many women into music direction, but Shivi Kashyap, who comes from the small town of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, is trying to break barriers by composing melodies with her first film 'Tere Mere Phere'.
Yesteryears music director Usha Khanna and current crop Sneha Khanwalkar are the only famous female music directors of Hindi filmdom. However, Kashyap feels the industry is open to new talent, gender irrespective.
'Definitely there are less females in music composing and often it is difficult for women to come and show their talent even now. But at the end of the day, it is about your.
Yesteryears music director Usha Khanna and current crop Sneha Khanwalkar are the only famous female music directors of Hindi filmdom. However, Kashyap feels the industry is open to new talent, gender irrespective.
'Definitely there are less females in music composing and often it is difficult for women to come and show their talent even now. But at the end of the day, it is about your.
- 9/22/2011
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
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