Asha Bhonsle : Yun hee gaate raho !
Indian cinema music has been fortunate enough because some great singers have been blessing it by their gracious presence in the last 7 decades. Their great singing performances have been enriching the fields of both, Indian cinema music and Indian music.
To become a member of this prestigious group of great singers one needs to be an enormously talented singer who is capable to maintain consistently a good singing and who is deeply devoted towards the singing and it is not merely for a professional basis.
Asha Bhonsle had all of these qualities and that is why she is a proud and prominent member of the club of great singers of Indian cinema.
In last 5 decades she has sung a variety of songs. She has sung all, Bhajans, Cabaret numbers, Sad songs, happy songs, utterly romantic songs, ghazals, qawwalis, solos, duets, choruses, patriotic songs etc etc.
She faced many different phases in her long career and she got popularity after a long struggle only. Her career seems to be a journey like one of her songs, she had sung for BR Chopra/Yash Chopra’s film, Waqt.
People have a habit to compare one great singer with another great singer and then there are fights among admirers of the singers because they try to prove that their chosen singer was/is the greatest among the great singers.
Here people have to go towards the parental feelings. All the great singers are like children of Music and they have been serving their parental figure with their best possible talents and performances.
These great singers of Indian Cinema have been having that capability that if one singer is singing a song then audience can not feel absence of other singer/s at that moment. A particular singer fills completely the space with his/her competent singing.
Someone has done a great service by mixing the two versions of the song, Jaane kya baat hai, composed by Pancham Da and sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Amrita Singh in hindi film Sunny.
Here Asha Bhonsle also has sung the same song and it is such a pleasure to listen two of the great singers of Indian cinema music.
When one is singing then it is a complete singing in its own.
In the end, a beautiful song sung by Asha Bhonsle and classical singer Parveen Sultana for the film Parwana.
Piya kee galee laage bhalee
Birthday wishes to one of the great singers of India.
Many happy returns of the day, Asha Ji.
Tags: amrita singh, Asha Bhonsle, BR Chopra, Lata Mangeshkar, Pancham, Parveen Sultana, parwana, RD Burman, Sunny, waqt, Yash Chopra
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Yaar jitna gaana tha ga chukin badi bi. Ab unhen araam karne do.
Bachchon, chupchap baitho abhee tumharee umra nahin huyee hai kuch karne kee!
Bujurgon, chupchaap apne apne kamron mein dubak kar baitho, ab tumharee umra nahin rahee hai !!
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As if Asha’s singing is stopping you or other singers to sing on a professional basis.
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No cuckoo is ever found stopping other cuckoos in the forest.
Its become fashionable to take potshots at yesteryear geniuses in the face of technojazzed sounds …shelf life and quality of which is highly suspect !!!
Both the sisters are geniues in their own right and so are many of their contemporary music directors….
Junta should listen and feel their music before they put their feet in thir own mouths…
With due respect to Asha. I found Lata’s version melodious and Asha’s not up to the mark.
Yaatri,
Hope you take it in right perspective because few points are generated in the mind because of your comment. It is not a trial to change your opinion.
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IMHO,
1) Lata’s version is from studio recording ( or as it was used in the film) and she sang it at the age of 54-55 years. While Asha’s version is sung much later as you can feel that this voice is not of Asha of 1980s but of post millenium period.
2) Lata’s version is an example of Playback Singing at which she is a Master. She is singing here for a purpose and that is to present Amrita Singh as a singer. Here Lata’s singing is present but it is for Amrita Singh and her personality is present in the song.
Asha’s singing is not to serve the purpose of playback singing. It is a singing for a formless here. She is singing it as a singer. Hence there is a relaxed feeling attached with her singing.
Two Different versions of a song. Their purposes dont clash with each other. Each of them has its own individuality. Asha has given her own touch to the song.
That was the point in the post.
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Having mentioned that, it has to be also mentioned that
we would have got two different songs
-If Lata ji had sung it for a non-filmi purpose, i.e. not to fulfil the playback singing demand and where she would have sung as singer Lata Mangeshkar and not to synchronize her singing with the singing style of an actress on screen.
- If Asha Ji had sung it for the sake of Playback singing.
There has been a clear distinction between playback and personal singing for all these great singers of Indian films.
This difference can be seen in their filmi songs and non filmi albums.
In non filmi albums they have liberty to do experiments.
Yatri ji Asha ki awaaz men feel hai, Lata ji bas gaana ga rahi hain.
Here goes the cliche – Asha is an old wine, she sounds better and better as she ages.
I mentioned my point with respect to the particular song and not in general. Both are legends in their own right. And I have zero knowledge of music to dare and compare both.
To my ears here, Lata’s version sounded more melodious that’s it. And I believe this Asha vs Lata competition should never escalate beyond this post.
Thanks.
Yaatri,
Thanks for pointing out the reasoning on why verdict came out in your first comment.
I also feel, that writer went wrong in this post by attaching this lata vs Asha song . This post should only be about Asha Tai noone else.
Yaatri,
Mahodaya, with due respect towards your views, a little attention will reveal to you that I have not uploaded the combined version of the song on You tube and I have not decorated it with the title (Lata Mangeshkar Vs Asha Bhonsle). If I had uploaded it there I would have titled it Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle.
Why only this song, post has another duet also. Should that also not be included because comparative minds will start comparing singing of Parveen Sultana and Asha Bhonsle?
and we have to see who has started the comparison?
What post says and what has come out through the comment section?
NO , I mean you mentioned about those songs (Lata vs Asha) which I think could have been avoided.
btw your Point is taken
As much as she has sung classics… for a very vast set of folks, the generation which started hearing music with Lata and Anuradha Paudwal, and for the generations which had heard her, romanced her classics, but were now into what Nadeem Shravan had to offer, return of Asha, into a full swing… taking it away from even the evergreen Lata and all new age singers has to be one of the most mediocre singings of her (her own statements and disbelief that this could be such a huge it) is “yaayire- rangeela re” from rangeela … throughout the 70s-80s, despite being one of the bests, she was always a #2, and then in 90s suddenly she she beyond the number race… despite being one of the most active singers…