Natyasangeet Options

[Bertie Wooster]

I rediscovered Natyasangeet recently and wanted to share some songs that have lodged themselves in my mind.

I do not recall from where I picked this track - a kind soul had uploaded this as a part of a collection. I cannot thank him enough wherever he is.

Pu La Deshpande had entered the entertainment world in the early ’40s as an actor and singer on the Marathi stage by joining Mo Ga Rangnekar’s Natya Niketan drama troupe. Paakhara jaa, the song he rendered in the play Vahini was an instant hit.

[archimoz]

Wonderful up-loads & posts. Thank you very much.

I'm a hard-core bengali and even after 12 years in Bombay, cannot speak or comprehend the Marathi-language fully. But ever since my child-hood days in a small town in Bengal, the voices of D V Paluskar, Abdul Karim Khan, Kesarbai, Moghubai, Gangubai, Sawai Gandharva, Narayanrao Vyas, Vinayakrao Patwardhan, Basavraj Rajguru, Kumar Gandharava, Bhimsen Joshi, Mallikarjun Mansur, Manik Verma (Dadarkar), Padmavati Shaligram (Gokhale), Sharadchandra Arolkar, Krishnarao Shankar Pandit etc. have fascinated me for their crushing sonority & fervour of their gayaki. It is only later that I realised that ALL the singers, irrespective of their Gharana, hailed from (or settled in) the Maharashtra-Karnataka belt. Since then, to me, this region is God's preferred region for Classical & semi-Classical Hindusthani music.

And then, of course, you have those two sisters from Mangeshi.......

Regards-Archie.