Kachha Dhaaga Options

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I thought I should share with you, for a change, some instrumental pieces. I am starting off with 3 pieces of Fusion Music. Hope it appeals to you. Would welcome some feedback.

Here's track 1.

Cheers!

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FAREWELL KANCHAN

(Excerpted from "SCREEN' on-line)

She had a low-profile career, singing songs in the ‘70s and ‘80s only for Kalyanji-Anandji and in the ‘80s also for their brother Babla, whom she later married. When Kanchan passed away last month, there was hardly a ripple in the press, with even trade magazines unaware of the news. How ironical that when the remix of ‘Laila o Laila...’ (Qurbani) could make news and rock the pubs, the singer of the original mega-hit would die an anonymous death, reported only by a minute section of the same media!

In the ‘80s, with the active support of her husband (under whom she also sang in films like BR Ishara’s Khara Khota, Raveekant Nagaich’s Govinda starrer Duty and Ketan Mehta’s Hero Hiralal) Kanchan decided to concentrate on non-film singing and was active till the end.

Says her grieving husband Babla, “She sang for over 15 non-film albums, including the hit Kaise Bani in the late ‘90s and the recent Kuch Kuch Baby with me. Most of our albums were on Calypso and other forms of European and Western music and did extremely well in New York and other places abroad. At the other extreme, she even sang a song in Marathi for none other than V. Shantaram in his film Zunj.”

Hindi film music lovers however equate Kanchan with Babla’s elder brothers (whom he also assisted), Kalyanji-Anandji in a hit parade that began with Paap Aur Punya, in which Kanchan’s duet with Mukesh, ‘Tere mere pyar ki bandh gayi....’, filmed on Sharmila Tagore and Shashi Kapoor, was a big hit. In the same film, she also sang the solo ‘O rang rasiya re...’.

Over the next ten years, Kanchan was to sing for stars like Neetu Singh, Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure and others in films as varied as Uljhan, Kasam Khoon Ki, Khel Khilari Ka, Darinda, Besharam, Sau Din Saas Ke and many more. And since she sang in the days of live recordings, she had the privilege of sharing the mike with giant co-singers like Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar.