Classical/semi-classican Compositions That Inspired Film Songs, Companion to the Sangeet Ke Sitarey thread "Famous Songs And Thei Options

[abhayp]

In the Sangeet ke Sitarey forum, Faraaj has started a thread about film songs inspired by earlier songs. In many cases, the inspiration for a song is a classical/semi-classical bandish. This thread is meant for the longer classical and semi-classical pieces; I am starting it here so that classical music fans can also access these pieces easily.

The first piece being uploaded here is a "kajri" that inspired the famous Lata song from "Udan Khatola" - "more sai.nyaa.Njii utare.nge paar ho nadiyaa dhiire baho". It has been sung by many singers; the version being uploaded here is by the great Padmavati Shaligram (Gokhale) of the Jaipur Atrauli gharana. It is taken from a recording of a live concert where she also sang a wonderful Nand. The kajri is 18:16 minutes long and is encoded in mp3 at 128 kbps.



The post talking about the film song can be found at

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...amp;st=15&#

Warm regards,
Abhay

This post has been edited by abhayp: Dec 12 2008, 03:32 AM

[abhayp]

Next is a bandish in Raag Bihag that has inspired film songs on both sides of the Radcliffe Line - "laT ulajhii sulajhaa jaa baalam". There have been many Hindustani vocal renditions of this bandish. The two chosen here are by Jasraj and by Kankana Bannerjee. The Jasraj version comes from the recording of a live concert given at Kolkata in 1989; the Kankana Bannerjee version first appeared on an MHV LP of hers in 1984 and has since been re-released on cassette and CD.

Since Kankana Bannerjee counts among her guru-s Pratap Narayan, elder brother of Jasraj, it is natural that the two renditions have a lot in common; the beauty lies in the fact that they both stamp their individuality on their respective renditions very clearly!

A small snippet of the KB rendition - and the two films songs inspired by it, one sung by Noor Jehan and the other by Geeta Dutt - can be found in post # 60 here:

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...id=560701&#

The complete versions of the classical renditions appear below, both encoded in mp3 @ 160 kbps. First, the Jasraj version, which is 9:14 minutes long:



The Kankana Bannerjee version, which is 4:48 minutes long:



In their original form, both renditions are followed by another canonical Bihag bandish: "dekho morii ra.ng me.n bhigoye Daarii". The Jasraj recording - and, indeed, the complete concert - is available for listening on MusicIndiaOnline. If anyone is interested in the Kankana Bannerjee version, please let me know and I will post it here.

Warm regards,
Abhay

This post has been edited by abhayp: Dec 30 2008, 06:14 PM