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

[bawlachintu]

Can anyone shed some light on

Meera Bhajan- "Jo tum todo piya -classical and bollywood connection.

[abhayp]

Can anyone shed some light on

Meera Bhajan- "Jo tum todo piya -classical and bollywood connection.

Except for a variation rendered by Lakshmi Shankar (more on that below), I can't remember any rendition of "jo tum to.Do piyaa" by any classical singer. The versions we hear are the film versions: Lata Mangeshkar (twice over, once in "Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje" and then in "Silsila") and Vani Jairam (in "Meera").

I used to have a cassette of Lakshmi Shankar's in which she sang a variant of "jo tum to.Do piyaa" which was credited to Rohidas/Ravidas. That cassette also had two brilliant renditions by her - "hari mukh pe chandaa balihaarii" and "ehi muraare kunja vihaare". I lost the cassette some years ago and have never been able to find the collection - or individual songs from it - anywhere else. If anyone does have those songs, please do upload them!

Warm regards,
Abhay