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Posted by: deewani Sep 27 2008, 10:54 PM

Posted by: oye_sonu Sep 27 2008, 11:13 PM

Dee change the subject plez. let all people know !

Posted by: smodkid Sep 27 2008, 11:23 PM

Sad news indeed Sonu bhai

here is the link

http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/B4265BE28F9AE410652574D100569078?OpenDocument

Posted by: orbitor13 Sep 27 2008, 11:28 PM

my tributes...................



rest in peace

Posted by: deewani Sep 28 2008, 12:00 AM

At first I didn't know what you are talking about, but obviously you've already done what you felt was necessary.

Posted by: parag_sankla Sep 28 2008, 12:04 AM

Aap aaye toh Khayal-E-Dil-E-Nashaad aaya

For the last 50 years Mahendra Kapoor is a leading playback singer of the Hindi film industry. He is link between old and new generations of the film singers as he has sung with all leading singers of the past - Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh, Talat Mahmood, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum and Suman Kalyanpur, and now he is singing successfully with the new generation singers.

Mahendra Kapoor was born in the holy city of Amritsar on 9th of January 1934. He belonged to a family of cloth dealers. At an early age he came to Bombay with his family. He was very much interested in music since his childhood and character actor of Prithvi Theatres. B. M. Vyas was his first guru in the field. He was admitted to St. Xavier school of Bombay for his education. During his school days, he gave audition of Young India Company and also for All India Radio but could not succeed. He did not give up and continued his practice under Ustaad Meherji, Ustaad Niyaz Ahmad Khan, Pt. Tulsidas Sharma and Manohar Potdar.

Music director Snehal Bhatkar gave him his first break in a film Diwali Ki Raat (1956). Mahendra sung a solo song 'Tere dar ki bheekh maangi hai data' which was penned by Madhukar Rajasthani. Same year, Mahednra recorded a duet for music director Sanmukh Babu in film Lalkar (1956) 'O bedardi Jaane ken a kar bahane', with co-singer Savita.

In 1957 Metro Murphy singing contest was organized. It was a very important occasion because all judges were topmost music directors of film industry, like, Anil Biswas, C. Ramchandra, Madan Mohan, Vasant Desai and Naushad. Mahendra won the first prize in the contest and he received a lot of appreciation.

Naushad recorded the famous Sohni Mahiwal climax song 'Chaand chhupa aur tare doobe, raat milan ki aayi' penned by Shakeel Badayuni. C. Ramchandra recorded four songs with him for V. Shantaram's Navrang, the songs were, 'Ja re hat natkhat', 'Na raja rahega na rani rahegi', 'Shyamal shyamal baran', 'Aadha hai chandrma raat aadhi'. These songs established Mahendra in the film industry. Noted director B. R. Chopra offered him songs of Dhool Ka Phool and these song proved to be super hits, 'Tere pyar ka aasra chahta hoon' is still remembered and appreciated. The same performance was repeated in B. R. Chopra's next venture Dharamputra and Gumraah. Mahendra won his first Filmfare award for best playback singer for the song 'Chalo ek baar phir se ajnabi ban jaayen hum dono' penned by Sahir Ludhianvi for the film Gumrah.

Since then Mahendra Kapoor has never looked back and sung thousands of songs. The most popular films were Kismat, Waqt, Hamraaz, Kaajal, Sawan Ki Ghata, Aadmi Aur Insaan, Shaheed, Upkaar, Shor, Baharen Phir Bhi aayengi, Dil Aur Mohabbat, Doli, Yaadgar, Talaash, Purab Aur Paschim, Victoria No. 203, Fakira, Karm, Pati Patni Aur Woh, Kala Patthar, Noorie and Nikaah. Besides these film songs Mahendra has also rendered Urdu religious naats, Bangali songs, Panjabi Songs, Gujrati Bhaav geet and numerous devotional songs.

Some classical thumris sung under Khan Sahib Abdul Rahman Khan and Ghazals of Ghalib sung by him are still remembered today. His patriotic songs were tremendously popular. Who can forget songs like, 'Mere Desh Ki Dharti Sona Ugle'? The song got the National Award for him. Mahendra also recorded some disco songs with Musarrat under the music of Peter Moss.

Mahendra Kapoor received the prestigious "Padma Shree' award by the hands of late President honorable Shri V. V. Giri.

By heart Mahendra is a very modest person and believes that it is with the blessings of almighty and his innumerable fans that he has been able to render his services to Maa Saraswati.


http://downmelodylane.com/mahendra.html

Posted by: oye_sonu Sep 28 2008, 12:11 AM

sorry no intention to duplicate efforts... didnt saw you online. and then people were busy in dloading- uploading . thats why I felt subject shd be changed to get their attention !

Please give appropt title to thread. I may ask admin to delte my thread.



Sonu

Posted by: Jay Sep 28 2008, 06:40 AM

A loss of a great singer. May his soul rest in peace.

Posted by: HumTum Sep 28 2008, 07:18 AM

Real sad news

May His Soul Rest In Peace.

Posted by: smahesh Sep 28 2008, 07:42 AM

may his soul rest in peace.











mahesh

Posted by: sita Sep 28 2008, 10:59 AM

May his soul rest in peace.

Posted by: JayJay1970 Sep 28 2008, 05:51 PM

Very sad news indeed, he was a genuine singer and left us many many memorable numbers. May his soul rest in peace.
JJ

Posted by: swarapriya Sep 28 2008, 07:48 PM

Time is a merciless tyrant. We lose another great singer apparently succumbed to ill health. May Mahendraji's soul rest in peace.

Swarapriya

Posted by: Sharad Sep 28 2008, 11:08 PM

I'm so very sad to hear the news
god bless MK's soul, long live MK!

Posted by: Sukesh Hoogan Sep 29 2008, 12:38 AM

May his soul rest n peace. Amen.

Sukesh

Posted by: surhall Sep 29 2008, 04:40 AM

very sad and lost one good singer

god help back his famlly

dhall

Posted by: deewani Nov 18 2008, 08:36 AM

stumbled upon this obituary today, http://www.dawn.com/weekly/images/archive/081012/images2.htm

found it interesting my obscurehttp://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=24205&hl=jungle was mentioned

Posted by: shashankchickermane72 Apr 17 2009, 07:54 PM

Very Sad News of Demise of well known Playback Singer Mahendra Kapoorji. We lost another grt8 singer of yesteryears now. But I have shared lot of articles and photos of his in this forum go through that thread which I have uploaded it. Actually I was going to office, when I read the newspaper heading of his sad demise. So I have uploaded the articles immediately from the newspapers there in Marathi, English. Check the thread.

Posted by: anilkumar Dec 21 2009, 04:29 PM

Several songs by Mahendra Kapoor in Marathi can be found in the Marathi section at
http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=83314&st=0#