Hridyanath, Bhaav Gandharva Options

[swarapriya]

Hridyanath Mangeshkar

Here is another member of the famous Mangeshkar family. The youngest of the family, though hasn't achieved the prominence like his famous sisters, has carved his own niche. With so much talent scattered in the family, one expects some rivalry. It does exist, but mostly it is revelry.

He povided music for a few Hindi and Marathi films and some private albums. His work though not known to many has received recognition. He received President's National Award and received various awards from the Maharashtra state government as best vocalist and music director. He was awarded Pandit and crowned as Bhaav Gandharva. He was recently recognized with Padma Shri.

In this thread we will examine closely his work. I will present his work by looking at the following albums:

Chala Vahi Des
Dhanwan
Harishchandra Taramati
Kalaam-E-Ghalib
Lekin
Mashaal
Maya Memsaab
Subah

This post has been edited by swarapriya: May 3 2009, 12:16 AM

[swarapriya]

Lekin ... (1990)

Here is an outstanding album from the music director Hridyanath Mangeshkar. Lata dominates vocals in this album. These were chartbusters when the movie was released. Apart from composing music, Hridyanath also produced the movie.

I will present these songs in two posts, one following the other. Here is the first set of songs ...

[swarapriya]

Songs Of "Lekin ... (1990)" Continued ...

Here are the rest of the songs from this fine album ...

[saeed khan]

Songs Of "Lekin ... (1990)" Continued ...

Here are the rest of the songs from this fine album ...

yaar how to upload a song so that I could request and download a song of my choice? Plz help.

[swarapriya]

Chala Vahi Des

Hridyanath composed music for 15 Meerabhai bhajans in this album. All bhajans were sung by Lataji in this non-film album. I will upload these in three separate posts one immediately following another, with five bhajans in each post.

Here are the first five bhajans from this album ...

[swarapriya]

Bhajans Of "Chala Vahi Des" Continued ...

Here are the next five bhajans from this album ...

[swarapriya]

Concluding Bhajans From "Chala Vehi Des"

Here is the last set of bhajans from this album ...

[Sangeet]

Other Films by him are

Chakra
Channi
Mere Saath Chal
Pyari Bhabhi
Ram Ki Ganga

Let me know if you are looking for these Swarpriya Ji.

[Aditya Pant]

Other Films by him are

Chakra
Channi
Mere Saath Chal
Pyari Bhabhi
Ram Ki Ganga

Let me know if you are looking for these Swarpriya Ji.

There's also Prarthana, his first Hindi movie. Mahesh ji uploaded a song from that film in the Asha Bhosle forum.

Aditya

[abhayp]

As usual, Swarapriya, you have come up with a winning theme and have presented it in your usual winsome style. Thanks!

To the best of my knowledge, the non-Gulzar songs you have posted as part of the "Lekin" album are not from the movie ('dil me.n lekar tumhaarii yaad chale', 'mohe naihar se', 'teraa meraa manuwaa kaise', and 'maa_ii rii mai.n niir bharan'). They may have been included in the CD as fillers.

Thanks again!

Warm regards,
Abhay

This post has been edited by abhayp: May 3 2009, 10:21 AM

[swarapriya]

Other Films by him are

Chakra
Channi
Mere Saath Chal
Pyari Bhabhi
Ram Ki Ganga

Let me know if you are looking for these Swarpriya Ji.

Thanks for the offer. I will let you konw if I do. Please drop "ji" when addressing me. Thanks and cheers.

[swarapriya]

Other Films by him are

Chakra
Channi
Mere Saath Chal
Pyari Bhabhi
Ram Ki Ganga

Let me know if you are looking for these Swarpriya Ji.

There's also Prarthana, his first Hindi movie. Mahesh ji uploaded a song from that film in the Asha Bhosle forum.

Aditya

Thanks for the pointer Aditya.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: May 3 2009, 10:41 AM

[swarapriya]

As usual, Swarapriya, you have come up with a winning theme and have presented it in your usual winsome style. Thanks!

To the best of my knowledge, the non-Gulzar songs you have posted as part of the "Lekin" album are not from the movie ('dil me.n lekar tumhaarii yaad chale', 'mohe naihar se', 'teraa meraa manuwaa kaise', and 'maa_ii rii mai.n niir bharan'). They may have been included in the CD as fillers.

Thanks again!

Warm regards,
Abhay

Thanks for your nice words Abhay. I had this suspiscion about the non-gulzar songs, yet I went ahead and uploaded them anyway. May be someone can help clarify the situation.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

[abhayp]

Chala Vahi Des

Hridyanath composed music for 15 Meerabhai bhajans in this album. All bhajans were sung by Lataji in this non-film album. I will upload these in three separate posts one immediately following another, with five bhajans in each post.

These bhajans come from two different albums, both released originally as LPs. The first LP, just titled "Meera Bhajans", was released in 1968. It had eight bhajans:

- kinuuN saNg kheluuN holii
- maa_ii mhaaNo supaNaamaa.N
- mhaaraa re giridhar gopaal
- o jii hari kit gaye
- ramaiyaa bin nii.nd na aave
- saa.Nvaro na.ndana.ndana
- saa.Nwaraa mhaarii priit nibhaajo jii
- thaaNe kaahii.n kaahii.n bol suNaavaa

The second LP, released in 1974, was titled "Chala Vahi Des" and had 10 bhajans:

- chaalaa vaahii des
- ga.Dh se jo miiraabaa_ii utarii
- karam kii gati nyaarii
- ko birahiNii ko dukh jaane ho
- maa_ii maa_ii kaise jiyuu.N rii
- papiihaa re piiv kii baaNii na bol
- raadhaa pyaarii
- saa.Nware ra.ng raachii
- sakhii rii laaj bairan bhayii
- u.D jaa re kaagaa

You will find significant differences between the two albums. The most obvious one is in the orchestration: the first album has simple orchestration, while the second album is replete with sound effects: bird and animal calls, water flowing, gates creaking shut/open, and so on.

The album you have uploaded seems to contain 15 of these 18 bhajans - the ones highlighted in red are not there. I am sending these to you separately through PM - please do include them at the relevant places. I am not uploading them directly to the thread as I don't want to spoil your elegant presentation of the songs.

I especially love 'ramaiyaa bin nii.nd na aave' - beautifully tuned and sung, and the inflected "ho" before the mukhaDaa is alone worth the price of admission! (As a matter or interest, there are two excellent renditions of this bhajan in films too - one by Rajkumari in 'Badi Bahu' and one with similar words by Meena Kapoor in "Gopinath".)

In the lot that I am sending you, the first two bhajans are encoded at 160 kbps, but I have "papiihaa re piiv kii baaNii na bol" at 256 kbps; I don't want to re-encode it at a lower rate as that would only spoil the sound quality. Since it is not very easily available today, I request Admin to allow this upload as a special case. If anyone has a good recording at a bit rate between 96-192 kbps, please do send it to Swarapriya so she can replace the higher bit-rate with that one.

Warm regards,
Abhay

This post has been edited by abhayp: May 3 2009, 11:49 AM

[abhayp]

As usual, Swarapriya, you have come up with a winning theme and have presented it in your usual winsome style. Thanks!

To the best of my knowledge, the non-Gulzar songs you have posted as part of the "Lekin" album are not from the movie ('dil me.n lekar tumhaarii yaad chale', 'mohe naihar se', 'teraa meraa manuwaa kaise', and 'maa_ii rii mai.n niir bharan'). They may have been included in the CD as fillers.

Thanks again!

Warm regards,
Abhay

Thanks for your nice words Abhay. I had this suspiscion about the non-gulzar songs, yet I went ahead and uploaded them anyway. May be someone can help clarify the situation.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

Oh, "to the best of my knowledge" was modesty speaking! These four are indeed non-film songs - they were released first as EPs and were then re-released in a two-cassette set titled "Lata Mangeshkar - Non-Film Treasures". I have posted the details of this album in the recent thread on non-film songs in the Lata Mangeshkar forum.

Warm regards,
Abhay

This post has been edited by abhayp: May 3 2009, 11:57 AM