Another 'O Sajna' maniac agreed with me but said he also hears the ragas Jhinjhoti, Janasammohini and Gavati. Discerning a raga is, well, a matter of discernment - it flashes and some of us see it. Flashes of Tilak Kamod, Yaman flit in and out later in the song. The song starts off with the suggestion of the Hindustani Raga Kalavati but then very quickly there is the 'Ma' forbidden in the raga and then the shuddha 'Ni', another forbidden note in Kalavati suggesting Khamaj. My poor, classically trained mind tries to pin down the song.
The creator of the music of this song, Salil Chowdhary, and lyricist Shailendra deserve equal if not more credit for the song, but Lata is not an incidental - somehow, I can't imagine it in any other voice and it is iconic because she sang it. Doubtless, not everything is rosy: the issues created by her alleged stranglehold on Hindi film music and what that has meant for other singers, the aesthetics of the music itself - are important notwithstanding them, there is no denying the extraordinary quality of her singing. Her songs have made music maniacs, opened a window into the marvels of melody for many a child, adolescent and adult (including this writer), who continue to worship her songs throughout their lives. The songs she has sung with inhuman perfection have made movies memorable, her voice has breathed life into plaintive ghazals, clothed a Ghalib's sheer brilliance with peerless melody, has brought Jnanadeva's Ovi to countless lips - even in Hridayanath Mangeshkar's forbidding tunes she has brought joyous festivity with songs like 'Jai Dev Jai Dev Jai Mnagal Murti', sung Meera Bhajans, abhanga and bhaav geet and film songs in a multitude of languages and much more. Lata Mangeshkar is a national treasure: her oeuvre is unmatched, and her contribution to film music - and culture at large - definitive. It is being updated in light of her demise on February 6, 2022. In 2014, 19 years after Salil Chowdhury’s death, Lata Mangeshkar recorded a newly discovered tune by the late composer.Editor's note: This column was originally published on October 10, 2021, a little after Lata Mangeshkar's 92nd birthday. O mor moyna go, Na mono lage na, Pa ma ga re sa, Nishidin nishidin and Keno kichhu kotha bolo na are a few from the endless list of all-time favourites from the duo. It’s a peppy tune and it immediately transfers you to a fantasy world. An evergreen number from the film Chayanika, Mone Rakha Gaan for children is Saat bhai Champa. Popular Hindi songs like O sajna barkha bahar aayi, Ja udd ja re panchhi and Tasveer teri dil mein were huge hits in Mumbai as were Na jeo na, Ja re urey ja re pakhi and Ogo ar kichhu to nai in Bengal. And the fact that many of his Bangla compositions were later sung in Hindi made it doubly difficult for me,” she had said in an interview. Salilda’s tunes were a special challenge for me. I did faint while singing one of his songs. Folklore has it that once, during a particularly difficult recording of a song composed by Salil Chowdhury, she fainted.
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With a series of hit numbers, both in Hindi and Bengali, theirs was an unbeatable partnership. The duo of Salil Chowdhury and Lata Mangeshkar changed Bengali popular music forever.
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