When last week 19-year old Aditya Narayan finally stood on stage to host Zee’s music-talent show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, it was a moment of huge reckoning for him. The inimitable Asha Bhonsle was watching him closely. (more…)
It was a pain to watch the immortal numbers composed and sung by the RD-Asha duo distorted irreparably by the horrendous remixes being churned out by every Tom, Dick and Harry. Unable to bear it anymore, the energetic Asha jumped onto the remix bandwagon herself.
At the time, I put it down to fate. The jubilation of having scored decent marks after a bare minimum attendance, the ensuing wrath of the hallowed Mrs Dossal who ran the political science department of Elphinstone College, the flaring tempers, the thinly-veiled threats — it nearly brought my academic life to a stand-still. (more…)
Singer Asha Bhonsle performing at the Jawahar Lal Nehru stadium in Delhi on Sunday
‘Dus Hazar Ashaon Ke Pal’, the live concert by Asha Bhonsle in the Capital, brought the normally conservative Delhi audience to its feet for each one of the ten thousand eight hundred seconds. Brought to Delhi by ‘The Hindustan Times’ and Thums Up, Asha Bhonsle enthralled a capacity audience at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium with her versatility. Beginning with a classic offering of her ‘jaan’ and ‘dil’ from ‘Umrao Jaan’ she sang the night away with seasoned favourites including ‘O mere sona re sona re sona’ from ‘Teesri Manzil’, ‘Rumba gira re’ to the more recent ‘Zara sa jhoom loon mein’.
