" WIZARDY " Of Indian Army :: Lata’s Voice, Her Songs, It’s Music , and it’s “ CREATIVITY ” :: Greatest Gift Of Indian Defense To India .

Pic :: Mr Madan Mohan - From A Soldier To A " GREAT "  Music Composer 

" Wo Ek Pal Hi Kaafi Hai Jisme Tum Shamil Hoh Uss Pal Se Jyada Toh Zindagi Ki Khwaish Hi Nahi Mujhe "

Lata’s Voice, Her Songs, It’s Music , and it’s “ CREATIVITY ” :: Greatest Gift Of Indian Defense To India .

Pic :: The " INCREDIBLE " Duo Of Lata Mangeshkar and Mr Madan Mohan 

One would be really amazed and one would not try to believe that when I write that the Indian Defense Force , OK, one of it’s wing the Indian Army has been a GREAT contributor to the Indian cinema, it’s music and the creativity that it offered to the Indian music to produce and create some…… why some MANY, MANY and MANY songs and the TWO who added their magic to it’s creation were the Late Mr Kishore Kumar Ganguly and Madam Lata Mangeshkar whom we refer to as Latadi.

https://youtu.be/zd2Iq4eByAg

U Tube :: Song " Betab Dil Ki Tamanna Yehi Hai " 

Mr Kishore Kumar Ganguly is NO MORE. He left us on October 13^th 1987 but the NIGHTINGLE of Indian, Madam Lata Mangeshkar is alive today and she is celebrating her birthday today. These two that I have mentioned made a MAGIC of the  music and it’s creation that was composed by the Indian Army.

Though the song of Latadi is depicted here I shall ONCE again put a U-Tube of the song that Kishoreda had sang for this GREAT Music Composer and just listen to the SILKEN-TOUCH-MAGIC that the duo created and THAT WAS THAT . 

Listen to the song and FEEL the ESSENCE that the Indian Army creates outside it's periphery of defending the citadel of this nation. One would be mesmerised when one hears the WIZARDY that Madan Mohan Sahab has created in this song when it comes to composing the creation on which ONE could lend their voice. 

https://youtu.be/5Ln9IUIFc74

U Tube : Song " Simti Si Sharmayee Si " 

When one reads it and reads this article today , one would be surpsrised. HOW COMES- one might ask. One might NEVER believe that.  But the answer is YES . Yes the Indian Army has composed music which could be termed as OSTENTATIOUS and INVINCIBLE  on which the Lady , Latadi has lent her voice to make it an “ FLOWING- EDIFICE ” worth listening to it MILLIONS and millions of time.

https://youtu.be/gcmInBAF3ss

The " FULL-3-STANZA" Of The Song  " Simti-Si-Sharmayee-Si, by Kishoreda 

There were TWO from the Indian Army who did this and I would describe about the ONE in detail and about the other in, maybe a line or two. Who could be these TWO one might ask me. Well the ANSWERS are - :

1 ). Mr Madan Mohan and……….  2 ). ....  OK let it be a  suspense for a while before I answer the second one.

Let me start from Mr Madan Mohan. He comes from the portion of Punjab which now is at Pakistan. After the Independence he and his family moved to the Indian portion of Punjab .  That is the place he grew up at a place called Hoshiarpur. A part of the family thereafter moved to Phagwara and it was there , where Mr madan Mohan grew up.

As it is some of the members of his family joined the Indian Army and some started their own business to work in the paddy field. Mr Madan  Mohan was soon seperated from his Father because his Father later had joined the Indian Army and was posted at Secundrabad in the EME in the Army. Mr Madan Mohan later when he grew up he joined the Indian Army and he was kept transferring from one place to another for his duty.

Born on June 24^th , 1924 , Mr Madan Mohan Kohli joined the Indian Army when he was only nineteen years of age in 1943.  He was inducted as the Second Lieutinant in the British Indian Army. He fought the First  World war in 1945  and after the war he quit the Army to come down to Bombay to join his Father who by then had quit the British Indian Army and had started a small petty business at Bombay.

The Second World war which he fought and where he saw a lot of Slodires losing their life made him somewhat off-balance and the death of one of his most closest associate was so much a PAIN for him to bear that after the War he called it a quit. He was mentally very disturbed seeing the piquant situation of the war and the death of one of his colleague completely blew him. He was taken to a medical traumic centre at Bombay then and the Doctors advised his parent that ONLY CREATIVITY AND HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH IT CAN SAVE HIM.

While staying at the Pakistani area of Punjab when he was a young kid he met one Mr Kartar Singh who would hold the music classes to teach the kids about how to use a Table, or a Harmonium or the Santoor to play them and to create the music from it. Mr Madan Mohan learned the early trick of creativity from this man and at a very young age he created some music which then won him some small applauds  as a youngster. He plunged into music very seriously after the medics advised him to do that.

Madan Mohan Foray Into Indian Film Music :: He CREATED Wonders with Rafi Sahab & Latadi

Very soon he could manage some music composition for some good films during those time. He scored his first big break with the film Aankhen in 1950, which marked the beginning of a long lasting collaboration with Mohammed Rafi, his next film was " Adaa " which saw the beginning of a long lasting collaboration with Lata Mangeshkar; both would go on to sing for many of his films. Two of his composed songs from " Sharabi " "Sawan ke maheeney mein " and the classic song " Kabhi na Kabhi koi na koi, Kahin Na Khain toh aayega Apna Mujhe Banaeygaa ", both filmed for Dev Anand are among the most well known renditions of the renowned singer Mohammed Rafi . Thus started his career in the films .

An INCOMPLETE “ LEGACY ”

His legacy wouldn't be complete without mentioning the ghazal he composed for the movie " Dil Ki Rahein " – " Rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhaein to nibhaein kaise ". The shayar (lyricist) for the ghazal was Naqsh Lallayalpuri and it was sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It is considered as one of the best songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar, ever.

Mass appeal:: Latadi Makes Many “ FLOWING- EDIFICES ” with Madan Mohan Sahab

The combination of Mr Madan Mohan and latadi was something which could be tewrmed as either the combination that the MILK possesses with the water or the SALT possesses with the receipe to give it a COMPLETE TASTE.

In that era when it was so very difficult because of the many mnay and many faces with that kind of BRILLIANCY that they broughtin to the field of Indian music and where it was very difficult for one to get and assignment or a project, the MAGIC created by Mr Madan Mohan in terms of the music creation,  and the flow of those magic which got converted into a MARVEL by the voice lent by Kishore Kumar and Latadi was something which could be termed as the EIGHT WONDER OF THE WORLD gifted by the Indian cinema .

Though this article is on Madam Lata Mangeshkar and Mr Madan Mohan and there should be only the DUO attracting the MASTER-PIECE that they created as a SEPARATE TRIBUTE I’m attaching ONE song of Kishoreda here OUT-OF-THE-CONTEXT only to put it to the people about HOW-I-WONDER-WHAT-YOU-ARE that Kishoreda and Latadi would have COMPLIMENTED this GREAT man from the INDIAN ARMY for his composition and creation of MUSIC and that completely REGALED the nation and kept on regaling them.

Lata Mangeshkar christened him " Ghazal ka Shehzadaa ", or the Prince of Ghazals. Even Lata herself stated in a live concert in the late 1990s that she found Madan Mohan's compositions difficult to master. Most of the top film actors of the day (who were also studio heads) had fallen into a groove with their preferred composers (e.g., Raj Kapoor had Shankar Jaikishan, Dev Anand had the Burmans, Dilip Kumar had Naushad, etc.) Hence, he often had difficulty finding assignments. His 1964 Filmfare Award nomination for Best Music Director for Woh Kaun Thi. In a tightly-contested race, both Madan and Shankar Jaikishan (Sangam) lost to relative newcomer Laxmikant Pyarelal, who scored Dosti.

Well this was ONLY an article to put it to the WORLD on the NINTY-FIRST day of the birthday of Madam Lata Mangeshkar who could produce those kind of Brilliancy with those kind of composition of music  which would spell bound and even today it spells a kind of a BOND that is very HARD to dispense with.

They say that the Indian ARMY is so HARD that when it strikes every thing goes to the HELL , every RESILENCE is grinded and dusted and there is nothing but that which renains is the DESPAIR .

But just imagine the kind of such a SOFT -MUSIC that is being composed and such a SOFT VOICE which Latadi and Kishoreda have lend to these composition that even the TOUGHEST and the HARDEST Iron that  would get MOLTEN  and that would  melts when the MAGICAL and the WIZARD  voices are lend to these SOFT music composed by that GREAT Music-Director who was an INDIAN ARMY MAN.

So IRONICAL that one might feel but that is the Indian Army which does it often and often and which has been doing it often and often to keep the nation SECURED SAFE and SPELL BOUND by the MUSIC it creates , either of the VICTORY-STORY that it writes for itself and awards it to the nation or the MUSIC-COMPOSITION that it creates in a different manner .

There was ONE again from the Indian Army who went to quit his job and  become a GREAT Music composer for the world of Indian cinema. HE WAS Mr Khayyam . Well more about him later. 

The Indian ARMY scored here in this field as well . Is it not ?  That is the WIZARDY of the Indian Army.

That is it

Regards And Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing

 

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