SARDARI BEGUM is based on the real life - Page 2

Originally posted by: salilu

Barnali di, here is the missing info ---

5. Other singer of More kanha jo aaye palat ke -- Aarti Ankalikar

Asha and Aarti have sung this song separately -- there are 2 solos in the film

6. Sawaan ke din aye balamwa aan milo -- is from Bhumika

Aarti Ankalikar, by the way, has sung 4 solos in Sardari begum -- chali pee ke nagar, ghar nahi hamare shyam, ghir ghir aayi badariya kaari and huzoor itna agar ham par... these are classical based songs. You can listen them here ----

http://www.desimusic.com/songs/singer/2635/aarti-ankalikar.h tml

Thanx salilu fr the added info. 😊

Originally posted by: salilu

Qwest dada, the singer is Aarti Ankalikar -- I mistyped and then corrected it in my post and also provided link to her songs. She is very well known to the classical music lovers in Maharashtra. Please listen to the songs. They are wonderful. I have been to the live classical concerts of Aarti Ankalikar. She is just out of the world.

some more info on Arati Ankalikar. Arati Ankalikar has been on the classical music scene for over 20 years now. She has trained under Kishori Amonkar and Vasantrao Patwardhan. Her gaayaki is mainly of the Jaipur gharana.

Her husband (Uday Tikekar) acts in Marathi plays and films.

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Hopefully we can explore some of Vanraj Bhatia's work via this topic. For starters, here is a very 'rookie' list of some unforgettable songs from under his baton.

Vanraj Bhatia



Vanraj BhatiaVanraj Bhatia, one of India's most versatile composers, was born in 1927 in Mumbai. He studied music while completing his Masters in English Honours in 1949 from the Elphinstone College in Mumbai. He then joined the Royal Academy of Music, London, and studied composition with Howard Ferguson, Allan Bush and William Alwyn from 1950 to 1954 and with Nadia Boulanger from 1954 to 1959.

Vanraj Bhatia is the winner of several awards including the Gold Medal of the Royal Academy in 1954, the Bengal Film Journalists Award for the film Bhumika in 1976 and Manthan in 1977, the President's Gold Medal for Tamas in 1988 and the Sangeet Natak Academy Award in 1989.

Vanraj Bhatia's music covers a very wide spectrum from western classical to drama, films and television serials to his albums with Music Today. His popularity is so vast that he has composed music for about 40 films and 8 television serials and some of his major works include soundtracks for Ankur, Manthan, Bhumika, 36 Chowringhee Lane, Khandaan, Tamas, Discovery of India, Wagle Ki Duniya, Making of a Mahatma, Sardari Begum, Bandish and Ghatak.

Music Today Titles by Vanraj Bhatia:

Meditation (M93026)
Bhagavad Gita (D96010 A&B)
The Elements (M95007)

I remember watching this movie 3 to 4 years back.. I like art movies a lot.. They atleast give us a message though they are a bit dragging.. My friends always tease me for this.. While my frnds go and watch some new tamil movies in the theatre, i used to sit at home at watch art movies.. 😆 😆

I remember The last scenes even.. If im not wrong, is this the same movie where a daughter doesn like her mother(kiran kher) and atlast Kiran Kher asks her daughter: "main tumhareliye acchi maa nahin ban saki na?"

and the daughter - i dont remember who played it, answered no.. Though her daughter never liked her mom, but as she was in the death bed, she said no.. And its a story based on a vaishya... I dont know if im talking about the same movie 😕 But if im not talking abt this movie, can anyone tell me abt which movie im talking abt... 😆 😆 😆

Sorry for troubling... but really need to know...

I remember most of the songs of the movie.. they are awesome.. Will try to find the links if i can.. I think my dad has a casette of this..

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[Quote=Barnali]
Hopefully we can explore some of Vanraj Bhatia's work via this topic. For starters, here is a very 'rookie' list of some unforgettable songs from under his baton.


1. Ghir aayi kali ghata matwari (Asha, Junoon)
2. Mharo gaanv kaathavari (Preeti Sagar, Manthan)
3. Tumhare bin jee na lage ghar mein (Preeti Sagar, Bhumika)
4. Shamsheer barena maang ghazab (Preeti Sagar, Mandi)
5. More kanha jo aaye palat ke (Asha Bhosle(and another singer I can't recall), Sardari Begum)
6. Saawan ke din aaye balamwa (Preeti Sagar/?, ?)


From a filmography perspective


Mandi
Bhumika
Manthan
Junoon
Sardari Begum
Hari BHari



Vanraj Bhatia also released a two CD album of selected sholkas of the Bhagavad Gita rendered by Ravindra Sathe (Krishna), Hridaya Merchant (Arjuna). Chorus by Arun Ingale, Hemant Kulkarni, Milind Ingale and Sharad Jambhekar. Marathi Natya sangeet lovers (and Bharat Ek Khoj watchers) will recognize some of these names.



Barnali di, here is the missing info ---

5. Other singer of More kanha jo aaye palat ke -- Aarti Ankalikar

Asha and Aarti have sung this song separately -- there are 2 solos in the film

6. Sawaan ke din aye balamwa aan milo -- is from Bhumika

Aarti Ankalikar, by the way, has sung 4 solos in Sardari begum -- chali pee ke nagar, ghar nahi hamare shyam, ghir ghir aayi badariya kaari and huzoor itna agar ham par... these are classical based songs. You can listen them here ----

http://www.desimusic.com/songs/singer/2635/aarti-ankalikar.h tml


Thanks for reminding all the lovely songs. I wonder where are these singers now Preeti Sagar and Aarti Ankalikar.

Thanks Qwest ji..another informative thread 👏 👏
Kiran is awsome in this movie.

Originally posted by: ans24us1

I remember watching this movie 3 to 4 years back.. I like art movies a lot.. They atleast give us a message though they are a bit dragging.. My friends always tease me for this.. While my frnds go and watch some new tamil movies in the theatre, i used to sit at home at watch art movies.. 😆 😆

I remember The last scenes even.. If im not wrong, is this the same movie where a daughter doesn like her mother(kiran kher) and atlast Kiran Kher asks her daughter: "main tumhareliye acchi maa nahin ban saki na?"

and the daughter - i dont remember who played it, answered no.. Though her daughter never liked her mom, but as she was in the death bed, she said no.. And its a story based on a vaishya... I dont know if im talking about the same movie 😕 But if im not talking abt this movie, can anyone tell me abt which movie im talking abt... 😆 😆 😆

Sorry for troubling... but really need to know...

Ya, even I saw this movie long back. Beautiful movie. One of Benegal's best and I thought Kirron Kher was fantastic. I thought this was her best work, rather is her best work coming very close to her performance in Khamosh Pani.

The girl who played her daughter was Rajeshwari Sachdev (Varun Badola's wife, the Hulle Hulla Re gal). I think she won the national award for this movie.

The songs as expected from such a movie were mind blowing. When I heard the music of water I was thinking of the music of Sardari Begum.

A Must watch for those who like such cinema

Originally posted by: madhavi_r108

Ya, even I saw this movie long back. Beautiful movie. One of Benegal's best and I thought Kirron Kher was fantastic. I thought this was her best work, rather is her best work coming very close to her performance in Khamosh Pani.

The girl who played her daughter was Rajeshwari Sachdev (Varun Badola's wife, the Hulle Hulla Re gal). I think she won the national award for this movie.

The songs as expected from such a movie were mind blowing. When I heard the music of water I was thinking of the music of Sardari Begum.

A Must watch for those who like such cinema

thanks madhaviji 😛 oh good.. its the same movie that i thought of.. Good.. A very very beautiful movie..

yup remember it was Rajeswari Sachdev.. Grt movie to watch

Sardari Begum

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If measured in terms of sheer numbers of films produced, Bombay is the rightful capital of the movie world. From this cinematic epicentre comes the veteran Indian director Shyam Benegal's 64th film, Sardari Begum, which is featured in this year's VIFF.

The film opens in Delhi with the death of a famous Thumri singer,the eponymous Sardari Begum. Her death is the accidental result of a clash between a group of neighbourhood Muslims and a procession of Hindus outside her home. The religious nature of the incident and the impending elections combine to attract the media's attention. When a young reporter covering the funeral, Tehzeeb Abbasi, discovers her father among the mourners, her curiosity prompts her to investigate further. Then comes the revelation that the singer was in fact her aunt, who was disowned by her family for rebelliously learning music from a concubine.

From there, Sardari Begum's storyline unfolds as a series of flashbacks, and Sardari's life is unveiled to us via Tehzeeb's interviews with people who had known Sardari over the years.

The film is about Tehzeeb's life almost as much as it is about Sardari. Tehzeeb gradually discovers that her life bears a number of similarities to that of her aunt; both find themselves facing similar conflicts, even though they are a genearation apart. Through these two women, Shyam Benegal paints a complex portrait of family relationships, generational and sexual politics as well as social mores in India.

Sardari Begum is gently paced and at 123 minutes, is somewhat long by North American Standards. This, combined with the storyline's structure, helps Benegal provide us with a sense of intimacy uncommon in films so grand in scope. By the end, even the minor characters have become familiar to us.

Gracefully accenting the film throughout is the soundtrack of classical Indian Thumri music. The music is an integral part of the story, not a musical backdrop used to artificially heighten the emotions. This is melded with Shama Zaidi's eloquent screenplay and Benegal's purposeful direction to give us a richly textured image of women in contemporary India. It comes as a surprise then, that the entire film was shot on a sound stage in Bombay.


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