Asha Bhosale recalls her memories with Swaragandharva Sudhir Phadke
Swaragandharva Sudhir Phadke was a legend . His music and voice was so popular that they had created a solid impression on the minds of music lovers. Now, with the release of his biopic ‘Swargandharva Sudhir Phadke’ on 1st May 2024 the music lovers and admirers of Sudhir Phadke will get an opportunity to listen to his popular songs of yesteryears through this film in cinema theatres.
In the meanwhile, the renowned singer Asha Bhosale who is also known as ‘Swarachi Ganga’ has recalled her memories with the legend. It may be recalled that Asha Bhosale has rendered her voice in the duets along with Sudhir Phadke Sudhir Phadke for the films ‘Jagachya Pathivar’,’ Ya Sukhanno Ya’, ‘ Dhakti Bahin’, ‘Lakhachi Goshta’,’ Suvasini’ and ‘Laksmichi Pavale’. All these songs had become super hits. Recalling her experience during recording of the song ‘Ka Re Durava’, she said that Babuji wanted particular humour filled expressions while rendering this song.
‘Swaragandharva Sudhir Phadke’ stars reputed artistes like Sunil Barve, Munmayee Deshpande, Sagar Talashikar, Milind Phatak, Adish Vaidya, Sukhada Khandkekar, Apurva Modak, Avinash Narkar, Sharad Ponkshe, Uday Sabnis, Chinmay Patwardhan, Nikhil Raut, Vibhavari Deshpande, Dhiresh Joshi & Paritosh Pradhan in lead roles.
At the age of 86 Ashatai sings Marathi club song
Legendary Singer Asha Bhosale who started singing at the age of 10, is still going strong at the age of 86 years. Over the years she has rendered all types of songs right from classical to folk. Moreover, for club songs there was no competition for her. During her earlier days, in presence of renowned singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Noorjahan, she made a place for herself and has still maintained her position at 86.
It seems that age does no matter for her, as recently she has rendered a Marathi club song with the same enthusiasm she possessed earlier, for forthcoming Marathi film ‘Whats app Love’. Ashatai has rendered the song ‘ Raat Suhani si..Jhale Diwani mee’ for this film, on the lyrics of Ajita Kale & Sahil Sultanpuri with music composed by Nitin Shankar, who is music arranger for Bollywood films. When Nitin Shankar heard the tune of this film, he suggested the name of only Ashatai to producer –director Hemantkumar Mahale, who immediately agreed for the same. This song has been picturised at a club set on artistes of this film Rakesh Bapat and newcomer Pallavi Shetty.
Finest ‘Jugalbandi’ by Asha Bhosale & Sadhana Sargam for Marathi film ‘Hero’
Picturisation of songs based on ‘Jugalbandi‘ presented by two singers is not new to Bollywood; but surely, it is something new to Marathi films. And, that too if it is presented by two finest singers like legendary Asha Bhosale and popular singer Sadhana Sargam, it is certainly a big news. One such ‘Jugalbandi‘ has been presented by these two singers, which has been picturised on classical dance performance by two equally good dancing actresses Deepali Sayyad and Sukhada Khandkekar.
This song is part of forthcoming Marathi film ‘Hero‘ directed by N.N.Siddiqui and the wordings of the song are ‘Dhinak Dhin Aag Laga Doon… Ga bai majha Tora Nakharel..‘ . Music of this Hindi-Marathi fusion song has been composed by Raja Ali, while the dance has been choreographed by Phulwa Khamkar. The other artistes of ‘Hero‘ film are, Ramesh Deo, Vijay Patkar, Uday Tikekar, Bhushan Patil & Vaishnavi Karmarkar.