namaskaar, hamaare aaj ke fankaar hain suprasiddha gaayika Usha Uthup

Song: doston se pyaar kiya (Shaan)

Usha Uthup speaks: 'Vividh Bharati is one of my favourites'. log
kehte hain ki 'video has replaced radio', par main naheen maantee. TV
mein jo gaane hum aajkal dekhte hain, bas ek ya do 'line' hi baar
baar 'repeat' hote hain, antara yaad naheen hotaa aur doosre kamre
mein jaate jaate mukhDaa bhi bhool jaate hain. puraane gaano ke to
antara, yahaan tak ki 'prelude' aur 'interlude' bhi yaad ho jaate the.

Usha Uthup sings "aa lauT ke aaja mere meet", "man moraa baawra",
and "Teen kanastar peeT peeT kar galaa phaaD chillaaya.

Clip: Teen kanastar peeT peeT kar (

Usha Uthup speaks: aajkal to sabhi apne aap ko 'pop singer' kehlaate
hain (laughs). 'my mother used to sing "ghunghaT ke paT khol" and all
such classical based songs, but I was more interested into
those 'filmi' songs" (laughs). R D Burman ne Bombay To Goa mein
mujhse 2/3 English songs gawaaye the.

Usha Uthup sings "Listen to the music of pouring rain"...."sun sun
sun barsaat ki dhun sun".

Usha Uthup speaks: 'my sister Uma was a real pop singer', unka ek
gaana tha (sings) "Come to Bombay". America mein gaane bante hain
jinmein Canada, Los Angeles, New York shehron ke naam aate
hain, 'then why not Bombay, why not our own country?'

Song: Koi yahaan aha naache naache (Disco Dancer)

Usha Uthup speaks:yeh jo gaana "koi yahaan aha naache naache", yeh
ek 'devotional song' bhi ho saktaa hai, 'on Krishna, its all in your
mind'. dukh ki baat yeh hai ki yahaan ek 'pre-conceived idea' aa
jaata hai.

Song: Aayiye meherbaan (Armaan)

Usha Uthup speaks: 'I didn't come with a gifted voice, whatever I
have achieved, its all because of my family and my audience, I did
not have any Godfather or Godmother in this industry', main 'night
clubs' mein gaaya karti thee.

Usha Uthup sings "bindiyaa chamkegi chooDi khankegi".

Usha Uthup speaks: yeh jo gaana tha, 'I can never sing like that
(original song by Lata), but I sing in my own way'.

Usha Uthup sings "ab jo mile hain to baahon ko baahon mein le le re
saajna"

Usha Uthup sings "haal kaisa hai janaab ka kya khayaal hai aapka"

Usha Uthup speaks: maine kabhi naheen sochaa tha ki 'singer'
banoongi. 'my music teacher used to say, "get out of the class", my
voice was not OK'. mujhe 'clap' karne ke liye khaDe kar dete
the 'choir' mein.

Song: Ramba ho (Pyara Dushman)

Usha Uthup speaks: Ameen Sayani ke bhaai Hameed Sayani ke programme
mein maine ek English song gaaya tha, kya huya maine woh gaate gaate
uske lafz bhool gayi, to maine aise hi 'la la la' se usko 'cover-up'
kar diya. tab mujhe lagaa ki 'I was very quick in covering up the
music'.

Song: Are you ready naakaabandi (Nakabandi)

Usha Uthup speaks: aaj jise hum 'fusion' keh rahe hain, 'I think
fusion is a bad word'. 'One person who is excellent in fusion in its
true sense is R D Burman'.

Clip: Rampur ka baasi hoon (Rampur Ka Laxman)

Usha thup speaks: Main kya bataayun, kuchh log samajhte hain ki 'only
they have the authority to talk about R D Burman'. Khair jo bhi
hai, 'he and I shared a lot of music, we were really' yaar, 'real'
yaari thi hamaari. 'You cant imagine how we were, in fact', bahut
gaane the jo maine unko deeye. 'With due respect' main bataana
chaahoongi. (sings) "It is tuesday this must be Belgium, it is
wednesday it must be Rome, it is thursday it must be Monteal, it is
friday I must go home". Yeh gaana maine unko bahut saal pehle diya
tha, is gaane se 'inspired' hokar banaa (sings) "chura liya hai tumne
jo dil ko nazar naheen churana sanam"

Clip: Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko (Yaadon Ki Baraat)

Usha Uthup: Ek aur gaana tha "When the moon is in the Jupiter.....age
of Aquirious"...."Jab andhera hota hai aadhi raat ke baad"

Clip: Jab andhera hota hai (Jab Andhera Hota Hai)

doston, aaj kaa yeh kaaryakram kendrit tha gaayika Usha Uthup par. ab
Kamal Sharma ko deejiye ijaazat, namaskaar!

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