MUSICAL SESSION 17TH JULY 2011

S I V A R A M A K R I S H N A N ..... Wow. it took some time typing his name here. But brings out some of the best songs of Kishore Kumar always.

Sreesha, Sivaram and Chakravarthy listen in abject silence to Sivaramakrishnan.

N R Padmanabhan, Anita and Sailaja all all ears to the good music.

MUQABALA HUMSE NA KARO, MUQABALA HUMSE NA KARO, HUM TUMHE APNE RANG MEIN RANG DALENGE EK HI PAL MEIN.. Who says this to whom ?

The darling of the mehfil - APURVA - is hugged by Anita.

Prasun, Sivaramakrishnan, APURVA and Kamalakshi enjoying the songs.

Belting out some of the MASTI songs of Rafi Sahab is Chakravarthy. Elias is all attention to this one.

Unable to keep away, ELIAS wants to be as close to Chakravarthy when HUMDUM MERE MAAN BHI JAAO, KEHNA MERE PYAR KA is rendered.

Another long shot of the singing session.

SAILAJA churning out some sweet music of Lata Mangeshkar songs. She is too good.

Chakravarthy... and Elias....

Aur agla gana pesh karenge... Chakravarthy seems to be announcing as he took up the mantle to organize the Musical Session.

Ooops. R Padmanabhan. The enthu is there always.

Brings out the rarest of rare songs of Rafi Sahab and JHOOMS while singing - is R Padmanabhan

Sreesha, Elias and Sivaram

TEEN KANASTAR PEET PEET KAR - one very old and rare song of Rafi Sahab - singer is Anantrao Deshmukh

Some applaud, while some ... R Padmanabhan and S K Elias

Prasun says : ZULFON KO HATALE CHEHRE SE THODASA UJALA HONE DE

Prasun has not heard this one earlier and has a closer look at TEEN KANASTAR PEET PEET KAR as Anantrao gives a demo of Rafi Sahab's versatility

Sreesha, Anantrao, Sivaram and Kamalakshi

Anita was impressed with our group and Sailaja assures this is the best group to be in.

Different moods, different strokes but Apurva is relishing every moment

Elias takes keen interest in some great songs of Rafi Sahab. Here he is a keen listener alongwith R Padmanabhan, Chakravarthy as Prasun sings.

Prasun is handling the sound system now and Sailaja joins Sivaramakrishnan in this duet.

Another angle, same song. The duet

WATCHING YOU ALL MAKING SUCH A MESS OF YOUR SONGS !!! HA HA HA HA .. but you guys are are a sincere lot no doubt.

What's cooking ?? Kamalakshi, Sailaja, Balaji share a joke as Sivaramakrishnan is enjoying the songs

Anantrao Deshmukh and R Padmanabhan

I DESERVE ALL THE ATTENTION, ALL THE TIME. Let the songs go on, but see how good looking I am. APURVA.

When she herself is not singing, APURVA is all around the place. Check her videos to listen to her sing some of the difficult songs with ease.

Another duet and this time it is Prasun with Sailaja

Sailaja and Prasun

No, it is not a three-some song (threut?), but R Padmanabhan is keenly checking the lyrics of this duet.

OK Guys and Gals ! Great singing by you all. I am relaxing

MUSICAL SESSION 17TH JULY 2011

MY TOPIC OF THE DAY - by A L SREESHA

DEAR RAFI FOUNDATION MEMBERS !!!

My topic and song for the day.

Let me tell you how I began to enjoy Rafi saab's songs. This
will also be in the thread of ASM talking about the legend with
reference to 31st july with Babul song.

In 1977, when I met ASM, I was tuned to listening to old Hindi songs
and was collecting a lot of casettes of Mukesh. I enjoyed Kishore,
Manna De, Hemant, and of course Lata, Asha, Suman Kalyanpur,
LakshmiShankar, Jesudas and Rafi saab.

ASM and I argued about who was better. Mukesh or Rafi. He slowly
started introducing me to the Music Direction, Lyrics and style of
rendition. I was following only melodious tunes and with my limited
Hindi knowledge and absolutely no knowledge of Urdu, I had not been
eager to listen to OHFM in that aspect. Once ASM grilled me for about
one year, my approach to Hindi Film Songs Changed.
"Jaane bahaar Husn tera be misaal hain actually changed my attitude
towards Rafi saab.

My frequent visits to Hyderabad and gatherings in my room by a few
Rafi Bhakts singing old songs, ASM's explicit detail of the song from
the film "Ghazal", with complete lyrics and meaning, my listening to
Mere Mehboob Tujhe by Rafi saab, my attending the concert of Shrikant
Narayan in Chowdiah Memorial and the superb compering by Iyer, my
little interaction with the legendry Raviji, Rafi Holiday Bangalore,
interaction with Narayan and his devotion to Rafi saab, Guru's
knowledge, involvement of Rafi bhakts like Bina, Asha, Alka, Snigs,
Raj, made me also a keen follower of Rafi saab. My membership with AR
elite group is slowly and steadily increasing my knowledge about the
profound topic called Rafi Saab.

Sreesha.
I hope this is a good topic of the day.

http://youtu.be/j8IDirPakBY

Enclosed, my song for, Not only the day but for ages to come

Social Networking for Genuine Rafians ! - RafiBook

Social Networking for Genuine Rafians ! - RafiBook

IF IT IS A MUKESH SONG, IT MUST BE SREESHA

A TRIBUTE TO MUSIC BY THIS GRAND LADY

Karoake Session@Bhanothu's

MAGICAL MUSINGS AT MADINAGUDA

ADABRAFI FRIENDS,

MADINAGUDA was not known to many in Hyderabad until one decade back and most from the other parts of the metropolis would not have gone that

far in many many years. However, over the last five years, Madinaguda has become a hub of residential and commercial activity - more because of its proximity to the IT industry in the nearby Madhapur, Kondapur and othe areas. The huge boulder-blocks abetting both sides of the new Bombay Road has given way to some maginficent residential complexes with all the amenities that a society would need to nurture. At was here that we had to assemble on this hot and humid Sunday yesterday and we made batches to reach the venue - the "HOME SWEET HOME" (as Namratha would say). I, Elias, R Padmanabhan and Sivaram reached Sreesha's hotel and started from there in his car. Sivaramakrishnan came on his own. Chakravarthy joined K V Sharma and they both reached N R Padmanabhan's house at Motinagar from where they proceeded on the remaining length of the great musical journey.

The Bhanothu family is indeed gifted. Music flows in each of their family members and has been abundantly patronized in generation after generation. Hospitality comes naturally to them as basically theirs is a very close-knit family. Balaji and Sailaja were very keen that we all assemble at their lovely and compact flat and had been eagerly looking forward to this get-together. We all too were keen that we go to their house and spend some quality time immersing ourselves in the golden music of yesteryears. If we missed anyone from their family it was the elder daughter Pallavi and the young boy Vamshi. All others in their big musical family were in attendance - mother of Balaji and Sirisha (the lady was our colleague in my Bank until a few years back), Seshu Babu, Prasun Kumar, Krishna Mohan, Aparna and Dhruv. The octogenarian mother of Balaji is a versatile music lover and her long innings with music of all genre would stand her in good stead at our Musical Session. She gave a perfect example of this by rendering two very soulful songs in Telugu. All the musical notes and nuances were intact and we were left spellbound by her renditions. She has much more to offer than her songs and love for music as we learnt from her that she had worked in various capacities with the State Government and her impeccable English would put her message across to all of us in such a simple manner. We also learn that she had worked ceaselessly for the downtrodden and had associated with the Communist Party and the movement for several years. We would be learning more of her in the coming days too.

Though we started quite late, we made it up by winding up our session equally late. We got to hear some very melodious songs and many lovely renditions from almost all our singers. The final audio arrangement (Balaji took a lot of interest in the proper working and was seen manually monitoring the audio system - throughout the period of the Session) was good enough for the output to have come out very well.

The day was also the Marriage Anniversary day of Krishna Mohan and Aparna (she is the daughter of A Sirisha and niece of Balaji) and to give our

musical session a befitting tribute, they not only stayed with us throughout, but also sange : AADHA HAI CHANDRAMA RAAT AADHRI, REH NA JAAYE TERI MERI BAAT AADHI. We, in turn, sang in unision BAAR BAAR DIN YE AAYE, BAAR BAAR DIL YE GAAYE : TU JIYE HAZARON SAAL YE MERI HAI AARZOO - HAAPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO YOU !!!

I am enclosing only three photos of the Musical Session as I could not upload all in this mail. I will send some more in my next mail. There are

some video recordings also that I have taken and I will upload them on youtube soon and give you all the links for the same.

A perfect get-away for all of us from the blistering heat, our routine work and other occupations - the Musical Session at Madinaguda on 29th May

2011 will be remembered for a long long time by all of us who attended the same.

Thanks to the Bhanothu family, we all enjoyed the few hours splendidly. More on this in the coming days..........

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A S MURTY
ऐसी वाणी बोलिए मन का आपा खोये

अपना तन शीतल करे, औरों को सुख होए

Let's celebrate RAFI SAHAB

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Yes, it was marvellous indeed, totally into a different atmosphere than the regular sessions. Lots of new voices heard. Prasun Kumar was at his best in all the three songs he rendered.If I miss mentioning Iliyas, I would be doing injustice. As usual he was also at his best in the high pitch songs of Rafi saab.Mr.Sreesha was also superb in bringing Mukesh ji on Mic and Sailaja madam ofcourse, Lata.
In simple, we just forgot the scorching heat when once reached Balaji's sweet home. Really their hospitality, superb.
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yes.............it was indeed an unforgettable experience to attend such a lovely evening with such passionate music lovers singers of high quality songs. It was astonishing great enjoyment to see all of you rendering those so complex songs with relative ease and great feel and zeal.
All the singers were very close to perfect (sorry for not remembering everyone by name) but Iliyas just injected life into his songs...........

would not make you read you too much........... :)

see all of you soon again

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MUSICAL SESSION 10TH APRIL 2011

A VERY ENCHANTING DAY FOR ALL AT RAFI FOUNDATION, HYDERABAD

CHAPTER WHEN ON 10TH APRIL, 2011 WE HAD THIS VERY MEMORABLE MUSICAL SESSION. HERE ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS