(आँर्फियस, "पिंगळा वेळ", जी ए कुलकर्णी, १९७७)
"wished to be heard constantly for sweetness but unbearable because of intensity, such is your music! You mayn't raise the dead, but you brought to life the dead days!"
(Orpheus, "Pingala Vel", G A Kulkarni, 1977)
This blog is turning out to be an obit page.
But it can't be helped. Ms. Naidu of Anuradha(1960) was so dear.
Earlier when Leela Naidu sang:
"haye re wo din kyon naa aaye
jaa jaa ke rrutu, laut aaye
zil-mil wo taaren, kahaa gaye saare
man-baati jale, bujh jaaye
haye re wo din ...
sunee meree beenaa, sangit binaa
sapanon kee maalaa murazaaye
haye re wo din..."...
Leela Naidu, Balraj Sahni, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar, Shailendra, Nasir Hussain, Jaywant Pathare at their best...it was surreal.
Since January 2006 when I hear it, I remember my mother.
My mother, Jyoti G. Kulkarni nee Shakuntala V. Bhate (1937-2006), 1957