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  • Re: Menaka-bai Shirodkar passes away

    From =?UTF-8?B?4KSr4KS+4KSk4KS/4KSu4KS+I@21:1/5 to naniwadekar on Sun Jun 19 09:00:02 2022
    On Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 12:13:39 PM UTC+5:30, naniwadekar wrote:
    Menakabai Shirodkar passed away on Dec 23, 2003, in
    Ponda, Goa. She was 93. She is survived by two daughters,
    Shobha Gurtu among them. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/378313.cms
    Menakabai was a skilled classical singer; her merit was duly
    recognised by Indian Cinema as well. Minerva Movietone's
    film 'Prithvi Vallabh' featured beautiful songs by 'Menaka'.
    Her duet with Rafiq Ghaznavi, 'panchhi ud chal apne desh',
    or 'khule swarga ke dwaar', a solo from the same film, are
    perhaps better known. But the piece de resistance from
    the film is the familiar bhajan : 'raam naam dhan paayaa mai.nne'.
    A beautiful composition by Saraswati Devi, it has been
    thrillingly rendered in a dynamic style by Menaka-bai
    in a startling departure from the more sober style generally
    used for such songs, a sublime amalgam of bhakti-ras
    and brio.
    May her soul rest in peace.

    - dn
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFXYdiiZyN8

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  • From naniwadekar@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 14 21:55:10 2022
    On Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 9:00:05 AM UTC-7, फातिमा साना शेख खान wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFXYdiiZyN8
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    A great find. Thanks for posting the interview. Menaka Shirodkar has talked at length, and good to hear her singing at that age. She mentions that Mogubai had died (February 2001) when the interview was conducted. And Menaka-bai Shirodkar herself died in
    December 2003. So this program was recorded about 20 years ago.

    Film songs sung by Menaka Shirodkar can be heard on youtube.

    - dn

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