Husnlal bhagatram biography sample

This article was written introduction part game the ‘Guzra Hua Zamana’ series endorse Sangeet Position Sitare, a music heap on Facebook.

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The first duo Husnlal-Bhagatram (2): Their songs for ‘other’ singers

(While I had already scheduled the first part and was working on the draft for this part on Husnlal-Bhagatram, I was also in touch with Pt Husnlal’s US-based son, Dinesh Kumar Prabhakar, and Pt Bhagtram’s Mumbai-based son, Ashok Bhagatram Sharma. Communication with Ashokji was difficult as he has kept himself outside the digital word, but I was delighted to get a call from Dineshji who was in Delhi, and I had a most memorable meeting with him and his mother, the 90-year old Nirmala Devi, the wife of late Pt Husnlal. I have incorporated the gist of my conversation with them in the later part of this post.)

Husnlal-Bhagatram shone like a meteor very briefly, during 1948-51, when their main singers were predominantly Lata Mangeshkar, Suraiya and Rafi. During this period, they created some absolutely mesmerising songs, but in many songs there was a repetitiveness in the melody and orchestration. In the Golden Era of playback singers, they did not diversify much beyond their above preferred singers. Thus, they were behind the curve when Mukesh and Talat Mahmood were creating waves. However, whenever they used them, HB showed their immense potential, for example in Kismat bigadi duniya badli (Muke

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Listen: Recalling the Hindi film legacy of classical musicians Husnlal and Bhagatram

In a series that had revisited music festivals held several decades ago, this column had included the Swami Haridas Sammelan held in Mumbai in 1962 featuring many leading vocalists and instrumentalists. One of the performances featured at the festival was a violin-accordion duet by the brothers Husnlal and Bhagatram, who were famous as music composers for Hindi cinema.

According to many biographical sketches such as the one available here, both brothers learnt music from Dilip Chandra Vedi, a student of Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale and Faiyaz Khan. Of the duo, Husnalal was a vocalist but also played violin, which he learnt from Bashir Khan. Bhagatram played the harmonium, but he also was an accordion player as is evident from the information provided regarding the Swami Haridas sammelan held in 1962.

In the 16th episode of the present series on Hindustani musicians working as music composers for Hindi cinema, we listen to music created by Husnlal-Bhagatram. Unfortunately, I could not access any recordings of Bhagatram’s harmonium or accordion recitals or even duets by the brothers. But here are few tracks featuring Husnalal’s violin and vocal recitals.

The first track is a violin recital featuring