Host Prashant Rao briefed the audience about the dramatic and spectacular emergence of Rajesh Khanna post Aradhana and spoke at length about the ‘Rajesh Khanna phenomenon’ that swept the entire nation off its feet and the hysteria he generated was unlike anything seen before or after. While hindi film music expert and musicologist Manohar Iyer added, “ It’s amazing to note that the songs composed more than thirty years ago are still popular and every one in the audience were lapping them up “. It’s pleasure listening to them “, opined Kandivali resident Aarti Shetty, a music lover who attended the programme. “ Music always played a significant part in all Rajesh Khanna starrer’s and most of his songs were instant hits. Singers Srikant Narayan, Sarita Rajesh, Vinod Seshadiri, Archana Gore and Kiran Shembekar rendered an ensemble of evergreen hits of yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khanna from films like Amar Prem, Aradhana, Anand, Kati Patang, Khamoshi, Mehbooba, Anurodh, Ajnabee, Safar, Daag, Mere Jeevan Saathi, Namak Haram, Haathi Mere Saathi, Aap Ki Kasam among others. Hundreds of music lovers, from various parts of the city, who had gathered were transported to a world of bliss filled with melody and memories.
It was an evening that evoked a lot of nostalgic moments in the audience when mumbai based music troupe MUSICOLOR organised a grand musical evening titled “Evergreen Hits of Rajesh Khanna“ on Thursday 22nd November at the Dinanath Mangeshkar hall. On the whole a memorable evening indeed !Ĭontact MUSICOLOR for musical shows at 9820587610 While the master of ceremony kept the enthralled audience glued to their seats with the gift of the gab and hilarious repartees timeless hit scores like ‘Chup gaye sare nazare’, ‘Itna toh yaad hai mujhe’ and ‘Jai jai shiv shankar’ received thunderous applause and ‘once more’ from the audience. “ It has instilled great confidence in all of us “, she quipped.
Sarita, who is the initiator of Musicolor informed that the audience response has been tremendous and the group intends doing many more such music programmes in the future. Memorable compositions like ‘Chingari koi bhadke’, ‘Jeevan se bhari’, ‘Roop tera mastana’, ‘Chala jata hoon’, ‘Zindagi kaisi hai paheli’, ‘Kora kagaz tha’, ‘Mere dil mein aaj kya hai’, ‘Pyar diwana hota hai’, ‘Mere diwanepan ki’ were presented live on stage by the talented artistes of Musicolor ably supported by renowned musicians from the music fraternity like Ajay Madan (Lead Guitar), Deepak Borkar (Side Rhythm), Nandkishore (Saxophone), Praveen Pathak, Nilesh Devasthali (Synthesizer), Vijay Tambe (Flute), Vijay Jadhav (Octopad), Vasudev Mathre (Congo/Dholak) and Sushil Gangavane (Tabla). As hits followed hits producers queued outside his house while women all over the country swooned over him.