‎11-04-2012

Rich Tribute pays to K L Saigal on his 108th birth anniversary.

A musical programme was organized to pay tribute to the legendry Kundan Lal Saigal on his 108th birth anniversary at Aarohi Kala Sangeet Vidhalaya Gandhi nagar Jammu. Programme was organized by Nirvana Academy – A Cultural Club in association with Aarohi Kala Sangeet Vidhalaya. Programme started with the speech of President Nirvana Academy who threw the light on the achievements and life of K.L Saigal. Saigal was born at Jammu on 11 April 1904. Indian Gramophone Company had released Saigal's record containing a couple of Punjabi songs composed by Harishchandra Bali. In 1935, Saigal played the role that would come to define his acting career,that of the drunken title character in Devdas, based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel of the same nameand directed by P.C. Barua. His songs in the film, Balam Aaye Baso Moray Man Mein and Dukh Ke Ab Din Beetat Naahi, became popular throughout the country. In a career of fifteen years, Saigal acted in 36 feature films - 28 in Hindi, 7 in Bengali, and 1 in Tamil.Saigal rendered 185 songs which includes 142 film songs and 43 non-film songs. Of the film songs, there are 110 in Hindi, 30 in Bengali and 2 in Tamil. There are 37 non-film songs in Hindi, and 2 each in Bengali, Pashto, Punjabi and Persian. His non-film songs comprise bhajans, ghazals and hori. He has rendered the creations of poets such as Ghalib, Zauq, and Seemab.
Saigal's distinctive singing voice was idolized by the first generation of post-independence Hindi Film playback singers, including Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Mukesh, and Kishore Kumar.
Kuldeep kumar noted singer and Amit kumar sung bajans and popular songs of K.L Saigal “Jab dil hi tut gya”, “Gham diye mustakil” in the programme which were highly appreciated by the youth children and their parents. Kuldeep Kumar President Aarohi told on the occasion that they are very thankful to Nirvana Academy who organized such cultural programme in their premises and through these programmes youth and children came to know about the legends, their achievements and their music. Others who were presented on the occasion were Meenakshi Sharma General Secretary NA, Nishant Vaid Secretary NA, Santosh Sharma, Prince, Param Jeet Kour and Neha Verma