Abhilasha Chellum sings Baiyan Na Dharo

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• Vishwanath G says:

  December 5, 2010 at 12:59 am

  GOD..i dono..i love ur Songs,,i listen to it continuously frm morning till night…
  n pls pls sing songs like this….it jus goes in our Heart n brings peace….
  i’m watchin this show only only because of YOU Abhilasha C
  Good Luck

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• Vishwanath G says:

  December 5, 2010 at 1:30 am

  I Heard this more than 50 times,,,,it’ll reach more than 100:):)
  ThankU so much fr this Wonderful song….
  Your Voice s jus Awesomee:):)
  wen U say Mohe chod ahe sajana….5 stars

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• kalaa says:

  December 5, 2010 at 1:36 am

  She has a lovely voice, no doubt – but THIS song she butchered a bit. Sur and timing were both off at different points. Perhaps that’s what the judges meant when they kept saying how difficult it is, and congratulating her for attempting it. Hear the original to appreciate the genius of Lata.

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• kalaa says:

  December 5, 2010 at 1:43 am

  Here is the original by the way – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8vsJi-VUuM
  You will want to listen to this thousands of times.

  Yes I do realize the original was not sung on stage, and must have required considerable practice, but this is how it should sound.

  Also note how pleasant and soothing Lata is when she effortlessly renders the vibrato – to my point in my comment on Sugandha, who sounded horsy and unpleasant when she attempted vibrato.

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  • V says:

    December 5, 2010 at 6:35 am

    I don’t think they should simply sound like a recording of the original song. It’s mimicry (a difficult one, I grant), not artistry. There are thousands of Chinese “artists’ making knockoffs of van Gogh and Matisse but they are not really artists.
    Even if that were the goal, you simply cannot compare live performance to a studio-recorded, processed output. There’s a lot of adjusting and mixing that went on even back in the 70s. I dare say Lataji’s live performance would not have lived up to her recordings.
    It’s futile effort to try to compare.

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• kalaa says:

  December 5, 2010 at 11:55 am

  Fair enough, it’s possible she may not have been able to reproduce it live herself. However I think it would be hard to adjust and remix a classical song like this too much.

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• kalaa says:

  December 5, 2010 at 12:29 pm

  We all love this song, but does anyone understand all the words?
  What’s the meaning of raar? nihaar?
  The lyrics are so poetic and graceful.. so unlike the bakwaas in songs these days.

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• Dev09 says:

  December 5, 2010 at 7:26 pm

  Outstanding performance Abhilasha. Other contestants should be worried…

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• kalaa says:

  December 7, 2010 at 12:21 pm

  OK, V – you were wrong, and so was I.

  Hear this rendering of the same song by Lata several years later. It is perfect. You can still tell the differences compared to the original (linked in an earlier post from me above) – the original one sounds younger for one thing, but also sounds more enthusiastic and bouncy, as befits the new bridge singing it in the movie, than this almost melancholy rendering when she was probably several years older (but yet not so old that her voice had noticeably thickened, as it started doing around the DDLJ days). Isn’t the internet great?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPeKfg_EkM

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