Sunday, August 09, 2009

khamoshiyan gungunane lagiin

This is a relatively less known number by Rahman from 1-2-ka-4. The movie bombed at the box office I guess, but had some good melodies- including this one and sona nahi na sahi.
Found an excellent karaoke track for this one on an esnips page... and it was a long pending idea to do a duet with fellow blogger Rajesh Raman and it somehow never took off until this one.
Needless to say, Rajesh is remarkable. One of those singers who we should be lucky to have here, among us.
A little about the original: A sensational duo, Sonu and Lata have sung this. Lata, despite the shake and all other age related factors sounds so expressive. I wish I could isolate her singing from her voice...
Sonu: Amaaazing as always. Check out a live version by them at the Unity of Lights concerts with Rahman here: Sonu is adorable! :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gsmoWEsvpo&feature=PlayList&p=BFBDCF7A7807CBBF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=37

Now, here's our's :) Let us know what you thought. This was recorded a long time back- we kept going back and forth on mixes... finally decided to pick the best one and put it up... Many thanks to Rajesh's friend Arun Varma for his efforts in mixing this.

Song: Khamoshiyan gungunane lagiin
Movie: 1-2-ka-4
Music: A.R.Rahman
Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigam

This version mixed by: Arun Varma




7 comments:

Ramya said...

Sindhu singing sindhu bhairavi?!:)I was reminded of another ARR not vry popular song in tajmahal(kulirudhu kulirudhu,same ragam i believe) Absolutely love this song.
Beautifully sung by you n Rajesh, Great ending guys.
Sindhu, felt the high notes, hawaon, baatein cud have been hit even higher, urs sounded fine but thought original was like tat. Loved the humming part n rukjaane lagiin, Awesome!

Rajesh, lovely improvisations. Your rendition sounded very soft than usual, probably a mixing artifact.

SUMI said...

very nice! great job both of you!

Sumedha Roy said...

Hi Sindhuja! Very beautifully sung indeed... I was thinking of performing this song at my college concert and was searching for the karaoke for it and accidentally landed here... but well loved your version.. So do you know where I can get the karaoke for this? :)

N keep up the good work !

Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam said...

Thanks Aurora. If you give me your email I can send you the track.

Sumedha Roy said...

Thanx Sindhuja, that'll be so kind of you :)
My email id is sumedharoy@gmail.com

By the way, have you learnt classical music? You sing like a pro :)

Karthik Nagarajan said...

nice performance..Liked the improvisations very much..i think the mixing couldve' been better..felt like voices were a lil louder than the bgm

Nithy said...

good sindhu...sounded very different from Lata's - but ur version was sounding good in its own way

the final finish - isn't it different from the original?