Sonik Bhatia

DURING a go to to Germany for an educational convention, I took permission from the organiser to journey round Berlin after the presentation of my analysis paper. A professor from Frankfurt, Dr Johann Werth, provided me a experience in his Volkswagen automotive as he was additionally eager on buying and sightseeing. I accepted his provide promptly.

I got here to know that Dr Werth had visited the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, a few occasions and had nice recollections of India. Whereas we had been cruising on the freeway, he gave me an enormous shock through the use of a pen drive that began enjoying songs by the inimitable Kishore Kumar. I enquired about his curiosity in Hindi movie music. With a smile, he replied that he was not solely a physicist but in addition a music lover and a little bit of a composer. As soon as, whereas travelling by a cab to IISc for a visitor lecture, he had heard a singer yodelling in a tune enjoying on the automotive’s music system. Although he couldn’t perceive the lyrics, he discovered the voice very melodious. The cab driver had instructed him in regards to the singer and the tune, and he had famous down the main points. After returning to Germany, he had frantically looked for Kishore’s songs on the Web. His ardour for music drove him to enrol himself for a web based Hindi course. He managed to finish the course and be taught the language in order to grasp the lyrics.

As I listened to him, I felt proud that an Indian singer had impressed a German to be taught ‘ka kha ga’. Then it was my flip to talk. I instructed him that Kishore had carved a distinct segment for himself as a singer regardless of having acquired no coaching in classical music. His yodelling was impressed by American singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers and New Zealand performer Tex Morton. Kishore was additionally an ardent admirer of Hollywood actor-singer Danny Kaye; nearer to residence, he adored KL Saigal and had nice respect for Rabindranath Tagore. No surprise he had hung portraits of his idols on the partitions of his residence and would bow earlier than them reverentially.

I discussed interviews of legendary singers Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, who had stated that working with Kishore was a really pleasant expertise — at occasions unpredictable as a consequence of his naughty pranks. That they had stated that Kishore’s jokes lightened the ambiance within the recording studio and introduced out one of the best in them. One other outstanding singer, Manna Dey, had acknowledged that Kishore was an artiste with a God-given expertise.

It was an exquisite and unforgettable journey with Dr Werth. I realised that inspiration knew no boundaries of language, race, area or faith. It was past all borders. The professor was a traditional instance of an Indophile who had launched into a discovery of this marvellous nation, due to Kishore’s songs. Certainly, we live in a world village the place music, particularly, introduced collectively individuals from disparate cultures.

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