Your points are well taken. There is room for improvement. Whether ARR should have taken up diction lessons as a child is another issue. If ARR or any other non Urdu speaking artist for that matter had an ideal training background and could afford Urdu mentors and tuition as a child, that would be wonderful. With ARR, his childhood was not ideal. The fact remains that he did not take Urdu lessons as a child, therefore, learning precise Urdu at a later age is difficult, if not, impossible, even if he had the best teachers around. The adult brain is just not plastic enough to incorporate new neural routes to formulate pure pronunciations. This is a scientific fact. This goes for anyone.
When words are slightly mispronounced relative to pure articulation, it might leave a bad taste in your mouth because you are so picky about diction, but for many of us, we notice it, but don't let it ruin our enjoyment of the song, unless the pronunciations are totally botched and pathetic, which ARR has never done. For an Urdu purist like you, it will surely bother you, just like a classical purist would be bothered by even the slightest hint of fusion in any classical composition. There is nothing wrong in your preference. But, your purist preference is not something that everyone values as much as you do, and to me, that's perfectly ok. --- In [email protected], "Manzur S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not agree.... one studies music from the child hood it sure be an > advantage if that musician or singer should take up the language along > with the music to complete the nuances of the music. it leaves a bad > taste in the mouths when a singer mipronounces the word. Not only ARR > but almost every singer from other parts of country also commit these > blunders. I am recently touched by a song , sung by Kunal Ganjawala for > the film BABUL . The song is excellent other wise. he sung the song > beautifully but he messed-up the song in the last by saying Gh- > umnamiyan bhi Dedo ( it should have been GumNaamiyan Bhi Dedo) or Hansi > not Haseen and here the whole couplet becomes meaningless for Haseen > instead of Hansi. Senior artists such as Lata Mangeshkar, Kavita > krishnamurthy ,Kishore Kumar , Mukesh, learned urdu diction or they > check their lines thoroughly before recording of the song. > Music directors such as Madan Mohan , Salil chaudhry, OP Nayyar, or > even LP used to have Urdu literate people in their teams to make sure > of proper diction. Naushad , Khayyam had an advantage of coming from > Urdu speaking backgrounds. some actors also have urdu teachers taking > care of their diction. >
