Dude Ramanand ! Agreed :) i am a listener to the renditions of national awardee
Aarthi Ankalikar Tikekar. I am happy for her winning one. Someone said govt. is
partial to uplift konkani movies. It is wrong to comment like that. i can feel
& hear from konkani friends complain, their films are not recognised for their
talents :) Man please do not under-estimate, movies in other languages are not
great. Every language has its own color & greatness to speak their part in
movies which we cannot understand, unless mastering all languages. Govt. is
doing their bit to the reign of Presidents. Everyone forgets AR is Padmashri at
an early age, one step ahead of these national awards :) Rather aiming for
these, it is time to see him in padmabushan & BHARAT RATNA for spreading peace
through music that is likeable overseas, serving the society by sharing his
knowledge through kmmc.
Indian Govt. had to consider every major talent lang-wise. Let there not be
one award in main categories representing whole nation. Best thing is, like it
is announcing films in all languages, let it also announce & convert all these
single special awards into lang.-wise awards to solve everyone's expectation &
persons deserve that wont miss & is something important to integrate all. This
is not the kind of just satisfying them but they deserve the awards truly out
of merit & talent. Some miss it due to known unavoidable circumstances. It is
sad that most deserving talents from various field of arts that is bit away
from core glamour world of bollywood, go unnoticed. This is happening for ages.
Within that they are trying their maximum. Hope Govt. gets greater awareness on
not to miss any deserving individual in their field of arts & recognise them
with awards in time.
rgds
J Ramanand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Couldn't resist writing in, as I was a little surprised by some of
the comments on this topic.]
Ashok Patki, who won this year's National Award for Music, is no
greenhorn. Even though some of you may have not heard of him, he's a
veteran with several albums to his credit. I wonder how many of you,
who have dismissed the award as not being meritorious, have actually
heard the music of Antarnad (I'll readily confess I haven't, but then
I'm not saying his work is inferior).
This is not to say that the National Awards are flawless. I myself
find some of the awards in the last few years, and even this year, to
be eyebrow-raising. But I think many people will admit that most of
the awards (especially the less glamourous ones) go to fairly talented
people, even if they are not popular, or even if it wasn't their best
work.
In comparison, I (and again, I'm sure, others would agree) find that
some of the mainstream 'Bollywood' awards seem to degenerate into
fraternal backscratching. Rahman wins a lot of these awards, but no
one is silly enough to suggest lack of merit in these choices, even if
they didn't like who won the other awards in those shows. The same
courtesy should be extended to these awardees as well.
Ashok Patki's pedigree isn't diminished by our ignorance of his work,
nor is Rahman's genius shadowed by not winning an award. IIRC, I read
in this very group that Rahman was quoted as saying that the music of
Omkara was among the best that year, so some of you should have been
canvassing for that film to win, given that it was among Rahman's own
choices. (BTW, some of you have mentioned Rang De Basanti in this
context. FYI, that film was a 2005 submission, and you may recall
Naresh Iyer winning for that film last year.)
I guess a man of Rahman's stature would like us to broaden our musical
horizons, especially w.r.t Indian musicians, and not be so blinded by
affection for him. Disappointment is understandable, dismissal isn't
:-) The list of national awardees for Best Music is almost a who's who
of musical talent, especially lesser known talent, and is a good place
to begin such explorations, is it not?
Returning to Ashok Patki. His website is at http://www.ashokpatki.com,
but unfortunately no non-Marathi version seems to exist. I can't find
the music of Antarnaad online, but his "Savalee" (or "Savalii",
meaning 'shadow'), a recent Marathi film, is said to have some good
classical numbers. They can be heard at
www.musicindiaonline.com/music/hindi_bollywood/s/movie_name.9074/
And finally, most of you must have heard at least one famous creation
by Ashok Patki. That happens to be "mile sur meraa tumhaara".
happy aural adventures,
Ramanand
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