Sri Vijaya Puram, Sept. 30: A Musical Evening titled ~ "Meri Awaaz Hi Pahechaan Hai #3 (Ishwar Satya Hai !!!)" was presented by 'Jhumurr Socio-Cultural Society', Sri Vijaya Puram with a team of LM-fan Club on 28th September 2024 at Hotel Driftwood, Haddo in honour of the inimitable Singing Legend & Bharat Ratna - Lata Mangeshkar on her 95th Birth Anniversary. The show, open to all for witnessing, has been organised in association with Hotel Driftwood, Haddo, Sri Vijaya Puram.
The melodious event was designed exclusively based on the Golden & Evergreen duets of various moods of Lataji with different Male Co-Singers of different generations to Celebrate her exceptionally long musical journey and highly successful singing career of the 'Nightingale of India' spreading over a period of about 75 years, and presented under the Concept & Programme Designing of Ashees Poddar, Creative Director & Convenor of the Society.
The programme was hugely successful, which started befittingly by paying rich tribute to the Legend Lata Mangeshkar through presentation of her iconic song 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' by one of the best singers of these Islands Smt. Ananya Karak. The other Lead Singers were Smt./s Parvati Anil, Arunima Ghosh, Salma, and Smt. Minaz Nadeem as guest artiste. Each and every presentation was highly applauded and selection of songs has been appreciated by one and all.
Besides a number of captivating and melodious duets of Lata Ji of different generes, a Geet-Mala (medley) with few of her superhit solo numbers, conceived splendidly by Smt. Sonali Podder as the special attraction of show, was also presented beautifully by the lead female singers, culminating the programme in a grand manner.
The Co-Male Singers of the programme were Shri/s K. Mammi (for Mohd.Rafi) as the special guest artiste, Abdul Rasheed (Mohd.Rafi & Mahendra Kapoor), Shailender Singh (Amit Kumar, Suresh Wadekar, Udit Narayan & Manmohan Singh) Aktar Hussain (Kumar Sanu, S.P Balasubramanium, Manna Dey & Jolly Mukherjee), Raj (Mukesh), Rajesh Anand (Hemant Kumar), Mohd. Nisar (Shailendra Singh & Kumar Sanu), Rajesh Ghosh (Mohd. Aziz & Mohd.Rafi), Ujjwal Dhali (Abhijeet) and Ashees Poddar (Kishore Kumar, Hemant Kumar, Bhupender Singh & Shabbir Kumar).
The show was attended by some eminent guests, Smt. & Shri. K. Mammi, Smt. Zubaida Begum, Smt. Sangeeta Chand, Smt. Monidipa Mukherjee, Smt. Jharna Bose, Shri. Sanjib Kumar Roy, Smt. Sumita Sanyal, Smt. Babita Roychowdhury, Shri. G. Anil Kumar, Shri. Appa Rao and Shri. Jay Nair.
The General Secretary and Jt. Secretary of the Society, Smt. Sonali Podder & Shri Biswajit Das expressed their gratitude to the audience for their valuable presence on the occasion. The show has been well coordinated by Shri Shailender Singh & Shri Aktar Hussain and wonderfully hosted by the renowned anchor of these Islands, Shri Raj.