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I am an out-and-out fan of Mukesh," says former spin bowler B S Chandrasekhar,
sitting hunched up on a sofa in his house in Bangalore. The man who once
bewildered batsmen with his famous googlies now spends his days pursuing what
has grown from a pastime to a passionate obsession.

He is trying to assemble a complete collection of the more than a thousand songs
sung by his favourite singer and close friend, the legendary Hindi movie singer
Mukesh. For Chandra, whose legs were badly damaged in a motor accident seven
years ago, his quest gives him an interesting way to spend his sometimes
monotonous days.

Oddly enough, the Kannada-speaking Chandra cannot understand most of the lyrics
in Mukesh's songs. He also has scant knowledge of music, either classical or
light. Yet, he is tremendously attracted by both the songs and the singer.
Almost two decades after Mukesh's death, Chandra wakes up diligently at 0230
hours every morning to watch the old Hindi movies broadcast by Zee cinema, just
in case they contain Mukesh's songs.

Chandra already has collected over 800 of Mukesh's songs and several video clips
of those songs being enacted on screen. Eventually, his might turn out to be the
best archival collection of Mukesh ever assembled.

Chandra has had a special fondness for Mukesh's songs since his childhood. He
used to tune into them on Radio Ceylon every night, and often dreamt of actually
hearing him sing live some day. His opportunity came only after he joined the
Indian eleven in the early sixties, and started going to Bombay often for
matches.

On one such trip, he confided his longstanding ambition to a jockey friend M J
Raju, who happened to know Mukesh personally. He took a nervous and tongue-tied
Chandra to a recording studio to listen to his idol live for the first time.
Mukesh was recording songs for a film called Jyot Jale.

Chandra, who was a couple of decades younger than the man whose friendship he
sought, visited the great singer a few times at the studios, at home and even in
hospital after he had had an accident. Eventually, Mukesh began to reciprocate,
recognising a true fan in the gangling, gauche bowler. Mukesh himself was no
cricket enthusiast, although many of his contemporaries like Raj Kapoor and
Dilip Kumar were regulars at the VIP pavilion.

"I was not just another star crazy fan," says Chandra. "I genuinely felt some
strange telepathic link with Mukesh, even before I met him." Whenever Chandra
came to Bombay to play a match, the first thing he did was contact Mukesh and
arrange to spend all his free time with him.

"We only talked about his music, very little else," says Chandra. "I never tried
to find out what his philosophy of life was, or whether he had any domestic
troubles or professional problems. We did not gossip about people in films or
people in cricket. I lacked the knowledge to discuss the technicalities of his
music with him, so we would just talk about the mood of a particular song, or
what emotions we experienced on hearing it."

Chandra spent many quiet evenings dining with Mukesh's family, of whom only
Mukesh's son ever showed any interest in cricket. Sometimes, they would hit some
popular night spot and dine out together, just the two of them. Then, Mukesh
would insist on driving Chandra back to the hotel. Occasionally, a cricketer
friend would accompany Chandra to meet Mukesh, but Chandra tried to keep his
treasured encounters with his friend as uncrowded as possible.

"He was a very unassuming, quiet, soft-spoken man," recalls Chandra. "A thorough
gentleman. He treated all people in the same manner. Most importantly, he was a
very genuine, sincere person, who always spoke straight from his heart. It was
this last quality that makes his music so special."

Soon, the bowler began looking forward to his usually annual trips to Bombay,
just because he could meet his friend Mukesh. He attended a total of three
recording sessions during those years, and many private performances, the last
of which came about because of his own friendship with Mukesh. In 1975, Mukesh
hosted a dinner for the Indian eleven at his home, and regaled the gathering
with two songs, for which he accompanied himself on a harmonium.

They met for the last time in 1976, almost a decade after their first meeting,
in Bombay, when Chandra was playing against England. In all the years between,
Mukesh had visited Bangalore just once, for a few hours, for a public
performance. Chandra remembers what eventually became their last supper
together, at a popular Chinese restaurant. Several months later, Mukesh died of
a heart attack while he was in Detroit, USA. A grief-stricken Chandra called in
every favour he could think of to wangle a seat on the crowded Bombay flights to
attend his funeral. He still keeps in touch with Mukesh's family.

Ever since, he has been collecting Mukesh's music with almost fanatic zeal. "I
wish we had had the kind of technology then that we have now," he says ruefully.
"I would have video-taped some of my most enjoyable conversations with Mukesh,
and some of the impromptu music sessions we would have, and derived tremendous
solace from them now, when he is no more."

Instead, he spends many hours of his day listening to his collection of Mukesh
songs, taken from a variety of sources, ranging from static-ridden Radio Ceylon
recordings to CDs. "I cannot pick any particular songs as my favourites, as I
really love at least 500 songs equally," he says. "It's like asking me to name
my 10 best performances. I would never be able to do so, as I feel at least 50
are special for various reasons."

His latest passion is to collect the small snatches of music that Mukesh has
sung for various films, sometimes unaccompanied, that do not feature in any
albums. "In the movie Priya, for example, he sings an entire song accompanying
himself just with his harmonium, which I have never encountered in any album.
Likewise, in Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, he sings single stanzas three or
four times."

Chandra has bought himself two VCRs just for this purpose and has reorganised
his whole sleep pattern just to manage the late night recording sessions. "I am
living for the day when I will be able to complete my collection," he says
cheerfully, sipping coffee, with the strains of yet another Mukesh oldie playing
softly in the background.


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A rare song: Lata, Rafi, and Mukesh together:

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Post  Rashmun Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:19 am

Raj Kapoor and Motilal in one song:

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Post  Rashmun Wed May 16, 2018 9:05 am



This is actually a Mukesh song, not a Kishore Kumar song.
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Post  Rashmun Wed May 16, 2018 3:34 pm

this is Mukesh singing; it is a Mukesh-Lata duet (some other singers are being credited erroneously by the uploader of this song in youtube ):

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Post  Rashmun Wed May 16, 2018 3:35 pm

another Mukesh song:

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