Topic started by Jay (@ 203.124.234.166) on Sat Jan 11 01:06:04 EST 2003.
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The success story of Udit Narayan.
Here is the success story of the great indian singer, Udit Narayan.
Just improve pronunciation in Tamil Sir, you are a great Singer.
No image-managed guise, conceit, pretence or airs. Just a whole lot of talent and a musical repertoire carefully shaped over the years - that's
Udit Narayan, the humblest yet the most gifted singer in the Hindi music industry today, well a popular name in south india too.
Like all success stories go, Udit Narayan has a past of sheer toil and hard work preceding him.
Born in a small Nepal-India border town to a farmer father and singer mother, he triggered different hopes and expectations in his parents. While his father willed him to study and choose a steady vocation, his mother believed that singing was what he was cut out for.
Udit's own aspirations were obviously music-inclined, and soon after passing out of school,
he joined the Katmandu radio station as a folk singer and sang in the Mythali language as well as in
Nepalese. But all along, the urge to belong out there in tinsel town was strong.
After about 10 years as a singer with Katmandu radio, in 1978, he received a scholarship in music from the Indian embassy. And that's what triggered his real journey of perseverance and toil.
He moved to Mumbai and trained in classical music at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan for close to eight years.
And all along, he approached music directors in the hope of finding the right prospects.
His first break came when music director Rajesh Roshan offered him a small assignment in the film
Unnees Bees, where he was to sing with the legendary Mohammed
Rafi, his childhood icon. Udit also sang for R D Burman in the film
Bade Dilwala, but the the assignments being rather small, his work went unnoticed.
Remains the question of his first-big-break. It came when the now established, then struggling
Anand-Milind recommended Udit Narayan's name to filmmaker Mansoor Khan who was on the look out for a fresh voice to suit debutant Aamir Khan in the film
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, (Pahla nasha). Udit seemed like the ideal choice and was signed up.
The film went on to become a blockbuster and with it the Udit Narayan had arrived. And like they say, there has been no looking
back.
He continues to record for the most sought after of music directors and with his original and versatile voice delivers a remarkable hit eight out of ten times. With scores of hits, awards and a very rewarding career behind him,
Udit can now sit back and watch the progress of his budding singer-son, Aditya
Narayan.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Mission Kashmir, due to hit screens later this month features two mellow duets,
Chupke se sun and Socho ke jheelon ka, in the voices of Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik. A rollicking Udit is back in 2001 with such hits as
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Kasoor and One 2 Ka 4. With strings of chartbusters up his sleeve, it remains to be seen whether the singer weaves his magic this time round as
well.
Udit is a well known name in south india too. He was first introduced in Tamil by the great music director of india, A R Rahman in
Shankar's, Kadhalan, the song, Kadhalikkum pennin. The song was by Udit Narayan and S P
Balasubramaniam. Then came a string of offers from Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films.
Udit Narayan has worked with most of the music composers in south, like A R Rahman, Deva, Vidhyasagar, Keeravani, Mani Sharma, S A Rajkumar and many
others. Though his songs become big hits in the regional languages, he has been accused of wrong and ill pronunciations, and killing the
language, if that the case, then even the music directors are to be blamed for it.
His son Aditya Narayan is also an upcoming singer and has sung for A R Rahman in Rangeela and Taal (the child voice).
Source- http://www.indya.com/" target="_blank"> indya.com Music
Udit Narayan's hit song list in Tamil:
Vaendaam Vaendaam - Vaseegara
Ele machi machi - Anbae Sivam
Ithunundu Mutthathila - Dhool
Padhinettu vayasil - Villain
Kadhal pisasae - Run
Allu Allu - Bhagavathy
Achchacho punnagai - Shahjahan
Haiyyo paththikichchu - Rhythm
Eeshwara - Kannedhirae Thondrinal
Sonia Sonia - Rakshakan
Kuluvaalilae mottu - Muthu
Kadhalikkum pennin - Kadhalan
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- From: C~P (@ 202.9.148.166)
on: Sat Jan 18 05:47:23 EST 2003
Sam,
do u know tamil by ne chance?? .... if u do u wudnt be supporting udit narayan (when it comes to tamil) ..... his pronounciation is horrible
"kaathal pisaasey kaathal pisaasey etho sowkiyam parUvailley"
when it comes to hindi i may agree with u.....but "ppl getting jealous of Udit's tamil singing" can be sent to Ripleys!
btw.....are u by ne chance sayin that Udit narayan is better than nebody in tamil?? .... u can deature in Ripley's as well!!
- From: C~P (@ 202.9.148.166)
on: Sat Jan 18 05:48:31 EST 2003
oops....typo..
deature=feature ! :)
- From: Sam (@ 208.134.115.240)
on: Sat Jan 18 15:02:55 EST 2003
C~P:
yes i know some tamil. udit's pronunciation is very good. thatz why tamil people accepted his songs and made them big hits. he is not native sounding coz he is northie but his tamil is good enuf. "kadhal pisase" is huge hit. bcoz of dat song Madhavan became famous in tamil movies. Udit's tamil songs all r hits so he is betta than all other tamil singers. big stars like Rajnikant, Vijay etc stand in line in front of Udit's house begging him to sing one song for them. dat way their movie also will become hit. You should be on Ripley's coz u r one human who can't accept the truth.
- From: Youth (@ 210.186.61.43)
on: Sun Jan 19 05:09:23 EST 2003
Sam, you should be writing screenplays for comedy movies.
In fact, I think you will be do a better job doing that for Hindi movies.
At least then, you will take your trash here and combine with the trash there and make a complete fool of yourself and Hindi movies and songs.
Not that they need any of your help in that area, but at least it will save us some valuable cyber space.
If you know Tamil, then I know martian language.
- From: dj_ron (@ 66.185.85.76)
on: Sun Jan 19 08:45:42 EST 2003
he has good voice
- From: C~P (@ 202.9.149.210)
on: Sun Jan 19 11:22:25 EST 2003
Sam,
"yes i know some tamil. udit's pronunciation is very good. thatz why tamil people accepted his songs and made them big hits."
LOL!
"he is not native sounding coz he is northie but his tamil is good enuf. "kadhal pisase" is huge hit. bcoz of dat song Madhavan became famous in tamil movies."
LOL!
"Udit's tamil songs all r hits so he is betta than all other tamil singers. big stars like Rajnikant, Vijay etc stand in line in front of Udit's house begging him to sing one song for them. dat way their movie also will become hit. "
LOL!
"You should be on Ripley's coz u r one human who can't accept the truth."
LOL!
replied the SAM way! :) ..... gosh .... u learn to accept facts .... Udit's tamil pronounciation is good???!!! .... u are th only person who has such a view..... i know better tamil than u .... so as regards the pronounciation,for MY(!) sake pls stop arguing about that.....just coz his songs are a hit u say he is better than the other singers around??? if RK goes begging behind Udit i promise ill not be a RK fan any more!! :) ..... btw Udit made Madhavan famous??? .... Madhavan is famous coz of his looks and not coz of Kaathal Pisaasey....gosh!
- From: av (@ 132.216.66.43)
on: Sun Jan 19 13:51:46 EST 2003
^!^^:
Just wondering...are you calling Sadhana Sargham an ordinary singer. She is an extremely well-talented, dedicated singer with an exceptionally melodious and soothing voice. It is no coincidence that Ilayaraaja, ARR, Vidyasaagar have specifically chosen her for their compositions. I feel they should use her voice for devotional music and semiclassical tunes as well. She is a very well-trained classical singer and her private albums in North India are excellent.
- From: av (@ 132.216.66.43)
on: Sun Jan 19 13:52:23 EST 2003
typo- well-talented should be well-trained :-)
- From: jenny (@ 195.93.73.7)
on: Sun Jan 19 15:08:37 EST 2003
good voice but pronociation problem
- From: dev (@ 63.206.195.166)
on: Mon Jan 20 10:20:47 EST 2003
I agree he has a big pronunciation problem. It's hard to listen to his songs because of it, from "Kaadhal Pisaasae" to the recent Anbae Sivam "Elo Machi." His voice is different and good, though. But he SHOULD be required to learn Tamil.
I remember the Hindi guys made fun of SPB and guys like him for mispronouncing a single Hindi word in one song. They don't accept the butchering of Hindi in Bollywood. Why should we accept the butchering of Tamil in Kollywood?
Many other singers -- like Sadhana Sargam -- have improved their Tamil pronunciation. But Udit never does. He doesn't even care to.
- From: Sam (@ 208.134.115.240)
on: Mon Jan 20 17:44:08 EST 2003
i'm very busy. i'll return in a few dayz.
- From: gehendra gurung (@ )
on: Fri Aug 8 10:39:38 EDT 2003
SIE UDIT,
i am not from tamil i am from hk NEPALESE, your golden voice has made always crazy to all of us ,when we watch hindi movie and IF you have not sang on it very hard to find 100% entertainment, i guess your voice has made several hindi films hits as wel nepalese films hits spr hits , for this reason god always makes you busy on singing with your absolutely extra one golden voice , YHANKYOU ENDED
- From: Martin Sheehan (@ 195.188.191.87)
on: Fri Aug 8 11:21:31 EDT 2003
Udit(ch) Narayan is as good a singer in Tamil as Bhavatharini would have been in Swahili. This kathhal pisAsu needs to treated like one, a pisAsu.
- From: vimal (@ 203.197.138.167)
on: Fri Aug 8 14:23:41 EDT 2003
udit -mostly used by vidyasagar.
sadhana-introduced by him
- From: waseem (@ )
on: Sun Aug 24 07:50:20 EDT 2003
udit narayan is the best singer for indian music industry. good look
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