Mention Asha Bhosale, and which figure do you visualise? A lissome vibrant passionate pixie, right? Yes, there is something unmistakably and eternally youthful in her voice. Why, she herself forever dresses funkily. Surely not as a great-grandmother would. Rather, her style would forever give a complex to the young generation.
Considered the voice of the 'hot', sizzling numbers, actually she has tried every genre, bhajan to ghazal to the classical, the raag-based to the folk. Her non-filmy songs are a wonder, too. Her actual stage performances, until recently, are precisely that, that is, performances. Yes, her voice 'acts', too. Remember "acchcha, ji, main hari" or the calm reassurance of "dukh or sukh ke raste bane hai"?
No wonder, she is at her pulsating peak with music directors such as O.P. Nayyar and R.D.Burman. The lilt in her voice came alive when she sang under their direction. Yes, she impersonates through her enunciation the "zumka gira" naughtiness the best even for an otherwise 'serious' master magician such as Madan Mohan. Yes, her ghazals can embellish an Umrao Jaan, and Asha's classical renditions are a joy, too.
Here is wishing a 'Happy Hundred' to this nonagenarian on the occasion of her first step in the nineties club!
Pratima@ We are indeed lucky that we could hear among other great singers the ever ebullient Asha!
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