and greatest hits of Lata recorded for the film Madhumati (1958). Lata had bagged her first Filmfare best female playback award for this song.
Trupti declares with pride that she has recorded the album not to project her soprano range and resonate with Lata but to mark 60 years of Lata's successful playback singing.
“Lata got her first major break exactly 60 years ago with the song Dil Mera Toda for the film Majboor in 1948 and there was no looking back for her. My album is a rare musical tribute on this occasion,” informs Trupti.
The unforgettable songs in the album include Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh (which is also the title of the album), Baiyaan Na Dharo O Balma, Aaja Re Pardesi, O Sajna Barkha Bahar, Ab to Hai Tumse, Ajee Ruthkar, Ja Re Jare Ude Ja Panchhi, Nain Na Barse Rim Jhim, Aap Ki Nazron Ne Samjha, Yeh Samaa Samaa Hai, Baahon Mein Chale Aa, Aaj Phir Jeene Ki, Humne Dekhi Hain Un, Lag Ja Gale, Aa Jaane Jaan and Hum The Jinke Sahare.
Trupti has delivered the songs at her level best under her own discrimination and supervision.
“Even though Lata's songs are inherent in me, I had to make strenuous efforts at awarding ample justice to not only Lata's ornamental subtleties but also to the immortal compositions of genius directors like Salil Choudhury, Madan Mohan, Shankar-Jaikishan and others. Now it's left to the listeners to rate my performance. Though I have grown up emulating Lata, I have maintained my own characteristic style of singing in this album,” observes Trupti.
Trupti's dalliance with Lata Mangeshkar's songs started at a very tender age when she used to pick up the nuances of Lata's rendering styles from Hindi film music programmes on her own over her father's radio set like a clandestine affair.
Since childhood, she started cultivated hard to achieve resonance with Lata Mangeshkar's songs by virtue of her retentive memory and self-assessment. Not only in school but during her five years of education at Salipur College also, she became very popular as a gifted singer. She used to be a cynosure during college cultural programmes and earned huge accolades by rendering Lata numbers impeccably.
“My love for Lata songs developed almost naturally and instantaneously ever since music fell on my ears. As a rural custom, my father used to put the radio on all the time and whatever I have learnt till now, be it Hindi or Odia songs, is a result of this sub-conscious and intuitive listening to the radio. Since a very young age when I was yet to join school, this medium has solely helped me in building a huge database of Odia and Hindi songs in my mind,” says Trupti.
This audio CD is worth a collector's item as the song listing in the inlay card has been provided in a very detailed manner with all particulars such as lyricist, music director as well as name and year of release of the film which includes the song. The album, dubbed and mixed at G.G. Studio, Cuttack by recordist Pintu Mishra, has been produced by Ratnakar Rout and released by J. J. Cassette, a Cuttack-based music label.
“This is our first release in Hindi on an experimental basis. We think it has an open market and listeners will acknowledge the work. If the response is satisfactory, we may release more titles in Hindi,” says the producer of the album.
Trupti's earlier solo releases include two Oriya Rabindrasangeet albums, Hey Jibananatha and Tume Sandhyara Meghamala of 12 soul-stirring songs each. While the former compilation is exclusively from the devotional songs published in the poet's magnum opus, The Gitanjali, the latter one is a collection of love songs.
She has also to her credit a cover version recording of 8 old Odia evergreen film songs of the 60s as a rare musical tribute to the non-Odia legendary singers such as Lata Mangeshkar, Nirmala Mishra and Sandhya Mukherjee who created history in Odia film music by lending their golden, immaculate voices to Odia lyrics during the nostalgic era. She has also lent voice in some Odia albums, modern and devotional, and performed live on various prestigious platforms.
Adorned with a melodious voice and tonal shades, Trupti, who hails from Garadpur village in Kendrapara district of Odisha, is trained under the tutelage of Pandit Gopal Panda. She has also training in light music from eminent singer Subash Dash.
A graduate with Physics Honours, Trupti is doing MCA from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack.
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