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| ashu |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 08:54 AM
The legendary Nepali singer (of yesteryears) Fattey Man -- who is 60-something
years of age -- is putting on a concert this coming Saturday at
Birendra International Convention Center
in Banesewor in Kathmandu.
Come one and come all to watch/hear the old maestro sing such
heartbreaking numbers as:
"Marna baru garo hoon.na"
and
"Yesto pani hoon.do raicha
jindagi ma kahilay kahi"
And more and more.
BTW, those who want to catch Fattey Man singing great bhajans can come
hear him live at Pashupati's Kirateswor Temple on every Poornima (Full Moon)
ko evening.
Pashupati's Kirateswor Temple -- with its magnificent court-yard -- is the best place
in Kathmandu to watch/hear (traditional and ) classical music -- as performed for free
by some of Nepal's best young and old vocalists and players of harmonium, tabla,
flute and so on.
I have always had a great time everytime I've been there, and would greatly recommend the experience to all of you.
See you at Fattey Man's concert this Saturday evening.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| sparsha |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 01:00 PM
If I were in Nepal, I definately would have attended this program.
I have always admired Fattey Man. He is a great singer. I would love to know how was the concert?.
Besides his number of bhajans and San.nani ko galai.ma kaalo kothi raichha....., ghintang ma ghintang madalai bajyo...I always enjoy Yasto pani hundo raichha...and Marna baru garho hunna....no matter how many times have I listened the songs before.
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| deep |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 01:06 PM
*BTW, those who want to catch Fattey Man singing great bhajans can come
hear him live at Pashupati's Kirateswor Temple on every Poornima (Full Moon)
ko evening. *
Aba next time ghar janda Kirateswor nagai ke hunthyo? Yaratra ta yastai re chha...dekhi haliyo...aba parat.tra suspense ma chha...yaso ek dui wata meetha bhajan sunda...bhajan ko bhajan, manoranjan ko manoranjan pani hune ani....parat.tra ko prata.tra...ta chhadai chha.
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| ekadesh |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 02:16 PM
Fattey Man?
Fatteh Maan?
Take your pick.
But in concern that our venerable singer not be homologized with the english "fatty man" (a rap singer BTW), I think the latter would be politic.
Besides, to my ear the second choice seems more consistent with the acutal Nepali pronunciation of his name.
Different spellings, same voice though, which I guess is the more essential point here....
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| nuts |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 02:38 PM
exactly, ekadesh. I was also wonderin wy the name sounded kindda unusual. me too, thinks that it should have been *fatteh man* instead of fattey man . anyways..i hope theres a nice turnout that day. Would have loved to be a part of it .
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| Paschim |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 10:07 PM
ashu, great news on the great fatteman - I'll try my best to be there at the birendra sava griha this saturday...his "sannani ko gaala ma kaalo kothi raichha, najar-nai tirmir garaune" is cool, as is his classic, of course, "marna baru garho hunna, timro maya maarnai sakina".
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| ashu |
Posted
on 04-Aug-02 11:23 PM
Sorry guys about that weird spelling of Fatteh Maan.
My apologies to you fellow-fans.
Paschim,
Tickets are going very fast.
If you wish, I can get one for you.
Let me know.
Call me at home when you get here.
We have a whole gang -- old and new friends -- going to attend this concert.
Meantime, I have managed to convince Pramod Mishra -- he of TND fame -- to extend his stay in Kathmandu by a week in part to attend this once-in-a-lifetime concert.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| fan phatteman |
Posted
on 10-Aug-02 11:53 PM
Legendary singer re-lives his charisma with bhule-birshe numbers
By Perina Pathak
KATHMANDU, Aug 10
The audience comprising people of all ages clapped, and the air at otherwise calm evening in the hall of Birendra International Convention Centre was filled by voices of people from all wakes of life as they shouted in unison: "Once More, Once More…!"
The legendary singer enthralled all the audience with his evergreen songs of the yesteryears. Appearing after a lull of several years, at the capital on Saturday, renowned singer Phatteman, 67 appeared as firm as in his heydays.
The songs ranged from all time-hit numbers like Yesto pani hundo raichha to Marna baru gharo hunna to rato ra chandra surya and manai khayo dadelole to sannaniko galaima kalo kothi raichha.
As Phatteman Rajbhadari—as he is officially called, though not my his fans—started singing at the jam-packed hall his "bhule-birshe" old Nepali numbers, the audience just listened. Everytime his fingers pressed the harmonium keys, there was a pin-drop silence, which would later be followed by a thunderous applause and whistles.
When the legendary songster started the concert with religious bhajans, the audience welcomed him with whistles and big applause.
The stage was set in a way to compliment his songs. The traditional brick platforms and diyo were the central attractions.
When he sang his new song "Duneya ko mukh herna, Najanmiyakai bhaye hunthyo, janme pani yuhi bela mareko bhaye huntho," people present at the hall clapped for the touching lyric, which seems very realistic and gave vivid picture of human life.
The combination of the senior artist with young emerging new artists and synchronisation of the old and modern musical instruments gave viewers the taste of past and the present. The legend signer sang his songs in the melody of modern musical instruments like Guitar, Keyboard, Octapad and classical instruments like Tabala, Violin, Harmonium and Flute.
Phatteman has sung more than 300 songs in his decades long career but most of his were not recorded.
Phatteman, who is still popular among all teenagers and old people alike, started his career from Radio Nepal. "From my childhood I used to sing bhajans with my father," said Phatteman to The Kathmandu Post last week. "Being a local of Pashupatinath area I used to sing different bhajans, which later became my career."
Not only Bhajans, Phatteman has also sung love, tragic and patriotic songs. His most popular songs were composed during the 60s and 70s. His most popular patriotic song ‘Rato Ra Chandra Surya’, which was written by Gopal Prasad Rimal was recorded in 1971.
Friends of most popular musician and singer Natikaji and Narayan Gopal, Phatteman has received the Gorkha Dakshin Bahu and many other awards.
At the end of the show when he sang "Rato ra chandra surya" all the audience stood up from their seats revering the singer and his most popular patriotic number.
The concert was organised by event nepa-laya, in which Phatteman sang 20 of his most popular numbers. A part of the total income generated by the show is being donated for construction of building for Youth Vision, a social welfare organisation.
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kpost_html/kp_frontpg.htm#Legendary singer re-lives his charisma with bhule-birshe numbers
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Posted
on 11-Aug-02 12:06 AM
Guys--
Check on nepalisite.com also,
one of the official site for concerts in nepal---
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| Paschim |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 02:21 AM
I left the Birendra Sammelan Kendra last night with a sense of pure pleasure. Gayak Fatteman was magic. Jovial and warm, he won the audience at Namaste, and charmed everyone so completely with his youthful enthusiasm. You couldn't tell that he is really 67. The audience was respectful, and I was surprised to see it being dominated by the young, many women. Most of his songs are older than them, first recorded some 30 years ago or earlier. But they remain classics - "sannani", "marna baru gaarho hunna", "manai ujaad chha, basanta aayera ke bho", "yesto pani hundo raichha", "jungi nishhan". He was assisted by 9 very young and talented violinists, 1 celloist, 3 guitarists, keyboard players, madal and tabla players, all guided impressively by a Juben Mehta looking conductor in the person of Raj Shrestha. Actually the young musicians almost represented our ethnic mosaic - Newar, Bahun, Gurung, Lama, Tharu, Chhetri; women.
Music unites. Artists instill sanity in troubled times. A Palestinian actor is quoted in the latest issue of Time, "If I didn't have theater to turn to, I'd also be carrying a gun and shooting people". Fatteman yesterday echoed hope with his vigorous renaissance of timeless melody. For me, the evening was just perfect coming as it did after an exhausting, day-long brainstrorming on dry policy matters of the state. In Fatteman's songs, I found natural sanctuary.
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| p |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 03:00 AM
Phatteman Rajbhandari
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| ashu |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 09:25 AM
The concert last night started slowly, and picked up speed after Phatteman took off his cap to reveal his shiny, bald pate. :-)
A really great show, altogether. Phatteman deserves every ounce of respect and love and admiration he got from the audience last night.
The show, transmitted live on NTV, went on for almost three hours.
One of my good friends Aavas Fuyal -- a musician who prefers to remain hidden and quiet -- deserves a big applause for arranging the music last night. It was he who brought all the musicians -- the conductor, the guitarists, the violinists, the tabla-players, the flute-player et al -- together from Narayan Gopal Music Academy for the last several weeks to practice hard to create last night's enchantment.
Well done, Aavas!!
Tickets were priced at Rs, 1000, Rs. 500 and Rs. 200. My sources tell me that Phatteman's royalty was capped at Rs. 100,000, with the rest of the money
donated to Youth Vision, an NGO that works to rehabilitate drug abusers in Nepal.
Three comments:
a) When going into the hall, each audience member was handed a 10-rupee packet
each of JoJo Chow Chow (noodles), and that created a kind of 'cheap' impression. Now, one can easily imagine listening to Phatteman with a glass of vintage wine or something 'appropriate-to-the-occasion' like that, but, come on, while munching
JoJo Chow Chow in the concert hall? What were the organisers thinking?
b) Why do Nepalis not dress well for formal occasions? I was surprised to find some of the organizers in shorts, T-shirts and sandals. Sure, I didn't expect them to be all decked up in in tux, bow-tie and all that, but surely dressing well -- especially when you are the organizers -- goes a long way to show respect the artist you are honoring in public, hoina ra?
c) Those of us who have listened ad infinitum ad nauseum to Manjul -- the poet who was the MC last night -- on other occasions find him too gooliy, too sugary yesaI-pani, and he was way too gooliyo last night. A few Manjul-esque poetic metaphors can be tolerated, but too many of them in succession can be boringly predictable. Then again, Manjul is an irrepresible soul -- and I like his energy, sense of fun and the laughter he brings forth.
d) I loved the stage set-up. The Brick Factory that donated the bricks to create a mandap-like stage -- complete with flickering diyos -- deserves praise and so does the stage designer from the ad agency MaxPro. Well done, guys
e) All in all, Phatteman's was a damn good concert - an eminently unforgettable
evening.
Now, if only Bacchu Kailash dai -- oh yes, he's alive and well and remains a great, well-read conversationalist -- would agree just once to do a concert of his songs, that would
be so great.
Then again, maybe I'll bring this up with Bacchu Dai later this week when I'll meet him
for dinner. [Are you reading this, Pushkar-ji?]
oohi
"Phatteman's song 'yesto pani' helped me get through a difficult phase of life once"
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| p |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 09:47 AM
phatteman concert
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| what? |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 01:43 PM
>Why do Nepalis not dress well for formal occasions? I was surprised to find some of
>the organizers in shorts, T-shirts ........
Kattus, there too
Ashu??
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 06:23 PM
Reading news about Phatteman and his concert was encouraging.
I often wonder how will the future generation think of us, will they wonder at
the fact that we lived in the era when Narayan Gopal was still around, when
Ambar Gurung, Phatteman and Bachchukailash were still around, when Udit
was singing lokgeet for us, just the way I wonder at those people who have
good memory of listening to Rafi live.
I have hope for future.I am sure our future generation will be more
creative, and developed. A lot of new generation singers are
promising. But I have some sad experiences too. I think I was listening
to a singer (I think Rajan Eeshan?) some months ago, his songs were
good, and I listened to them repeatedly, but sadly I later figured out
that the song I so much liked had the music similar to one Hindi famous
song. It was sad. We love creative work. We have seen repeatedly that
only creative songs, like Malaai nasodha kahaa dukhchha ghaau, have
survived, and stolen music have failed to withstand the test of time.
I am proud of those pop singers who are working hard , doing new
experiments of mixing music, and I think they know why Phatteman
despite his relatively few recorded songs evokes such emotion from
listeners.Yet, it is important that music critics in KTM needs to reward
creativity, and discourage mere emulation, so that they goad our new
generation to the right path.I am not a critic of music, I am a mere
listener, but I hope this much from our new generation of singers.
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| Nepe |
Posted
on 11-Aug-02 11:22 PM
It feels rewarding to hear about the concert of saha-swar samrat Fatte Man and to see our dear friends filled with positive oorja by the concert. Like Biswoji, I feel encouraged too. It reminds that we are not finished off. We will survive. We have so many things to inherit and cherish. Despite our physical poverty, our older generation have created enough wealth of art for us to inherit and live on.
I want to take this opportunity to say something I have been reluctant to say about our new generation of sangeet-karmi.haru, especially the Pop-groups. I do not want to discourage them. But honestly, I have not come across a single song that I can call a masterpiece of Nepali music (with admission that my tastes and knowledge of pop-songs are limited !). We have talented singers and composers, but most of the songs they are singing are poorly written. Only a good script makes a good movie. Likewise, most of the time, only a well-written lyrics makes a good song. The secret of the success of swar-samrat Narayan Gopal is more in his discerning ability to choose good songs than his voice itself, in my humble opinion. But I am hopeful that we will be able to see new Phatte Man and Bachchu Kailash and Narayan Gopal of our generation soon. I am waiting for many Nava-swar samrat.haru.
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| mangal |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 12:51 AM
I wonder if there are any plan to bring his concert in CDs, (also in VCDs)? Those of us who could not attend the concert would then also get chance to hear his songs. Narayan Gopal's 'Swarnim Sandhya' cassettes (after the concert) was huge hit and sometimes I liked them more than his originals. Because, songs are in good sound quality, the old original versions of which are in bad sound qualities.
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| kancho |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 06:26 AM
Not gonna say much about the show since Paschim and others have already have written about it. I really enjoyed listening to him sing all those classic songs. I was surprised to find out that he is 67 but his voice still had that "thing."
Sannani ko Galai ma, Banai khayo Dadhelo le, Marna baru garho hooncha (sung twice), Ghanghanti Madal (duet), yesto pani hoondo riacha were the ones I really enjoyed listening. The last song (which was not shown on NTV) "Rato ra Chandra Surye" was excellent! Ghankiyeko thiyo. Unlike Ashu, I didn't mind getting a JoJo noodle. :)
Manjul's (MC) line "Darshakharu, tapain Garmi mahina ko chiso shower hunuhuncha" reminded me of Paschim's line "Timi mero sano mutu ko thulo tukra hau." :)
Paschim, if you are reading this and are still in Kathmandu, I'd like to meet you w/ few other Sajhaites. Kaso?
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| kancho |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 06:26 AM
Not gonna say much about the show since Paschim and others have already have written about it. I really enjoyed listening to him sing all those classic songs. I was surprised to find out that he is 67 but his voice still had that "thing."
Sannani ko Galai ma, Banai khayo Dadhelo le, Marna baru garho hooncha (sung twice), Ghanghanti Madal (duet), yesto pani hoondo riacha were the ones I really enjoyed listening. The last song (which was not shown on NTV) "Rato ra Chandra Surye" was excellent! Ghankiyeko thiyo. Unlike Ashu, I didn't mind getting a JoJo noodle. :)
Manjul's (MC) line "Darshakharu, tapain Garmi mahina ko chiso shower hunuhuncha" reminded me of Paschim's line "Timi mero sano mutu ko thulo tukra hau." :)
Paschim, if you are reading this and are still in Kathmandu, I'd like to meet you w/ few other Sajhaites. Kaso?
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| kancho |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 06:26 AM
Not gonna say much about the show since Paschim and others have already have written about it. I really enjoyed listening to him sing all those classic songs. I was surprised to find out that he is 67 but his voice still had that "thing."
Sannani ko Galai ma, Banai khayo Dadhelo le, Marna baru garho hooncha (sung twice), Ghanghanti Madal (duet), yesto pani hoondo riacha were the ones I really enjoyed listening. The last song (which was not shown on NTV) "Rato ra Chandra Surye" was excellent! Ghankiyeko thiyo. Unlike Ashu, I didn't mind getting a JoJo noodle. :)
Manjul's (MC) line "Darshakharu, tapain Garmi mahina ko chiso shower hunuhuncha" reminded me of Paschim's line "Timi mero sano mutu ko thulo tukra hau." :)
Paschim, if you are reading this and are still in Kathmandu, I'd like to meet you w/ few other Sajhaites. Kaso?
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