Marathi Abhimaangeet
| "Marathi Abhimaangeet" | ||||||||
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| Song by Numerous artists | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | Suresh Bhat | |||||||
| Composer(s) | Kaushal Inamdar | |||||||
| Language | Marathi | |||||||
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Marathi Abhimaangeet is a song written in Marathi by the noted poet Suresh Bhat and set to music by well known composer Kaushal Inamdar.
The composition is probably one of its kind with over 450 artistes having lent their voice. The song was released under the name Marathi Abhimaangeet in Thane on 27 February 2010, on the occasion of Marathi Bhasha Diwas.
The Marathi Abhimaangeet has been sung by 112 established singers and a chorus of 356 upcoming singers. It has been recorded across 3 studios in Mumbai, Chennai and Thane with 12 sound engineers and 65 musicians. It is a very melodious composition which aims to reconcile every Marathi-speaking individual to the beauty of the language. More than 2500 accomplished singers and musicians have directly or indirectly contributed towards it.
Suresh Bhat is a noted Marathi poet. Suresh Bhat loved Maharashtra and Marathi language very deeply. He made the entire Maharashtra his own, and devoted himself towards Marathi poetry. He had special liking for cities like Mumbai and Pune. He proudly carried the roots of the Maharashtrian soil as ornaments on the body. This immense love and pride towards the state and its language gave rise to a wonderful composition now popularly known as 'Marathi Abhimaan Geet'.
Kaushal Inamdar noticed the diminishing respect for the Marathi language in its own motherland, Maharashtra. He came across many incidents where he experienced secondary treatment meted out to his mother-tongue Marathi, in Mumbai, which is supposed to the heartland of Marathi speaking people. On his blog Music and Noise he particularly mentions an incident where he was mistreated in a plush south Mumbai retail chain, because he chose to speak in his mother-tongue. A chance conversation with a friend working for a radio station made Inamdar embark on the colossal journey. Asked why the channel did not play Marathi songs, Inamdar was surprised to learn it was their policy not to. He was further dumbfounded on learning that the bosses felt Marathi songs were downmarket. He asked his friend whether the channel had any such policy not to play Tamil songs in Chennai, or Kannada songs in Bangalore.
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