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| Sad demise of two legends of India | | | BALBIR RAM | 10/31/2011 10:39:50 PM |
| Recently, the nation had to bear the irreparable loss due to the sad demise of its two great legends-Jagjit Singh and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. Both unbeatable masters in their fileds, brought laurels to the nation by their work. Jagjit Singh, born on 8th February, 1941, was a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, composer, music director, activist and entrepreneur. Known as "The Ghazal King", he gained achievement together with his wife, another renowned Indian Ghazal singer Chitra Singh, as the first successful husband-wife duo act in the history of recorded Indian music. Together, they are considered to be the pioneers of modern Ghazal singing and regarded as most successful recording artistes outside the realm of Indian film music. Their combination album on HMV comprising music from films- Arth and Saath Saath holds the record of being India's largest selling combination album of all time. He had sung in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Sindhi and Nepali languages. He was awarded India's third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2003 for his contribution to the fields of music and culture.
Credited for the revival and popularity of Ghazal, Jagjit Singh is considered to be the most successful ghazal singer and composer of all times. He is the only composer and singer to have composed and recorded songs written by former Prime Minister - Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee. Jagjit Singh also held the distinction of being India's most prolific live performer ever having performed almost 300 concerts at New Delhi's Siri Fort Auditorium alone since it opened in 1982, apart from regular performances in all major cities of India and concert tours around the world.
Jagjit and Chitra were griefed, when their only son, Vivek (19), died in a road accident on 28 July 1990, after which Chitra Singh quit singing. He died on 10th October, 2011 in Mumbai, where he underwent a surgery after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Jagjit Singh is survived by his wife Chitra Singh, with whom he had produced several record breaking albums. Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, fondly called "Tiger" has been an Indian Cricket player and the Captain of the Indian Cricket team. He has to his credit the honour of having been the 9th Nawab of Pataudi, a small Princely State which presently is a part of the Haryana state of India after his father died in the year 1952.
He was born on the 5th of January 1941 in Bhopal to the 8th Nawab of Patuadi, Iftikhar Ali Khan. He was one of the best educated Indian cricketers. He spent his formative years at Welham Boys' School in Dehradun and then went to England like his father to study at Lockers Park Prep School in Hertfordshire, Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Mansur made his Test Cricket debut in the year 1961 with a Test match played against England at Delhi. Very soon after beginning his Test Cricket career, he lost the vision in his right eye due to a car accident. In the year 1962, he was named the Captain of the Indian Cricket team. Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, also known as Nawab Pataudi Jr., is considered to be one of the most successful Captains that the Indian Cricket team has ever got in its history. He played for India, Delhi, Hyderabad, Oxford University and Sussex teams as Right-hand batsman and Right-arm medium bowler.
He led the Indian team in 40 Test matches, out of which 12 had been won by the team. Although the winning percentage was not very high, he is best known for instilling the winning confidence into the members of hitherto low-down Indian team, and boosting their morale that led them to further victories. He is credited as the first Indian Cricket captain that got the team its much needed first Test victory at an overseas ground. This victory was achieved in a Test match played against New Zealand in the year 1968. In his Test Cricket career, Mansur Ali Khan played 46 Test matches in which he scored a total of 2793 runs with 6 centuries and 16 half-centuries. His Batting Average was 34.91 runs and Highest Score was 203 runs not-out. He played his last Test match against West Indies at Mumbai in the year 1975.
. For his extra-ordinary performance as a Cricket player for India, Mansur Ali Khan had been conferred upon the Arjuna Award in the year 1964, and was named the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the year 1968. Having completed his 70 year mark earlier in January this year, Nawab Pataudi was keeping consistently unwell, and was hospitalized for lung infection and departed for heavenly abode on 22nd of September.
In 1969, Pataudi got married to top Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore . They had three children Saif Ali Khan, Saba Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan. Both Saif and Soha followed their mother's footsteps in films while Saba became a jewellery designer. Pataudi will be remembered as the "Tiger" who preyed with one eye. |
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