{"id":8,"date":"2011-12-03T16:44:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T00:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2021-08-04T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T22:40:20","slug":"jitendra-abhisheki","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Jitendra Abhisheki"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jitendra

Jitendra Abhisheki
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\u266b Raga Kaushi Kanada<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u266b Raga Vikram Bhairav<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u266b Raga Swanandi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u266b Konkani Song<\/strong><\/a>
\n[AIR Mumbai, c. 1965, Composer: Jitendra Abhisheki, Lyric: B.B. Borkar]<\/p>\n

\u266b Raga Dhanakoni Kalyan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u266b Raga Paraj <\/strong><\/a> [Goa, 1985]<\/p>\n

\u266b Bhajan <\/strong><\/a> [Goa, 1985]<\/p>\n

\u266b Bhairavi – Babul mora<\/em><\/strong><\/a> [Goa, 1985]<\/p>\n

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About Jitendra Abhisheki<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The tiny ward Mangeshi in the village of Priol takes its name after Mangesh, an epithet of Lord Shiva. It is known for its iconic, eponymous temple. Mangeshi\u2019s cachet does not derive solely from its historical and religious significance. It has long nourished aspirants in music and dance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dinanath Mangeshkar was born here and grew up around the temple courtyard. His daughters Lata and Asha are known worldwide. As we saw earlier, Kesarbai Kerkar\u2019s earliest stirrings in music can be traced to the bhajans she absorbed in Mangeshi as a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jitendra Abhisheki was born in Mangeshi in a family of priests charged with officiating at the temple. Abhisheki\u2019s father, Balubuwa, was a pandit<\/em> and a keertankar<\/em> who passed on his love of Sanskrit and music to the young Jitendra.<\/p>\n

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Abhisheki\u2019s formal instruction in music began under Girijabai Kelekar from the neighbouring village of Bandoda (sister of Jyotsna Bhole, the famous Marathi stage singer and actress). After imbibing the essentials, he left for Bombay to take taleem<\/em> under Azmat Hussein Khan, a master vocalist affiliated with Agra, Khurja, and Atrauli gharanas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Abhisheki later enrolled as a disciple of the learned musician and composer, Jagannathbua Purohit \u201cGunidas.\u201d This helped fortify his ragadari<\/em>, performance technique, and amass a wealth of musical compositions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A restless soul and a seeker of all that is sublime and noble in music, Abhisheki\u2019s mind was uncontaminated by narrow dogmas. In the 1960s he journeyed to Allahabad, to the home of the cerebral composer-musician Ramashreya Jha \u201cRamrang.\u201d He learnt several of Jha-sahab\u2019s compositions directly from the composer and made them a fixture in his concerts. These peregrinations in search of musical pearls was a constant theme in Abhisheki\u2019s early life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Abhisheki ranks among the great composers of the 20th century. His creative oeuvre discloses a versatile mind and an agile imagination. He was singlehandedly responsible for the revival of the Marathi drama in the 1960s and 1970s through his brilliant scores for musicals such as Matsyagandha<\/em>, Hey Bandh Reshamache, Katyar Kalzat Ghusli,<\/em> and Yayati Devayani<\/em>, to name a few. Abhisheki\u2019s talent for wrapping melody around the written word is clearly manifest in this body of work. He enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Goa\u2019s poet-laureate Bakibab Borkar, lending music to Bakibab\u2019s verse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The consummate nadayogi<\/em> shuffled off this mortal coil on November 7, 1998 in Pune.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u266b Raga Kaushi Kanada \u266b Raga Vikram Bhairav \u266b Raga Swanandi \u266b Konkani Song [AIR Mumbai, c. 1965, Composer: Jitendra Abhisheki, Lyric: B.B. Borkar] \u266b Raga Dhanakoni Kalyan \u266b Raga Paraj [Goa, 1985] \u266b Bhajan [Goa, 1985] \u266b Bhairavi – Babul mora [Goa, 1985] About Jitendra Abhisheki The tiny ward Mangeshi in the village of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"pp_embeds":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/2292"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parrikar.org\/vpl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}