Channel: Voice from the past

Category: Music

Tags: geeta balianand math novellata mangeshkarhemant kumarbankim chandra chattopadyayaanand mathanand math 1952 songsraga bahiraviindiavande mataramnational song of india

Description: This epic, soul-stirring composition, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is a poem from one of his acclaimed novel Anand Math. Here, in the cinematic version of the novel, the song is based on Raga Bhairavi while the traditional and the official tune based on Raga Desh is believed to be composed by Jadunath Bhattacharya : All over the internet Internet, I couldn't found a decent quality of this National Heritage. Here I've tried my best to restore the video and audio quality (The film released in 1952 is now under the public domain and hence out of copyright) : Find other versions of this great composition here (1) Full Poem - youtube.com/watch?v=_2-GTLcy65M (2) Bhimsen Joshi - youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZ4WTusjc4 (3) AR Rehman - youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZ4WTusjc4 (4) Pictorial representation - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_rare_painting_of_our_national_song,_Vande_Mataram,_published_in_1923.jpg