Showing posts with label Medha Jalota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medha Jalota. Show all posts
I will not sing dukhi songs on New Year's Eve-Anup Jalota
7:40 AM
Anup Jalota will perform on New Year's Eve after 30 years as he tries to keep busy following wife Medha's death
Roshmila Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 30, 2014)
Anup Jalota will perform at a
concert in Toronto on New Year's Eve, his first in 30
years. Like Diwali, Valentine's Day, birthdays and wedding
anniversaries, December 31 was a day to be spent with family, in
particular with his late wife Medha. And no cheque was big enough to
lure him away.
“For the last 15 years I'd neglected my career for Medha whose health was top priority,“ admitted Jalota, recalling how they had brought in 2014 together, in New Jersey.
On November 24, Medha who had undergone a second heart transplant, followed by a kidney transplant, passed away, leaving her husband and 18-year-old son bereft.
Speaking to Mirror just hours before he flew out to Canada, the Bhajan Samrat said: “Our son Aryaman will bring in 2015 with his friends at Princeton University. But tonight, we will spend the evening with 20 of Medha's friends, including Kathak danseuse Uma Dogra and psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria. We will laugh, dance, eat and celebrate Medha."
Jalota who had just finished recording a Nazrul Geeti in Assamese for a private album, confessed that he was trying to keep himself busy because solitude brought along memories of Medha. “Now that I have so much time on my hands I'm going to create some good music. Medha really enjoyed my classical work,“ he mused. “But since New Year is a time for celebration, I'm not going to make people sad with dukhi songs. I'm going to sing Duma dum mast kalandar!“
“For the last 15 years I'd neglected my career for Medha whose health was top priority,“ admitted Jalota, recalling how they had brought in 2014 together, in New Jersey.
On November 24, Medha who had undergone a second heart transplant, followed by a kidney transplant, passed away, leaving her husband and 18-year-old son bereft.
Speaking to Mirror just hours before he flew out to Canada, the Bhajan Samrat said: “Our son Aryaman will bring in 2015 with his friends at Princeton University. But tonight, we will spend the evening with 20 of Medha's friends, including Kathak danseuse Uma Dogra and psychiatrist Anjali Chhabria. We will laugh, dance, eat and celebrate Medha."
Jalota who had just finished recording a Nazrul Geeti in Assamese for a private album, confessed that he was trying to keep himself busy because solitude brought along memories of Medha. “Now that I have so much time on my hands I'm going to create some good music. Medha really enjoyed my classical work,“ he mused. “But since New Year is a time for celebration, I'm not going to make people sad with dukhi songs. I'm going to sing Duma dum mast kalandar!“
Who will I sing Chaudhvin ka chand to now?-Anup Jalota
7:38 AM
On the day of his late wife Medha's memorial service, Anup Jalota remembers the beautiful moments from their 20-year-long honeymoon
Roshmilla Bhattacharya (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 11, 2014)
Twenty years ago Medha
walked into my home with some of Pandit Jasraj's students. A couple of
months later, I learnt that she was single. Tabhi ghanti baji and I
called to invite her for lunch,“ reminisces Anup Jalota. Medha was
hesitant as she didn't know him well but the singer persuaded her.
“During the course of the lunch I proposed to her. She took 10 days to
say yes.“
Explaining his decision, the Bhajan Samrat says that it was Medha's simplicity, their common Punjabi background and love for music that convinced him that she will be his perfect match.
They tied the knot on August 5, 1994, in London, and the two decades that followed were like an extended honeymoon. It was abruptly cut short when Medha passed away on November 24 due to liver failure, following a second heart and liver transplant.
When he had asked to share her life, Medha had explained that she had a heart problem, to which Anup had said that they will fight whatever problems came their way together. “I was totally focused on her health. It even took priority over my career. That was my main job. Today, suddenly, I'm jobless,“ he gets emotional.
Medha was only 59 and wanted to live. Anup had rented a house in New Jersey and arranged for another heart and kidney donor. But Medha did not survive the surgery. “We can create and save a programme in a computer but the button is in God's hand. You can't override his will. She had to go,“ sighs the Padma Shri recipient.
Medha is gone yet she lives on, in their home, where every curtain and every piece of furniture, every tile and even the shower head was picked by the couple together. “No decision was ever taken alone. We had a deal that if any difference of opinion lead to a minor tiff, it had to be sorted out before we went to bed, so that we could wake up the next morning with a smile. In 20 years, there were no fights,“ says Anup.
He goes on to add that despite her health problems Medha loved life and didn't waste a single day. “She was a beautiful woman who loved clothes and was always well dressed. She had impeccable taste and her friends would consult her on what accessories to wear with what. Before we stepped out of our home, she'd ask me to click her picture and share it with her friends and sister,“ he smiles fondly.
Her most beautiful gift to him was son Aryaman who was born in Breach Candy Hospital in 1996. “I always wanted a son and was thrilled. Medha brought him up well and it's because of her that he is studying in Princeton University today,“ Anup says proudly, admitting that while Aryaman too is shattered by the loss, he has been a pillar of strength to him.
In a choked voice he says, “I miss Medha, her companionship. I feel so alone today. Who will I sing Chaudhvin ka chand ho, ya aaftaab ho, jo bhi ho tum khuda ki kasam, laajawab ho to now? It was her favourite song.“
He adds, “I also used to recite a couplet to her--Zindagi se yeh gilla hai mujhe, Tu badi der se mila hai mujhe--which put into words what we both felt in our hearts. But today, I feel that 20 years of love are better than 60 loveless years.“
Explaining his decision, the Bhajan Samrat says that it was Medha's simplicity, their common Punjabi background and love for music that convinced him that she will be his perfect match.
They tied the knot on August 5, 1994, in London, and the two decades that followed were like an extended honeymoon. It was abruptly cut short when Medha passed away on November 24 due to liver failure, following a second heart and liver transplant.
When he had asked to share her life, Medha had explained that she had a heart problem, to which Anup had said that they will fight whatever problems came their way together. “I was totally focused on her health. It even took priority over my career. That was my main job. Today, suddenly, I'm jobless,“ he gets emotional.
Medha was only 59 and wanted to live. Anup had rented a house in New Jersey and arranged for another heart and kidney donor. But Medha did not survive the surgery. “We can create and save a programme in a computer but the button is in God's hand. You can't override his will. She had to go,“ sighs the Padma Shri recipient.
Medha is gone yet she lives on, in their home, where every curtain and every piece of furniture, every tile and even the shower head was picked by the couple together. “No decision was ever taken alone. We had a deal that if any difference of opinion lead to a minor tiff, it had to be sorted out before we went to bed, so that we could wake up the next morning with a smile. In 20 years, there were no fights,“ says Anup.
He goes on to add that despite her health problems Medha loved life and didn't waste a single day. “She was a beautiful woman who loved clothes and was always well dressed. She had impeccable taste and her friends would consult her on what accessories to wear with what. Before we stepped out of our home, she'd ask me to click her picture and share it with her friends and sister,“ he smiles fondly.
Her most beautiful gift to him was son Aryaman who was born in Breach Candy Hospital in 1996. “I always wanted a son and was thrilled. Medha brought him up well and it's because of her that he is studying in Princeton University today,“ Anup says proudly, admitting that while Aryaman too is shattered by the loss, he has been a pillar of strength to him.
In a choked voice he says, “I miss Medha, her companionship. I feel so alone today. Who will I sing Chaudhvin ka chand ho, ya aaftaab ho, jo bhi ho tum khuda ki kasam, laajawab ho to now? It was her favourite song.“
He adds, “I also used to recite a couplet to her--Zindagi se yeh gilla hai mujhe, Tu badi der se mila hai mujhe--which put into words what we both felt in our hearts. But today, I feel that 20 years of love are better than 60 loveless years.“
Anup Jalota to take off for a year to the US to be with his ill wife
7:43 AM
Vickey Lalwani (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 13, 2014)
Anup Jalota has cancelled all his professional assignments from August and has pulled out of the Raman Kumar film, which he was co-producing. His wife Medha is extremely ill, both her kidneys have stopped functioning and she needs a transplant urgently. She has been undergoing dialysis in Hinduja Hospital since the past few months. She also needs another heart transplant.
Being a professional that he is, Anup has been rehearsing for some of his prior commitments which he will wind up before July end.
In 2001, after the doctors gave Medha just a month to live, Anup had flown her down to the US where she had got a heart transplant. A source close to Medha told Mirror, "She had been fine for over a decade. He's hopeful she'll get a new lease of life again."
The couple plan to be in the US for at least a year while Medha is undergoing treatment.
Confirming this, a distraught Anup told Mirror, "It has happened before, it is happening again. There's a lot of stress, but we'll fight it out. Love means doing anything and everything for each other. Medha's health is my only priority now. This time, our son Aryaman will also be around, he has taken admission in a New Jersey University."
Prior to Medha, Anup had two failed marriages. The first was with a spunky music student, Sonali Sheth who later went on to marry his tabla player Roopkumar Rathod. He then opted for an arranged marriage with Bina Bhatia but that too didn't work out. Medha was earlier married to Shekhar Kapur from whom she separated in December '94.
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