Ajay-Atul (Vocal)

Attended concert of Ajay-Atul, famous music directors. They were accompanied by a set of musicians. Rushikesh Ranade, Yogita Godbole, Sawni Ravindra, Swapnil Bandodkar and Ajay-Atul were singers. Abhijeet Khandekar was the anchor. The concert was organized by Karma Event at Al Nasr, Leisureland, Dubai on 16th Oct 2014. I attended the concert with my family & friends.

Concert started with Ajay-Atul's famous Ganesh stavan (गणेश स्तवन) 'Ekadantay..(एक दंताय)' followed by 'Gorya gorya galawari..', ' Galawar kahli..(गालावर खळी)' etc. Then came Hindi song  ' Abhi muzmein thodisi hai baki zindagi' from Agneepath.

Audience was now getting jittery because Ajay-Atul had not made entry. This is when they made their grand entry with song 'Natrang ubha..(नटरंग उभा)' title song of Natrang. This song was immediately followed by famous 'Malhar wari motiyane ..(मल्हार वारी)' and gondhal ' Amhi ambeche gondhali (आम्ही अंबेचे गोंधळी)' followed by 'Chang bhale..(चांग भलं)' followed by 'Jeev zala wedapisa..'

Then came the romantic section with 'Man ranat gele ga', 'Jeev rangala..(जीव रंगला)' from Jogwa, 'Badmash dil..(बदमाश दिल)' from Singham, 'Man udhan waryache (मन उधाण वाऱ्याचे)' & 'Chimba bhijlele.. (चिंब भिजलेले)'

Then came the section of dinchyak (ढिंच्याक) songs 'Lai bhari..' title song of Lai bhari, 'Cham cham karta..(छम छम करता)',  'wajle ki bara (वाजले की बारा)' the lawni, 'khel mandla (खेळ मांडला)' a song that gives you goose bumps sung by Ajay, 'Baygo baygo.. (बायगो बायगो)', 'Aicha gho..(आईचा घो)', ' Ye go ye, ye maina.. (ये गो ये)', 'Chikni chameli (चिकनी चमेली)'. Audience was demanding Kombdi (कोंबडी पळाली) at this time, but they chose to ignore and sung title track of Singham.

The last section consisted of two songs. First song was 'Mauli mauli.. (माऊली माऊली)' and the grand finale was 'Deva Sri Ganesha.. (देवा श्री गणेशा)'

Some of the musicians were known faces for the audience like Amar Oak on Bansuri, Satyajit Prabhu on keyboard & Archis Lele on Tabla. Mr. Prabhu was evidently the music arranger.

I had not noticed earlier that Ajay-Atul use a lot of chorus in their songs very effectively and chorus makes the songs delicious.

Swapnil sung very well in higher octaves, but sung only two songs and was largely wasted. Ajay & Atul looked younger than when I saw them 4 years ago. When Ajay was singing solo, Atul played drums. When audience demanded once more Atul announced that they prefer to sing more songs than repeat, an ace answer. Rushikesh sung most of the songs originally sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Sonu Nigam. Yogita sung very well. Sawni was also good. But if you want to know who was the best singer of the night? Undoubtedly it was Ajay & khel mandla (खेळ मांडला) was the best song.

It was a medium sized auditorium. Auditorium was actually a converted ice rink, so it was very cold, uncomfortably cold. The acoustics were surprisingly decent.

A good concert. Entertainment rating 8/10.