Jagjit crooned his last film song for Ubale's 'Anandache Dohi'

Mumbai, Oct 10 (PTI) Marathi filmmaker Ashish Ubale
was on cloud nine when celebrated ghazal singer Jagjit Singh
agreed to lend his 'golden voice' for a song in his
upcoming film "Anandache Dohi".
However, the happiness was shortlived because the
song has also turned out to be the maestro's last film song.
Singh recorded the song "Tuzhya mule aala, nava
arth majhya jeevanala" about seven months ago.
The song is picturised on veteran actor Dilip
Prabhavalkar, who played Gandhi in 'Munnabhai MBBS' and 'Lage
Raho Munnabhai'.
Talking to PTI, Ubale said working with Singh was a
learning process.
"I was taken aback with the hard work he put in for
getting the Marathi pronounciations and certain words
correctly. He would repeat each and every word five to six
times before the recording," the filmmaker recalled.
Ubale said he had grown up listening to Singh's ghazals
and his voice touched the listener's heart. "When music
composer Amar Haldipur asked if we could approach Jagjitji for
our film, I immediately said why not. We can try. To our
surprise, he agreed immediately," he said.
The filmmaker described Singh as a simple human being,
a trait which reflected in his voice.
"He may have come across as a serious person. But,
when he was among his closest friends, he would open up and
was full of wit and humour," Ubale said. PTI MR