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| Roop Kumar Rathod | |
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 Roop Kumar Rathod in 2014 | |
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| Born | 10 June 1973 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Genres | Playback singer, Ghazal |
Roop Kumar Rathod is an Indian music director and playback singer
Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary – an exponent of the rare and arguably the oldest style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He belonged to the "Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar". Roopkumar has two brothers. His eldest brother (b. 1954 and thus nineteen years older than him) is music composer Shravan Rathod (part of the Nadeem-Shravan duo). Another brother is singer Vinod Rathod (b.1962), who is eleven years older than him. Roopkumar is married to Sunali Rathod, formely the wife of famous bhajan singer Anup Jalota. They have a daughter named Surshree or Reewa.
Dhrupad is a genre in Hindustani classical music from the Indian subcontinent. It is the oldest style of music major vocal styles associated with Hindustani classical music, Haveli Sangeet and also related to the South Indian Carnatic tradition. It is a Sanskrit name, derived from the words dhruva and pad (verse), a combination that means "pillar". The roots of Dhrupad are ancient, and it is discussed in the Hindu Sanskrit text Natyashastra. It is also described in other ancient and medieval Sanskrit texts, such as chapter 33 of Book 10 in the Bhagavata Purana, where the theories of music and devotional songs for Krishna are summarized.
Vinod Rathod is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Bollywood films. Rathod is the son of late classical musician, Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod
Sunali Rathod is an Indian playback singer. She is also a trained classical singer.
The fourth son of Dhrupad Maestro Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, Roop Kumar was initiated into the world of music in his very early years. His journey began as a tabla player and he became sought after by almost all of the ghazal singers in the 1980s. His tryst with playback singing began in the year 1989 with the song, 'Main Tera Aashiq Hoon', composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal for the movie 'Gumraah.’
The song "Sandese Aate Hai", from the movie 'Border', became one of the major breakthroughs of Roop Kumar's career. It soared to an unprecedented level of popularity.[ citation needed ] Roop Kumar has sung a number of songs in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali and Bhojpuri films.
Sandese Aate Hai is a patriotic song from the 1997 movie Border, directed by J. P. Dutta. It was written by Javed Akhtar, composed by Anu Malik and sung by Roop Kumar Rathod and Sonu Nigam. The song describes the pain of Indian soldiers and was one of the reasons for the success of the film. For a "heart-touching" song which "became the nation's anthem", Akhtar won the Filmfare Award and the Screen Award in 1997 and 1998 respectively. He also won the National Film Award for the movie. Nigam won the Zee Cine Award for the song along with the Aashirwad Award and Sansui Viewers' Choice Award. Nigam was however disappointed with the fact that Rathod was not nominated for the awards, saying that Rathod also played an equal part in the song's success. Talking about the song's popularity, Nigam said,"I knew the song was popular, but I had no idea how big it was, and how big it was going to be in a few months." In an interview, Malik said that the song "rocked the world", and felt that he deserved the National Award for it. He said that he made the song for the soldiers "to sing in their bunkers", and it took seven-and-a-half minutes for him to compose the song. During the screening of LOC Kargil, Dutta told Malik that an Indian soldier joined the army after hearing the song, and died in the war. The soldier's mother said to Dutta that she does not know whether she should love him or hate him, but thanked him for making LOC Kargil, adding that he made his son "live again".
Apart from playback singing for films, Roop Kumar's other thrust of interest is live concerts. With his wife Sunali Rathod, he travels all over the world and performs at a number of concerts including in countries like US, UK, Dubai, East Africa, Singapore, etc. with their renditions of various genres of music spanning ghazal, sufi, light classical and film songs.
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Roop Kumar, along with wife Sunali, won the title of 'Ustaad Jodi' on 'Mission Ustaad',[ citation needed ] a musical television reality show aired in February 2008, that aimed to create awareness about social causes.
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