Showing posts with label Yogesh Bhatt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yogesh Bhatt. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Suhani Raat Dhal Chuki.....

Every time one listens to this song, he would feel as if he is listening it for the first time.
So soothing, so pleasing, so Romantic, SO.....SO...... SO....
Please add your emotions and thoughts here...........in the comments box :-)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Lakho hai yahan dilwale

Yogesh Bhatt, Manohar Vaidya and Sandip Patankar.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Suhani raat ...tum kab aaoge

When Yogesh Bhatt and Manohar Vaidya played this melodious song, we could see the audience totally being carried away. The music lovers started singing the song along with the performers.
Due to certain technical errors at my end I am not able to trim the videos properly from the entire cd. So pl bear with the incomplete videos.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Gaadi Bula Rahi Hai : Apoorva Bhatt

People in Vadodara say That,Textile engineer Apoorva Bhatt got his first harmonica in the cradle !!!
Inspired by his father who used to play flute then, started playing harmonica at a very tender age, has trained more than a dozen professional players.
He played Gaadi Bula Rahi Hai in Ahmedabad, normally Rupesh whistels on harmonica for him but due to certain unavoidable circumstances he could not join the group and Amjadbhai performed without any practice.
This video gives the proper introduction of Apoorva Bhatt's calibre.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Suhani Raat Rafi ke Naam : Vaidyaji and Bhattji



Two very senior players shri Manoharbhai Vaidya and Shri Yogeshbhai Bhatt on behalf of the Harmonica Club of Gujarat paid homages to Late. Mohammad Rafi by playing Suhani Raat Dhal Chuki in Gandhi Gruh Vadodara.
Both of them don't speak much but let me tell you their harmonicas are very talkative..........

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Thank you my friends - Yogesh Bhatt



Some times you do not find right words to express your feelings. The same things happened to me today. It was my birthday yesterday, but we (Manohar Vaidya, Nachiketa Desai and I) had gone to Baroda to perform as amateur Harmonica players and so could not celebrate the birthday.

Today, the Harmonica players had gathered together as usual. I also joined them. The players came one by one. I was unaware of their sweet and secret conspiracy to celebrate my birthday. After about one and a half hour when most players had arrived and it was time to disperse, one of the players secretly took out a bouquet of fresh flowers and presented it to me. Another player took out a box of birthday cake and pushed a piece into my mouth. Three players took out their Harmonica and started playing HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.

It was so overwhelming and so sudden that I did not know how to reciprocate. It was my 59th birthday. And, perhaps this was the first birthday that was celebrated like this with FRIENDS. I did not know how friends could be. In fact, I had no friends at all, being a typical judge that I was. Perhaps my nature was such that people did not like to come close to me. I had addressed them in this write up as Harmonica Players. But, now I will call them my friends. They are TAPAN BHATT, NACHIKETA DESAI, MANOHARBHAI VAIDYA, PIYUSH PANDYA, ALEX LOBO, KUMARPAL SHAH, MANOHARBHAI MAJITHIA. There are also other friends who could not come today but conveyed their good wishes to me. I thank them all.

MY FRIENDS, once again I am indebted to all of you, who have given me a different sight to look at the life which I was thinking as boring till now. I now have a new vision, am a student again at 59, many things to learn and all that without tension or stress.

Birthday Boy: Yogesh Bhatt





Manohar Vaidya and Yogesh Bhatt were the star performers at the musical evening held in Baroda on Saturday in memory of legendary Hindi film playback singer Mohammed Rafi. (photo by Manish Vaidya)


Principal Judge Industrial Courts, Gujarat, Yogesh Bhatt celebrated his 59th birthday in Baroda by playing 'Suhani Raat Dhal Chuki, Na Jaane Tum Kab Aoge' to a thunderous applause from the music afficianados. Members of the Harmonica Club of Gujarat wished him a long musical life at their Sunday gathering at the Satyam Mall. There was pastry, flower and music. Here are some photographs:


Say 'Cheese everybody': Standing L-R Nachiketa and Tapan. Sitting: Chandramohan Bahadkar, Piyush Pandya, Yogesh Bhatt, Manohar Vaidya, Manohar Majithia and Alex Lobo


Alex Lobo presents a bouquet to Yogesh Bhatt, while Manohar Majithia looks on.


Yogesh Bhatt hands over a piece of cake to Tapan Bhatt.


It's your turn Nachiketa, forget about diabetes.


Eat it Lobo, I'm not looking.


Kumar Pal Shah stuffs a piece of cake in the birthday boy's mouth.


Professor Piyush Pandya gets his share from the birthday boy.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

This is Camaraderie

The Harmonica Club of Gujarat has become an extended family for all its members. After performing in a public park, individual members have been inviting the rest to their homes.

The first to invite us was Prof. Piyush Pandya. We had a gala time at his place, playing mouth organ and being treated to tea, coffee and snacks. It was decided at this get together to go for formalizing the club into a trust and a registered society. Yogesh Bhatt, the principal judge of Industrial Courts, had already done the necessary ground work by preparing the draft of the proposed public trust.

The general body of the club unanimously elected Nachiketa Desai as the managing trustee and Tapan Bhatt as the secretary. The following were elected as the trustees:
1. Nachiketa Desai
2. Tapan Bhatt
3. Rohini A Jhala
4. Piyush Pandya
5. Manohar Vaidya
6. Paresh Bhatia
7. Bansi Gajjar

Registering a trust is a big hassle. For ordinary citizens it takes months. In Ahmedabad, on an average 5000 public trusts are registered every month. But not in our case, thanks to one of our members, who is a senior member of the judiciary. Yogesh Bhatt took the trouble of doing all the paper work and we could complete the process in just two days.

Yogesh Bhatt is so passionate about harmonica that he invited Nachiketa Desai and Manohar Vaidya to his home on a Saturday to practice with them. It was a day of marathon mouth organ playing - from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For Yogesh Bhatt playing on a chromatic instrument was a new experience. However, he is a fast learner, mainly because he has musical ears.

The very next day was a Sunday, the day the club members perform in a public park. This time it was at the Vastrapur Lake. After the performance, Purnendu Dave invited all of us to his home, which is walking distance from the lake, for a round of tea. We were not only treated to several rounds of tea there but we also played there for the benefit of the club's repository of video records. We will be putting up these videos on the blog soon.

Our next performance is going to be at a cancer hospital. The date is yet to be finalized.

Monday, June 9, 2008


Yogesh Bhatt: A very highly placed Govt.employee. Has been playing for many years. Also an enthusiastic painter who does sketching when finds time.


Playing at the Vastrapur Lake, Ahmedabad, on June 8, 2008 (Sunday)