Curiosity killed the cat but did not kill the cat.
Mayank Chhaya
Mayank Chhaya Reports or MCR is my widely respected news and feature interview show available on YouTube and on many other media platforms around the world.
Its interviews are also spun off for print and radio.
My YouTube channel features guests of consequence about issues of consequence.
Watch my critically acclaimed feature-length documentary 'Gandhi's Song
"Mayank's documentary flows like a stream with an idyllic beauty. Foraying into a territory that is devoid of any populism and allows no scope for playing to the gallery, Mayank gives it the character, chastity and temperance it calls for. The result is over 70 minutes of spell-binding narrative characterized by an articulation you don't get to hear in these times of frivolous."
--Raju Korti, Veteran journalist and writer
"Very hummable"
--Amit Khanna, celebrated lyricist, producer, director and movie industry pioneer.
"Chhaya's work exemplifies the virtues of objective journalism and scholarly research; given that the documentary's subject is not one that would easily draw the attention of viewers. "Gandhi's Song", however, manages to keep its viewers engrossed, enlightens them and yet leaves it to their good sense to perceive the lessons that find mention in the song -- propagated and popularised by Gandhi.”
--Saket Suman, IANS Wire,
India’s largest independent news agency
Introducing my YouTube Channel
I have been dabbling in music composition for over a decade now but it is only in the last couple of years that I have intensified my focus. The result has been 60 plus songs composed so far--all of which I have written and composed and most of which I sing as well.
I first wrote and composed on a whim in 2013 which turned out to be a critical and popular hit about the aspirations of a young woman charting a new course in her life.
The song तू बतादे क्या इरादे (Declaim what you intend) brings together two remarkably gifted Mumbai-based artists, the classically trained Suparna Chakravarty and the diversely talented Anupam Mallik Mithun to create a fresh and eminently hummable single.
Here is the link to my YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@MayankChhayaSongs
Premiering a ghazal.
I am inordinately thrilled that my school friend Shekhar Phatak from C.N. High School, Ahmedabad, is the one to have superbly composed and sung my ghazal.
This ghazal तेरे ख़याल आये और बेइजाज़त आये, जैसे मयख़ाने में बेसबब इबादत आये was written in five minutes or so like I do many of my ghazals. That was a couple of months ago.
Thank you very much, Shekhar.