Famous Marathi song Runanubandhachya by Kumar Gandharva and Vani Jairam

A recent article in The Hindu gave some history about a famous Marathi Hindustani classical type song that I have heard and enjoyed many times in my youth (listening on the radio then). Interestingly the female singer, Vani Jairam, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vani_Jairam, is a South Indian singer trained in Carnatic music! It seems as if a Mararthi native is singing the female singer part. [I don't think I realized it was a South Indian lady singing the female part the first few times I heard the song in my youth.]

Now about the history: A small extract from a recent Hindu article on it, The song that rained many songs, http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/the-song-that-rained-many-songs/article7869292.ece:

Vasant Desai was recording a Marathi album with Kumar Gandharva and wanted Vani to sing with him. But Kumar Gandharva, being the maestro he was, had till then refused to sing with any other female musician. That day, after listening to Vani, he said: “Achcha…, Dada recording kab hain?” What they sang together – “Runanubandacha” – has gone into the list of evergreen Marathi numbers. --- end small extract from the Hindu ---

Here's an around 6 min youtube video of the song having still pics of the great Kumar Gandharva, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_Gandharva, (male singer) & family as well as Vani Jayaram, as the video part, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0CXNZyGVeU. The description of the youtube video has the lyrics in Marathi script.

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