ByJitendra Motavar 19. Chadhne laga badhne laga Chorni (1982)Shaily ShailendraAsha Bhosle A beautiful cabaret dance song picturized on the dancing queen Helen. After listening and understanding the whole musical structure of the song I just wondered how a 60 year old Shankar came up with such a youthful, pappy and energetic number. Following a minute […]
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Written byShri Jitendra Motavar 01. Chal sanyasi mandir mein Sanyasi (1975)Vishweshwar SharmaLata Mangeshkar, MukeshSanyasi is one of the most unique and best albums SJ (Shankar) have scored in their later career, with all the songs being classy and many of them being chart busters, even now. But the most unique aspect of the score is
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Written by Jitendra Motavar A man who was a magnificent composer, a prolific musician with mastery over a dozen of instruments including tabla, piano, accordion, sitar etc, a wrestler, a dancer, an artist well versed with indian classical and western music styles, a strict disciplinarian; a man who along with his equally magnificent companion, ruled
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Written bySHARDA RAJAN A music director composes a song , makes a tune first & get it written or composes a tune for a ready lyrics … Ok ?If an M D can compose a song , how come he cannot make music & has to look for an arranger to make music ?If an
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VISHVA MEHRA, popularly kncwn as MAMAJI,” the man who performs the most orduous duties of a PRODUCTION INCHARGE so efficiently & smilingly in R. K. Films. Because of his relation with Raj Kipoor “MAMAJI” has become a public name for him and nobody knows him by name. Unprecedented cheers and roaring success of R’K’ Films
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This is the only SOLO song sung by Shamshad Begum for Shanker-Jaikishan. Shanker Jaikishan used Shamshad’s voice only 3 times during their long careers. The reason for using her voice sparingly in their compositions is provided by Shamshad and her daughter Usha below… “Shamshad Begum remembers the time she came in contact with Raj Kapoor.
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Those who, passionate about history of film music it is worth zooming and reading the article published almost 63 years back.
Filmfare March 1958 Read More »