Shankar Jaikishan And The Romance Of Music

Mistt · Jul 5, 2018

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@Mistt

You are excused! I am amazed at your choice of songs. All songs used to be block busters those days.
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Thank you for your appreciation and I collected most of my favorites through my father and his friend's collection, Chitrahar and Rangoli ( thinking of those days make me refresh). i used to buy CD s and MP3 songs of singers and music composers hits and chosen my favorites.

Your excuse make me post few more my favorites

Mistt · Jul 5, 2018

I didn't watch most of the movies I just love to listen and hum along with the song. I feel One best thing is I understand Hindi very well ( so I enjoy lyrics too ) because it was one of languages till 10th grade.

Shanvy · Jul 5, 2018

@Mistt the woh chand khila ye taarey hase is my favorites..

sigh makes me say, sadly

shyamala1234 · Jul 5, 2018

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Where do I start? Where do I end? Shankar Jaikishan! They were as famous as the music they created. But their story is fit to be made into a movie. No heart will remain unmoved by this movie.
Shankar was the senior of the two with an age difference of 7 years. Jaikishan became a Music Director along with Shankar at the age of twenty. The pair's first film Barsaat(1949)became famous for many reasons. The music and the romantic pair of Raj Kapoor and Nargis. Raj Kapoor adopted a scene from the movie featuring himself and Nargis as the logo of his company.
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The title song of the movie made everyone crazy. Thousands of records in 78 rpm (78 rotations per minute) were sold around the country and the Shankar Jaikishan became instant success with the movie. They had an unwritten agreement that who created which song would never be divulged. They had bitter relationship in 1964 when Jaikishan revealed in an article in FilmFare that the song "Yeh Mera Prem Patra Padh Kar" was his composition. This remained a thorn in their relationship for quite a while. Jaikishan died due to cirrhosis of liver, a disease caused by excessive consumption of alcohol. There was no reason why Jaikishan turned an alcoholic at the height of his success. His funeral was a huge affair with leading film stars like Raj Kapoor acted as pall-bearers. As a contrast, when Shankar died in 1987, there was no film personality to attend the final rites and only a handful of his relatives completed the ceremony. Shankar continued with the banner of Shankar Jaikishan even after the demise of Jaikishan but not with much success. Shankar died broken-heated.
Coming to my favourite songs, I do not want to make a huge list. I'll just site a few.

See Raj Kapoor sitting with his brother-in-law Prem Nath and munching peanuts. Nimmi dances heartily.

From Chorti Chori. By now both the pairs Raj Hapoor and Nargis as well as Shankar Jaikishan became extremely popular.

Vyjayanthimala in Kathputli.

From Yahudi by Mukesh singing for Dilip Kumar!

See Rafi singing for Kishore Kumar! Movie: Shararat

Sangam - Dost Dost Na Raha Pyar Pyar - Mukesh
From Sangam. The film had two intervals! Look at Raj Kapoor.

Sangam - Ye Mera Prem Patra Padhkar Ke Tum - Mohd Rafi
This is the song by Rafi that created a rift between Shankar and Jaikishan
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Dear Cheeniya sir,
So, that is the story of Shankar Jaikishan. I heard most of the songs you mentioned but not seen the movies. Beautiful songs they all are. Difficult to choose which are good and which not so good!
My favourite song is Yeh mera Prem Patra padhkar from Sangam.
I used to think Raj kapoor, Shankar, Jaikishan and Mukhesh as one group. Heard most of the songs on youtube.
NTR as Lord Krishna is famous. That is why people voted for him when he started Telugu Desham party. In West Godavari, forgot the name of the place....in one temple Lord Krishna's idol looks exactly like NTR. In some places where his films are released as Lord Krishna people used to take coconuts and flowers and used to break coconuts in front of the posters in theatres! Maya bazar is unique...for NTR, Savitri and SVR.
Syamala

Mistt · Jul 5, 2018

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NTR as Lord Krishna is famous. That is why people voted for him when he started Telugu Desham party. In West Godavari, forgot the name of the place....in one temple Lord Krishna's idol looks exactly like NTR.
Syamala
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That was 100% true, still TDP using him for their vote bank collection and heard that making biopic on NTR. Oh really?does Krishna idol look like him? Curious to know that place. If you don't mind please mention the name of that place.

Gauri03 · Jul 5, 2018

SJ were incredibly productive and versatile too. Whether it was the folk music of UP in Teesri Kasam to the classical based songs of Amrapali, the quality of their songs never suffered. With all the discussion on lyrics I must say that for me the words make the songs. I love a good composition but the lyrics transform a great tune into an unforgettable song. We need a series to discuss the works of Sahir, Shailendra, Kaifi Azmi, Majrooh, Gulzar and others. : )

Sajanwa bairi ho gaye hamar... Shailendra's lyrics are the highlight of this song.

Jao re jogi tum jao re.....

Neel gagan ki chhaon mein...

Mistt · Jul 5, 2018

@Shanvy nice choice.
Yes, Mohammad Rafi jee sang some Telugu songs and I like few of them. Even Latha jee sang "nidurapora thammuda and I just love that one. Asha jee sang couple of Telugu ones.

Greenbay · Jul 6, 2018

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Jaikishan died due to cirrhosis of liver, a disease caused by excessive consumption of alcohol.
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Jaikishan used to drink excessively but he didn't die only due to excessive consumption. Few days before the death , He was diagnosed with Hepatitis which is inflammation of the liver tissue but he still continued to drink, this lead to his liver failure.

Shailendra/Mukesh/Jaikishan/Raj Kapoor all drank heavily but not all their deaths can be attributed to alcohol abuse. Shailendra who died at 43 died due to stress because of heavy loss in his production Teesri Kasam

kkrish · Jul 6, 2018

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@kkrish i love the music more when lyrics are beautiful. but without lyrics too music as such is a treat to the soul.
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@Shanvy
Yes Shanvy. True behanji I know and agree that music has no language barriers. I enjoy all music, from Beethoven, Mozart, to pop, hindustani, spanish songs, and other Indian language songs.

What I meant was, I would be abe to enjoy the songs even better, if I knew the language. This because sometimes there is word play involved - that adds beauty and sometimes fun also. I miss out on that.

Here is a Rabindra sangeet that is so beautiful. I can get the meaning of the Bengali words, but still will not be able to relish Tagore's handling of the language in poetry. That is what I've been trying to convey all along.

@Cheeniya sir, please pardon me posting Rabindra sangeet in your thread.