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Shankar Jaikishan And The Romance Of Music

Discussion in 'Music and Dance' started by Cheeniya, Jul 4, 2018.

  1. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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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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    I just like the songs for the music sir.
    Unfortunately I am unable to understand the lyrics.
     
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    @kkrish
    Music is the food of love, not language. I don't understand the lyrics of even many Tamil songs!
     
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    All the songs are my favourite Anna.
     
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    :roflmao:
    True sir. Not just lyrics, I dont understand Tamil movie dialogues too!
     
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    Thank you Viji. It's nice that our tastes do not differ
     
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    @kkrish

    See if you can understand this Tamil song
     
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    :biggrin:No sir, I cannot. As I already agreed, I cannot even understand some "Tamil" dialogues.

    My original response was in sadness; that I could enjoy the songs even better if I understood the lyrics. That was all.
    I hope you have not taken my comment otherwise. Not learning Hindi, it is I who is the loser.
     
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    It is very hard to pick the best of Shankar Jaikishan jee's songs because all of the songs are awesome and I can fill all the pages of this thread with songs.:) So going with the most favorite songs of mine.





     
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    @Cheeniya Sir, catch this thread again with more my favorites
     
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