SHANKER JAIKISHEN DISTINGUISHED THIS VARIETY WHILE COMPOSING THEIR SONGS

TRIBUTE TO SHANKAR JAIKISHAN…20–S-J & MUKESH

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S-J DID NOT FAVOUR ANY SINGER FOR PARTICULAR ACTOR/ACTRESSES…..THEY FAVOURED THE SONG TO BE TUNED TO FIT OCCASION……otherwise there wud have been every song of Mukesh for Raj Kapoor, Talat Mehmood for Dilip Kumar, Mannadey for Shammi Kapoor…….THEY DISTINGUISHED THIS VARIETY WHILE COMPOSING THEIR SONGS…..AND STILL SONG WAS IMPORTANT NOT THE HERO….THIS SUPREMACY THEY MAINTAINED….AND THE HEROS AND HEROINS WERE UNDER THEIR MESMERISM.

AS I MENTIONED EARLIER IN OTHER POSTS, AS SOON AS THE FILM WAS SIGNED BY S-J, THE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR GOT THE HERO/HEROIN ALSO SIGNED FOR THE FILM, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT UNDER S-J’S BATON, THEY WILL BE BIG HITS.

THEREFORE, I TAKE U TO THE DIFFERENT PLATFORM WITH S-J AND MUKESH, WITH THE FEW SONGS THEY COMPOSED FOR HIM…..TRY TO IDENTIFY:

1. IN ‘AAH’ THERE IS ONE MEMORABLE NUMBER SUNG BY MUKESH AND ALSO FILMED ON HIM…..GUESS? HERE IT IS ”CHHOTI SE YEH ZINDAGANI RE, CHAR DIN KI JAWANI TERI”.

2. JAIKISHAN COMPOSED A TUNE FOR MUKESH. MUKESH SANG IT WITH SUCH STYLE THAT JAIKISHAN FELT THAT IT SHD BE FILMED ON HIMSELF ON THE SCREEN?………WHICH WAS THAT………IN ‘BEGUNAH’…..”AI PYASE DIL BEZUBAN, DARD HAI TERI DASTAN, AAG KO AAG MEIN DHAL KE, KAB TAK JEE BEHLAYEGA….AI PYASE…..”

3. THIS SONG WAS COMPOSED BY JAIKISHAN, AFTER THE RAJ-NARGIS BREAK UP. ….THERE WAS A TAUNTING TONE TO HASRAT’ S LYRIC, WRITTEN FOR A FILM IN WHICH MALA SINHA PLAYED AGAINST RAJ KAPOOR…..AND EVEN WHEN MUKESH SANG IT HE WAS UNAWARE OF THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED IN IT FOR RAJ-NARGIS BREAK-UP…BUT RAJ HAD TO SING IT ON SCREEN….. GUESS?………………………………………HERE IT IS ”’KISI NARGISI NAZAR KO DIL DENGE HAM, KALI ZULF KE SAAYE MEIN DUM LENGE HUM…….”’

4. MUKESH BELIEVED THAT MOST OF THE THEME SONG OF THE FILM WERE COMPOSED BY SHANKAR…….STILL THERE were THREE THEME SONGS FILMED ON RAJ KAPOOR AND SUNG BY MUKESH, WERE THE COMPOSITION BY JAIKISHAN……..REMEMBER?……DIFFICULT………..LET US SEE ”’AWARA HOON”(AWARA), MAIN AASHIQ HOON BAHARON KA..(AASHIQ)…& ”MERE MAN KI GANGA….”(SANGAM).

5. IN 1958, FILMFARE AWARD WAS ANNOUNCED FOR ONE PLAYBACK SINGER, EITHER MALE OR FEMALE….AND LATER IT WENT MALE AND FEMALE INDIVIDUALY…….IN 1958, IT WENT TO LATA FOR ”AAJA RE PARDESI….” IN MADHUMATI……BUT IN 1959 THE AWARD WENT TO MUKESH, WHO PUT ALL RIVAL VOICES, MALE AND FEMALE, IN THE SHADE WITH A RUNAWAY HIT SANG BY RAJ KAPOOR ON SCREEN………COULD U GUESS, YES IT IS EASY……”SAB KUCHH SEEKHA HAMNE NA SEEKHI HOSHIARI…SACH HAI DUNIAWALON KE HAM HAIN ANARI”.

6. IT HAPPENED, THAT LATA WILL NOT SING FOR SHANKAR (BOTH HAD DIFFERENT MOODS), BUT MUKESH PERSUADED LATA TO SING FOR SHANKAR IN ”SANYASI”……WHICH WAS THE DUET LATA SANG WITH MUKESH?……..GUESS…..NO……YES–”SUN BAL BRAHMACHARI, MAIN HOON KANYA KUNWARI….”’

7. A MUKESH NUMBER COMPOSED BY SHANKAR CAME TO BE RANKED AS AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC. IT WAS FILMED ON DILIP KUMAR……BUT DILIP KUMAR WANTED TALAT MEHMOOD TO SING IT…..WHILE SHANKAR WANTED MUKESH BECAUSE SHANKAR COMPOSED THIS KEEPING IN MIND THE VOICE OF MUKESH…….AS IT IS KNOWN, THAT MUKESH WAS GOING DOWN LOW AT THAT TIME AND AT THE TOSS OF A COIN THE SONG WENT INTO MUKESH’S POCKET………EASY TO GUESS…”.’.YE MERA DEEWANAPAN HAI, YA MUHABBAT KA SUROOR, TU NA PEHCHANE TO HAI YE TERI NAZRON KA QUSOOR..”’(YEHOODI)

…..AND IT IS SAID THAT THIS BECAME A LUCKY SONG FOR MUKESH FOR TIME TO COME.

THIS IS THE EXTRACT OF MY FIRST PARA…& THERE ARE MORE EXAMPLES OF THE DUO EXPLOITING THE SITUATION IN THEIR FAVOUR….AND MAKING THE FILM A GREAT HIT(MAY BE WITH A WEAK STORY) BY THEIR STRONG AND MELODIOUS SONGS, WHICH WENT TO THE HISTORY AS GOLD COINS………TO CONTINUE………gshroti@in.com……….