Lata remembers Jaikishan

Lata remembers that Nargis, Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were present at the recording of Andaaz number Uthayeja unke sitam aur jiye ja`85. "After the recording, Raj Kapoor sent for me. A fair and handsome young man came to my house to convey the message. Seeing him, I remarked to my sister, ‘Just look at him Meena, even a messenger boy looks like a hero these days — looks like the staffers at RK studio are as handsome as their owner’." When Lata went to Raj Kapoor’s Chembur office to meet him, she was introduced to the handsome messenger. He was Barsaat’s composer Jaikishan. Shankar-Jaikishan, Lata says, had a ring of freshness to them. They lacked the classical touch of Anil Biswas and Naushad, but they knew their beat, were masters of rhythm and introduced a whole new style of orchestration.

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