SHAILENDRA–TU PYAR KA SAGAR HAI (27th episode of Tribute to Shankar Jaikishan by Srigopal Shroti)

SHAILENDRA–TU PYAR KA SAGAR HAI

THE ”SWAR LAHARIYAN” OF 50s and 60s ARE PASSING THROUGH MY MIND AND ECHOING THE SCENTED ATMOSPHERE ALL OVER….BRINGING THE NEW FRESHNESS OF ROSES…SHAILENDRA SO MAINTAINS THE WORDS IN A DECENT WAY THAT WHEN U HEAR THEM, ALL UR EXISTENCE IS MERGED WITH THOSE SONGS, MELODY AND RHYTHM…..THIS QUALITY TAKES THEM HIM……………
AWAY FROM THE COMMONER……”SEEMA”, YES THIS WAS THE FILM AND S-J, SHAILENDRA AND HASRAT WERE BUSY IN GIVING LAST TOUCHES TO THEIR IMMORTAL COMPOSITIONS…..AND HERE COMES STILL AFRESH THE SONG..”TU PYAR KA SAGAR HAI, TERI EK BOOND KE PYASE HAM, LAUTA JO DIYA TU NE, CHALE JAYENGE JAHAN SE HAM..”……AND IF UR INTEREST GOES FURTHER IN THE MELODY WITH WORDS….HERE ARE THE WORDS UNDER THE ”SHRINGAR” OF THEIR SOFT ORCHESTRA……NEXT HEAR ON TAPE OR CD…….
”GHAYAL MAN KA PAAGAL PANCHI, UDNE KO BEQRAR, PANKH HAIN KOMAL, AANKH HAI DHUNDALI, JAANA HAI SAGAR PAAR,…..AB TU HI ESE SAMJHA , RAAH BHOOLE THE KAHAN SE HAM…..TU PYAR KA SAGAR HAI…TERI EK BOOND KE PYASE HAM…….”’
”EDHAR JHOOM KE GAYE ZINDGI, UDHAR HAI MAUT KHADI, KOI KYA JAANE KAHAN HAI SEEMA, ULJHAN AAN PADI, ….KANON MEIN ZARA KAH DE KE AAYE KAUN DISHA SE HAM……TU PYAR KA SAAGAR HAI, TERI EK BOOND KE PYASE HAM.”……..(MANNADE & CHORUS)…..
MANNADA HAS GIVEN LIFE TO THIS SONG AND REASISED THE ORIGINALITY OF THE PURE WORDS, HIDINDG GREAT PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE….HIS VOICE TAKES US FROM THE DEEP OCEAN TO THE WORLD OF KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, WHICH IS BEYOND THE SKY…..
PL GIVE EAR TO ”’PANKH HAIN KOMAL AANKH HAI DHUNDHALI, JAANA HAI SAGAR PAAR.”……THE DETERMINATION TAKES THE ”PANCHHI” TO THE OTHER PART OF THE OCEAN TO FIND OUT THE SOLACE, PERHAPS HE MAY HAVE ”DARSHAN” OF ALMIGHTY…….BUT BECAUSE OF HIS ”KOMAL PANKH AND ”AANKH HAI DHUNDHALI”, , HE PRAYS GOD AGAIN ”IDHAR JHOOM KE GAAYE ZINDAGI, UDHAR HAI MAUT KHADI, KOI KYA JAANE KAHAN HAI SEEMA , ULJHAN AAN PADI”…….HERE THE ”PANCHHI” IS THE HUMAN HEART…..AND FOLLOWS THE STANZA IN WHICH THE DISTANCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH HAS BEEN FELT SEVERELY……….HERE IS THE FEAR OF DEATH, NOBODY KNOWS THE END AND HUMAN HEART IS IN DILEMMA, FEELING THE HEAT OF THE DEAD BODIES BEING BURNT IN THE ”ESHMASAN”…..DESPITE THIS HE FEELS THE DEVOTION TO THE GOD THROUGH THE DEEP OCEAN AND HIS ULTIMATE DESIRE TO SURRENDER TO THE ALMIGHY……… SHANKAR JAIKISHAN WERE THOSE MUSIC DIRECTORS WHOSE ‘RELIGION’ WAS ”MUSIC” AND THEY TOUCHED THAT POINT HERE WHERE THE ART AND THE ARTIST GOES BEYOND IMMORTABILITY THROUGH THE ”SAAZ AUR AAWAZ”—-MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND SINGERS BOTH BOW TO THEIR CREATORS TO GO DOWN THE MEMORY LANE………..to continue……gshroti@in.com………

26th Episode of Tribute to Shankar Jaikishan

TRIBUTE TO SHANKAR JAIKISHAN–26

MALE & FEMALE SINGERS

Srigopal Shroti

IF the Music Directors did not give birth to the tunes, where were the singers to sing and win the lead….MDs were the originators….They took the singers to Mandra, Madhya and Tar SAPTAK VIZ. SA,RE,GA,MA,PA,DHA,NI…..QUESTION IS WHO DID MORE HARD WORK? MDs or SINGERS….the ORIGINATORS OR THE FOLLOWERS?….Nevertheless, the QUESTION WILL REMAIN A QUESTION–BOTH HAVE THEIR OWN OPTIONS….HERE MANY OF THE MUSIC DIRECTORS WENT INTO OBLIVION, BUT REMEMBERED THE SINGERS WHO SANG ON THEIR IMMORTAL TUNES.

HERE, I WILL TALK ON THE MUSICAL FILM ”MAYUR PANKH” BY KISHORE SAHU IN 1954. THE MUSIC DIRECTORS WERE THE S-J DUO….IT IS TO BE MENTIONED THAT AFTER SHRI 420, THE MALE SINGERS LEAD UNDER THE BATON OF S-J BECAME MORE AND MORE PROMINENT….HOWEVER IN THE BEGINNING AND MIDDLE OF 50s THERE WERE THE FEMALE SINGERS DOMINANT AND IN CASE OF ”POONAM” AND ”AURAT”…ALL SONGS WERE SUNG BY LATAJI….BUT IN MAYUR PANKH, THERE WAS A SONG SUNG BY LATAJI AND ASHAJI, WHICH WAS….”YE BARKHA BAHAR, SAUTANIA KE DWAR…..’ AND WAS PICTURISED ON HELEN & KUKKOO……WITH THIS EXCEPTION ALL 5 SONGS WERE RENDERED BY LATAJI……HOW THE THINKING OF S-J WORKED…..UNBELIEVANLE….

THERE CAME MANY SONGS ON THE LOVE STORY OF MUMTAJMAHAL AND SHAHJEHAN….AND THE EVER MEMORABLE SONG SUNG BY LATAJI …….”MUHABBAT KI DASTAN AAJ SUNO RE, MUHABBAT KI DASTAN SUNO…..” AND WAS FILMED ON THE BACKDROP OF TAJ MAHAL… STILL GOES SOUND. …NEXT THERE WERE THESE SONGS OF ”MAYUR PANKH”, WHICH WERE FAMOUS ALL AROUNFD IN THOSE DAYS BY LATAJI TUNED BY S-J…….”MAIN TO CHALI PASCHIM, PURAB CHALE DUNIYA….”, ”TANDAN TANDANA, MUSHKIL HAI PYAR CHHUPANA”…”TOO KYON MUJHKO PUKARE….”, ”MUBARAKBAD DENE HAWA BAGON MEIN AAYI, HAAN KHUSHIYON KE CHAND MUSKURAYE RE…”….LATER S-J CHANGED THE TREND TO DIVERSIFY THEIR CREATIVITY, WHICH WAS EVIDENT IN THE FILMS FOLLOWED AFTER MIDDLE OF 50s………to continue……gshroti@in.com………..

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……….