TERE BAGHAIR ZINDAGI DARD BAN KE REH GAYEE: 2015

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Tribute to Talat Mahmood

By : Nataraj Sarjapur

In 1953 SJ were declared the ' best composers ' by Songs of Yore, a blog I like very much for the unbiased and in depth analysis of HFM from the 30s to 60s. That year 130 songs were short listed as 'best ' and the following are the SJ compositions picked.

1. SHANKAR JAIKISHAN

Aah

1. Jane na nazar pahchane jigar – Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar

2. Jo mai jaanati unke liye – Lata Mangeshkar

3. Raat andheri door savera – Mukesh

4. Aja re ab mera dil pukara – Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar

5. Ye sham ki tanhaiyan – Lata Mangeshkar

6. Sunte the naam hum jinka bahaar se – Lata Mangeshkar

7. Raja ki ayegi baraat – Lata Mangeshkar

8. Chhoti si ye zindagani – Mukesh

Aas

9. Chahe nain churao chahe daman bachao – Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar

Aurat

10. Ulfat ka saaz chhedo samaan suhana hai – Lata Mangeshkar

11. Dard-e-jigar thahar zara – Lata Mangeshkar

Boot Polish

12. Lapak jhapak tu aa re badarwa – Manna Dey

13. Chali kaun se des gujariya – Talat Mahmood and Asha Bhosle

Mayurpankh

14. Khushiyon ke chad muskaye re – Lata Mangeshkar

15. Mohabbat ki dastaan tum bhi suno – Lata Mangeshkar

Naya Ghar

16. Laga kar dil parishan hain – Lata Mangeshkar

Patita

17. Kisi ne apna bana ke mujhko – Lata Mangeshkar

18. Andhe jahan ke andhe raaste – Talat Mahmood

19. Tujhe apne paas bulati hai – Talat Mahmood

20. Yaad kiya dil ne kahan ho tum – Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar

21. Mitti se khelate ho baar bar kis liye – Lata Mangeshkar

22. Hain sabse madhur wo geet mere – Talat Mahmood

Shikast

23. Kare badra tu na ja na ja – Lata Mangeshkar

24. Sapnon ki suhani duniya ko – Talat Mahmood

The list has 6 Talat Gems !! Honeydew !! His voice reminds me of meadows, caressing breeze, brooks on rounded pebbles !! The unique 'tremolo ' in his voice, the clear and correct rendition and above all the emotions he brought to his rendition made him very very unique. ' Ae dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal jahaan koi na ho (Arzoo, 1950) ' is the best example of AB and TM songs. Immortal composition. Listening to Talat is eternal peace and tranquility !! RIP Talat Saab.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

A tribute programme on shanker jaikishan

The Genius Music Director Jodi

Hey folks! This blog is dedicated to Great music maestros of yesterday - : Shanker Jaikishen / Shankar Jaikishan / or shankarjaikishan...all these are familiar with Hindi Film Music. SJ - the name which guaranteed success of any film, any actors-actresses, director, producer and singer. Thieir music is even now refreshing, and glitters like a diamond. You are welcome to share, contribute, download, comment. Please go through the entire posts and if you find any misquote or anything wrong in this blog, please do take trouble to inform me and criticize.--Thanks for visiting my blog --SUDARSHAN PANDEY

Comments from visitors to this Blog which pertains to SJ/blog

Jay has left a new comment on your post "Revised List of SJ Films":

On listening to Pritam's tracks of today ['Metro', 'Jannat', 'Dhoom - 2', 'Jab We Met' and so on] one cannot fail to notice the composer's penchant for the hitting the higher notes with progressive rapidity. Without casting aspersions on the composer's talent, I must say that most of his tracks are a tad jarring to the ears with their techno-beats always rising to a crescendo but at the end of the day, his music spells success in today's hybrid music culture.
This takes me back to the last years of S-J as a team, the '70-'71 phase, when their music was being taken apart by the critics. It, of course, didn't really make a dent to their popularity, for die-hard admirers like us enjoyed whatever they came up with – good, bad or indifferent. Perhaps because we were led by our personal pre-possessions with regard to the 'S-J brand' that had an endearing quality to it. Raju Bharatan and his wife Girija Rajendran, who used to write regularly for 'Filmfare', were both critical of their works and used to compare it unfavourably with their earlier scores. Raju of course, never missed an opportunity to take pot shots at S-J whenever the opportunity arose.
But the lady who took the cake was Pushpa Hans at 'Star & Style' who too wrote a regular column on music every week for the publication and towards the end, launched frequent diatribes at S-J. Even as you read her pieces you couldn't but sneer at her irrationality of analysis. For example, while describing the music of 'Sapnon Ka Saudagar', she identified Sharda's 'Maar doongi chakkoo…' as the song that stood out among the rest. Touche!!! Then she ran down the tracks of 'Brahmachari', 'Jhuk Gaya Aasman' and 'Shikaar' [which were all released in March-April '68] describing them as offering 'mediocre fare' without coming up with tangible reasons for doing so. And a shocker was her description of 'Main gaaun tum so jao…' as 'crude and ineffective' – a track that still gives me the goose-bumps and one that has stood the test of time as one of our perennial lullabies. Just a month before Jaikishan's death she wrote an extremely scathing piece on S-J and for the first time perhaps, brought their conflict out in the open. I remember she wrote something like - ‘Their disharmony has deprived music lovers of some wonderful music; perhaps they drew inspiration from each other when working together’. Brave words these, especially when to my reckoning, no one openly wrote about S-J's split in those days, if ever there was one. The last S-J film that she covered was, if I remember, ‘Duniya Kya Jaane’, ironically one of their weakest scores ever and described the songs as ‘painful necessities composed out of the duo’s juke box of ten years ago’. Well, the film and its songs barely registered so it gave enough wherewithal to the lady to stoke the red embers.
If Ms. Pushpa Hans is still associated with music, I wonder if she would come up with a similar twiddle-twaddle regarding the style and form of Pritam's tracks that only seems to circum-ambulate the 6th and 7th notes, compared to which, S-J's music even in those last years together sounds so lively & pulsating. Scornfulness of thought often stirreth laughter than anything else!!!

Jay SubramanyamLucknow

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Tribute to Talat Mahmood

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

A tribute programme on shanker jaikishan

Main Aag Hoon Ganga Aur Geeta 1979 Kishore Kumar Aarti Mukherjee