26th April 2008 : Remembering Shankar,, Death anniversary of Shankar Options

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Friends Today is the death anniversary of Shankar (of Shankar jaikishan). its was on the same day in 1987 we lost our Shankar ji. and HFM lost one of its most talented and verstile composer !

For me he is my no1 composer of Golden era. Very few could dare to give such versstile music as his.

It was shankar who was given task of composing music of Barsaat. and he brought Jaikishan along with him. 50s has seen Shankar's best. Jaikishan was still in his teens and Shankar in his 20s when both started composing. ! 50s is full of Shankar's brilliance whether its Shree 420 or Basanat bahar.

Shankar didnt had biggest names as Ustaads or gurus. but yet was the one( of SJ) who gave the Biggest list of CLASSICAL songs right from " manmohana bade jhoote to jhanak jahank baaje tori"
very few people know tht most of classical songs of SJ were composed by Shankar. most of Raj kapoor's songs used to be composed by Shankar !!!

He was major person behind those tough orchestrated songs like - Tere bina yeh aag, Aa ab laut chale etc. or those delicate touch songs from Amarpali.

Even in use of western orchestra he was behind none. take for instance his composed songs like - Chaahe koi mujhe janglee kahe , or Jaan pehchaan ho( ghost world ! ), aiya aiya sucko sucko, aye janeman etc.

no one can beat him in Dance nos- being former danceer himself. Shankar knew all the fine points required for a dance song.
Be it a prayer like " tu pyar ka sagar hai" or lullabies like " main gao tum so ajao" or Ghazals " unke khayal aaye to aate " Shankar had everything to offer.

And then his use of violins has been most fav among all MDs. just check his work in Raat aur din. specially the mutli layer effect created by violins( dil ki girah khol do etc )

and then listen to his Disco songs from 80s. I wonder if any of those MDs from 40s or 50s did ventured into such verstile music !


Its really sad that people are not ready to give due credit to Shankar ji for his music ! Shankar ji were bit straight forward. and had to pay for his bad PR. While Jaikishan who was soft spoken wth good heart is given more credit. which is totally wrong. !



uploading one clip of Shankar ji where he says tht he never went to ask for work ! clip also has shankar saying " hum hai na..........aaj se 25 saal pehle ka music dena ho to hum denge" and you can listen him singing like RAPPER ! ( yes same Shankar who made CH atama sing under him ! )

PS : please ignore any spelling mistakes !

This post has been edited by oye_sonu: Apr 27 2008, 12:39 AM