Jul 24, 2012 09:52 AM
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How can we forget the Duo of composers who gave songs all the way from Jaan pehchan ho( a melody still very famous in the west), Badan pe sitare(a tune that has been used in many songs in current Bollywood) baharon phool barsao(a very nostalgic tune that is the only happy song ever to be created in the raga shivrangini)all the way to classical movies such as basant bahar. There are many other great composers such as RD & SD burman, Laxmikant-pyarelal, naushad, khayyam etc when we analyse their music on the scale of versatility they perhaps would be nowhere close to Shankar Jaikishan. If RD burman gave music to movies like Yadon ki baraat, kati patang and hum kisi se kum nahin there isnt a single movie in which he gave classical numbers.
Same goes for SD burman who made some very good semi classical and classical numbers but had a better succes in making more western numbers such as rangeela re after RD Burman started to assist him. Naushad and Khayyam definately had very good classical numbers but not a lot of western numbers. If you are a person who is educated in music you would be able to tell the difference between music that is made today compared to the music that was made in 50s and 60s. 50s and 60s definately had better music that 70s and later because Shankar Jaikishan used massive orchestra's that gave you songs that were truly special such as Likhe jo khat tujhe, Dil ke jharokhe mein, kaun hai jo sapno mein aaya(a song that was a tune from elvis presley but sounded much better with the type of composition SJ converted it into). The song awara hoon was very famous in countries like Russia, England and France because European type of music.
If anyone ever heard Scottish music you would be surprised to hear how much it resembles the song dil ki nazar se from the movie anari. As far as I know AR rehman is below every music director from the old bollywood. The problen is that no composer today inculding rehman knows how to make a raga based composition. We are pretty much forgetting our own heritage and going after music played in the west. SJ proved that what a fusion between classical and western can do in songs like baharon phool barsao(raga shivrangini) and yaad na jaye beete dino ki(raga kirwani). A person who is trained in western would definitely be able to identify the jazz and rock and roll style in Shankar Jaikishan compositions.
A classical musician or singer will be able to identify the raga on which any of SJ compositions would be based on but not from rehmans music because there is no raag in his music just rythm and so called "western melody" that he hasnt even mastered properly.
