Shanker: He was the total Musician – Raju Bharatan

Raju Bharatan met Shanker at a special piano demonstration for him in the composer’s room . Later Shanker took him to his Famous music room at Mahalakshmi, where this total composer, with the aid of certain musicians, recreated the whole art of SJ’s scoring. From the tape of that memorably live soiree emerges this per-sonalised piece on Shanker on the occasion of the master composer’s seventh death anniversary, falling on April 26. Articles Complied By Hemant Parikh. From Screen, 29April,1994

Death of a Legend In the passing away of Shanker

                    Death of a Legend In the passing away of Shanker, the country has lost one of its foremost musical craftsmen,  laments NALIN SHAH.   Music director Shanker burst upon the musical firmament like a meteor with the release of “Barasat” in 1949.When he suddenly died on April 26,1987 his failure and frustrations of the [...]

acrimonious debate about Shankar-Jaikishan

A lot of acrimonious debate has been going on here on a topic that, to be very frank, has been debated ad nauseam for the past forty years or so. In fact I think it has become the norm rather than exception to debate these things whenever anything about SJ is discussed. You are simply [...]

AA NEELE GAGAN TALE PYAAR HUM KAREIN

Hi All! Ungrateful People from the Hindi Film World are shying away from relating themselves with Shankar-Jaikishan, Even people who once were on mercy of these great music makers to make their career shine with their music are now mum and not want to remember the duo for their contribution. BUT WE THE FANS OF [...]

GATEWAY OF STUFFS ON SHANKAR-JAIKISHAN

One often wonders are meetings ‘By Chance’ or are they meant to happen….take Shanker-Jaikishan meeting…During his early years, Shankar worked at Prithvi Theaters, and used to frequently visit the office of a Gujrati director Chandravadan Bhatt who had promised Shankar that he would give him a break as a Music Director as and when he [...]

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