Vindication of multi-music composers!
Trivia Tunes: When a Malayalam film called Kalyanji Anandji was released in 1995
Between AR Rahman and Amar Singh’s original creations “Chamkila”, we now have the first feature film with a truly creative soundtrack this year. The music of Amar Singh Chamkila is thus the rare album where multiple composers have their due, as the late legendary singer’s actual songs were composed by Charanjit Singh (who composed music for just one Hindi film). Kohr, 1993), Joy Sarkar, SN Gulati and KS Narula. These are performed in the film by the artistes led by Diljit Dosanjh in the title role, while the soundtrack has been complemented by AR Rahman’s original compositions sung by both established singers and newcomers.
Incredible nomenclature!
It’s crazy but a Malayalam romantic comedy directed by Balu Kiriyath starring Mukesh, Harisree Ashokan and Annie in the lead roles was released in 1995 titled: Kalyanji Anandji!! The film with music by SP Venkatesh is said to have been a hit! What’s even more interesting is the fact that her lead actor was Mukesh, also the same Surname one of KA’s most popular singers!
As old as the film!
The only other well-known Hindi film to share its name with a composer is Preetham (1971) starring Shammi Kapoor, Leena Chandavarkar and Vinod Khanna. Of course the film English The writing was different and the composer Pritam appeared on the scene only three decades later! Interestingly, Pritam was born on June 14 and the film was released on July 26 of the same year – 1971!
When fan Leena Chandavarkar missed meeting Kishore Kumar
Speaking of Leena Chandavarkar, we all know that she sang the backing track for the disco duet:kiss Me‘ with Kishore Kumar in lover boy (1981), where her voice was transferred to Meenakshi Seshadri. At that time they were husband and wife. But the first time we heard them together was in “The history of the village‘ In Shy (1974). At the time, Leena told me that she was just a (huge) fan and was excited that she could incorporate some words into the romantic song. But thanks to the traffic jam (!!), there was a delay in the recording and Kishore had already left the studio by the time she arrived. But as a pure fan, she soon married her idol!
When a singing star gets playback voices!
Suraiya, Noorjehan and more – Hindi cinema has had singing stars who never sang for others or anyone else to sing for them. But poor Sulakshana Pandit was an exception. Although she was allowed to sing for various actresses on a few occasions (including Tanuja, Rekha and Moushumi Chatterjee), two composers refused to use her voice even for themselves – RD Burman (who set her to music). element And Bundelbaaz) and Ravindra Jain, who used Sulakshana’s voice in her two lead characters, Salakhen And Raazfor other Artist! These two composers only got Lata and Asha to sing for them.
It’s amazing how many films a big star could release in a single year back in the day, and with so many composers, the sky seemed to be the limit for a single star’s films to have the same composer within a single year. In 1987, Laxmikant-Pyarelal composed music for a record eight Movies with Dharmendra—Government, iron, protector of the land, who will dispense justice? My duty is my religion, the tongue of man, the call of justice. And Jaan Hatheli Par– eight films, four of which were successful at the box office to varying degrees!
The ‘most recent’ example was Kareena Kapoor Khan making four films with composer Anu Malik in a single year –I have a lot to say, Yaadein, stranger (in which she also contributed to a song) and Asoka – The Greatall in 2001. Add her debut in 2000, refugeeand in another rare case, all of their first five films were made with the same composer!
Cross-lingual melodies
And talk about it guardian of the land, The prolific Laxmikant-Pyarelal has made 500 Hindi films and 10 regional films and recycled them Tamil Song, “Pallavi illamal padugiren” (sung by SP Balasubamaniam) in Uyire Unnakaga (1986) as duet Mohammed Aziz-Anuradha Paudwal, Jab pyaar kiya confessed in this film.
Since composers composed films or songs in multiple languages, it was quite common for them to recycle their own tunes in another language, like Salil Chowdhury, who made Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam films. In 1972, Hollywood’s Conrad Rooks directed the English film Shashi Kapoor-Simi Garewal. Siddhartha, in which Hemant Kumar composed background music and two Bengali songs. One of them, ‘O nadi re ekti kathai‘ used the same melody as ‘Oh restless heart‘, for which he composed and sang Bad luckhis own production from 1964.
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