Music Directors of the Millennium Laxmikant-Pyarelal

Topic started by Ajay Poundarik (@ ppp-210-214-55-3.srt.sify.net) on Wed Nov 8 00:15:02 .
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Dear Music Lovers.

When the discussion about the film comes I always feel that any movie is remembered because of its songs only. It is recognized by its music only. The film music is the heart of the any film.

So much has been talked about the star of the millennium, actress of the millennium, film of the millennium and so on. But so far not a single magazine has written about the Music Directors of the Millennium I mean to say it is Laxmikant-Pyarelal who have dominated the film music since 1963 (Parasmani) down to 1998(Diwana Mastana).

The duo has given some remarkable music in past and had maintained the consistency for about 37 years which itself is great feat. Since 1963 till the TV era started the Laxmikant –Pyarelal was the house hold name. Laxmikant – Pyarelal has won as many as seven filmfare awards but they could have won even more than that. The films like Sati Savitri, Sant Gyaneshwar,Aaye Din Baharake, Farz, Khilona, , Intquam, Shor, Bobby, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Ishwar, Utsav, Tejab, Sursangam, Khalnayak etc deserve to win the best music award, which they narrowly missed, for the respective years.

The duo has given all type of variety of music whether it classical, folk, westernized or disco. Most of the songs composed by them were catchy, melodious and was liked by all classes. The songs composed by Laxmikant –Pyarelal were used to become most popular in most of the villages of India. Till today most of the old tunes of the duo are so popular that they are being rendered in marriages and functions by changing words.

Laxmikant-Pyarelal has dominated the most popular radio programme “ Binaca Geet Mala”, in sixties, seventies and eighties, weekly count down programme broadcast by radio Shree Lanka.

Moreover the Laxmikant –Pyarelal had worked with all the topmost Producers and directors of their time. Just for instance V. Shantaram (Jal Bin Machhali…) Raaj Kapoor( Bobby, SSS and Premrog), Manoj Kumar(Shor and many more), Yash Chopra(Daag), B. R. Chopra(Dastaan), Raj Khosla(Anita, MGMD, Do Raste and many more), Man Mohan Desai(Amar Akabar Anthony and many more), K. Vishwanath( Sargam, Sursangam and many more),Hrishikesh Mukharjee(Satyakam), Prasad Productions(Milan, Khilona, Jeene Ki Raah and many more) Rajashree Productions ( Dosti, Taqdeer, Uphar and Piya Ka Ghar). Ramanand Sagar (Charas and more), Subhash Ghai( Karz, Hero and many more), Shekhar Kapoor (Mr India),David Dhavan(Diwana Mastana). Just to add few more J. Omprakash, Mohan Kumar, Shakti Samanta, Satyen Bose, Dalal Guha, Raja Nawathe, Shreedhar, Raghoonath Zalani, Babubhai Mistry, Vijay Bhatt, Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul Rawail, Brij, Vijay Anand, Darasingh, Raajkumar Kohli, Raajkumar Santoshi, Nitin Mohan, Mehul Kumar, Raj Kanwar Satish Kaushik etc…The list includes the great Producers and Directors of yesterdays and toady’s. The songs of their respective films were super duper hit and are still popular even though some of them are more than 30 years old.

It is not easy to maintain the consistency in this field. But Laxmikant-Pyarelal were able to do it so, for more than 37 years since their emergence with the super hit music of Parasmani in 1963. No any other music director is able to do so. Laxmikant-Pyarelal had maintained the popularity of their music in the era of all time great Music directors like Shankar Jaikishan, Kalyanji-Anandji, Madan Mohan, Jaidev, Khaiyyam, S. D. Burman, Ravi, Salil Chaudhari, O. P. Nayyar, R. D. Burman, Ravindra Jain, Bhappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Anand Milind, Nadeem Shravan, Annu Malik, Jatin Lalit, A. R. Rehaman and so on till the death of Laxmikant in 1998. And that is why they are the Music Directors of the millennium.


For further details also visit http://laxmikant.pyar.com


Thanking you.


AJAY POUNDARIK



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