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She started her career opposite Shammi Kapoor in the film Dil Deke Dekho in 1959. The film did great business with hit songs composed by Usha Khanna including “dil deke dekho” sung by Rafi. After that she acted in musical blockbusters most of which were directed by Nasir Hussain. She was sublime in the film Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai opposite Dev Anand. The songs in the film composed by Shankar Jaikishan like “sau saal pehle”, “yeh ankhe uff yumma”, “teri zulfon se”, “jiya ho” became rich assets of history…..and also ”Sayonara” cannot be forgotton and she will remain in HFM’s history as a Japanese girl, the song sung by Lataji under S-J baton.

SJ’S music can be counted as it  started with Lata in Barsat and ended with Lata in 1975 in Sanyasi, the glaring glory which never happened. For Raj Kapoor, SJ founded Mannada and Mukesh and for Shammi and Rajendra Kumar Rafi sahab was very close to th…em…despite this they are the only musicians who used maximum of male female voices in the industry. However again, their using two voices for the same song was most popular and people had to flock cinema hall, which version is best sung. Another use of same voice for two different versions of their songs include Kathputli…bol ri kathputli dori and this songs second version is fabulous. and next example of Mohd Rafi singing in ”boyfriend”….muje apna yaar bana lo phir ho jaaun sansar ka – in a jouous mood in a train in Hariyanavi,,,,and the other sad verson one antara, is most beautiful,a desperate Shammi and soft rhythm and melody. True film music lovers will love to hear the songs of that golden era today also, whether gals and guys, old and young alike.

Happy u PEOPLE joined the grt music stalwarts the HFM ever had and now we do not expect to have further…SJ had 300 solos of Lata in their 2 decades career which wud hv increased, if there was no ego between them a few times, and SJ had to shift …to Mubarak Begam, Suman Kalyanpur, Shardaji for many beautiful songs…and I am more than confident that it was Lata only who culd do justice to their creations. Even Asha was less in their songs…only example, the aalaps they created in their tunes were in Lata songs only, since none other female voice could reach that volume and ‘murkis’ Lata easily handled.

Good Sangeeta, yesterday I heard on ‘Masti’ channel…though hearing many times since long, I was again mesmerized by SJ’s super-duper tune with single and collective use of violins, Lata’s virgin voice, Kumkum simply superb and Rajkumar as usual in his style…Dhumal playing ‘ektara’….This was an Item no. of that time in B&W….SEE THE DIFFERENCE, now Munni and Sheila in semi nudes and next day forgotten….the era was superb and still holds good after more than 50 years…..Main ho gai kisi ki koi mera ho gaya, kya dekha tha tujh mein dil tera hos gaya, ye sochte hi sochte savera ho gaya.(UJALA ho gaya)…Listen to the excellent ‘dholak’ by Dattaram, lovingly called ”Dattu-theka”.

Happy u joined the grt music stalwarts the HFM ever had and now we do not expect to have further…SJ had 300 solos of Lata in their 2 decades career which wud hv increased, if there was no ego between them a few times, and SJ had to shift …to Mubarak Begam, Suman Kalyanpur, Shardaji for many beautiful songs…and I am more than confident that it was Lata only who culd do justice to their creations. Even Asha was less in their songs…only example, the aalaps they created in their tunes were in Lata songs only, since none other female voice could reach that volume and ‘murkis’ Lata easily handled. it was started with Lata in Barsat and ended with Lata in 1975 in Sanyasi, the glaring glory which never happened. For Raj Kapoor, SJ founded Mannada and Mukesh and for Shammi and Rajendra Kumar Rafi sahab was very close to them…despite this they are the only musicians who used maximum of male female voices in the industry. However again, their using two voices for the same song was most popular and people had to flock cinema hall, which version is best sung. Another use of same voice for two different versions of their songs include Kathputli…bol ri kathputli dori and this songs second version is fabulous. and next example of Mohd Rafi singing in ”boyfriend”….muje apna yaar bana lo phir ho jaaun sansar ka – in a jouous mood in a train in Harinayanavi,,,,and the other sad verson one antara, is most beauriful.

SJ composed most of their tunes for female voices, keeping IN MIND Lataji, their first choice since ‘Barsaat’, which flew her career to stardom and the years followed saw Lataji at her best with Shankar Jaikishan tunes: Ghar aaya mera pardesi to ‘chal sanyasi mandir mein’ i.e. from 1949 till 1975…..MANY MANY HAPPY RETURS OF THE DAY TO MELODY QUEEN ON 28th SEPT….LATAJI AND HER TREASURE LIVE LONG.Her sweetness of voice compelled composers to give the best tunes ever created in Indian film history. Along with Rafi, Lata had the record of singing songs of almost all the composers of the golden age. Everlasting gems of Lata include “tu jaha jahan chalega” composed by Madanmohan, “duniya kare sawal” composed by Roshan, “hume tum mil gaye humdum” composed by Shankar Jaikishan, “phir teri kahani yaad aye” composed by Naushad, “ajare pardesi” composed by Salil Choudhury, “allah tero naam” composed by Jaidev, “piya tose naina lage re” composed by SD Burman, to name a few.