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R. D.Burman suddenly turns prolific and enters the top echelons. Many of his songs this year will be handpicked for remixes three decades later. Kati Patang is the first of his four major hits. The Kishore Kumar triumvirate 'Yeh shaam mastani...','Pyar diwana hota hai...' and 'Yeh jo mohabbat hai...' Lata's 'Na koi umang hai...' Mukesh's'Jis gali mein...' as well as Asha's 'Mera naam hai Shabnam...' and Lata-Kishore's 'Haath na chhodenge...' combine for an all-hit score.
Caravan has RD going folksy except for the situational 'Monica o my darling...' sung by RD himself with Asha Bhosle. One of the career-finest scores of the composer, Caravan also boasts of exquisite yet hit songs like'Are ho goriya kahaan tera des...' 'Chadti jawani...' 'Kitna pyaara waada...' 'Dilbar dil se pyaare...' 'Daiyyan yeh main kahaan aa phansi...' 'Hum to hain rahi dil ke...' and'Ab jo mile hain to...'. Hare Rama Hare Krishna and Amar Prem are the two other major master-strokes of the genius, but these scores are released in late 1971 and will create sensations in 1972 along with the films.
Two superstars of the '70s get to enact their career-first songs under this composer. Zeenat Aman makes her debut in the song-less suspense thriller Hulchul, which has Pancham scoring the background music. But before Hare Rama Hare Krishna, the trend-setting actress does a small role in the flop comedy Hungama and gets to enact the Lata-Mukesh duet 'Suraj se jo kiran ka naata...' with Vinod Khanna. Two more songs from this film, 'Kacchi kali kachnaar ki...' and 'Wah ri qismat...' are fleetingly popular.
Pyar Ki Kahani is Amitabh Bachchan's third release, and the first one in which he gets to lip-synch songs. The Rafi numbers 'Ek pate ki baat sunaaon...' and 'Koi aur duniya mein...' mark AB's musical debut, and at that point of time, Lata-Kishore's 'Ek khabar aayi...' and Lata's 'Umar hai satra saal...' are the more popular numbers.
Buddha Mil Gaya has Pancham scoring the timeless Kishore solo 'Raat kali ek khwab mein aayi...' along with 'Oye buddho lambo lambo...' 'Bhali bhali si ek soorat...' and the classical number 'Aayo kahaan se Ghanashyam...'.
Paraya Dhan boasts of popular songs like 'Aaj unse pehli mulaqaat...' 'Aao jhoome gaayen...' and'Tu pyar tu preet...' and Adhikar is symbolic of the quick ascent of Kishore Kumar is--vis Rafi as the latter is relegated to being the comedian's voice in'Rekha o Rekha...' and Kishore Kumar gets the hero's number 'Koi maane ya na maane...'. Ramesh Pant, veteran scriptwriter, makes his debut as lyricist. In a single year, RD composes two songs for Pran in this film and in Lakhon Mein Ek. But it is the twin version Kishore/Lata number 'Chanda o chanda...' that achieves hit status from the latter.
Little known facts about RD Burman IndiaGlitz [Monday, March 06, 2006]
Pancham introduced the twin track effect in 'Baharon Ke Sapne', which he later used to create the mesmerizing 'Qatra Qatra Miltee Hai' [Ijaazat] and a few more songs.
He also pioneered the use of electronic organ in Indian Films with the song 'O Mere Sona Re' [Teesri Manzil]
RD was, as Gulzar says, as good a craftsman as a musician.
In 'Chura Liya' he used the sound of a spoon hitting a glass
For the 'Kitaab' song, 'Master Ji Ki Aa Gayee Chitthhi', he brought some desks from a classroom in the studio while recording and used them as a percussion
In 'Abdullah' he used the sound of a bamboo whistle with a balloon tied to it for a song
Once to get the sound of raindrops, he spent the whole rainy night in his house's balcony recording the sound he wanted
In the song 'O Manjhi Re' from the movie 'Khushboo', RD Burman used bottles with water filled at different levels and created a hollow sound by blowing into them and this sound effect was used with the orchestra
During the recording of 'Hum Dono Do Premi' [Ajnabee] the musicians were on strike. So he improvised the song with emptied-out musical interludes and just listen the song
Out of his 331 released movies 292 were in Hindi, 31 in Bangla, 3 in Telugu, 2 each in Tamil & Oriya and 1 in Marathi. RD also composed for 5 TV serials in Hindi and Marathi. He also scored a large number of non-film songs in Bangla [also known as Pooja songs or modern songs], which are available in different albums. He did a song for a small documentary film called 'Maa Ki Pukar' too, in 1975.
Starting independent music company in 1961 with 'Chote Nawab', he did 331 films and 4 non-film albums. Before coming onto his own, he assisted his father S.D. Burman for long.
Dada Burman used Pancham's tune 'Ae meri topee palat ke aa' in 'Fantoosh'. Pancham was only 9 when he composed the tune.
For Pyaasa, SD used his son's 'Sar Jo Tera Chakraye', which became a huge hit
Amit Kumar, Abhijeet and Shabbir Kumar were given their first breaks by Pancham
R.D. Burman made his acting debut in Mehmood's 'Bhoot Bangla'. Later in 'Pyaar Ka Mausam' toohe gave a hilarious performance as Mr. Popat Lal.
R.D played the mouth organ for his friends Laxmikant Pyarelal in a song in 'Dosti' and also in a movie for Kalyanji Anandji.
The mouth organ played in the song 'Hai Apna Dil To Awara' sung by Hemant Kumar in the film 'Solva Saal' is played by RD Burman himself
Both Lata and Bhupinder won a National Award for the song 'Beeti Na Bitaaye Raina' from 'Parichay', and this song was composed in a hotel room in no time
R.D. Burman won the Filmfare award only 3 times [Sanam Teri Kasam, Masoom, 1942-A Love Story] while being nominated 16 times for the award
New Delhi: Versatile singer Asha Bhosle pays homage to her late husband and music composer R.D. Burman with a medley of his lesser-known numbers in a brand new album "Asha Reveals The Real RD".
An album featuring 22 personal favourites of Pancham - as Rahul Dev Burman was popularly known - has been recreated under the supervision of the singer herself.
Recalls Asha: "I feel I know what Pancham liked best. He preferred rhythmic songs. But he wasn't allowed to do enough of it. He used to be hugely restricted by what the producers wanted. In this new album I have included one of my cabaret songs 'Karle pyar karle', which was credited to S.D. Burman but was actually composed by his son (Pancham)."
Asha says: "It was something that my son Anand and I thought about. There are so many good compositions of Pancham that went unnoticed. It could be, because the songs were filmed on second leads or vamps. In those days people used to listen to the songs picturised on main leads only. Now, of course, times have changed... 'Do labzon ki hai dil ki kahani' in 'The Great Gambler' is still popular. But I prefer 'O diwanon dil sambhalo' from the same film.
"My son and I decided we must include those songs in this new homage to Pancham. It has 'Aaj ki raat koi aane ko hai' from 'Anamika'. I heard it when Kronos Quartet played it in their album with me. That's when I decided to include it in this album."
Her selections of song are entertaining. If she has chosen one of her lesser-known cabaret numbers 'Aaj ji raat koi aane ko hai' picturised on Helen in 'Anamika', she has also chosen Kishore Kumar's 'Pyar diwana hota hai' which R.D. had lovingly composed for 'Kati Patang'.
Asha is exultant about her eclectic excursion into the art and heart of her husband.
"I've selected songs that I hadn't sung originally, like Kishore Kumar's 'Hum bewafa' ('Shalimar'), Usha Uthup's 'One, two cha cha cha' ('Shalimar') and my sister's (Lata Mangeshkar) 'Jaane kya baat hai' ('Sunny'). I can't sing it as well as Didi. But I hope listeners like it."
For the evergreen singer no song is big or small. It's the way that you occupy that space given within the parameters of a tune that makes it special.
"If I get just one song in one soundtrack I don't look at it as a chance to prove how well I can sing. I just do my best for the composition. I treat every song like a first sing. I've never treated any song casually," she says.
For the first time extensive bass, strings, chorus sections and live rhythm and percussions have been used in this album. The songs have been re-arranged by Nitin Shankar. The album was released in the capital Friday.
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