Memories of Shankar Jaikishan - Pune 26th April - A REPORT

Date: 7 May 2003 07:04:02 -0700
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Hello Friends,
Here's the long awaited report on the Memories of Shankar Jaikishan
programme held in Pune.
On Saturday, 26th April, 2003, which was also 16th death anniversary
of Shankar (of SJ duo), an audio-visual programme was organised at
Fergusson Amphitheatre, Pune in memory of Shankar Jaikishan.
The programme was organized by Dattaram Sanman Samiti in association
with Survihar, Pune, Shankar Jaikishan Group & Sangeet Ke Sitarey
Group on Yahoo and was presented by Dr. Padmanabh Joshi of ISRO,
Ahmedabad and the author of Shankar Jaikishan biography in Gujarati -
Sadabahar Sangeetna Yugsarjak.
The programme commenced with a welcome speech by Dr. Prakash Kamath of
Survihar. This was the 50th show of Survihar.
Mayor of Pune city Ms. Dipti Choudhary was the Chief Guest of the
programme. After a short speech, she felicitated Dr. Joshi and then
handed over the cheque of Rs.25,000/- on behalf of Dattaram Sanman
Samiti to Suresh Wadkar (a well-known fashion choreographer & not the
famous singer), son of Shri Dattaram Wadkar.
After the above short felicitation ceremony & exchange of bouquets,
the programme started immediately.
Dr. Padmanabhji made a brief speech about his memories related to
Shankar Jaikishan and then started the programme.
The very first clip that was shown was the Doordarshan News in Marathi
& Hindi about Shanker's death on 26th April, 1987.
After this, another clip was shown where Raj Kapoor expressed his
grief on the demise of Shanker and then went on to talk about his
association with the duo, their major role in the success of his
films and other things at length.
Then Dr. Padmanabhji informed about SJ's introduction to films through
Raj Kapoor and prior to that, their involvement with Prithvi Theatres.
A relevant clip of Shammi Kapoor talking about SJ's pre-Barsaat days
was played. SJ had composed a signature tune for Prithvi Theatres
during those days and a version by singer Suresh Wadkar was played
during the programme.
After this, an interview of Shanker from Tabassum's popular programme
"Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan" was shown. Here Shanker is seen
talking, among other things, about the first song they made for HFM,
viz. "Ambuwa Pe Panchhi" which was later revised by Hasrat Jaipuri to
"Hawa Mein Udta Jaaye" which was an instant hit with the masses......
followed by the video of this song.
Dr. Padmanabhji also talked about the beautiful music piece before the
song "Ye Mera Prem Patra Padhkar" and then it was played followed by
the song.
Similarly, there were many other interesting clips played with rare
footage of Shanker, Jaikishan, Hasrat Jaipuri, Dattaram and others. A
separate list of programme is attached herewith. Towards the end, a
few of the songs had to be shortened due to lack of time.
A video interview of SJ's arranger, Mr. Sebastian was also played.
This was recorded by Dr. Joshi just a month before Sebastian passed
away.
One of the major highlights of the programme was the video footage of
Dattaram recorded by Shahrukh Khan in Goa which was played during the
programme. Here, Dattaram, among other things, talks about his
association with Shankar Jaikishan, the introduction of innovative
rhythms, specially in the song "Ghar Aaya Mera Pardesi". If I am not
mistaken, this must be the only triplet-song ever used in HFM. It
was really great to see Dattaram become very enthusiastic while
talking about the golden period of HFM inspite of an advanced age and
health problems. Dattaram was all praise for the rhythmist who played
'dholki' in these songs, "aisa laga jaise poori zindagi bhar ki
'dholki' usne isi gaane mein baja di, kya baat hain"
After the show, we were fortunate to spend some time with Suresh
Wadkar, he is one great interesting fellow and its a real treat to
listen to him talk about his father's and his own association with
HFM.
On behalf of Dattaram Sanman Samiti, we take this opportunity to thank
Dr. Padmanabh Joshi to share with us his rich treasure on Shankar
Jaikishan and look forward to attending his other programmes in future
also.
A total of 28 songs were played before which Dr.Padmanabh shared some
trivia associated with those songs.
If we are not mistaken this must be the FIRST time members of various
Yahoo! Groups came together to felicitate a LIVING artiste and we hope
that we will come together in future also for similar programmes.
Thanks & Best Regards,
Dattaram Sanman Samiti
SEQUENCE OF CLIPS/SONGS PLAYED DURING THE PROGRAMME :
1. INTRODUCTION BY DR. PADMANABH JOSHI
2. NEWS OF SHANKER'S DEATH ON DOORDARSHAN
3. TRIBUTE BY RAJ KAPOOR TO SHANKER – ALSO TALKS ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATION
WITH THE DUO.
4. SHANKER JAIKISHAN'S PRITHVI DAYS
5. SHAMMI KAPOOR TALKS ABOUT SJ
6. PRAYER SONG – BHAY BHANJANA BY MANNA DE
7. SHANKER'S INTERVIEW BY TABASSUM IN PHOOL KHILE HAIN GULSHAN
8. SONG : JIYA BEQARAR HAIN BY LATA
9. DATTARAM TALKS ABOUT DREAM SEQUENCE OF AWARA
10. SONG : DREAM SEQUENCE (TERE BINA, MUJHKO CHAHIYE, GHAR AAYA)
11. DATTARAM TALKS ABOUT EY MERE DIL KAHI & THEN SONG PLAYED
12. SONG : JA JA JA RE BY LATA
13. DATTARAM TALKS ABOUT TUMHARE HAIN TUMSE
14. SONG : TUMHARE HAIN TUMSE BY RAFI/ASHA/CHORUS
15. SONG : HAIN SABSE MADHUR WO GEET BY TALAT
16. SONG : SEEMA KAHA JA RAHA BY RAFI
17. SONG : HALAKU DIL KA NA KARNA AITBAAR BY RAFI/LATA
18. SONG FROM MAIN NASHE MEIN HU BY MUKESH
19. SONG : CHORI CHORI JAHA MAIN JAATI HU BY MANNA/LATA
20. SONG : POOJA HOLI AAI PYARI BY RAFI/LATA
21. SONG : RANGOLI CHHOTI SI YE DUNIYA BY KISHORE
22. SONG : KATHPUTHLI TITLE SONG (2ND PART) BY LATA
23. SONG : SEEMA BAAT BAAT MEIN BY LATA
24. SONG : NAI DELHI MURLI BY LATA
25. SONG FROM KATHPUTHLI BY LATA
26. SONG : BEGUNAH EY PYASE DIL BEZUBA BY MUKESH (ONLY AUDIO)
27. SONG : JWALA DEKHO JI
28. SONG : JIS DESH AA AB LAUT CHALE BY MUKESH/LATA
29. SONG : SANGAM YE MERA PREM PATRA BY RAFI/LATA
30. SONG : BETI BETE RADHIKE TUNE BANSURI BY RAFI
31. SONG : RAJKUMAR AAJA AAI BAHAAR BY LATA
32. SONG : ZINDAGI - MUSKURA LAADLE BY MANNA DE
33. SONG : SURAJ - KAISE SAMJHAU BY RAFI
34. SONG : TEESRI KASAM - SAJAN RE BY MUKESH
35. SONG : MERA NAAM JOKER - JAANE KAHA BY MUKESH
36. SONG : DIL EK MANDIR – JAANE WALE BY RAFI/SUMAN
Special thanks to these following people for their valuable support to
the programme :
1) Agarkar
2) Akbar Ahmed (Singer Mukesh Group)
3) Ashutosh Bhupatkar
4) Atul Karmarkar
5) Atul Sapre
6) Balasaheb Bhide
7) Balwant Bhide
8) Bhaskar Chakravarty
9) Binay Bhushan (Rafi Group)
10) Dian Pereira
11) Dipanjali Rao
12) Firdaus Qureshi (SJ Group)
13) Kaustubh Pingale (Kishore Group)
14) Kshiteesh Deshmukh
15) Ms. Priya Gaineos (Asha/SKS Group)
16) Ms. Ritu Chandra (RMIM/SKS Group)
17) Mukund Gore
18) Nilesh Khonde (SKS Group)
19) Omkar Mandke
20) Pankaj Vohra (Singer Mukesh)
21) Parekh Ashok (Rafi Group)
22) Prabhakar Dhumal
23) Prabhakar Mujumdar
24) Pradeep Lad (RMIM)
25) Prakash Patil
26) Pronob Bhattacharjee
27) Rajan Raut
28) Randhir Dange (SKS Group)
29) Ratna Kataria
30) S.Kumar Iyer
31) Saini Joginder (SKS Group)
32) Samar Nakhate
33) Sandhu
34) Sarika Bisht (SJ Group)
35) Seth Narendra (SKS Group)
36) Sharad Medhavi (Oracle Corpn. India)
37) Sharad Shinde
38) Sonu (SJ Group)
39) Subhash Keskar
40) Subramaniam Varahoor
41) Sudhir Deshpande
42) Suhas Phadke
43) Sunil Juneja
44) V. M. Chitnis & Mr. Vaidya
45) Vasant Dhupkar
46) Vinayak Gore (RMIM/Shailendra Group)
We also thank the following organisations for their valuable support :
Alurkar Music House (Suresh Alurkar)
Bank Of Maharashtra
Central Bank of India
Chitraganga - Mr. Manoj Puranik
Hamrahi
Hotel Savera (Umesh Shetty)
Indian Express
Institute of Management Development & Research (IMDR)
Padmanabh Hinge (A.V. Bhat & Co)
Pepsi (Nandini Kelkar, Pritesh, Dian Pereira)
Pradeep Mali
Navdikar Musicals (Hemkant Navdikar)
Oracle India (Bangalore)
Parampara Food Products
Rohan Constructions
Sakal
Seagull Advertising (Vijay Nandgaonkar)
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad
The Times of India