Biography

Shankar Jaikishan music, synonym of Indian Film music, has far reaching impact in India and outside. The duo moulded music and musical mood of masses since 1949, and are still considered to be the best music composers fr...

Shankar, the more versatile of the two, was a prolific musician with mastery over dozens of instruments, Indian classical music and dance forms. He was primarily responsible for building Shankar Jaikishan team with dedic...

Shankar was entirely dedicated for musical innovations during his whole life; it was his diwanapan. He created diverse tunes and musical edifices beyond human imagination during his career spanning from 1949 to 1987. ...

Jaikishan can safely be termed as the best ever composer of romantic tunes. His ability to compose background music is considered unparalleled even by his contemporaries. The example tunes ascribed to Jaikishan are Te...

Shankar was basically from Punjab, but his initial years were spent in Hyderabad. His full name was Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi, and he was an accomplished tabla player and dancer when he came to Mumbai. Later he assis...

Shankar and Jaikishan first met when both were waiting for a director outside his office seeking some musical assignment. They developed an instant bond due to similar musical interests and ambitions. In their meeting...

While assisting Ram Ganguly in music compositions, Shankar was ambitious. He had managed to show his ability in composing music independently to Raj Kapoor. Meanwhile, the showman was looking for a new creative team for...

Riding over huge success in their first movie, Shankar Jaikishan needed more assignments to prove that they were not just one-time phenomenon. They started taking assignments apart from those. Their albums of Awara, Nagi...

With each movie Shankar Jaikishan brought an ever fresh blend to contemporary music. They concentrated in building unique orchestra form through great exploitation of Indian, oriental and western music, and with marathon...

Early sixties saw Jaikishan contributing almost equal number of scores as Shankar. Both released batteries of scores and surpassed all musical norms. Shankar-jaikishani orchestra started increasing to a jumbo size an...

Shankar Jaikishan started taking more assignments, but the quality remained intact. The series of albums with fast dance scores and slow romantic melodies became saleable pattern and success-movie-formula. Shankar Jai...

With increasing work pressure, Shankar and Jaikishan started giving music independently. Lyricist Shailendra (for the next few years until his untimely death) mostly worked with Shankar and lyricist Hasrat Jaipuri with J...

With achievement of incredible fame and signing for numerous movies (towards late sixties), the music quality deteriorated with respect to their own standard. Non-musical phenomenon entered into their musical pursuit. T...

Jaikishan fell ill and died in the year 1971. In late sixties, Jaikishan was producing more number of popular scores compared to his senior counterpart, and was ahead in the popularity chart during that time. With J...

Shankar kept the brand name intact by retaining the name Shankar Jaikishan even after Jaikishan's death. But situation was quite different for genius Shankar then. The year 1971 saw release of maximum number of albums by...

In spite of all odds, Shankar continued his music pursuit single-handedly and produced some highly popular albums like Beimaan (the last film awarded by Filmfare to Shankar Jaikishan), Naina, Lal Patthar, Seema (New), Va...

Even after Sanyasi, Shankar continued providing music for movies though he also associated himself with TV programs in the early eighties. These years also saw some novel scores being created. Notable albums during this...

Shankar died in the night of April 26, 1987 due to a massive heart attack as known from his family source. The world came to know about his death a day after the cremation was over. As their public tributes, the showm...

Shankar Jaikishan music has a distinct character. People easily recognise a score to be of Shankar Jaikishan if it is melodious accompanied by soothing but high octave orchestra. Their music varies from fast-paced ones t...

It is always very surprising to know that Shankar Jaikishan experimented with 90-plus singers and 60-plus lyricists. In spite of successful music albums with particular singers or lyricists, they used to use different pe...

When asked, Shankar had once told that their learning started with Indian classical music, and they went ahead for other clans of music later. However, the ease of use of both Indian classical and western music, and the...

Shankar Jaikishan gave birth to distinct persona for each actor in their movies. They created a chaplin-like tramp image for Raj Kapoor, aggressive romantic image for Shammi Kapoor, and gentle and around-the-tr...

When Shankar and Jaikishan started as a team, it was a strategic decision that changed the musical history of India later. Though nobody knows the reason for going together for such an assignment as it is the first time...

Shankar Jaikishan exploited and extended musical horizon in the twentieth century, and gave young Indian Republic an expression www.hqreplicas.com and an identity in the field of music. They became source of inspiration...

Today, Shankar Jaikishan music is popular in India and abroad due to its sheer quality. However, many of their albums are not being made available by the copyright owners. Unfortunately, many of their scores are being re...

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