- Shankar Jaikishan
Shankar Jaikishan (also credited as Shankar - Jaikishan, Shanker Jaikishan or Shankar - Jaikishen) was a duo of prolific music composers who worked in the
Indian film industry. The team composed music for over 150Bollywood movies. They were the highest paidmusic director s in their time. Fact|date=February 2007Biography
The team of Shankar Jaikishan consisted of Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal. Shankar (
October 15 ,1922 -April 26 ,1987 ) was born in Punjab and trained under the famousHusnlal Bhagatram . He later settled down in Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh ,India . Jaikishan (1929 -September 12 ,1971 ) hails fromVansada ,Gujarat ,India . Before the duo met, Jaikishan worked as a carpenter. They got filmfare awards for the music ofchori chori , "Anari ",Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai andMera Naam Joker . They won first filmfare award for music for the filmchori chori . They both worked as music assistant with Dattaram for Raj Kapoor's first directed filmAag . The film flopped. But soon after, when Raj Kapoor madeBarsaat , he gave break to Shankar-Jaikishan.Barsaat was a musical super hit. The duo never look back. Before the era of Shankar-Jaikishan, there were the legendary musicians like Naushad, Anil Biswas, C. Ramachandra, Husnlal-Bhagatram etc. But with the arrival of Shankar-Jaikishan the new era of melodious and popular music started. Shankar-Jaikishan had a big competition with S.D.Burman, O.P. Nayyar, Roshan, Madan Mohan and Ravi. This was the first big successful musical duo in bollywood. After Shankar-Jaikishan, two more duos arose, namely Kalyanji-Anandji and Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Laxmikant was a great fan of Jaikishan.elected Filmography
*"Barsaat" - 1949
*"Awaara " - 1951
*"Daag" - 1952
*"Aah" - 1953
*"Patita " - 1953
*"Amrapali "
*"Badshah" - 1954
*"Boot Polish" - 1954
*"Seema" - 1955
*"Shree 420 " - 1955
*"Chori Chori " - 1956
*"Halaku" - 1956
*"New Delhi" - 1956
*"Kath Putli " - 1957
*"Yahudi " - 1958
*"Anari " - 1959
*"Chhoti Bahen " - 1959
*"Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai " - 1960
*"Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai " - 1960
*"Singapore" - 1960
*"Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai " - 1961
*"Junglee " - 1961
*"Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja " - 1961
*"Asli Naqli " - 1962
*"Hariyali Aur Raasta " - 1962
*"Professor" - 1962
*"Dil Ek Mandir " - 1963
*"Sangam" - 1964
*"Arzoo" - 1965
*"Gumnaam" - 1965
* "Budtameez " (1966)
*"Love in Tokyo " - 1966
*"Suraj " - 1966
*"Teesri Kasam " - 1966
*"An Evening in Paris " - 1967
*"Around the World" - 1967
*"Brahmachari" - 1968
*"Shikar " - 1968
*"Prince" - 1969
*"Mera Naam Joker " - 1970
*"Pehchan " - 1970
*"Be-Imaan " - 1972External links
* [http://www.geetmanjusha.com/hindi//musician/10.html Lyrics of Hindi Movie Songs composed by Shankar Jaikishan (in Hindi)]
* [http://www.bollango.com/cgi-bin/akf_search.tcl?key=movie&music_director=shankar-jaikishan Complete list of hindi movies with music by Shankar Jaikishan]
* [http://www.bollango.com/cgi-bin/akf_search.tcl?key=song&music_director=shankar-jaikishan Hindi songs composed by Shankar Jaikishan]
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