{"id":2375,"date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2018-01-09T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T04:23:47","slug":"roshan-and-chitragupt-music-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/roshan-and-chitragupt-music-director\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of the Melodies of Roshan and Chitragupt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Melody Makers
(L)\u00a0Chitragupt<\/strong> (November 16, 1917 – January 14, 1991)
Roshan <\/strong>(July 14, 1917 – November 16, 1967)<\/p><\/div>\n

November 16<\/strong>
\nThis date reminds and connects two music directors of Hindi Film World that have the date and the fate to share but for different reasons. They were both highly talented and acknowledged for giving melodious hits yet never got the deserved recognition from the industry.<\/p>\n

Chitragupt (Chitragupt Shrivastava) was born 16th November (1917) and Roshan (Roshan Lal Nagrath) died 16th November (1967). Chitragupt provided music in about 150 films of Hindi and some Bhojpuri language films whereas Roshan gave music to less than half that number. They shared the destiny of not being\u00a0given their due in the industry and they both have a second generation carrying on their legacy.\u00a0Today, a thought for them together makes me revisit some of their classic melodies. We will come up with dedicated separate writeups on these phenomenal music makers soon.<\/p>\n

Chitragupt started in the industry earlier than Roshan. Even though he had\u00a0a double Masters degree, Chitragupt arrived in Bombay owing to his love for music and joined Shree Nath Tripathi (S N Tripathi) as an assistant. Noticing his talents S N Tripathi soon launched Chitragupt as an independent music director.<\/p>\n

Roshan was helped by Motilal to come to Bombay in search of a foot hold in the music field. He assisted a few established music directors until he struck a direct Guru\u2013Chela<\/em> relationship with Anil Biswas. That was through his Bengali wife, Ira, who was acquainted with Anil da.<\/p>\n

\"Anil

Anil Biswas<\/p><\/div>\n

I was talking to Anil da about his assistants once when he commented, \u201cAgar maine kisi ko sach mein kuchh sikhaya hai to woh Roshan hai. Keh sakte hain ke, kaan pakad pakad ke gana banana sikhaya hai. Jaise schoolon mein teacher log sikhate hain, waise hi. Woh mere paas aakar roya karta tha ke mujhse nahin hoga, aur main dhadhas bandhaya karta tha. Bahut nervous tha, magar lagan poori thi, aur mujhe garv hai us par, jo usne seekha, bahut achha istemaal mein laya saari zindagi filmon mein.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

One question I asked was, \u201cDada, aapne kuch aisa kaam qawalliyon ko lekar nahi kiya film sangeet mein, to ye bhi kya aapse hi seekha tha Roshan ne?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYe hunar poori tarah se uska hi tha, mera sikhaya kuchh usme kaam aaya to main us se anjaan hoon, yeh usiki khoobi thi, badi hi umda umda qawalliyan banai hain usne,\u201d<\/em> Anil da replied.<\/p>\n

Today on 16th November, allow me to pay my tribute to two of the very talented music directors of Hindi Films and certainly my personal favourites, through some of their songs.<\/p>\n

After a mediocre run in the industry for some 4-5 years, the song that brought Chitragupt\u00a0huge fame and credit for the first time was from Sindabad The Sailor<\/em> (1952). Starring the original beauty queen Naseem with swash buckling Ranjan this was Ada se jhoomte huye dilon ko chumte huye, yeh kaun muskura diya<\/em>\u00a0in the voices of Rafi and Shamshad, with lyrics by Anjum Jaipuri.<\/p>\n

Ada se jhoomte huye dilon ko chumte huye, yeh kaun muskura diya<\/strong><\/em> (Sindabad The Sailor<\/em>, 1952) – Chitragupt<\/strong> \/ Anjum Jaipuri \/ Rafi & Shamshad Begum<\/span><\/p>\n