{"id":2979,"date":"2016-06-27T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:29:04","slug":"songs-of-rd-burman-gulzar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/songs-of-rd-burman-gulzar\/","title":{"rendered":"Aane Wala Pal Jaane Wala Hai… The Immortal Songs of RD Burman-Gulzar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parichay<\/em>, starring Jeetendra and Jaya Bhaduri was Gulzar and RD Burman’s first film together. Pic: Filmfare<\/p><\/div>\n

Musafir hoon yaaron, <\/em>
\nNa ghar hai na thikana<\/em>
\nMujhe chalte jaana hai, <\/em>
\nBas chalte jaana<\/em><\/p>\n

The first Gulzar \u2013 R D Burman song recorded for Parichay 1972 firmly established a partnership that would set outstanding creative milestones and raise the bar so high that it will become part of film folklore, talked about, revered and appreciated for years to come.<\/p>\n

Their association dates back to S D Burman\u2019s Bandini<\/em> in 1963, which had the first popular song written by Gulzar \u2018Mora gora ang lai le\u2019 for his mentor Bimal Roy, the producer and director of the film. R D Burman (fondly called Pancham) was well-established as an assistant music director with his father during those days. In fact, RD had had his first release as an independent music director in 1961 itself. The contact and their relative age group must have bonded them together for future association.<\/p>\n

Post the success of Bandini<\/em>, Gulzar became a full-fledged lyricist, but was mostly associated with other Bengali music directors like Hemant Kumar and Salil Chowdhury. For his first directorial venture, Mere Apne<\/em> 1971, Gulzar was comfortable using Salil Chowdhury as his music director. It was only in 1972 that Parichay<\/em> brought Gulzar and Pancham together for an incredible mix of superbly created melodies.<\/p>\n

From this remarkable start in 1972 to practically 1991 (when Libaas<\/em> was recorded) they had nineteen years of camaraderie to create history in Hindi film music. All with 117 songs for some 24 films together, they shaped the musical destiny of the film song.<\/p>\n

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19 years of working together from Parichay<\/em> (1972) to Anand Niketan<\/em> (1991) (Pic: Google image search)<\/p><\/div>\n

With Rahul Dev Burman, one can write about similar wonders he created in his teaming with Anand Bakshi (97 films and 543 songs), or Majrooh Sultanpuri (74 films and 402 songs) or even Gulshan Bawra (31 films and 160 songs). But in this exploration, we throw the spotlight on his work with Gulzar.<\/p>\n

By the way, for the record, in 1991 for the Bengali language film Ananda Niketan<\/em> (Mamoni Films, directed by Sujit Guha) Gulzar wrote two songs in Bangla language for R D Burman \u2013 one solo by Amit Kumar and a duet by Amit Kumar and Asha Bhosle. That then, must be the last time they made a song together. Take a peek at this last work of the duo, before we move to the main story.<\/p>\n

Ghum theke uthlo je chaand<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(Ananda Niketan<\/em>, 1991) – Amit Kumar. One of the last two songs of the RD Burman-Gulzar duo<\/span><\/p>\n