Lapak Jhapak Tu Aa Re Badarwa Lyrics Plus Recordings And

She has entered the music industry in the late 1980s, and later on her song The Awakening was chosen for the famous Buddha Bar collection.

She has entered the music industry in the late 1980s, and later on he read more.

She has entered the music industry in the late 1980s, and later on her song The Awakening was chosen fo read more.

The pains he took over a single song along with Shankar and Jaikishan was astounding.

The singing legend remains young at heart and keeps busy with shows and performances.

Lapak Jhapak Tu Aa Re Badarwa Lyrics Plus Recordings And

He promises Screen 15 minutes on the phone from Bengalooru, but gives us more than half an hour of characteristically candid chat We, however, begin on a false note, which the veteran singer has probably never delivered in front of a microphone in 3,500-plus recordings and hundreds of performances over 60 years.

For when asked how he feels about entering his 90th year on May 1, he thunders, Listen, my age is not something I wish to discuss I will answer your questions if they are about me and not about my age.

If you have done your homework and are willing to discuss my career, I would love to answer your questions.

As we are on a phone line, he naturally does not recollect our earlier meetings from the 1991 recording for Nana Patekars Prahaar, his last significant Hindi film song, to an hour-plus interview at his Juhu bungalow in Mumbai and several other smaller meetings.

I remember Nana Patekar being after me for days and insisting that only I could sing that song.

He even wanted me to lip-sync it on screen Of course I flatly refused to be on screen an also said that my voice wasnt what it used to be and gently turned him down Then Laxmi (Laxmikant) called up and requested me to come home and listen to the song.

But he clarifies that he is very much familiar with what is happening on the music front today.

But otherwise, it is the sound that has improved tremendously since our times.

But thats more to the credit of the arrangers and therefore with the packaging, right We have some excellent instrumentalists today.

But whats the use of such talent Arrangements minus a good composition mean nothing The lyrics too have degenerated so much.

But when you switch on the television, do you get to listen to anything nice.

Why do you think a singer of the calibre of Kavita Krishnamurthi (Subramaniam) hardly records Its a lie that it is because she is not based in Mumbai.

How could we have sung a mukhda with the word Saala in it We could never have been a part of such indignities.

Mention a composer, actor or film and he can rattle off details as if the events had happened just yesterday.

Having reiterated that Shankar-Jaikishan and Laxmikant-Pyarelal are the composers he rates high (which is what he has stressed in all our talks and has said on television even recently) he has mentioned R.D.Burman and Madan Mohan in other interviews.

Madan Mohan gave me few but such soulful songs, like Tum bin jeevan (Bawarchi) and Kaun aaya mere man ke dwaare (Dekh Kabira Roya), so I am indebted to him.

He deserves the entire credit for the complex classic that was Ek chatur naar - the song was his concept from beginning to end, and Kishore and I just executed it to out best See, it was less to do with the songs they called me for and more with the fact that they never got their dues in their lifetimes.

Laxmi-Pyare were composers who have given me some fantastic songs right from Tum gagan ke chandrama ho in Sati Savitri - what a song that was - to Prahaar.

As for Shankar-Jaikishan - I was closer to Shankar - they were truly magical.

Look, there were all great singers then If a song needed my skills, I was called to sing it.

It was S-Js greatness that they thought I was the right singer for songs like Aaja sanam madhur chandni mein hum (Chori Chori), Lapak jhapak tu aa re badarwa (Boot Polish), Pyar hua ikraar kiya (Shree 420), Ae bhai zaraa dekh ke chalo (Mera Naam Joker), Sur na saje (Basant Bahar) or Jhanak jhanak tori baaje payaliya (Mere Huzoor) and for pitting me against Pandit Bhimsen Joshi in Ketaki gulab juhi in Basant Bahar.