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Remembering Laxmikant ji

Laxmikant S. Kudalkar passed away due to kidney failure on Monday 25th May 1998. He was 62 years old when he passed away.

Laxmikant was born on the Laxmi Poojan day if Diwali in 1937. He spent his childhood amidst dire poverty in the slums of Vile-Parle (E) Mumbai which in those days was comparable to today's Dharavi slums. Due to his father's early death, Laxmikant's academic education ended after passing Standard 4. Laxmikant faced a lot of hardships in this phase. He had to hang on to petty jobs in Mumbai and Pune and has even survived some of those days on plain water, without food ! In Pune city he has even worked as a newspaper delivery boy. It was here that some street-side toy music instruments vendor had who was playing the harmonica (mouth organ, something new then) had an enchanting effect on him. He purchased one of those for six anna (= 37.5 paise). Later in life, he was also impressed by the mandolin, and on his own developed a knack to play the same starting off with his friends' borrowed one. He used to play on street functions and mesmerise people with his art. Laxmikant's father's friend, a musician himself then advised him and his elder brother Shashikant to learn music. Accordingly Laxmikant learnt to play the mandolin and his elder brother learnt to play the tabla. In spite of spending two full years in the company of known mandolin player Hussain Ali, Laxmikant was never really given an opportunity to operationally learn how to play the instrument. However he mastered this art on his own. He began organising and performing in Indian Classical Instrumental Music concerts in order to earn some money. Later Laxmi did get the opportunity to learn the mandolin from known player Bal Mukund Indorker and also to learn the violin from none other than Husnalal of from the popular duo of Music directors Husnalal Bhagatram, especially in the 1940's. All this occurred when Laxmikant was barely 10 years old

-- text Lp webste

Laxmikant was a master in creating melidous , easy to sing tunes. which were
hugely popular. Its well knwn that mostly it was Laxmikant who used to make
Tunes and if required Pyarelal used to do modifications to it.

Remembering laxmikant ji on this sad day.

for LP fans I did had few plans. but got few exams. abhi isse se kaam chala lo.

As a tribute to Laxmikant ji Iam uploading one of my faav inspirational song from pyasa sawan whose words says....

"tera saath hai to mujhe kaya kami hai andhero se bhi mil rahi roshni hai"

Dosto Lxmikant ji nehi hai hamare saath but unka music hamesha hamare saath hai.Shayad unki kami puri karta hua.

sorry for mistkaes thodi jaldi mein hoon

ek LP fan

Sonu

PS : three more songs availble of this movie. as per request.

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Thanks Sonu. I couldn't keep my promise cause of
power failure.

Nice info, pic and song.

LAXMI PYARE HF SPECIAL

Tune in

Tomorrow

9.00 PM

SHRADHANJALI:

Just as a lay man I would say that the appearance of the Duo on the Hindi movie scene was a great blessing for music lovers.
At the time when Naushad Sahaab, the SJ Duo, the Kalyanji-Anandji Duo were the rulers, this pair hit the Indian movies with a storm. Parasmani is still remembered. Thereafter there was no turning back for them. Their tunes seemed to match the voices of Rafi Sahaab, Lataji, Mukesh and other singers perfectly so that just by listening to the tune, one could predict who the music directors were.
I remember the DOSTI days (1964). But before that, please remember that listening pleasures were not available so easily then. Cassette Recorders were a luxury which middle class families could not afford. All India Radio, Radio Ceylon or Srilanka were some of the stations where we could hear the songs. Yes, in some restaurants they used to have JUKE BOX. I used to frequent one such restaurant just to hear the songs. What did I notice? Every person entering the restaurant put in the coins to hear the songs of DOSTI - ALL THE SONGS. Of course, Chaahunga Mai.n tujhe Saanjh Savere was given the Filmfare Award for the best song. Never I have seen such craze among the general public for all the songs of a single movie. One has go back to those days to know how LP had completely taken over hearts of music llovers despite the fact that the decade of the sixties was the one when all the music directors gave their best.
Much can be written on the compositions of this pair who churned out beautiful songs to remember for ever.

NASIR.

Well Done BC n Sonu after all someone recognised

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...=540&p=257626&#

Chintu bhai koi aisse moke( D anniversary) per kuch likh de vo hi kafi hota hai. atleast aapne kaha to tha...thats diff couldnt make it coz of pwr failure.etc

I would have been happy even if I(or LP) get one post from u. but here Iam(or LP) getting a full prgram from u....... mere expectations se kaafi jayada hai

Sach bolu isme koi mere apne Fav MD/ artist ko nehi promote kar raha hoon.........yeh ek neglected/underrated artist ke kaam ko dikhaana hai. Acha lagta hai jab aap jaise HFM kadar dan inn cheezo ko samjhte hain. and tell u this kind of thinking is rare in HFM fans .else people tend to post on their fav artists only.( baaki jaaye tel lene)

you had schocked me when u openly appreciated BL and LP. this is a rare thing in Hardcore RDB fans.
apoon bhi "personal" dose ke leye RDB leta hai.....but at the same time I know the good things abt other MDs.

Thanks again

god bless

Sonu

Nasir saab bahut badiya. . Bahut kam log hai jo iss time ke incidents/ period iss tarah share kar sake. Mere jaise aajkal ke logo ko kaya maloom uss time ka mahol kaisa tha.

kaafi help milti hai jaanne mein uss time period ko.

thanks again.

God bless

Sonu

Thank you Sonu, Nasir and BC for your posts. Aapne yaad to dila diya that it is Laxmikant's death anniversary. They were so tremendously popular and some of my favorite songs were composed by them. Will try and tune in tomorrow.

Madhavi

Can we have a list of LAXMIKANT AS SINGER?
I remember one song:
GORE NAHIIN HUM KAALE SAHI from DESH PREMI

Do you have the male version with Kamlesh Avasthi singing (sounding like Mukesh in this song)?

Uske pehle Power company ko pata chal jata hai.
Aj din bhar se bijli gayab thi. Power returned at 9.35 PM

Cancelled the program. Playing LP hits though on radio.
In search of listeners, as usual

bc

this is really disgusting.........My power was gone for abt two hrs
meri watt lag jaati hai power cut mein since i sweat a lot in humidity.........

Came back By metro just to catch up with the program....only to find later power madam is gone.

kaya karein ...........I live in urban disaster called Delhi


Sonu

Madhavi ji glad to know u do like LP.

LP ka contribution sirf music mein nehi tha.
but as the one who were responisble for giving largest no of hit films.

Baaki MDs shayad personal listening ke aspect mein ache ho.....but LP ke music ne filmo ko hit banaya hai. Hindi film industry is alive coz of hit films not coz of others factors.

We hardly discuss the effect of music on a films success. kaisa music movies ko hit banata hai.???

we are just interested in listening to songs part of movies.........what happened with movie hardly matters to us.

hum log to movie songs ko ek Pvt album bana dete hai. (no relation with anything called movie)


nyway keep posting

God bless

Sonu

Sorry BC I had gone to catch FANAA can you repeat the programme thx

I would place Laxmikant & Pyarelal as my top 3 Music Directors of all time........yes i totally agree they gave the most hits too as i have read that in a number of sources before......when they started off in the early 60's it was a very challanging time with many MD scoring good tunes/hits.

Who are the other 2 ?????

Hi,

Firstly great to see LP getting some attention from fans in this forum. Shame I missed the tribute programs due to not having a Pc at home at the moment.

Films in which Laxmikant sang

Jalte Badan - Cant remember the lyrics but I think it was the tilte song with Lata & Asha
Pyar Jhukta Nahin - Introductory couplet Mohabat ki tarap aye dil idhar bhi udhar bhi for the song Chahe lakh toofan aye
Do Qaidi - Yeh chali woh chali churake le chali with Kavita K
Do Qaidi - Karte hain hum pyar Mr manu se (Parody) with M Aziz & Amit Kumar
Mera Jawab - Main hoon hasina with Alka Yagnik
Narsimha - Sad version of Jaon tum chahe jahan
Pyar Mohabbat - Goli andhar dum bahar with Kishore K & Mehmood
Chaalbaaz - The hey hey sound in the song raste mein woh kara tha is done by Laxminant
Coolie - "hey coolie" in thw song saari dunitya ka bhoj is the voice Laxmikant

Thats all that I can remember from the top of my head.

Some ineterseting trivia, I think we would have heard more of Laxmikant as a singer had Subhash Ghai let him retain his version of Om Shanti Om from Karz. For shooting purposes the song was recorded in Laxmikant's voice. Everyone who heard it congratulated Laxmikant for his rendition and felt his version should be retained for the audio. Subhash Ghai was adamant KK would sing it, Laxmikant not pleased with this kept on cancelling the recording (9-10 times) where KK was to dub over it. Laxmikant never got to keep his version of Om Shanti Om, but to compensate he always sang this song to close all LP concerts.

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saj

Saj Bhai SJ/LP/KA/NS/JL/AM etc unn MDs pairs ka naam hai jinhone HFM per RULE kara hai. Inn logo ka contribution HFM ko chalane mein sabse jayda raha hai. And shocking thing is they get v less appreciation and acknowledgement.

Mostly people reserve thier posts for Individual MDs. If they call themselves HFM fans.....they shd post on these MDs also.......else.......just stop calling themselves HFM fans.

LP itne UNDERATED hai ki kaano ko haath lagaatta hoon main . They are among my " best" MDs along with SJ. LP have Ruled HFM for long period. And LP are among the biggest factors which are responisble for Success of HFM. They DESERVE RESPECT.

Saj bhai.....there is confusion among LP fans regarding who used to make tunes in L/P. Laxmikant is belived to have made all those tunes and pyarelal improvising it. Are there any instances of Tunes made by pyarelal.......do u have any idea abt this???

expecting more posts from u


Thanks again sir

Sonu

Saj ji

Happy to repeat the program if you want?

TN

NS=Nadeem Shravan, JL=Jatin Lalit
Where are Anand Milind and Dilp sen-Sameer Sen, Sonu .