QUOTE(venkat @ May 3 2007, 07:32 PM)

Sukesh Ji,
Many thanks indeed. Just see the fantastic orchestration in this song!
As per the formula given to me by Kamal Sharma, that famous and highly knowledgeable announcer on Vividhbharati, this song must have been composed by Shankar. Kamal Sharma has told that it is a safe thumbrule that all Shailendra songs are composed by Shankar and all Hasrat Jaipuri songs by Jaikishan!
Venkat
You are welcome.
I never bother about such details as who composed which song. To me, it is simply Shankar Jaikishan. It was a fantastic team - Shankar, Jaikishan, Hasrat Jaipuri & Shailendra (*). Moreover, because they were a team, definitely there were inputs from the other. Of course, one of them would have taken major responsibility to compose a song.
It has been said if the song was composed by Shankar, then Jaikishan would supervise the actual recording and vice versa. So there you are - team effort. May be in late 60s with advent of Sharda, things were different.
Regards
Sukesh
* With College Girl (1960) with Rajinder Krishan as the lyricist - it was a disaster. Later in 60s, B R Chopra had approached S-J for one the films (possibly Waqt) with proviso that Sahir Ludhianvi would be the lyricist. The offer was refused. It seems, in the Chopra camp, everything revolved around Sahir as far as music was concerned.