He was a part of Shiv-Hari, which composed many Hindi melodies despite having acted in only eight films.
He was a part of Shiv-Hari, which composed many Hindi melodies despite having acted in only eight films.
PK Ajith Kumar
Hindi cinema has seen many melodious collaborations between the two musicians over the decades. Duets like Shankar-Jaikishan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin-Lalit, Anand-Milind and Vishal-Shekhar have tuned many melodies to enrich our popular music.
Shiv-Hari may not have been as prolific, but still, they are more focused on their illustrious careers as two of India’s finest instrumental musicians. Santoor player Shivkumar Sharma, half of it, He died in Mumbai on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest at the age of 84.
Sharma and fluteist Hariprasad Chaurasia came together to compose only eight Bollywood films. But his songs delight fans of sheer melody.
Shiv-Hari had a great start with continuationA 1981 romance directed by Yash Chopra starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha and Jaya Bhaduri.
The film had some beautiful tunes. take for example Where have we come…, Recitation of the poem part with Bachchan sung by Lata Mangeshkar. This is one of the best songs of Lata in the 80s. She used to cross out easy-to-weak notes the way she could. And yes, the way Bachchan, who plays the poet in the film, recited it was magical too. On screen too, he created magic with Rekha.
Another lovely song of Silsila See a dream…, sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar. Probably the most popular song of the movie The color rained wet chunar wali... It was sung by Bachchan and written by his father Hari Van Rai Bachchan, one of the great poets of Hindi. The song almost became synonymous with the celebration of Holi.
But, Bachchan’s best effort as a singer continuation is The blue sky fell asleep…
most songs continuation was written by Javed Akhtar, who had half of Salim-Javed at the time, who wrote the script for the massive box-office hit Sholay, Deewar and Don. Hence Bollywood is indebted to Chopra for giving him one of the best lyricists of all time.
Sharma and Chaurasia became music directors on Chopra’s request. There were doubts as to whether the two classical musicians compose for mainstream Bollywood and whether the composers themselves should venture into popular film music. all those worries vanished continuation.
Except one of the Shiv-Hari films, all were directed by Chopra. his second film Distance. It featured one of the lesser heard duets of Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar – From the genes of the eyes.., It should be counted among the best duets of two great singers.
The album also features a lesser-known raga by Asha Bhosle – There is a lot of Faasle to meet like this…
Shiv-Hari’s biggest commercial success was Moonlight, one of the films that established Sridevi as one of the biggest female stars of Bollywood of her time. She danced her way into the hearts of the audience, gracefully walking the chart-topper sung by Lata, I have nine bangles in my hand…
Although the album is selected Looks like monsoon today…, Sung by Suresh Wadkar.
Another Sridevi-starrer, directed by Chopra momentsThere was great music too. there was foot-tapping Morni bagged ma said.., by Lata and the haunting This moment, this moment… Hariharan, who had not yet started singing for AR Rahman.
The last film was made for Shiv-Hari Fear1993 film featuring a young Shah Rukh Khan coming up with a performance that demanded attention. Your eyes are magical…Beautifully sung by Udit Narayan, became an instant hit.
Three decades later, the song has lost its freshness. This is yet another testament to Sharma’s versatility as a musician.