This young boy would go on to become one of the greatest santoor players in India- Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. The man who played the santoor in the film was a 17 year old who assisted Vasant Desai in the film. An interesting facet of the film’s music was the extensive use of santoor. Vasant Desai added to the film’s grandeur with the use of classical music. Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje broke new ground with Indian classical dance as a key element of its plot and with its use of Technicolor. The film was a hit and with it, its music. ‘Jo Tum Todo Piya’ (Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje, 1955)Īfter several films that failed to make an impact, Vasant Desai finally struck gold with V Shantaram’s Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje. In Amirbai Karnataki’s wonderfully rendered ghazal, ‘Pareshan Hoon Ki Kyon Meri’, Desai’s fusion of a ghazal melody with Western instruments like piano and saxophone is really well done. None of the 18 films he scored in the 1940s made an impact but if we look close enough, we get a glimpse of the talent that revealed itself fully in the years to come. Their collaboration yielded some of Vasant Desai’s best songs, but not for another decade or so. When Shantaram left Prabhat to start his own banner, Rajkamal Kalamandir, he took Vasant Desai along with him. The only silver lining in the squandered 1930s was that it brought him close to his Prabhat Film Company colleague, director V Shantaram. He debuted as an independent music director only in 1942. Desai started his career in 1930 with the Prabhat Film Company, first as a singer-actor and later as an assistant to music director Govindrao Tembe. One of the most unfortunate things about Vasant Desai’s career was the two lost decades in the beginning. ‘Pareshan Hoon Ki Kyon Meri’ ( Parbat Pe Apna Dera, 1944) In this post, I pick 10 Vasant Desai songs - some classics and some lesser-known ones - to commemorate his 104 th birth anniversary on June 9. That he managed to do this in less than 50 films is a testament to his music making skills. In pushing the boundaries of film music while embracing classicism, he composed songs that found a permanent place in the Indian psyche. Vasant Desai is counted as one of the most accomplished music directors in the Hindi film industry.
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