Utsav
File:UTSAV.jpg Movie poster
Directed by	Girish Karnad
Produced by	Shashi Kapoor
Written by	Krishna Basrur, Girish Karnad (Screenplay) Sharad Joshi (Dialogue)
Starring	Rekha Amjad Khan Shashi Kapoor Shekhar Suman
Music by	Laxmikant Pyarelal
Cinematography	Ashok Mehta
Editing by	Bhaudas Divakar
Release date(s)	23 August 1984
Running time	145 min
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Utsav (Hindi: उत्सव; English: The Festival) is a 1984 Hindi film, produced by Shashi Kapoor and directed by Girish Karnad.

The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Anuradha Patel, Shekhar Suman, Anupam Kher, Shankar Nag, Neena Gupta, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Annu Kapoor, Sanjana Kapoor and Kunal Kapoor.

The role played by Shashi Kapoor, who is also the producer of this movie, was originally to be played by Amitabh Bachchan. However, Bachchan later declined and therefore the producer himself decided to step up to fill in. The film's music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal and is still noted for its songs like, 'Man Kyun Behka', a rare duet by Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar, and Anuradha Paudwal's 'Mere Man Baje Mridang' for which she won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in 1985. Suresh Wadkar also has a song, 'Saanj Dhale Gagan Tale'.

Overview[link]

The film is an adaptation of two classical Sanskrit plays- Charudatta by Bhāsa, and its later adaptation in 6 Century A.D. , Mrichakatika by Śhudraka. The story is about a courtesan, Vasantasena (Rekha), and her chance meeting with a poor man, Charudatta (Shekhar Suman), in Ujjain.

Cast[link]

• Shashi Kapoor....Samsthanak
• Rekha....Vasantsena
• Amjad Khan....Vaatsyayan, author of Kamasutra; narrator
• Shankar Nag .... Sajjal, the thief
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda .... Teacher of Aryak
• Shekhar Suman....Charudutt
• Neena Gupta .... Madanika, courtesan slave in Vasantsena's house
• Anuradha Patel .... Aditi, Charudutt's Wife
• Anupam Kher .... Samsthanak's friend
• Annu Kapoor .... Masseur who is trying to be an ascetic
• Sanjana Kapoor .... A courtesan slave in Vasantsena's house
• Kunal Kapoor .... Aryak, the revolutionary.
• Harish Patel .... Maitreya, Charudutt's friend.
• Yunus Parvez .... One of the gamblers, who later becomes the owner of the masseur
• Satish Kaushik....Cart driver

Soundtracks[link]

Awards[link]

• 1985 National Film Award for Best Art Direction: Nachiket Patwardhan, Jayoo Patwardhan
• 1985 Filmfare Best Lyricist Award: Vasant Dev - "Mann Kyun Behka"
• 1985 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award: Anuradha Paudwal - "Mere Man Baje Mridang"

External links[link]

• Utsav at the Internet Movie Database
• A study of film Utsav

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Amjad Khan (Urdu: امجد خان, Hindi: अमजद ख़ान; 12 November 1940 – 27 July 1992) was an acclaimed Indian actor and director.^[1] He worked in over 130 films in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films, the most famous being the unforgettable Gabbar Singh in the 1975 classic Sholay^[2] and of Dilawar in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978).

Early life[link]

Khan was born in Quetta to Muslim parents. He was the son of legendary actor Jayant. He was the brother of fellow actor Imtiaz Khan and Inayat Khan who acted in one film. In 1957, he was cast in the movie Ab Dili Dur Nahin.

Khan did his schooling at St Theresa's High School, Bandra. He attended R D National College, Bandra and was the general secretary — the highest elected student body representative. He had already gained a reputation of being a heavyweight "dada" and was feared and respected.

Career[link]

Before Amjad came to films he was a theatre actor. His first role was at the age of 17 in the film Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957). He made appearances in minor roles with father Jayant in a few films. He assisted K. Asif in Love and God in the late 1960s and had made a brief appearance in the film. The film was left incomplete after Asif's death in 1971, and it ended up releasing in 1986. In 1973 he made his debut as an adult in Hindustan Ki Kasam.

In 1975 he was offered the role of dacoit Gabbar Singh for the film Sholay (literally meaning flames) by Salim who was one of its writers. For preparation for the role, Amjad read Abhishapth Chambal, a book on Chambal dacoits written by Taroon Kumar Bhaduri (actress Jaya Bhaduri's father). Amjad shot to stardom with the movie. His portrayal of Gabbar Singh is considered by many to be the first depiction of pure evil on the screen in Indian Cinema: a totally evil character who doesn't make excuses for his evil. His mannerisms and dialogues have become an integral part of Bollywood lexicon and spawned numerous parodies and spoofs. Sholay went on to become a blockbuster. Although it boasted an ensemble cast of superstars including Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar,^[3] he stole the thunder with his unorthodox and eerie dialogue delivery that was perfectly apposite to the total lack of empathy his character was supposed to convey. Even today people fondly remember his dialogues and mannerisms. He later appeared in advertisements as Gabbar Singh endorsing Britannia Glucose Biscuits (popularly known as "Gabbar Ki Asli Pasand"), and it was the first incidence of a villain being used to sell a popular product.^[4]

After the success of Sholay, Khan continued to play villain roles in many subsequent Hindi films in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s — superseding, in terms of popularity and demand, the earlier Indian actor, Ajit — portraying more sophisticated and urbane criminal bosses, mastermind of bank robberies, murders and conspiracies to seize power. He often acted as villain opposite Amitabh Bachchan as the hero.

Khan was also acclaimed for playing many unconventional roles. In the critically acclaimed film Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977) (based on the novel of the same title) by Munshi Premchand and directed by Satyajit Ray, Khan played the helpless and deluded monarch Wajid Ali Shah, whose kingdom, Avadh, is being targeted by British colonialists from the British East India Company. It is the only movie in which he dubbed a song. He played many positive roles in films such as Yaarana (1981) and Laawaris (1981) as Amitabh's friend and father respectively. In the art film Utsav (1984), he portrayed Vatsayana, the author of the Kama Sutra. In 1988 he appeared in the Merchant-Ivory English film The Perfect Murder as an underworld don. He excelled at playing comical characters in films such as Qurbani (1980), Love Story, and Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986). In 1991, he reprised his role as Gabbar Singh in Ramgarh Ke Sholay, a parody of the legendary film which included look-alikes of Dev Anand and Amitabh Bachchan.

He ventured into directing for a brief period in the 1980s directing and starring in Chor Police (1983), which was a success, and Ameer Aadmi Gareeb Aadmi (1985) which failed to do well at the box office.

Amjad was the president of the Actors Guild association. He was respected in the film industry. He would intervene and negotiate disputes between actors and directors/producers. One such dispute occurred when Dimple Kapadia agreed to play a mother role and later backed down. The entire film producer community tried to boycott her. Amjad intervened on behalf of the Actors Guild.

Death[link]

In 1986, Khan had near-fatal accident on the Bombay-Goa road, when he drove his car into a tree while trying to avoid a boulder. The drugs administered to him caused a serious weight problem for the rest of his life. As a result of his increasing weight, he died in 1992 after suffering from heart failure at the age of 51. Several of the films he completed were released after his death, right until 1996. His funeral procession passed from his house in Pali Hill to the Muslim Burial in Bandra East. It was attended by all major movie stars at that time.

Personal life[link]

In 1972, he married Shehla Khan; the following year, she gave birth to their first child, Shadaab Khan, who acted in a few films. He also had a daughter Ahlam Khan and another son Seemaab Khan. (Family photo)

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Amjad Khan at the Internet Movie Database
• Amjad Khan biography

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Utsav Lal (born 18 August 1992) is a concert pianist from India.

Career[link]

Lal gave his debut solo piano concert in New Delhi, India at the age of 9 with a unique repertoire of Indian Music compositions. Currently based in Dublin, Ireland and oft referred to as a child prodigy,^[1] Utsav is a Western Classical Pianist (ATCL Diploma & Grade 8 from Trinity Guildhall), London as well as a Jazz pianist. Feb 2010 ,Utsav Lal was officially recognised as a "Young Steinway Artist" and named on the worldwide artist roster of leading piano makers, Steinway & Sons.

Utsav’s strong Indian roots drew him to the Power of Ragas and led him to be one of the first Indian musician's to experiment with Indian Classical Music on Piano. Utsav’s creative expression of Moods and Emotions of different Ragas^[2] in the soulful sound of the piano has been critically acclaimed^[3] and his recreation of Indian film compositions on piano have held enraptured audiences. Utsav's Raga Piano Music has earned him the name of the [Raga Pianist].^[4] At the age of 16, India’s leading record label Times Music released Utsav’s debut Indian Classical Ragas Piano Album^[5] titled "Piano Moods of Indian Ragas"(Sept 2008).

Featured in the Limca Book of Records, 2007 at 14 yrs of age and the youngest award winner^[6] of Ireland’s Metro Éireann Media & Multicultural MAMA Awards 2008^[7] for championing Multiculturalism , Utsav has performed over 100 piano concerts at prestigious venues all over India and internationally. In the recent years at the major cities in India (New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore,^[8][9] Chennai, Cochin,^[10] Gurgaon, Jullundhar, Ludhiana, in UK ( Leeds, Wolverhampton, London, Manchester), Ireland (Dublin, Cork,^[11] Limerick, Galway) and at Singapore, Germany ^[12] & Sweden.^[13]

Spellbinding original compositions based on Indian Classical Ragas have endeared Utsav to music lovers of different nationalities and creeds. Utsav Lal, as a young artist has supported various charities & events with his concerts like the National Association for Blind, Spastics Society, Make-A-Wish Foundation , World Mercy Fund,^[14] Bridge Foundation Kolkata, Telethon People in Need, Rotary Club at Chennai, World Refugee Day, World Harmony Run-Ireland Chapter,^[15] Doras Luimni etc. Utsav has been associated with [Daniel Pearl Music Foundation] [1] and has supported the Daniel Pearl World Music days both in 2008 & 2009 with his music talent.^[16]

He is currently also member of the Irish band 'Little Green Cars'^[17] who have performed at major Irish music venues and 'Electric Picnic-2007' festival in Ireland.

In 2008, Utsav was India’s cultural ambassador & presented ‘Ragas on Piano’ concert for [Asia on the Edge Festival in Singapore^[18]] (Dec 2008) and at The Venue, Leeds, UK for " Into the Light World Music” concert series (Dec 2008). He performed under the Music for Mind & Soul Concert series at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester in Apr 2009. In July-Aug 2009, the young pianist embarked on an extensive Nationwide Piano Workshop & Concert Tour of India .Alongside the Tour, Utsav conducted a series of workshops titled Breaking Boundaries ^[19]”. After the hugely successful India Tour, the pianist finished the year with concerts at The National Concert Hall, Dublin -Sept 2009,^[20] The Irish Academy of World Music & Dance - Oct 2009,Queen Elizabeth Hall London-Nov 2009 ^[21] and at Konsert Huset, Gothenburg, Sweden-Nov 2009.

In Jan 2011, Utsav Lal undertook a three city India tour with an Indo-Irish friendship message titled "Ragas to Reels" in a unique collaboration with Irish flautist Sam Comerford. Lal gave his USA debut to a sold out concert at the prestigious John F Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, Washington DC on Mar 13, 2011 under the aegis of the Maximum India Festival which staged the top performing artists from India ranging from rock to ragas. Various Live in concert videos are available of Utsav Lal on www.youtube.com and full details on www.utsavlal.com.

References[link]

External links[link]

Artist Website [2]

NDTV Coverage [3]

India Tour "Ragas dance off Piano Keys" July-Aug 2009 Media Coverage Clips [4]

MAMA AWARDS 2008 winner-Individual category [5]

MId Day, July 29, 2009 [6]

Deccan Chronicle, Aug 9,2009 [7]

The Hindu, Aug 14,2009 [8]

Metroeireann, Dec 4,2008 [9]

Blue Frog, Mumbai [10]

Asia on the Edge Festival, Singapore, Dec 2008 [11]

The Teenager Magazine, Dec 2008 [12]

The Time Out Mint Planner, JUly 2009 [13]

Shri Randhir Kapoor releases Utsav Lal's debut Album, Sept 2008 [14]

Time Out, Mumbai,OCt 2008 [15]

Laxmikant-Pyarelal (Hindi: लक्ष्मीकान्त-प्यारेलाल, also known as LP or Laxmi-Pyare) were a popular Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Feroze Khan, B.R. Chopra, Shakti Samanta, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and Manoj Kumar.

Early life[link]

Laxmikant[link]

Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, was born on the day of “Laxmi Pujan” (Diwali), on 3 November in 1937. May be because of that his parent named him as Laxmikant. 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. His father died when he was child. Because of the poor financial conditions of the family he also could not even complete his academic education. Laxmikant's father's friend, a musician himself advised him and his elder brother 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 Husnalal of the popular music duo Husanlal Bhagatram, especially in the 1940s.

Pyarelal[link]

Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, was born in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on 3 September in 1940. Pyarelal was the son of a renowned trumpeter Pt. Ramprasad Sharma (popularly known as Babaji), who taught him the basics of music. He started learning violin at the age of 8 and practised it 8 to 12 hours daily. He learnt to play violin from a Goan musician named Anthony Gonsalves. The song "My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves" of the movie Amar Akbar Anthony is regarded as a tribute to Mr. Gonsalves (the movie had music by Laxmi-Pyarelal). By the age of 12, his family's financial condition had deteriorated, which in turn forced him to earn money by playing in studios. Pyarelal then used to frequent visiting and playing the violin in studios such as Ranjit Studios, to earn money for his family.

Formation of composer duo[link]

When Laxmikant was about 10 years old, he once played mandolin in a Lata Mangeshkar concert in Radio Club, Colaba. Lata was so impressed that she talked to him after the concert.

Laxmikant and Pyarelal met at Sureel Kala Kendra, a music academy for children, run by the Mangeshkar family. After she came to know about their financially poor backgrounds, Lata recommended their names to music directors like Naushad, Sachin Dev Burman and C. Ramchandra. Similar financial backgrounds and age made Laxmikant and Pyarelal very good friends. They used to spend long hours at the recording studios, sometimes getting work for each other and even playing together whenever they got the opportunity.

Pyarelal often used to frequent the Bombay Chamber Orchestra and the Paranjoti Academy, where he would perfect his skills in the company of Goody Seervai, Coomi Wadia, Mehli Mehta and his son, Zubin Mehta. Laxmi-Pyare were not content with the payments being made to them for their music, so they decided to go to Madras (now Chennai). But, it was the same story there. So, they returned back. Once Pyarelal decided to leave India and go to Venice to play for symphony orchestras, just like Zubin. However, he stayed back at Laxmikant's insistence. Some of Laxmi-Pyare's colleagues at this time included Pandit Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor) and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia (flute). Later, Shivkumar and Hariprasad also ventured in Hindi Cinema as Shiv-Hari.

Laxmi-Pyare worked with almost all reputed music directors (with the exception of O. P. Nayyar and Shankar-Jaikishan) of the 1950s. In 1953, they became assistants to Kalyanji-Anandji and worked with them as assistants till 1963. They worked as music arrangers for many music directors including Sachin Dev Burman (in Ziddi) and also for his son Rahul Dev Burman (in his first film Chhote Nawab). Laxmi-Pyare and R D Burman remained very good friends, even when Laxmi-Pyare started giving music independently. R D Burman played mouth organ for all songs of Dosti. Laxmikant once made a guest appearance playing role of himself as a Composer of Song "Dil Ki Baat" in Teri Kasam (1982), which had music by R D Burman.

Music career[link]

In their early days, Laxmi-Pyare's music was very similar to Shankar-Jaikishan's music, as Laxmikant was a great fan of theirs. Once Shankar even changed his orchestration to make sure that his music did not sound like Laxmi-Pyare's. Laxmi-Pyare's first film as music directors was not released. The first released movie which featured them as music directors was Babubhai Mistry's Parasmani (1963), which was a mythological film. All the songs of the film became immensely popular esp. "Hasata Hua Nurani Chehara", "Wo Jab Yaad Aaye" and "Mere Dil Main Halki Si". Throughout their tenure as music directors, Laxmi-Pyare only used A-grade singers. Their mentors, Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi, agreed to sing for them in spite of low budgets, and Laxmi-Pyare always remained indebted to them. In fact, both Mohammad Rafi and Lata have sung the maximum number of songs in their career for Laxmi-Pyare.They continued to give patronage to Mohammed Rafi, sometimes against filmmakers' wishes. They had a great rapport with Kishore Kumar as well. Kishore Kumar sang maximum songs (402) for LP among all male singers, followed by Rafi(about 365 songs).^{[citation needed]}

Laxmi-Pyare hit the big time with Rajshri Productions' 1964 film Dosti. The film had two newcomer heroes who never became popular, and the film was a success due to its music. Songs like Chahoonga main tujhe shaam savere and Rahi manava became very popular. At that time, many used to think that there was a single person by the name of Laxmikant Pyarelal. Laxmi-Pyare won their first Filmfare Best Music Director Award for the movie, ahead of stalwarts like Shankar-Jaikishan (for Sangam) and Madan Mohan (for Woh Kaun Thi?). Then came Lootera a super hit musical non star cast film which is remembered only because of Lata Manageshkar’s super hit songs with Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

In 1966 LP started cementing their place in Hindi Film Music. LP’s first musical hit film, with big star cast, Aaye Din Bahar Ke was released, followed by Pyar Kiye Jaa. Even in films with lesser-known actors, LP scored hit music: Sati Sawitri (Songs:"Tum Gagan Ke Chandram Ho", "Jeevan Dor Tumhi Sang Bandhi", "Kabhi To Miloge"); Sant Gyaneshwar (Songs: "Jyot Se Jyot Jagate Chalo", "Khabar More Na Line"); Hum Sab Ustaad Hai (Songs: "Pyar Batate Chalo", "Ajanabi Tum Jane Pehachane Se"); Mr. X in Bombay (Songs: "Mere Mehaboob Quayamat Hogi", "Chali Re Chali Re Gori", "Khoobsurat Haseena"); Shriman Fantush..(Songs: "Sultana Sultana Tu Na Ghabarana", "Yeh Dard Bhara Afasana").

In 1967, LP consolidated their position in the Hindi film inddustry with a series of hits by one after another. Non star cast film Farz was LP’s first golden jubilee musical hit followed by big star cast films like Anita, Shagird, yet another Golden Jubilee hit, Patthar Ke Sanam, Night In London, Jaal and another evergreen musical hit Milan. LP received their second Filmfare Trophy for Milan without any stiff competition. The rise of Laxmi-Pyare, Rahul Dev Burman, and Kalyanji-Anandji marked the end of an old era of Bollywood music, which belonged to Shankar-Jaikishan, Sachin Dev Burman, Naushad (Mausicar-e-azam), C. Ramchandra, Khayyam, Madan Mohan, O. P. Nayyar, Roshan and others. Big film producing names, like Prasad Productions, Rajashri Productions, J. Om Prakash, Raj Khosla, Manoj Kumar, Ramamand Sagar, Madan Mohla, Mohan Sahagal, V.Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Manmohan Desai, Subhash Ghai and many more, started replacing their regular music directors and preferred Laxmikant-Pyarelal on regular basis and in return LP have given an outstanding music to justify the replacement with big names.

The team of Laxmi-Pyare and lyricist Anand Bakshi churned out some of the most popular songs in Hindi Cinemas history. The combo composed songs for more than 250 movies. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist who wrote the maximum number of texts Laxmi-Pyare gave music to. He was actually the lyricist for all the films for which Laxmi-Pyare won Filmfare Awards, except their very first award.

Style of music[link]

Laxmi-Pyare composed Indian classical music as well as Western music. But they were most popular for their folk tunes and semi-classical music. In Shagird, they created Rock-n-Roll-style foot-tapping melodies. The film Karz is worth specially mentioning here where LP successfully, gave disco-like music, in this film they had experimented with a ghazal "Dard-e-dil Dard-e- jigar" by westernizing it. The song is strongly remembered even now, and the duo the Filmfare Best Music Director Award for the year. Although it's tune "Ek Hasina Thi" is a Blatant lift from George Benson's 'We as love' (1977).^[1]

Although not as a rule, Laxmikant mostly looked after vocals and Pyarelal used to take care of orchestration. Both had vast knowledge of various music generes, musical instruments and orchestra management.

Binaca Geet Mala[link]

LP dominated the Weekly Countdown programme called "Binca Geet Mala", the most popular and famous musical radio programme of its time. It's first broadcast was in 1953 by Radio Ceylon and it's host was the inimitable Ameen Sayani. The Binaca Geet Mala ranked the most popular Bollywood film songs according to sales in select shops in select cities.

In the third quarter of 1963, LP’s first ever songs Hasta Hua Nurani Chehara form Parasmani hit the “Binaca Geet Mala”. After that LP’s songs were regularly and prominently aired on “Binaca Geet Mala”. There used to be sixteen songs in each of the weekly “Binaca Geet Mala” programme, more than half the numbers of the songs were of LP. There are certain weekly Binaca Geet Mala programmes in which more than 13 out of 16 songs of LP were broadcast when LP were on right on top of their carrier. BGM used to broadcast annual (Vasrshik ) programme giving the orders of the top 32 songs of every year. In this programme also LP were having upper hand. Not only that, on an average, there used to be at least more than 15 songs used to be of LP, that too about 50 % of the songs in between top to first ten positions. The Binaca Geet Mala records shows that Laxmikant-Pyarelal have completely dominated this musical programme.

Popular Songs[link]

Total 174 songs of LP appeared in Binaca Geetmala Finals..

Relationship with leading singers[link]

Lata Mangeshkar played a major role in shaping up the careers of LP. She sang the maximum numbers of songs for them. She sounded extremely melodious under LP. Lata Mangeshkar and Laxmikant-Pyarelal shared a long, close and rewarding association. From 1963, to the next 35 years, Lata Mangeshkar and Laxmikant-Pyarelal were to chalk up around 700 songs together, which accounted for one in every 10 Hindi film songs recorded by the Melody Queen, and one of every four songs composed by the duo^{[citation needed]}. Their work includes a variety and range; there were chart-slammers and classics, and chaalu numbers as well as connoisseur choices.

LP also produced some memorable songs rendered by Kishore Kumar namely "Mere Mehboob Quayamat hogi", "Ye Dard Bhara Afsana", "Ye Jeevan Hai", "mere Diwane Pan Ki", "Aap Ke Anurodh Pe", "Ik Ritu Aaye", "Gadi bula rahi hai", "Ruk jana Nahi" and "Om Shanti Om" amongst many others.

LP worked with Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor, Amit Kumar, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Shailender Singh, S.P.Balasubrahmanyam, Anuradha Paudwal. However, they also gave big breaks to many newcomers like, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz, Suresh Wadkar, Shabbir Kumar, Sukhwinder Singh, Vinod Rathod, Roop Kumar Rathod etc.

After Laxmikant's death[link]

After Laxmikant's death, Pyarelal has done some work independently. When the playback singer Kumar Sanu turned music director, he approached Pyarelal to arrange music for him. Pyarelal was approached to assist in the music of Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om song "Dhoom Tana", but no credit was given to him on the album, as per Pyareji's insistence. In 2009 Pyarelal won the Sachin Dev Burman International Award for Creative Sound and Music at the Pune Film Festival.^[2]

Awards[link]

After Laxmikant-Pyarelal made debut as a music director duo in 1963, they were nominated for the Filmfare Awards (Best Music Director) almost every year. Many times, they were nominated for three or more numbers of films in a particular year. At the same time LP narrowly missed the awards for musical hits like Aaye Din Bahar Ke, Intquam, Do Raste, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Shor, Daag, Bobby, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Utsav, Sur Sangam, Farz, Shagird, Tezaab, Hero, and Mr. India.

Awards[link]

Laxmikant-Pyarelal have won seven Filmfare Awards.

• 1964: Best Music Director - Dosti
• 1967: Best Music Director - Milan
• 1969: Best Music Director - Jeene Ki Raah
• 1977: Best Music Director - Amar Akbar Anthony
• 1978 Best Music Director - Satyam Shivam Sundaram
• 1979: Best Music Director - Sargam
• 1980: Best Music Director - Karz

Nominations[link]

• 1970: Best Music Director - Do Raaste
• 1972: Best Music Director - Shor
• 1973: Best Music Director - Bobby
• 1973: Best Music Director - Daag: A Poem of Love
• 1974: Best Music Director - Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
• 1975: Best Music Director - Dulhan
• 1979: Best Music Director - Jaani Dushman
• 1980: Best Music Director - Aasha
• 1981: Best Music Director - Ek Duuje Ke Liye
• 1982: Best Music Director - Prem Rog
• 1983: Best Music Director - Hero
• 1985: Best Music Director - Meri Jung
• 1985: Best Music Director - Pyaar Jhukta Nahin
• 1985: Best Music Director - Sur Sangam
• 1988: Best Music Director - Tezaab
• 1989: Best Music Director - Ram Lakhan
• 1991: Best Music Director - Saudagar
• 1993: Best Music Director - Khalnayak

Achievements[link]

• As musicians, Laxmikant Pyarelal have worked for every reputed music director of the 1950s with the exception of O.P. Nayyar.
• Laxmikant Pyarelal have given music to over 600 Hindi films.
• Laxmikant Pyarelal are also winners of Indian Government’s prestigious Lata Mangeshkar Award.
• Singer Lata Mangeshkar has sung the maximum number of songs in her career ever for this duo.
• In the third quarter of 1963, LP's first ever songs "Hasta Hua Nurani Chehara" form Parasmani hit the Binaca Geetmala. After that LP's songs were regularly and prominently aired on the radio show. There used to be sixteen songs in each of the weekly Binaca Geetmala programme, more than half the numbers of the songs were of LP. There are certain weekly Binaca Geetmala programmes in which more than 13 out of 16 songs of LP were broadcast^{[citation needed]}.
• Even today, LP’s music is very popular all over India, even in the interior hearts of the country, and their music has always been more well-known than they personally ever were, contrary to all their contemporaries.
• Bobby has been rated the 17th best soundtrack ever by Planet Bollywood on their "100 Greatest Bollywood Soundtracks".^[3] Other soundtrack in the list include Amar Akbar Anthony (25), Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (27), Dosti (32), Hero (36), Ek Duuje Ke Liye (44), Karz (50), Ram Lakhan (59), Kranti (61), Tezaab (65), Do Raaste (74), Milan (75), Khalnayak (77), Prem Rog (85).

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pyarelal's IMDB entry
• Laxmikant's IMDB entry
• A Website Dedicated to LP with Official Support
• Filmography of Laxmikant-Pyarelal (over 490 movies)
• List of hindi songs from Laxmikant-Pyarelal (over 825 songs)
• Lyrics of Hindi Movie Songs composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal

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