The duo were most commercially successful music composers They Worked as assistants of S.D burman and kalyananji
Anandji. Pyarelal, the son of trumpet playeri"Ramprasad
sharma" was excellent arranger & violinist of Zubin Mehta’s calibre. They
played in orchestra of Husnalal bhagatram first commercially successful
duo of bollywod who were later on taken over by Shankar Jaikishan(
talented, prolific duo for whom both commercial
succes & offbeat musical score coexisted.). Pyarelal’s Goan music teacher "anthony Gonsvalves" was remembed thru the song "my
name is Anthony gonsalves "by kishore in "AAA"! SJ took a
back seat paving way to LP. Sant Dnyeshwar, Dosti &Parasmani were hits in early
carrear. In Dosti RD. burman played Mouth organ. Their
friendship with him lasted lifelong. They said that they regard R.D.
burman as their only competitor!
However their music had same theka in almost all songsl leading to
monotonicity a fact mentioned by Asha bhosale’s son. It is surprising
looking at beautiful orchestra arrangement in many of their songs. It
is unclear why the duo resorted to a monotonous and rather dull theka,
not toe tapping as that of OP Nayyar, given their command as arrangers.
The commercial success of LP & replacement of SJ by LP was argued
as the main reason of the downfall of bollywood music. It is true
that Kalyanaji anandji produced superior music than the duo overall.
But due to growing commercial success of the duo other composers were
helpless. The composers Rajesh roshan, bappi lahiri, Annu malik worked as assistants to LP. If u observe rajesh
roshan’s later work with kishore u can’t miss the rajesh roshan stamp
on the singing of kishore and the orchestration( the use of whistle)
in the song "Yeh Jeevan Hai" of LP. T. They were often termed as
bandmasters due to music style. It is also said that the duo used to
mastermind "Fermaish" of their songs on Vividhbharati and "Ceylon"
through listener’s letters hailing from "Rajanandgaon’ and
"zumaritalaiya" & were accused of managing the band players to play
their songs. The downfall of bollywood music & poor musical score
is clear in late seventies & eighties when R.D. burman had to take
back seat, . As professional ego the duo promoted Rafi than kishore
to get a miracle to their credit like miracle performed by Burmans for
Kishore replacing Rafi with Aradhana. However the effort could meet
only limited success as like Rajesh roshan, Bappi Lahiri and
R.D burman continued to give their best compositions to kishore &
Kalyanaji Anandji using Kishore for Amtabh As music style of the duo
suited to rafi more they promoted singers l Balsubramaniam,
Suresh wadkar, shabbirkumar. they composed a song consisting of only film names for "ek duje ke liye" But the duo had great respect for talent of kishore and
were the only composers to use kishore in sixties apart
from Burmans. Lata’s voice was must for them but later on anuradha
Paudwal was promoted.
There were few memorable musicals of the duo( like Saraswati
chandra, Safar of Kalyanji Anandji or Amnar Prem, Kati Patang, Teesri
Manzil of R.d burman) which were successful with outstanding & offbeat music . Music of Dosti, Parasmani & the likes is not in the category as all time great. **However
Bobby & Daag could be ranked as their outstanding musical scores with O grade, and hero was excellent in eighties. they introduce chanchal in boobby " beskak mandir todo) andpakistani singer Reshma("hiye lami judai in HERo! excellent) **The
duo did compose some extraordinary gems. Though they used lata &
rafi extensively there are more gems in the voice of kishore!
In mid eighties they had to take backseat with the
prominence of "BappiLahiri" . But they rose to the occasion by composing "rote rote hasna seekho
by kishore for Rajnikant to compete with bappi. *
MR. India, Hero, tejab were the good scores in their last phase. Most leading filmmakers worked with them. T**he ghai episode
where ghai wanted to do the music with Rd burman for his next movie
"ram lakhan"and later on backed out is very famous.Rajkapoor fell out
with them after Premrog and shfted to Ravindra Jain. **At one time
they were so busy that they could not complete background music of
Subhash ghai’s Krodhi. It was composed by KAlyanaji anaandji with
separate credits. **Sahir ludhiyanwi was not happy with their
potential for songs of "kabh-kabhi" and asked Yash Chopra to change
composer or give his songs back. "khayyam" did the music of
"kabhi-kabhi" They were invloved in the controversy over song "choli ke peche in the last phase.
* They produced music of all types folk music -classical based, Western, ghzal, quwwali. etc.
Their song "ek do teen " was instrumental in making Madhuri Dixit
numero uno and alka yagnik was star singer after this song! cholike
peeche is also regarded classique in it’s type songs.*
Gems by LP
*1. Yah jeevan Hai -kishorekumar extremely soft beautiful rendition-Piyaka ghar- the song touches heart and has the power of making one forget the grief. Lp needs to be congratulated to get one of the best singing efforts( kishorekumar) by a singer in bollywood.
Mere Mehboob kayamat hogi-kishor- MR.X in Bombay-Beautiful tune and singing
Ajanabee tum jane pahchane- tandem Lata/Kishore-Ajanabee-Beautiful tune and singing.*
4 Mere dilme aaj kya hai -kishore- Daag- good use of Dholak - exploited the depth in the voice
5 Khijane ke phhol pe aati kabhi bahar nahi -kishore -Do raste-Beautiful tune and great rendition.
6 Sawan ka mahina -Lata-mukesh- Milan-Beautiful tune and good rendition.
7 ruk jana nahi - kishore - imtihaan a gr8 motivational song but in rd burman style
8 chalo sajana jha tak ghata chale -Lata-Mera saya- melodious typical reflecting LP style
9 Saregam pa pa dahma dha- Lata-kishore-Abhinetri-A very lively duet. Beautiful rhytthm and mastery over arrangement of orchestra,
10- Acccha to hum chalate hai-Lata-kishore - AAn milo-sajan-Novel tune -good interluding music
11- Solha Baras ki bali umar ko salam -lata -"ek duje ke liye".
12- Ghe-ghe Ghe re sayaba-lata, shailendra sing, manna dey - Bobby- A great musical composition.
13- O manchali kahan chali -toe tapping number-kishore-Manchali- toe tapping.
14- mere dildar ka bankpan quwwali -rafi 7 kishore "deedare e yaar.
15 - Gadi bula rahi hai -Theme song -kishore - Dost- a great theme song sung beautifully.
16- Ik Hasina Thi -asha-kishore- Karz- A unique song in itself.
17 IK pyar ka nagma hai - gr8 duet- good lyrics -beautiful tune & singing by lata -lata&mukesh- Shor
18- Ek do teen char paach - Alaka yadnik/ amitkumar- a chartbbuster tune contributing to the stardom of Madhuri dixit.
19- Hui shyam unaka khayal aa gaya -Rafi- Beautiful composition.
20- zindagi ki yahi reet hai -Kishore -MR. india.- a good tune and good singing.