The 1957 social drama, ‘Naya Daur’ stars Dilip Kumar and Vaijayanti Mala in lead roles. Directed by B.R. Chopra, the movie tells the story of a man named Shankar who is a tongawala (Played by ...

The music was by Shankar-Jaikishan and the lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri. Now these examples may be a new twist to entire re-creations, and though legal stipulations about duration or number of words ...

"When Jaikishan passed away, Shankar had to get Manoj Kumar's help to get Lata Mangeshkar to agree to sing the songs of Sanyasi." ...

Back then, an RK film was governed by Shankar-Jaikishan, a Dilip Kumar film by Naushad, and a Dev Anand film by S.D. Burman. That era crumbled when an angry young man woke up to the nightmare of ...

In Part 2 of this series, we zoom in on a quartet that is said to the benchmark for film music for all time - Shankar-Jaikishan with Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra. Hasrat Jaipuri: Hasrat Jaipuri ...