12/30/2022 0 Comments Shailendra poetry jalta punjabThe music for Barsaat was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan. For 500, Shailendra wrote these two songs: Patli kamar hai and Barsaat mein. At this time, Raj Kapoor was filming Barsaat (1949), and two of the film songs had not yet been written. However, after his wife became pregnant, Shailendra himself approached Raj Kapoor in need of money. Shailendra, a member of the left wing IPTA, was wary of mainstream Indian cinema and refused. Kapoor offered to buy the poem Jalta Hai Punjab written by Shailendra and for his movie Aag (1948). The filmmaker Raj Kapoor noticed Shailendra, when the latter was reading out his poem Jalta hai Punjab at a mushaira (poetic symposium). He started writing poetry during these days. Shailendra started his career as an apprentice with Indian Railways in Matunga workshop, Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1947. Afterwards Shailendra moved to Bombay for films and Indra Bahadur Khare got fame in Raashtreey Kavita. Both started composing poems, sitting on the rock located on the bank of a pond in between railway 27 quarters and railway line near to Mathura station. He came in contact with Indra Bahadur Khare at the Kishori Raman School. The native place of his ancestors is located in the Akhtiyarpur, Ara district of Bihar. Noted for his association with the filmmaker Raj Kapoor and the composers Shankar-Jaikishan, he wrote lyrics for several successful Hindi film songs in the 1950s and the 1960s Shailendra was born in Rawalpindi, and brought up in Mathura. Shankardas Kesarilal (30 August 1923 – 14 December 1966), popularly known by his pen name Shailendra, was a popular Indian Hindi lyricist. Shailendra - A Prince Among Poets - 3AEX 5116 - (Condition 90-95%) - LP Record
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