Yet when Lata Mangeshkar tornado hit the music scene that year with Ayega anewala and several more songs, now considered iconic, with the greatest music directors of the time Naushad, C Ramchandra, Anil Biswas, and soon to become great Shankar Jaikishan and many others, La re lappa stood tall among them. Zikr hota hai jab qayamat ka by Mukesh from My Love, lyrics Anand BakshiĪnd finally a live Dan Singh video of a function in Jaipur in which he pays tribute to his favourite singer Mukesh:ĭaan Singh’s image is courtesy the Times of IndiaĪll this was a black box, and for many years he was a one-song wonder for me. Who has not heard the two great Mukesh solos from My Love?Ħ.
Wo tere pyar ka gham by Mukesh from My Love (1970), lyrics Anand Bakshi A fast dance number by Asha Bhosle for Helen, but quite a treat.ĥ. Laga mohe ab ki baar by Asha Bhosle from Toofan (1969), lyricist Akhtar RomaniĪ completely different tack now. Now this is a fast song from the same film but maintains all the grace of Mukesh.Ĥ. Gora gora mukhda by Mukesh from Bhool Na Jana, lyrics Gulzar Pukaro mujhe naam lekar pukaro by Mukesh from Bhool Na Jana, lyrics Gulzaarģ. Gham-e-dil kisse kahoon by Mukesh from Bhool Na Jana (1965), lyrics Dr Hari Ram AcharyaĢ. You are now invited to listen to some great Daan Singh melodies as my tribute to him.ġ. It is a sad way to start the series with an obituary for a composer I hugely admired. Daan Singh would have surely figured some time down the line, but now I am advancing it and making him the first in my series. The news of his passing away reminded me of my planned series on Forgotten Composers, Unforgotten Melodies, which I mentioned in my last post.
His special talent with Mukesh got further acclaim with two iconic songs of Shashi Kapoor- Sharmila Tagore starrer My Love (1970) It is amazing that not only this song but several more from this film survive. Much later I came to know that it was from a film titled Bhool Na Jana, which never got released and its music director was Daan Singh. There was a time when I was a Mukesh-obsessed fan and one particular song which whirled inside me again and again like a record stuck in its groove was Gham-e-dl kisse kahun, without knowing its composer or film.
The paper also quotes Nitin Mukesh offering profuse praise for him. He was one of the most neglected music directors of Hindi films, yet he composed some everlasting melodies for Mukesh. If you are not a keen reader or aware of Daan Singh’s music you are quite likely to have missed the news item. I saw a small news item tucked away deep inside the Times of India’s today’s edition stating that music director Daan Singh passed away at his Jaipur home of liver ailment at the age of 78 on Saturday June 18.
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