For Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, of the popular Bollywood composer duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal, new age directors lack the knowledge of music possessed by their counterparts in the Golden Era of the 60s.
The veteran director, who has composed music for over 500 films and won seven Filmfare awards, says, formal classical training should be made compulsory for everybody who wishes to compose music.
“If you listen to Himesh Reshamiya’s songs, like Jhalak Dikh La Jaa or Ashiq Banaya, you can find the repetition of Mukhada atleast twenty times. This is something great music directors never did and always concentrated more on melody.”
“The sur and the melody of Hindi film song is same as those of 60s and 70s but the presentation style and the priorities have changed. Nowadays the emotional bonding of the song with the listener is temporary as music directors give more attention to rhythm and beat and lose control over its melody due to the lack of knowledge,” says the director.
Adding that of late, the quality of Hindi film music has seen a downfall and the timeless melodies era of music directors like Shankar-Jaikishan, Madan-Mohan, Khayyam, O P Nayyar, S D Burman will never be recreated, he says, “Today the importance of lyrics has taken a back seat and much attention is being given to sound. AR Rahman prepares his music sitting in a small room whereas in our times live orchestra used to perform for the recording.”
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