http://www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=18392
For Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, of the popular Bollywood composer duo
Laxmikant-Pyarelal, directors like A R Rehman and Himesh Reshamiya
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
Aashiq Banaya, you can find the repetition of 'Mukhada' (starting
words of a song) more than 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 music director.
