Monday, August 21, 2017

Composer Dattaram made (R)afine debut

Ab Dilli Door Nahin (1957) marked the debut of Dattaram Wadkar, a low-profile musician who managed Shankar Jaikishan’s rhythm section, as a composer.

But it’s (Ch)unlikely that the Goan would be remembered for anything but being a welcome ADD(itio)N to the team that created some of the best Hindi film scores of the 1950s and 1960s (because even after, and despite, becoming a composer in his own right, he continued to assist them).

The aforementioned film’s soundtrack included Chun Chun Karti Aayi Chidiya, a kids’ song rendered by Mohammed Rafi.

Shailendra penned the popular track.   


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