When music director Sneha Khanwalkar wanted a title song for her latest album Manto, she turned to him to bring his talents. Whose powerful versus strike at the heart of all listeners while his beats entertain on the screens of streaming media platformers. A man whose lyrics are clear, but not clean. In today’s Bollywood there is only one star of rap “Raftaar”. On recommendation from singer Shamshad Begum, Born in Hyderabad on 7 July 1923, Chandrashekhar dropped out of college and moved to Mumbai with a diploma in western dancing from the UK. This is perhaps the most personal memorial for me of a person who I admired immensely as an individual / human more than anything else. As I am writing this memorial, people from the film industry and media fraternity will be offering respects and by the time you all will read this our dear Chandrashekharji’s last rites will be in process or done but memories which I hold as a person and as a film journalist will remain forever.
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A series of flashbacks started haunting me since I know Chandrashekharji personally as my father’s dear friend. The music of 'Khazanchi' was a trendsetter and Shamshad became a household name with her solo numbers, 'Ek kali nazon ki pali', 'Laut gai papan andheri', 'Diwali phir aa gai sajani' and 'Peene ke din aaye piye jaa'.Today I woke up with the info of the 97-year-old legend Chandrashekhar aka Chandrashekharji urf Chandrashekhar sahab breathing his last at his residence. In 1941, Pancholi announced the film 'Khazanchi' in Hindi, which proved to be the greatest musical hit of its time, as Master Haider made his favourite Shamshad sing all the nine songs, including a duet, 'Sawan ke nazare hain' (picturised on and co-sung by Master Haider).
In one of the Punjabi films, Shamshad sang a Master Haider composition, 'Kanka diya faslan pakkiyan', and it took entire Punjab by storm. Composer Shyam Sunder was assistant to Master Haider and, at his recommendation, Shyam was promoted as the chief composer of Jenaphone. Having a studio of his own, he had produced films in Punjabi-Hindi and approached Master Haider to compose for these films. Those days Dalsukh M Pancholi was rated among the top producers in Lahore.
A prime playback singer of the 1940s, Shamshad Begum was senior to both Noor Jehan and Lata Mangeshkar and got paid one thousand rupees per song, while Lata's fee was in two figures. She made her debut on Peshawar Radio in Lahore on December 16, 1947, captivating the hearts of her listeners with her enchanting voice. Also known for singing religious compositions, Shamshad recorded a famous 'naat', 'Aaya hai bulawa mujhe darbar-e-nabi se', for All India Radio, Delhi. Very soon, offers were pouring in to sing on All India Radio Lahore and Peshawar. Ghulam Haider helped her fine-tune her vocal skills and referred to her as his 'chaumukhiya', meaning an all-round artist who could sing any song. Shamshad was barely 12 and received a royal sum of Rs 12.50 per song. The Company liked the song immensely and recorded 200 songs of this legendary singer in a year's time. He recorded a Punjabi song, 'Haath joda pakhiya da', in Shamshad's voice. He was working for Jenaphone Recording Company as its chief composer. Once he heard her and saw huge potential in the talented singer. Incidentally, Master Ghulam Haider was well known to Shamshad's family. She was also leading the morning prayers in her school. Baby Shamshad would sit in front of the horn of the gramophone, listen to the songs and start crooning. But there was a gramophone at home, a status symbol in those days. Her family was least inclined towards music. Shamshad Begum was born on April 14, 1919, in Amritsar, Punjab.
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