All these hindi musicians of the 60's to 80's just relied on singers. There was not much instruments. Many didnt get to hear illayaraja's music. He was a true genius and has inspired even ARR.
Re: No magic of instruments
by pkr ramesh on Jul 17, 2010 11:35 AM
Kersi Lord and Manohari were arrangers for IR for songs recorded in Mumbai Manohari was working for some time Kersi was arranger for Dalpathy and other Bombay recored songs They (Kersi and Manohari)are all praise for IR.Some Instumentalists of IR are according to them are world class Ex Narasimhan on violin,Sekar on Guitar Viji and ARR on key boards and Sashi on Bass guitar Especially RD was bowled by Sekars knowledge on guitar and guitar gizmos Tit bits for IR fans Bombay legends respect IR a lot
Re: Re: No magic of instruments
by anto on Jul 17, 2010 12:59 PM
If you hear Ilayaraja's songs & RD Burman's songs in 70's & early 80's, Ilayaraja's Orchestration is now where near RD Burman's c lass. Although Ilayaraja's orchestra was far superior than others in the south.
Re: Re: No magic of instruments
by Balaji Reddie on Jul 19, 2010 06:11 AM
Let us not compare . Let us consider ourselves fortunate to have actually seen these geniuses in action .
Dear Editor I am sorry to say that you are too biased when it comes to any reference being made to OP Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan. Sometime back I wrote a message about Manohari ji playing Sax for songs composed by OP Nayyar and SJ but it has not been published. Very bad journalism
Re: Good to know about this North Indian Guy
by zindaa hoon on Jul 16, 2010 06:03 PM
Actually, he was not from North India, but from even North of North India, that is Nepal. But Nepal and North India (UP,Bihar) have one and the same culture because of a long land border (1200 kms I think).
Re: Good to know about this North Indian Guy
by Gabbar Singh on Jul 16, 2010 05:41 PM
I am sure that he was a UP/Bihar guy who migrated first to Kolkata and then to Mumbai. Because such musical talent only exists in UP/Bihar.
Re: Re: Good to know about this North Indian Guy
by Gabbar Singh on Jul 16, 2010 05:56 PM
Sorry I can't help it. My thinking is that: if someone is not a North Indian, he is not an Indian. Pure and simple...
Re: Good to know about this North Indian Guy
by Ashwinkumar Kacha on Jul 16, 2010 05:57 PM
People like you always divide India & Indians into zones. He was not working only for NIs, but for whole India, but a$$h0Ie5 like u always try to find out the roots.
Re: RIP
by pkr ramesh on Jul 17, 2010 09:42 AM
Along with Kersi Lord and Gupta they tranformed Hindi film music in70s to new level which till today unmatched Five of them (Manohari,Kersi,Gupta,Sebastian and Louis Banks) made RD an legend
