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Laxmikant-Pyarelal were a popular India

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n composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor

Raj Kapoor

Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...

, Dev Anand

Dev Anand

Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...

, Feroze Khan, B.R. Chopra, Shakti Samanta

Shakti Samanta

Shakti Samanta was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films like Howrah Bridge, China Town, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evening in Paris, Kati Patang and Amar Prem.He received Filmfare Awards for Best Film for Aradhana, Anuraag and Amanush,...

, Manmohan Desai

Manmohan Desai

Manmohan Desai was a producer and director of Indian movies.- Background :His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi...

, Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra

Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

, Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. His most notable films include Kalicharan ,Karz , Hero , Meri Jung , Karma ,Ram Lakhan ,Saudagar , Khalnayak , Pardes and Taal...

and Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar is an award-winning Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry. He is known for acting in and directing films with patriotic themes, and has been given the nickname "Mr Bharat"...

Laxmikant

Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, was born on the day of “Laxmi Pujan” (Diwali) in the year 1937. May be because of that his parent named him as Laxmikant. He spent his childhood amidst dire poverty in the slums of Vile-Parle (E) Mumbai which in those days was comparable to today's Dharavi slums. His father died when he was child. Because of the poor financial conditions of the family he also could not even complete his academic education. Laxmikant's father's friend, a musician himself advised him and his elder brother to learn music. Accordingly Laxmikant learnt to play the mandolin and his elder brother learnt to play the tabla. In spite of spending two full years in the company of known mandolin player Hussain Ali, Laxmikant was never really given an opportunity to operationally learn how to play the instrument. However he mastered this art on his own. He began organising and performing in Indian Classical Instrumental Music concerts in order to earn some money. Later Laxmi did get the opportunity to learn the mandolin from known player Bal Mukund Indorker and also to learn the violin from none other than Husnalal of from the popular duo of Music directors Husnalal Bhagatram, especially in the 1940s. All this occurred when Laxmikant was barely 10 years old!

Pyarelal

Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, was born in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, on 3 September in 1940. Pyarelal was the son of a renowned trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

er Pt. Ramprasad Sharma (popularly known as Babaji), who taught him the basics of music. He started learning violin at the age of 8 and practised it 8 to 12 hours daily. He learnt to play violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

from a Goan musician named Anthony Gonsalves

Anthony Gonsalves

Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves is an Indian musical composer and teacher from the village of Majorda who, during the mid-1950s, attempted to merge the symphonies of his Goan heritage with the Hindustani melodies and rhythms in films of the day.He found his first job in the city as a violinist in the...

. The song My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves of the movie Amar Akbar Anthony

Amar Akbar Anthony

Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions...

is regarded as a tribute to Mr. Gonsalves (the movie had music by Laxmi-Pyarelal). By the age of 12, his family's financial condition had deteriorated, which in turn forced him to earn money by playing in studios. Pyarelal then used to frequent visiting and playing the violin in studios such as Ranjit Studios, to earn money for his family.

Formation of composer duo

When Laxmikant was about 10 years old, he once played mandolin in a Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

concert in Radio Club, Colaba

Colaba

Colaba is a part of the city of Mumbai, India, and also a Lok Sabha constituency. During Portuguese rule in the 16th century, the island was known as Candil...

. Lata was so impressed that she talked to him after the concert.

Laxmikant and Pyarelal met at Sureel Kala Kendra, a music academy for children, run by the Mangeshkar family. After she came to know about their financially poor backgrounds, Lata recommended their names to music directors like Naushad

Naushad

Naushad Ali was an Indian musician. He was one of the foremost music directors for Bollywood films, and is particularly known for popularizing the use of classical music in films.His first film as an independent music director was Prem Nagar in 1940...

, Sachin Dev Burman

Sachin Dev Burman

Sachin Dev Burman , also credited as Burman da, Kumar Sachindra Dev Barman, Sachin karta or S. D. Burman, was one of the most famous music composers for Hindi movies and a Bengali singer and composer. His son Rahul Dev Burman also achieved great success as a Bollywood music director in his own...

and C. Ramchandra

C. Ramchandra

Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar was a renowned music composer in the movie industry of India. In the composer's role, he mostly used the name C. Ramachandra, though he also used the names Annasaheb , Ram Chitalkar Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar(Marathi: रामचंद्र नरहर चितळकर /सी.रामचंद्र ) (1918–1982) was...

. Similar financial backgrounds and age made Laxmikant and Pyarelal very good friends. They used to spend long hours at the recording studios, sometimes getting work for each other and even playing together whenever they got the opportunity.

Pyarelal often used to frequent the Bombay Chamber Orchestra and the Paranjoti Academy, where he would perfect his skills in the company of Goody Seervai, Coomi Wadia, Mehli Mehta and his son, Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

. Laxmi-Pyare were not content with the payments being made to them for their music, so they decided to go to Madras (now Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

). But, it was the same story there. So, they returned back. Once Pyarelal decided to leave India and go to Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

to play for symphony orchestras, just like Zubin

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

. However, he stayed back at Laxmikant's insistence. Some of Laxmi-Pyare's colleagues at this time included Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

Shivkumar Sharma

Shivkumar Sharma is an Indian santoor player. The santoor is a folk instrument from Kashmir and Jammu. Sharma is often referred to by the title Pandit.-Early life:...

(Santoor

Santoor

The santoor is an ancient stringed musical instrument, native to Kashmir and Iran. It is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut, with seventy two strings. The special-shaped mallets are lightweight and are held between the index and middle fingers...

) and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian classical instrumentalist. He is a player of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is a classicist who has made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music.-Early life:Hariprasad Chaurasia was born in...

(flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

). Later, Shivkumar and Hariprasad also ventured in Hindi Cinema as Shiv-Hari

Shiv-Hari

Shiv-Hari refers to the Indian music director duo of Shivkumar Sharma, an eminent Santoor player and Hariprasad Chaurasia, a virtuoso flutist. The duo has worked on Indian classical music pieces as well as major Indian movie scores.-Classical:...

.

Laxmi-Pyare worked with almost all reputed music directors (with the exception of O. P. Nayyar

O. P. Nayyar

Omkar Prasad Nayyar was an Indian film music director and composer born in Lahore, India, now in modern day Pakistan. He was particularly acclaimed for his peppy numbers.-Career:...

and Shankar-Jaikishan) of the 1950s. In 1953, they became assistants to Kalyanji-Anandji and worked with them as assistants till 1963. They worked as music arrangers for many music directors including Sachin Dev Burman

Sachin Dev Burman

(in Ziddi) and also for his son Rahul Dev Burman

Rahul Dev Burman

Rahul Dev Burman commonly known as R. D. Burman and nicknamed Pancham da or simply Pancham, was an influential Bollywood music composer. He was the only son of singer and Bollywood music composer Sachin Dev Burman and his wife Meera...

(in his first film Chhote Nawab). Laxmi-Pyare and R D Burman remained very good friends, even when Laxmi-Pyare started giving music independently. R D Burman played mouth organ for all songs of Dosti. Laxmikant once made a guest appearance playing role of himself as a Composer of Song "Dil Ki Baat" in Teri Kasam (1982), which had music by R D Burman.

Music career

In their early days, Laxmi-Pyare's music was very similar to Shankar-Jaikishan's music, as Laxmikant was a great fan of theirs. Once Shankar even changed his orchestration to make sure that his music did not sound like Laxmi-Pyare's. Laxmi-Pyare's first film as music directors was not released. The first released movie which featured them as music directors was Babubhai Mistry

Babubhai Mistry

Babubhai Mistry is an Indian film director and special effects pioneer who is best known for his films based on Hindu mythology, such as Mahabharat , and Parasmani ....

's Parasmani
Parasmani
This film is the first independent film together of the musical duo Laxmikant Pyarelal. Before this they have worked under many musicians separately as well as together. This film also marks the beginning of the long relationship between them, Lata Mangeshkar and Rafi."Hasta Hua Noorani Chehra" is...

(1963), which was a mythological film. Throughout their tenure as music directors, Laxmi-Pyare only used A-grade singers. Their mentors, Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar

and Mohammad Rafi, agreed to sing for them in spite of low budgets, and Laxmi-Pyare always remained indebted to them. In fact, both Mohammad Rafi and Lata have sung the maximum number of songs in their career for Laxmi-Pyare.They continued to give patronage to Mohammed Rafi, sometimes against filmmakers' wishes. They had a great rapport with Kishore Kumar as well. Kishore Kumar sang maximum songs (402) for LP among all male singers, followed by Rafi(about 365 songs).

Laxmi-Pyare hit the big time with Rajshri Productions' 1964 film Dosti
Dosti
Dosti is a 1964 Indian Hindi film directed by Satyen Bose and produced by Tarachand Barjatya . The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The film was Sanjay Khan's debut film and also had Sudhir Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Leela Mishra and Leela Chitnis...

. The film had two newcomer heroes who never became popular, and the film was a success due to its music. Songs like Chahoonga main tujhe shaam savere and Rahi manava became very popular. At that time, many used to think that there was a single person by the name of Laxmikant Pyarelal. Laxmi-Pyare won their first Filmfare Best Music Director Award

Filmfare Best Music Director Award

The Filmfare Best Music Director Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to the best composer/arranger of a soundtrack. This category was first presented in 1954. Naushad was the first recipient of this award for his song "Tu Ganga Ki Mauj"...

for the movie, ahead of stalwarts like Shankar-Jaikishan (for Sangam) and Madan Mohan (for Woh Kaun Thi?
Woh Kaun Thi?
Woh Kaun Thi? is a 1964 black-and-white Indian movie directed by Raj Khosla, starring Sadhana, Manoj Kumar and Prem Chopra. The film became a hit at the box office. Its success had Khosla directing Sadhana in two more suspense thrillers: Mera Saaya and Anita .-Plot:On a dark stormy night, a...

).

After Dostis success, Laxmi-Pyare started getting work from all major filmmakers. The rise of Laxmi-Pyare, Rahul Dev Burman

Rahul Dev Burman

, and Kalyanji-Anandji marked the end of an old era of Bollywood music, which belonged to Shankar-Jaikishan, Sachin Dev Burman

Sachin Dev Burman

, Naushad

Naushad

(Mausicar-e-azam), C. Ramchandra

C. Ramchandra

, Khayyam, Madan Mohan, O. P. Nayyar

O. P. Nayyar

Omkar Prasad Nayyar was an Indian film music director and composer born in Lahore, India, now in modern day Pakistan. He was particularly acclaimed for his peppy numbers.-Career:...

, Roshan

Roshan

In Sanskrit Roshan means light particularly the brightness but then its usually referred as light Roshan is also a gotra in the Khatri community in India that is often used as a family name...

and others.

The team of Laxmi-Pyare and lyricist Anand Bakshi

Anand Bakshi

Anand Bakshi was a popular Indian poet and lyricist.-Early days:Anand Bakshi was born in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, on 21 July 1930. His ancestors were from Kurree, near Rawalpindi, and had origins in Kashmir. His mother, Sumitra, died 1940, when he was 10...

churned out some of the most popular songs in Hindi Cinemas history. The combo composed songs for more than 250 movies. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist who wrote the maximum number of texts Laxmi-Pyare gave music to. He was actually the lyricist for all the films for which Laxmi-Pyare won Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Best Music Director Award

, except their very first award.

Style of music

Laxmi-Pyare composed Indian classical music

Indian classical music

The origins of Indian classical music can be found in the Vedas, which are the oldest scriptures in the Hindu tradition. Indian classical music has also been significantly influenced by, or syncretised with, Indian folk music and Persian music. The Samaveda, one of the four Vedas, describes music...

as well as Western music. But they were most popular for their folk tunes and semi-classical music. In Shagird, they created Rock-n-Roll-style foot-tapping melodies. The film Karz

Karz (film)

Karz is a 1980 Hindi film directed by Subhash Ghai, starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim as leads, also in a feat of perfect casting was Simi Garewal, who stood out in her role of Kamini Verma, the murderous wife from the past life, which won her a Filmfare nomination.Film's music was by...

is worth specially mentioning here where LP successfully, gave disco

Disco

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-like music, in this film they had experimented with a ghazal "Dard-e-dil Dard-e- jigar" by westernizing it. The song is strongly remembered even now, and the duo the Filmfare Best Music Director Award

Filmfare Best Music Director Award

for the year.

Although not as a rule, Laxmikant mostly looked after vocals and Pyarelal used to take care of orchestration. Both had vast knowledge of various music generes, musical instruments and orchestra management.

An LP ERA

In 1962, noted film maker Mr. Babubhai Mistry gave a chance to Laxmikant and Pyarelal to score the music independently for the film “Parasmani” which released in 1963. They started the music director’s name as Laxmikant-Pyarelal…. (LP in short). The LP era has now started. All the songs of the film became immensely popular. Songs like Hasata Hua Nurani Chehara, Wo Jab Yaad Aaye, Mere Dil Main Halki Si etc. are still being hummed by the people even these are more than 43 years old.
After that LP got the “B Grade” films, to score the music. Films like “Sati Sawitri”.(Songs:-.Tum Gagan Ke Chandram Ho,.. Jeevan Dor Tumhi Sang Bandhi,..Kabhi To Miloge )… “Sant Gyaneshwar” (Songs:- Jyot Se Jyot Jagate Chalo,.. Khabar More Na Line)… “Hum Sab Ustaad Hai”…(Songs:- Pyar Batate Chalo,… Ajanabi Tum Jane Pehachane Se,)…”Mr. X In Bombay”..(Songs:- Mere Mehaboob Quayamat Hogi,.. Chali Re Chali Re Gori,…Khoobsurat Haseena..) .. “Shriman Fantush”..(Songs:- Sultana Sultana Tu Na Ghabarana,…Yeh Dard Bhara Afasana). All these sweet and melodious songs became immensely popular and are still in demand even after 48 years.

Laxmikant-Pyarelal got their major breakthrough in Rajashree Films “Dosti” in 1964. (Songs:- Chahunga Main Tuze,.. Janewalo Zara,..Meri Dosti Tera Pyar,..Mera To Jo Bhi Kadam,..Rahi Manawa Dukhti Chinta,.. Gudiaya Hama Se Ruthi Rahogi..). All the songs became hit. Music of “Dosti” kept LP in top position in the Hindi Film Music. This position of Laxmi-Pyare remain unaffected and continued till 35 more years. The LP era had now begun even when other older and established music directors of the golden era were still very much active. “Dosti” film music gave LP their first ever Filmfare Award. Then came “Lootera” a super hit musical non star cast film which is remembered only because of Lata Manageshkar’s super hit songs with Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
After this victorious feat LP and success went together without a break or loss of continuity.
In 1966 LP started cementing their place in Hindi Film Music. LP’s first musical hit film, with big star cast, “Aaye Din Bahar Ke” was released, followed by “Pyar Kiye Ja”.

Truly speaking 1967 belongs to Laxmikant-Pyarelal, they not only confirmed the No 1 position in Hindi Film Music, but also consolidated it with series of hits by one after another. Non star cast film “Farz” was LP’s first ‘golden jubilee’ musical hit followed by big star cast films like “Anita”, “Shagird”, yet another ‘Golden Jubilee’ hit, “Patthar Ke Sanam”, “Night In London”, “Jaal” and another evergreen musical hit “Milan”. LP received their second Filmfare Trophy for “Milan” without any stiff competition.

Now this was the time that Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s music became an essential component of the every successful film and it continued till 1998. Big film producing names, like Prasad Productions, Rajashri Productions, J. Om Prakash, Raj Khosla, Manoj Kumar, Ramamand Sagar, Madan Mohla, Mohan Sahagal, V.Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Manmohan Desai, Subhash Ghai and many more, started replacing their regular music directors and preferred Laxmikant-Pyarelal on regular basis and in return LP have given an outstanding music to justify the replacement with big names.

“Binaca Geet Mala” and Laxmikant-Pyarelal

LP have completely dominated the Weekly Countdown programme called “Binca Geet Mala”, the most popular and famous musical radio programme of its time. It's first broadcast was in 1953 by Radio Ceylon and it's host was the inimitable Ameen Sayani. The Binaca Geet Mala ranked the most popular Bollywood film songs according to sales in select shops in select cities.

In the third quarter of 1963, LP’s first ever songs Hasta Hua Nurani Chehara form Parasmani hit the “Binaca Geet Mala”. After that LP’s songs were regularly and prominently aired on “Binaca Geet Mala”. There used to be sixteen songs in each of the weekly “Binaca Geet Mala” programme, more than half the numbers of the songs were of LP. There are certain weekly Binaca Geet Mala programmes in which more than 13 out of 16 songs of LP were broadcast when LP were on right on top of their carrier. BGM used to broadcast annual (Vasrshik ) programme giving the orders of the top 32 songs of every year. In this programme also LP were having upper hand. Not only that, on an average, there used to be at least more than 15 songs used to be of LP, that too about 50 % of the songs in between top to first ten positions. The Binaca Geet Mala records shows that Laxmikant-Pyarelal have completely dominated this musical programme.

Here is the list of the songs of LP which were on top position in that particular year.

1967 Milan:-
Sawan Ka Mahina
Mukesh & Lata Mangeshkar

1968 Shagird:-
Dil Bil Pyar Vyar
Lata Mangeshkar

1969 Intquam:-
Kaise Rahu Chup
Lata Manageshkar

1970 Do Raste:-
Bindiya Chamake Gi
Lata Mangeshkar

1975 Roti Kapada Aur Makarn:-
Mehangai Mar Gai
Jani Babu Quwal & Lata Mukesh, Chanchal

1980 Sargam:-
Dafali Wale
Mohammad Rafi & Lata

1984 Hero:-
Tu Mera Hero Hai
Anuradha Paudwal & Manhar

1986 Sanjog:-
Yashoda Ka Nandlala
Lata Mangeshkar

1987 Naam:-
Chitthi Aayi Hai
Pankaj Udhas

1989 Ram Lakhan:-
My Name Is Lakhan
Mohammed Aziz

1993 Khalnayak:-
Choli Ke Peeche
Alka Ygnik & Ila Arun

Total 174 songs of LP appeared in Binaca Geetmala Finals..

Rafi , Kishore and Lata and Laxmikant-Pyarelal

Lata Mangeshkar

played a major role in shaping up the careers of LP. She sang the maximum numbers of songs for them. She sounded extremely melodious under LP. Lata Mangeshkar and Laxmikant-Pyarelal shared a long, close and rewarding association. From 1963, to the next 35 years, Lata Mangeshkar and Laxmikant-Pyarelal were to chalk up around 700 songs together, which accounted for one in every 10 Hindi film songs recorded by the Melody Queen, and one of every four songs composed by the duo. Their work includes a variety and range; there were chart-slammers and classics, and chaalu numbers as well as connoisseur

Connoisseur

A connoisseur is a person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts, cuisines, or an expert judge in matters of taste.Modern connoisseurship must be seen along with museums, art galleries and "the cult of originality"...

choices.

LP also produced some memorable songs rendered by Kishore Kumar namely "Mere Mehboob Quayamat hogi", "Ye Dard Bhara Afsana", "Ye Jeevan Hai", "mere Diwane Pan Ki", "Aap Ke Anurodh Pe", "Ik Ritu Aaye", "Gadi bula rahi hai", "Ruk jana Nahi" and "Om Shanti Om" amongst many others.

LP worked with Mohammad Rafi, Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

, Mukesh, Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...

, Manna Dey

Manna Dey

Prabodh Chandra Dey , better known by his nickname Manna Dey , is a playback singer in Bengali Assamese and Hindi films. Along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, he was a part of Indian film playback music from the 1950s to the 1970s. He has recorded more than 3500 songs over the course of...

, Mahendra Kapoor

Mahendra Kapoor

Mahendra Kapoor was an Indian playback singer.In a career spanning five decades, his repertoire extended to 25,000 songs in various regional languages, including memorable hits like ‘Chalo ek baar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’ Gumrah, ‘Neele gagan ke taale’ Hamraaz, and in various...

, Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar is an Indian film playback singer, actor, director, and music director. He is the son of famous singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father he too loved singing since childhood and used to sing in Kolkata during Durga Pooja functions...

, Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards...

, Udit Narayan

Udit Narayan

-Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B...

, Shailender Singh

Shailender Singh

Shailendra Singh is an Indian playback singer. He sang several Hindi songs during the late seventies and the early eighties.-Early life:...

, S.P.Balasubrahmanyam, Anuradha Paudwal

Anuradha Paudwal

Anuradha Paudwal is a popular playback singer in Bollywood in India.She has sung songs in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.- Biography :She studied at Xavier's College in Mumbai. She was married to the late Arun Paudwal, who worked with music director S. D. Burman as his assistant...

. However, they also gave big breaks to many newcomers like, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Mohammed Aziz

Mohammed Aziz

-Biography:Mohammed Aziz, is a singer of the Indian film industry. He was born on the 2nd of July 1954 in a spiritual family. His nickname is Munna and his real name is Syed Mohammed Azizunnabi. Being an ardent lover of music and Mohammed Rafi, he started singing from the very childhood and gained...

, Suresh Wadkar

Suresh Wadkar

Suresh Ishwar Wadkar is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films.He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films and in Konkani.- Early life :...

and Shabbir Kumar

Shabbir Kumar

Shabbir Kumar is an Indian Playback Singer. He was a leading Hindi Cinema playback singer in 1980s.-Biography:Shabbir Kumar whose real name is Shabbir Shaikh was born in Vadodara, Gujarat. He started his music career with the stage show Ek Shaam Rafi Ke Naam, a tribute to Mohammed Rafi...

, Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh

Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...

, Vinod Rathod

Vinod Rathod

Vinod Rathod, the son of singer Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod, is a Bollywood playback singer. He has sung in numerous popular Bollywood films including Chal Mere Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Mission Kashmir and Baazigar....

, Roop Kumar Rathod

Roop Kumar Rathod

-Personal life:Roopkumar is the son of the late Pandit Chaturbhuj Rathod, the classical luminary – an exponent of the rare and arguably the oldest style of singing i.e. Dhrupad. He belonged to the “Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar”. Pandit Rathod has trained and groomed many well known names like...

etc.
LP failed to use one of the great Indian Singer K.J Yesudass was a huge short coming in their contribution to Indian cinema songs.

After Laxmikant's death

After Laxmikant's death, Pyarelal has done some work independently. When the playback singer

Playback singer

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

Kumar Sanu

Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya , born in Kolkata, is a leading Indian Bollywood playback singer. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award over five consecutive years. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009....

turned music director, he approached Pyarelal to arrange music for him. Pyarelal was approached to assist in the music of Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om song "Dhoom Tana", but no credit was given to him on the album, as per Pyareji's insistence. In 2009 Pyarelal won the Sachin Dev Burman International Award for Creative Sound and Music at the Pune Film Festival.

Selected discography

Laxmi-Pyare gave music for almost 635 films in their 35-year career, winning 32 Gold Discs. They won seven Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...

, including four times in a row. They also won the Lata Mangeshkar Award. Some of their successful scores include:

Parasmani
Parasmani
This film is the first independent film together of the musical duo Laxmikant Pyarelal. Before this they have worked under many musicians separately as well as together. This film also marks the beginning of the long relationship between them, Lata Mangeshkar and Rafi."Hasta Hua Noorani Chehra" is...

(1963)

Dosti
Dosti
Dosti is a 1964 Indian Hindi film directed by Satyen Bose and produced by Tarachand Barjatya . The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The film was Sanjay Khan's debut film and also had Sudhir Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Leela Mishra and Leela Chitnis...

(1964)

Mr. X in Bombay
Mr. X in Bombay
Mr. X in Bombay, directed by Shantilal Soni, is a 1964 Bollywood classic film starring Kishore Kumar, Kum Kum, and Madan Puri.-Synopsis:...

(1964)

Sant Gyaneshwar (1964)

Sati Savitri (1964)

Aaye Din Bahar Ke
Aaye Din Bahar Ke
Aaye Din Bahar Ke is a 1966 Hindi film produced by J. Om Prakash. It became a box office hit. The film stars Dharmendra, Asha Parekh, Nazima, Sulochna, Balraj Sahni and Rajindernath. The film is a musical romance with music given by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist...

(1966)

Sau Saal Baad(1966)

Anita
Anita
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(1967)

Farz
Farz (1967 film)
Farz is a 1967 Indian Hindi film. Directed by Ravikant Nagaich, it has music by Laxmikant Pyarelal and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The film stars Jeetendra and Babita along with Aruna Irani, Nagesh, Agha and David. The film was a surprise hit.-External links:*...

(1967)

Milan
Milan (1967 film)
Milan is a 1967 Hindi film directed by Adurthi Subba Rao. It was a remake of his hit Telugu film Mooga Manasulu and was produced by L. V. Prasad. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Jamuna , Pran and Deven Varma. The award-winning and very popular music was given by Laxmikant Pyarelal...

(1967)

Shagird
Shagird
The soundtrack of the film contains 6 songs. The music is composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, with lyrics authored by Majrooh Sultanpuri.*Song "Dil Wil Pyar Wyar" topped the Binaca Geetmala 1968 annual list.-External links:*...

(1967)

Mere Hamdam Mere Dost
Mere Hamdam Mere Dost
Mere Hamdam Mere Dost is a 1968 film. It stars Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Rehman, Mumtaz and Om Prakash. The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri.- Plot Summary :...

(1968)

Raja Aur Runk
Raja Aur Runk
Raja Aur Runk is a 1968 Bollywood film, directed by Kotayya Pratyagatma and starring Sanjeev Kumar and Ajit.The film is an Indian adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper.- Synopsis :...

(1968)

Do Raaste
Do Raaste
Do Raaste is a 1969 Indian Hindi film directed by Raj Khosla. It stars Rajesh Khanna as the dutiful son, Mumtaz as his love interest. Balraj Sahni and Kamini Kaushal play the elder brother and his wife. Prem Chopra plays the wayward son with Bindu as his dispute causing wife.The story was based on...

(1969)

Izzat
Izzat
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(1969)

Jeene Ki Raah
Jeene Ki Raah
Jeene Ki Raah is a 1969 Hindi movie produced directed and written by L. V. Prasad. The film stars Jeetendra, Tanuja, Jagdeep and Sanjeev Kumar. The films music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal with lyrics by Anand Bakshi...

(1969)

Aan Milo Sajna
Aan Milo Sajna
Aan Milo Sajna is a 1970 Hindi film written by Sachin Bhowmick, produced by Jagdish Kumar and directed by Mukul Dutt. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Asha Parekh, Vinod Khanna, Rajendra Nath, Aruna Irani and Nirupa Roy. The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal with lyrics by Anand Bakshi...

(1970)

Abhinetri
Abhinetri
Abhinetri is a 1970 Hindi film produced and directed by Subodh Mukherjee. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Nirupa Roy, Nazima, Asit Sen and Deb Mukherjee...

(1970)

Humjoli
Humjoli
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(1970)

Khilona
Khilona
Khilona is a 1970 Indian film directed by Chander Vohra and recipient of the Filmfare Best Movie Award. Mumtaz won the Filmfare Best Actress Award....

(1970)

Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli
Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli
Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli is a 1971 Bollywood romance film directed by Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram , with Sandhya and Abhijeet as leads, along with Vatsala Deshmukh and Dina Pathak.-Cast:*Abhijeet ... Rajkumar Kailash...

(1971)

Mehboob Ki Mehndi
Mehboob Ki Mehndi
Mehboob Ki Mehndi is a 1971 Hindi movie produced and directed by H S Rawail. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Leena Chandavarkar, Pradeep Kumar and Iftekhar. The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal with lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The movie was a huge box office hit and won rave reviews from the...

(1971)

Mera Gaon Mera Desh
Mera Gaon Mera Desh
Mera Gaon Mera Desh is a 1971 Indian film made by Raj Khosla, starring Dharmendra in the lead role and also Vinod Khanna as the villain.-Performances:...

(1971)

Patthar ke Sanam
Patthar Ke Sanam
Patthar Ke Sanam is a 1967 Hindi movie. Produced by the Nadiadwala's the film is directed by Raja Nawathe. It stars Manoj Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz , Pran, Mehmood, Lalita Pawar and Aruna Irani...

(1971)

Piya Ka Ghar
Piya Ka Ghar
Piya Ka Ghar is a Hindi comedy set in Mumbai in the 1970s. It is a remake of Raja Thakur's Marathi film Mumbaicha Javai. It portrays the difficulties of life in India's biggest city during the 70s in the form of a comic family drama.-Plot:The two main characters are Ram and Malti...

(1972)

Shor
Shor (film)
Shor is a 1972 Indian Hindi movie written, produced and directed by Manoj Kumar, who also plays the lead role in the film.-Plot:Manoj Kumar loses his first wife in an accident and his son sees the event and is traumatised and loses his speech. How Manoj gets his son to recover is the focus of the...

(1972)

Dushman
Dushman
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(1972)

Gora Aur Kala
Gora Aur Kala
Gora Aur Kala is a 1972 Hindi film. Produced by Rajkumar Kohli, the film is directed by Naresh Kumar. The film stars Rajendra Kumar in a double role, Hema Malini, Rekha, Premnath, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri and Jagdeep. The film's music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal.-Cast:*Rajendra Kumar ... Karan...

(1972)

Mome Ki Gudiya(1972)

Bobby
Bobby (1973 film)
Bobby is a 1973 Bollywood film directed by Raj Kapoor. The film was widely popular, and widely imitated. It also represented the film début for Dimple Kapadia and the first leading role for Raj Kapoor's son, Rishi Kapoor....

(1973)

Daag: A Poem of Love
Daag: A Poem of Love
Daag: A Poem of Love is a 1973 Bollywood film produced and directed by Yash Chopra in his debut as a producer, which laid the foundation of Yash Raj Films. It is an adaptation of the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge....

(1973)

Loafer(1973)

Majboor
Majboor
Majboor is a 1974 Indian Hindi film directed by Ravi Tandon. Music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The film was written by Salim-Javed. The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Parveen Babi, Pran, Madan Puri, Rehman and Farida Jalal....

(1974)

Roti (1974)

Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
Roti Kapda Aur Makaan is a 1974 Indian Bollywood Hindi-language film. It was written, produced, directed by and stars Manoj Kumar, alongside Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Amitabh Bachchan, Moushmi Chatterjee, Prem Nath and Madan Puri in pivotal roles...

(1974)

Anurodh
Anurodh
Anurodh is a 1977 Hindi film, based on the 1963 Bengali film Deya Neya, produced by Girija Samanta and directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Rita Bhaduri, Ashok Kumar, Asrani, Asit Sen Utpal Dutt and Nirupa Roy. The music of the film is by Laxmikant...

(1976)

Charas
Charas
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(1976)

Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions...

(1977)

Chacha Bhatija
Chacha Bhatija
Chacha Bhatija is a 1977 Indian Hindi film directed by Manmohan Desai. It was the year's fourth hit for Manmohan Desai . It was his second film with Dharmendra...

(1977)

Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki is a 1978 Indian film directed by Raj Khosla and Sudesh Issar. Based on a Marathi novel titled Ashi Tujhi Preet by famous Marathi storywriter Chandrakant Kakodkar .-Plot :...

(1978)

Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Satyam Shivam Sundaram is an Indian film. Satyam means Truth, Shivam can refer to either Lord Shiva or Eternal and Sundaram means Beautiful.-Plot:...

(1978)

Sargam
Sargam (1979 film)
Sargam is a 1979 Hindi movie produced by N. N. Sippy. Writer and Director is K Vishwanath. Film is a remake of his earlier Telugu hit Siri Siri Muvva , which starred Jayaprada and made her a star in South India. She made her Hindi film debut with this film, repeating her role of a mute dancer...

(1979)

Suhaag
Suhaag
Suhaag may refer to:* Suhaag * Suhaag...

(1979)

Aasha
Aasha
Aasha is a 1980 Hindi movie produced and directed by J. Om Prakash. The film stars Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Rameshwari, Girish Karnad, Bhagwan and Shakti Kapoor. The films music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The film became a "blockbuster" at the box office....

(1980)

Hum Paanch (1980)

Judaai
Judaai (1980 film)
Judaai is an Indian Hindi film directed by T. Rama Rao, released on 26 September 1980. The film stars Ashok Kumar, Rekha and Jeetendra in lead roles.-Plot:...

(1980)

Kali Ghata (1980)

Karz
Karz (film)
Karz is a 1980 Hindi film directed by Subhash Ghai, starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim as leads, also in a feat of perfect casting was Simi Garewal, who stood out in her role of Kamini Verma, the murderous wife from the past life, which won her a Filmfare nomination.Film's music was by...

(1980)

Ek Duuje Ke Liye
Ek Duuje Ke Liye
Ek Duuje Ke Liye is a 1981 Hindi movie directed by K. Balachander, starring Kamal Haasan and Rati Agnihotri. It was a remake of the director's own Telugu movie Maro Charithra. The film was labeled a "blockbuster" at the box office in 1981, earning a total of in receipts....

(1981)

Pyaasa Sawan
Pyaasa Sawan
Pyaasa Sawan is 1981 Hindi language movie directed by Dasari Narayana Rao and starring Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Vinod Mehra, Moushmi Chatterji, Madan Puri, Aruna Irani, Deven Verma, Ashalata.-Cast:* Jeetendra - Chandrakant/Ravi* Reena Roy - Manorama...

(1981)

Kranti
Kranti
Kranti is a 1981 Indian Hindi film. Produced and directed by Manoj Kumar, starring Manoj Kumar along with a very large cast consisting of Dilip Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi, Sarika, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri and Paintlal. The story was written by Javed Akhtar...

(1981)

Naseeb
Naseeb (1981 film)
Naseeb is a 1981 Hindi film produced and directed by Manmohan Desai. The film is a typical Manmohan Desai film with his regular star Amitabh Bachchan and a large cast, lavish sets, memorable music and the lost and found theme...

(1981)

Prem Rog
Prem Rog
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(1982)

Hero
Hero (1983 film)
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(1983)

Pyar Jhukta Nahin (1983)

Utsav
Utsav
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(1984)

Sur Sangam(1985)

Nagina
Nagina
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(1986)

Mr. India (1987)

Tezaab
Tezaab
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(1988)

Chaalbaaz
ChaalBaaz
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(1989)

Ram Lakhan
Ram Lakhan
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(1989)

Hum
Hum (film)
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(1991)

Saudagar (1991)

Khuda Gawah
Khuda Gawah
Khuda Gawah is a 1992 Bollywood film directed by Mukul S. Anand and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Sridevi , Shilpa Shirodkar and Danny Denzongpa.Amitabh plays the role of an Afghan , who travels between Afghanistan and India.Khuda Gawah had lavish...

(1992)

Khalnayak
Khalnayak
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(1993)

Bhairavi
Bhairavi
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(1995)

Trimurti
Trimurti
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(1995)

Poonilamazha
Poonilamazha
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(1997)(Malayalam film)

For a complete filmography, please see Pyarelal's IMDB entry and Laxmikant's IMDB entry.

Awards

After Laxmikant-Pyarelal made debut as a music director duo in 1963, they were nominated for the Filmfare Awards (Best Music Director) almost every year. Many times, they were nominated for three or more numbers of films in a particular year. At the same time LP narrowly missed the awards for musical hits like Aaye Din Bahar Ke, Intquam, Do Raste, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Shor, Daag, Bobby, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Utsav and Sur Sangam, Farz, Shagird, Tejab, Hero and Mr. India.

LP got 7 Filmfare Trophies, for the following films:

1964: Dosti
Dosti
Dosti is a 1964 Indian Hindi film directed by Satyen Bose and produced by Tarachand Barjatya . The music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The film was Sanjay Khan's debut film and also had Sudhir Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Leela Mishra and Leela Chitnis...
1967: Milan
Milan (1967 film)
Milan is a 1967 Hindi film directed by Adurthi Subba Rao. It was a remake of his hit Telugu film Mooga Manasulu and was produced by L. V. Prasad. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Jamuna , Pran and Deven Varma. The award-winning and very popular music was given by Laxmikant Pyarelal...
1969: Jeene Ki Raah
Jeene Ki Raah
Jeene Ki Raah is a 1969 Hindi movie produced directed and written by L. V. Prasad. The film stars Jeetendra, Tanuja, Jagdeep and Sanjeev Kumar. The films music is by Laxmikant Pyarelal with lyrics by Anand Bakshi...
1977: Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Bollywood film about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions...
1978 Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Satyam Shivam Sundaram is an Indian film. Satyam means Truth, Shivam can refer to either Lord Shiva or Eternal and Sundaram means Beautiful.-Plot:...
1979: Sargam
Sargam (1979 film)
Sargam is a 1979 Hindi movie produced by N. N. Sippy. Writer and Director is K Vishwanath. Film is a remake of his earlier Telugu hit Siri Siri Muvva , which starred Jayaprada and made her a star in South India. She made her Hindi film debut with this film, repeating her role of a mute dancer...
1980: Karz
Karz (film)
Karz is a 1980 Hindi film directed by Subhash Ghai, starring Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim as leads, also in a feat of perfect casting was Simi Garewal, who stood out in her role of Kamini Verma, the murderous wife from the past life, which won her a Filmfare nomination.Film's music was by...

Achievements

As musicians, Laxmikant Pyarelal have worked for every reputed music director of the 1950s with the exception of O.P. Nayyar.
Laxmikant Pyarelal have given music to over 600 Hindi films.
Laxmikant Pyarelal are also winners of Indian Government’s prestigious Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

Award.
Singer Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...

has sung the maximum number of songs in her career ever for this duo.
In the third quarter of 1963, LP's first ever songs Hasta Hua Nurani Chehara form Parasmani hit the Binaca Geetmala
Binaca Geetmala
Binaca Geetmala was a weekly radio countdown show of top filmi songs from Indian cinema listened to by millions of Hindi music lovers, that was broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and then shifted to Vividh Bharati network in 1989 where it ran till 1994...

. After that LP's songs were regularly and prominently aired on the radio show. There used to be sixteen songs in each of the weekly Binaca Geetmala programme, more than half the numbers of the songs were of LP. There are certain weekly Binaca Geetmala programmes in which more than 13 out of 16 songs of LP were broadcast.
Even today, LP’s music is very popular all over India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, even in the interior hearts of the country, and their music has always been more well-known than they personally ever were, contrary to all their contemporaries.

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