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Author: Dr. Surjit Singh
Dear fellow RMIMwallas:
I was hoping to avoid typing in everything, but there have
been so many e-mail
messages from "children" for complete info that
I will type it in.
The following list reads like the who's who of
Hindi movie music
directors. The only missing name is that of
O. P. Nayyar with
whom Lata did not sing even once!
The list is copied from the book referenced below; I have
rearranged it in
the decreasing order of number of songs. Other than
that, I have made
no changes.
In my opinion, this is the complete and up-to-date info on all
the Hindi movie
songs, solos, duets, choruses etc. by Lata. This is an
improvement over
the info in the encycloaedias. Firstly because encycos go
only up to 1980,
whereas this list goes up to 1989. (The book has a
publication date
of October 29, 1989, so it does not include all of 1989,
however.) Secondly,
the third volume (1951-1960) of the encyclopaedia was
published in January
1980, and, more info is now available than it was
at that time. Mr.
Har Mandir Singh "Hamraaz" is preparing the updated
revised edition
of this volume now. I will post the info when it is
available.
Also, in my opinion, Lata is the most admired singer, even
though Asha has
sung more songs. It follows that the relative number N of
songs Lata has sung
with any MD (apart from the OPN anamoly!)
can serve as a first
approximation to the popularity (not necessarily
quality) of the
particular MD, unless the difference is less than
the square root
of N, (assuming Gaussian distribution) in which case
both could be considered
equally popular.
The list has the name of the MD (and his group, if any), the
total number of
songs with them and the total number of films with them.
Apart from the usual
songs, the list includes even those songs which
were removed from
the movie or for which no records were issued or
from the movies
that were never released. It should be mentioned that the
total number of
estimated songs in all the Hindi movies from the period
1931-1980 is 44000
and the total number of movies from the same
period is believed
to be 5664.
MD Group Songs Films
Laxmikant Pyarelal
666 271
Shankar Jaikishan
453 124
R. D. Burman
327 164
C. Ramchandra
298 63
Kalyanji Anandji
297 147
Chitragupt
240 74
Madan Mohan
210 68
S. D. Burman
182 55
Naushad
155 35
Roshan
146 41
Hemant Kumar
139 40
Anil Biswas
123 30
Vasant Desai
112 28
Rajesh Roshan
112 53
Salil Chaudhari
108 37
Husnlal Bhagatram
107 30
Bhappi Lahiri
97 65
Ravi
75 27
Khayyam (Sharmaji)
71 29
Ghulam Mohammad
71 18
S. N. Tripathy
71 24
Usha Khanna
68 36
Hansraj Bahal
43 18
Sudhir Phadake
32 8
Jaiidev
28 15
N. Dutta
28 14
Hridyanath Mangeshkar
26 9
Vinod
26 6
Mohammad Shafi
24 5
Kalyanji Virji Shah
24 6
Ravindra Jain
23 11
Bulo C. Rani
22 8
Pandit Gobind Ram
21 8
Sonik Omi
20 12
Uttam Jagdish
20 6
Duttaram
19 8
Shiv Hari
18 4
Snehal Bhatakar
18 6
Shyam Sundar
17 8
Adi Narayan Rao
17 2
Avinash Vyas
16 7
K. Dutta
15 6
Mannadey
15 6
S. Mohinder
15 4
Khemchandra Prakash
14 3
Sajjad Hussain
14 6
Ganesh
14 6
Ram Lakshaman
13 6
Dilip Dholakiya
13 4
G. S. Kohli
12 7
Shivram Krishan
11 4
Nashad (Shaukat
Dehalavi)
11 4
Sardar Malik
10 5
Jamal Sen
10 4
Annu Malik
10 7
B. S. Kalla
10 2
Basu Manohari
9 4
Sardul Kwatra
9 4
Shailesh
8 2
Basant Prakash
8 3
Iqbal Qureshi
8 3
Ghulam Haider
8 3
Bhola Shreshath
7 3
Vijay Singh
7 1
Shaukat Haidari
7 1
Ram Kadam
7 1
Hemant Kedar
7 1
R. C. Boral
7 2
Ravi Shankar
7 2
Manohar
6 1
M. D. Parthasarthi
+
E. Shankar Shastry
+
B. S. Kalla
6 1
Ramlal Hirapanna
6 2
Kanu Ghosh
6 3
Sapan Jagmohan
6 4
Shyamji Ghanshyamji
5 3
Lala Asar Sattar
5 2
Ramesh
5 1
Pandit Amarnath
5 1
Bhupen Hazarika
5 3
Hafiz Khan
5 1
B. D. Burman
4 1
Mukesh
4 1
Vedpal
4 2
Vasant + Ramchandra
4 1
Ramlal
4 1
Master Krishanrao
4 1
S. D. Batish
4 3
Amar Utpal
4 2
Dhaniram
4 1
Prem Dhawan
4 3
Aziz Khan
3 1
Shyambabu Pathak
3 2
Nitin Mangesh
3 2
Vasant Prabhu
3 1
A. R. Qureshi
3 1
Datta Davajekar
3 1
Aziz Hindi
3 2
Sanmukh Babu Upadhyaya
3 1
S. K. Pal
3 1
Premnath
3 1
Ramesh Nayadu
3 1
Pardesi
2 1
P. Nageshvar Rao
2 1
P. Ramakant
2 1
Saraswati Devi
2 1
Shambhu Sen
2 1
C. R. Subbaraman
2 1
R. Sudarshanam
2 1
Kamal Mitra
2 1
Ninu Majumdar
2 1
R. Sudarshanam +
Dhaniram
2 1
Jagmohan
2 1
Motiram
2 1
Nisar + Chic Chocolate
2 1
Sanmukh Babu
2 1
S. V. Venkataraman
+
T. R. Ramanathan
2 1
Vedpal Sharma
2 1
Krishan Dayal
2 1
Vishwanathan + Rammurti
2 1
V. Balsara
2 1
Dilip Roy
2 1
Ali Akbar Khan
2 2
Manas Mukherji
2 2
Hemant Bhosale
2 2
Shyamal Mitra
2 2
The following are one movie-one song MD's.
Kishor Kumar
E. Shankar Shastri
Arun Kumar
Anand Milind
S. Bannerji
Karnad + P. Ramakant
Ajit Merchant
S. Purushottam
Mukund Masurekar
Meena Mangeshkar
Ramkrishan Shinde
Raj Ratan
Malaya Chakravarti
Manoj Gyan
Mahesh naresh
Lachhiram
C. Arjun
Sapan Chakravarti
Gyan Dutt
Lala Sattar
Jay Kumar
Shridhar Parsekar
Madhusudan Acharya
Nadeem Shravan
Gulshan Sufi
Govind Naresh
Jugal Kishor Tilakraj
Jeetu Tapan
Shrikant
Jagjit Singh
Chand Pardesi
Ghanshyam
D. M. Tagore
Brij Bhushan
Pamarthi + Ashwatthama
Natraj
Bipin Babul
B. N. Bali
Prabhakar Jog
D. C. Dutt
The total number of MD groups is 165, the number of songs is
5067, and the total
number of movies is 1825. Because of the bookkkeeping
method adopted by
the editor, 10 songs have been attributed to the
MD's twice. Also
from the book, I can mention that 3341 solos, 1434 duets
with males, 244
duets with females and 48 songs with more that one
partner, were sung
by Lata.
Next time, I will endeavor to type in the same kind of info for
the lyricists: the
info about male, female and more than one partners
will follow after
that.
The above info comes mostly from the book
"Lata Mangeshkar
Gandhar Svaryaatraa 1945-1989"
Edited by Vishwas
Nerurkar and published by
Mrs. Vasanti P. Nerurkar,
2/15, Kailash Parwat,
Gilbert Hill,
Andheri (W)
Bombay 400 058
Telephone: 22-624-3587
A definitive and
complete book with lots of rare pictures.
Entries are in the
format:
Song #, beginning of song, film, year, music, lyricist.
Your humble typist:
Surjit Singh, a movie
fan, period.
Lata
Mangeshkar : A living legend...
