The music forums have been abuzz of late following the credit of the "sar jo teraa chakaraaye" to R.D.Burman instead of S.D.Burman in the film "Road, Movie". S.D.Burman was of course the official music director of the film. Apparently, Guru Dutt's son Arun Dutt has "confirmed" that it was the son who actually created this song and not the father.
For ages now, we have been hearing about not just RDB but other assistants being the actual sources of S.D.Burman's songs. If we to believe everything, then poor Sachinda might end up with a handful of original creations!! But this is the first time that someone has actually tampered with credits officially and that is what is causing the uproar.
"Pyaasaa" is more than half-a-century behind us. Most of the people who were involved in the making of the film are no longer alive. So how can anybody mess around changing official credits of a film. There is no documented evidence of R.D.Burman having composed "sar jo teraa". Changing credits of a song simply based on word-of-mouth is totally ridiculous. Worse, it sets a really dangerous precedent. Not so long ago in one of the TV shows, Hridaynath Mangeshkar mentioned that Roshan had been more responsible for "Anarkali"'s "ye zindagii usii kii hai". So should we start crediting this song to Roshan and not C.Ramchandra based on Hridaynath's assertion? And havebnt we heard that the songs of "Sohni Mahiwaal" were actually Mohd Shafi's compositions which Naushad just bought? Where does truth begin and where does it end? There is no end to debates and discussions. This mukhadaa carries the RDB touch so it must an RDB song, that piece of orchestration is all C.Ramchandra so how can it be Roshan? etc etc.
There was a lot of collaborative music (some healthy and some perhaps not so healthy) done during those times. So discovering credit based on some "experts" is too shallow.
For ages now, we have been hearing about not just RDB but other assistants being the actual sources of S.D.Burman's songs. If we to believe everything, then poor Sachinda might end up with a handful of original creations!! But this is the first time that someone has actually tampered with credits officially and that is what is causing the uproar.
"Pyaasaa" is more than half-a-century behind us. Most of the people who were involved in the making of the film are no longer alive. So how can anybody mess around changing official credits of a film. There is no documented evidence of R.D.Burman having composed "sar jo teraa". Changing credits of a song simply based on word-of-mouth is totally ridiculous. Worse, it sets a really dangerous precedent. Not so long ago in one of the TV shows, Hridaynath Mangeshkar mentioned that Roshan had been more responsible for "Anarkali"'s "ye zindagii usii kii hai". So should we start crediting this song to Roshan and not C.Ramchandra based on Hridaynath's assertion? And havebnt we heard that the songs of "Sohni Mahiwaal" were actually Mohd Shafi's compositions which Naushad just bought? Where does truth begin and where does it end? There is no end to debates and discussions. This mukhadaa carries the RDB touch so it must an RDB song, that piece of orchestration is all C.Ramchandra so how can it be Roshan? etc etc.
There was a lot of collaborative music (some healthy and some perhaps not so healthy) done during those times. So discovering credit based on some "experts" is too shallow.
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