Musical partnerships no longer a trend

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I checked forst few pages & couldn't see this article. If it's posted already please close this one. I just wanted to open it as found it funny if you broke the relationship does not mean that's the trend.

'Musical partnerships no longer a trend:' Jatin-Lalit
By PTI
May 14, 2007, 10:16


New Delhi, May. 14 (PTI): Gone are the days when musical partnerships were an integral part of Hindi cinema. Now solo music directors are in vogue.

Bollywood's last well-known duo Jatin and Lalit who have just parted ways after the phenomenal success of 'Fanaa' feel in their musical journey of 15 years as a pair they gave blockbusters like 'DDLJ,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', 'Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikander' and 'Khamoshi.'

"Every artist has his own perspective. At some point of time he starts needing his space. It happens with everybody." Jatin told us.

"Separation has its plus and minus points. Right now we are enjoying working on our own," says the music director.

"People are talking about our parting ways now. In future when we will establish our separate ind entities, nobody will ask us a question about it," says his younger brother Lalit.

Bollywood had a long and prosperous tradition of musical partnerships like Shankar-Jaikishan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Anand Milind-Nadeem Shravan and Ram-Lakshman but at present we have only a few partnerships like Shankar Ehsan and Loy and Vishaal-Shekhar.

A R Rahman, Anu Malik, Ismail Durbar, Vishal Bharadwaj and Adesh Shrivastav are amongst them who started independently.

After separation, Lalit is working on Shahrukh Khan, Sushmita Sen starrer'Dulha Milk Gaya' and 'Show Biz' of Mukesh Bhatt. Whereas Jatin is doing Raj Kanwar and Aziz mirza movies.

"Dulha mil gaya is totally different from typical Jatin-Lalit music. Sound quality and technique is different. It has one qawalli and one hip-hop song sung by Adnan Sami," says Lalit.

Sons of renowned classical singer Pandit Pratap Narayan Mishra and nephews of Pandit Jasraj, Jatin Lalit started their Bollywood career in 1992 with 'Yaar Dildara.' 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge' (DDLJ) bagged the 'All time Best Sound Track of Hindi Cinema' by online voters of a BBC Asia survey.

Despite their strong classical background, they say they are ready to experiment and are not against the current type of music "I am not against any kind of music. It is like fashion, which keeps changing. But melody is as immortal as Bhagavad Gita," says Jatin.

Lalit believes that these changes are necessary to keep an artist up to date. "In initial days people used to complain that we copy legendary R D Burman but we have proved ourselves. We tried so many things like Kashmiri music and instruments in 'Fanna' and people liked that."

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Posted: 18 years ago
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thanks manjuji for this article.Nice one.We miss the partnerships like yester years.Wish jatin and lalit worked together.
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Interesting to see how they still speak for each other as 'we', as if they were still together
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A long association is very difficult to get away from.. that is very eveident from this interview... They worked together as a team for so many years, and the memories are bound to stay...

This article was very much in lines of another articles of Javed Saab that was shared sometime back.. He was still refering to the legendary Salim-Javed as we and us in many places and that was nice to read.. Of course JL are nowhere close in stature with SJ, but the context seemed similar...
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This is the first broken musical jodi in my knowledge..Both are pretty cool about it..Buisness partner separates(Ambanis)..Why can't musical partners do the same...They are saying "Jodi is not a trend"

God bless them for whatever happened to their jodi

Thanks Manjudi for a great article..
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Originally posted by: *Jaya*

A long association is very difficult to get away from.. that is very eveident from this interview... They worked together as a team for so many years, and the memories are bound to stay...



So true didi.. And im sure they must be maintaining the relationship maybe not officially - but at personal level

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