Pyarelal's critical stand against Himesh

Taking his stand on today's music directors, veteran musician Pyarelal says, "If you listen to Himesh Reshamiya's songs, like 'Jhalak Dikh La Jaa' or 'Aashiq Banaya', you can find the repetition of 'Mukhada' (starting words of a song) more than twenty times. This is something great music directors never did and always concentrated more on melody."

Continuing to address the issue, he adds, "The 'sur' and the melody of Hindi film song is same as those of 60s and 70s but the presentation style and the priorities have changed. Nowadays the emotional bonding of the song with the listener is temporary as music directors give more attention to rhythm and beat and lose control over its melody due to the lack of knowledge."

Pyarelal is of the view that today's contemporary musical scene has taken a nose-dive that lacks heavily on both charisma and content unlike the music of his times. Drawing attention to the immoral creations of veteran music directors like Shankar-Jaikishan, Madan-Mohan, Khayyam, O P Nayyar and S D Burman, Pyarelal adds that today lyrics has lost its meaning in music that is mainly dominated by beats and rhythm. He also is critical of the fact that AR Rahman uses a small room as his studio while in his days, lavish orchestra were used to compose.

Pyarelal who streamed his way back to Bollywood this year with Farah Khan's blockbuster OSO recalls, "Music director Vishal-Shekhar came to me and said that they want LP's music, the type of music that was played in the 1970s. I liked the concept and did a retro."

The veteran musician has now been approached by Subhash Ghai to tune out the entire album for his next.