This blog has now moved to http://www.sjmusic.org/blog/2009/02/17/album-sanyasi-tourchbearer-for-music-composers-later.

I have grown listening to Shankar-Jaikishan music. I still remember when Shankar left this mundane world twenty-one years ago. I was studying in Class IX when I visited the homeopathic clinic of my uncle along with my father. I saw them going into a very engaged discussion immediately, and was curious to know what happened. When my father identified my curiosity, he called me and pointed to a small item on the front page of an Oriya newspaper. It read Famous Music Composer Shankar Is Dead.

Oh, then I understood the gloomy atmosphere there, and could understand most of the discussion. I was shocked as I had listened to my one of the most favourite song “Sunle Mere Payal…” from movie “Sasural” in the evening of the previous day. We, both father and son, had discussed the zing of music from Shankar-Jaikishan.

For us, an era had ended!