![]() The biggest contingent of music directors was from Punjab. Vasant Desai of Gujarat and Khem Chand Prakash represented the best from Rajasthan. Central India was represented by Sajjad Hussain and Ghulam Mohammad. There were great maestros from Maharashtra including C. Bombay had attracted the best music composers of Bengal including Anil Biswas, Sachin Dev Burman and Hemant Kumar who influenced other music directors. Mohinder believes that just like the USA, which is considered a great melting pot of all the cultural groups in the World, Bombay is the melting pot of all the film making cultural groups of India. Mohinder composed music for “Filmistan” for half a decade. Mohinder took a regular job of music director in “Filmistan Studio”, which was churning out movies like a mint producing coins. His first successful film was Neeli, which was musically a hit but a mediocre. Mohinder, came to Bombay, the leading center of film industry. After a couple of years of grooming in classical music in Benares, the Mecca of Indian classical music, S. In 1947, the rest of the family too moved to East Punjab in India. Mohinder’s education was suffering badly, durIng early forties, he was enrolled in Khalsa High School in village Kairon in Amritsar District. Frequent transfers of his father kept the family on the move. Mohinder got his further training in classical music from legendry Sikh religious musician Bhai Samund Singh. The family moved to Sheikhupura, close to Nankana Sahib, the birth place of Guru Nanak and S. He honed his skills for several years in classical music in the tutelage of Sant Sujan Singh. Soon the family moved to a comparatively larger city Lyallpur, where young Mohinder around 1935 came in contact with an accomplished Sikh religious vocalist Sant Sujan Singh. ![]() Muhammad rafi special on radio ceylone movie#Studded with great musical compositions and sung in the voices of revered Bhai Samund Singh, Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsale, this movie elated the cinema buffs.īorn in 1925 in a small town called Silanwala in Montgomery District of un-divided Punjab.S.Mohinder’s father Sujan Singh Bakhshi was a sub-inspector in police. Mohinder had to wait for 14 years to get the Presidential Annual Award for the best music for his musical score for the superhit Punjabi Sikh religion based movie “Nanak Naam Jahaz Hai” in 1970. Big playback names like Talat Mehmood, Hemant Kumar and Mohammad Rafi gave their voices to the songs. This film had nine songs, all were great hits. Mohinder, to thank him for the special music he had created. The prime female Bollywood superstar of those days Madhubala, a leading actress in the film, was so impressed with the music of “Sheereen Farhad” that, while coming home after a hectic shooting session, she herself visited the residence of S. But the name and fame he got with his music in “Sheereen Farhad” was consummate. ![]() Mohinder had composed music for several films including Sehra, Jeevan Saathi, Shadi Ki Raat, Neeli, Bahadur, Shahzada and Paapi. ![]() But the music of “Shireen Farhad” held its own. Several musically hit films were released including “Shama Parvana” and Adl-e-Jehangir” with music score by Husna Lal Bhagat Ram, “Patrani” “Rajhath” and “Chori Chori” with music composed by Shanker Jaikishan and Uran Khatola of Naushad. The lyrics for his music were composed by poet Tanvir Naqvi, an import from Lahore.ġ956 was a great year for film music. Born and brought up in Pakistani Punjab, this budding music director Mohinder Singh Sarna or S.Mohinder or as some called him Mohinder Singh Bakhshi was a young rising star of Hindi films. It was a song from a Madhubala film “Shireen Farhad”. ![]() It was a song of the sub continent, soulful and haunting. IT was the year 1956, a soulful melody in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar, “Guzra Hua Zamana Ata Nahin Dobara… Hafiz Khuda Tumhara, virtually everyday on the airwaves of All India Radio, Radio Pakistan and Radio Ceylon. South Asia Post: Issue 30 Vol II, December 31, 2006 ![]()
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