He had urged Kamal Haasan not to reshoot. But Ilaiyaraaja actually composed fresh music matching the songs’ lip-sync, with the lyrics too kept unchanged. He went back to his favourite composer, Ilaiyaraaja, ready to reshoot all the lip-synched numbers among them. Producer-director-actor Kamal Haasan had recorded all the songs and shot them before he realized that he was unhappy with the music, scored by a well-known classical musician. Burman, at his peak, turned down a film and when the producer asked the reason, told him, “I do not like your face!”Īnd now an incredible tale of the music of the Hindi-Tamil bi-lingual Hey! Ram (2000). But when the celebrities did come on stage, the audience, within just a few minutes, began to demand the resumption of the show and S-J’s songs!Īnd we also have the classic story of how the late S.D. Such was the clout of composers then that when a Shankar-Jaikishan Nite (live concert) was hosted in Singapore, the organizers decided to bring in top stars like Rajendra Kumar and Raj Kapoor after the interval to increase the entertainment value. I did not anything more to sell my film after I announced it as Kader Khan’s Jaahil starring Amitabh Bachchan with music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.” With this magic combo announced in 1981-1982, all Indian territories were sold by the same evening! Ironically, due to Amitabh’s accident and later his entry into politics, the film was never made. Back in Mumbai, the late writer-actor Kader Khan once said, “I launched a big-budget action film called Jaahil.
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