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etween two creative minds. He made the suggestion in Lata’s presence.
But my ego would not allow it. I had Lata record the ‘jhatka’ exactly
as I had envisaged it, ignoring Roshan’s suggestion. You have listened to the
song many times so far. Tell me frankly. Do you or your friends really
think that I might have got stuck while composing the tune for this antara?’
Not just Raju Bharatan, but a huge majority of music lovers do not
think even today that C. Ramchandra needed help for composing the
tune. Annasahab had himself added: ‘I am not suggesting at all that I
have never been stuck. But if C. Ramchandra faces such a hurdle, he
himself has to find a way. Similarly Roshan has to rely on
his wits to overcome the challenges which he faces. Lata Mangeshkar
can help neither Roshan, nor C. Ramchandra in these matters.’
C. Ramchandra’s reminiscence is particularly noteworthy. Mamasaheb
['Hridayanath': is addressed as ‘Mamasaheb’ on this television show by
Suresh Wadkar] Mangeshkar (b. 1937) was 13-14 when the song was
composed. He tried to pass off 75 per cent of the credit to Roshan. If
such attempts to spread misinformation are allowed to succeed,
'famous' names in the next generation will try to deny all the credit
to artists whom they do not favour. And nobody will have been left to
properly evaluate the claims. Most of the ‘emperors’ and ‘empresses’
who make it to the very top of their profession, tend to write history
to suit their own conveniences. A fiction repeated often enough by the
famous names gradually comes to be taken for fact. It looks like the
field of music is also not being spared such attempts. Music lovers
have begun to suspect whether the pulpit of the hugely popular ‘Idea
SaReGaMaPa’ music competition on a famous TV channel is being
willfully misused to distort history.
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