SALILDA MUSIC HAS NO LANGUAGE ( PART 2) ( Vol 35 Down Memory Lane)
Salil Chowdhrey As Bimal Roy booked Kishore Kumar to play the film’s jobless hero opposite heroine Sheila Ramani in the movie Naukri, our singing-star performer assumed that he himself would be rendering the numbers going on the leading man. But Salil Chowdhury invited Hemant Kumar to playback his songs in Naukri , without informing Kishore, who was aghast when he heard about it. Salil gave this tune to Shailendra who immediately wrote the lyrics a genius. Kishore rushed to Salil’s music room (at Mohan Studios, Andheri), humbly demanding to know why he was being eliminated, as a singer, from his own starrer. ‘But I’ve never heard you before!’ came back Salil Chowdhury as one new to Bombay. ‘Kishore modestly replied : ‘Then, at least, do please hear me now, Salilda. I have always rendered my songs myself in Bombay cinema.’ The moment Kishore began singing, Salil cut him short, observing: ‘ You don’t know the ABC of music “. Hemant Kumar will sing, on you, Chhota sa ghar ...