Short Autobiography of Laxmikant Pyarelal with their Copied or Inspirational Songs List –

Short Autobiography of Laxmikant Pyarelal with their Copied or Inspirational Songs List –

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo is also known as LP or Laxmi-Pyare

Name - Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998)
Name - Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940)



They composed music for about 500 Bollywood movies

Laxmikant was born into a poor family. He learned to play mandolin on his own.
When Laxmikant was about 10 years old, he once played mandolin in a Lata Mangeshkar concert in Radio Club, Colaba.

Pyarelal was the son of a renowned trumpeter Pt. Ramprasad Sharma (popularly known as Babaji), who taught him the basics of music.
Pyarelal was born in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Started learning violin at the age of 8 and practised it 8 to 12 hours daily.
At the age of 12, he started playing violin in studios to earn money for his family, whose financial condition had deteriorated.

Laxmikant and Pyarelal met at Sureel Kala Kendra, a music academy for children, run by the Mangeshkar family. And soon they became very good friends.
In Bombay they both did not good amount of money, so went to Madras but their also they did not make more money, so they again came back to Bombay.

In 1953, they became assistants to Kalyanji-Anandji and worked with them as assistants till 1963.

Mohammad Rafi and Lata have sung the maximum number of songs in their career for Laxmi-Pyare. Kishore Kumar sang maximum songs (402) for LP among all male singers, followed by Rafi (about 365 songs)

Laxmi-Pyare gave music for almost 635 films in their 35-year career, winning 32 Gold Discs.

Few Names of Movies where LP gave excellent music –

• Parasmani (1963)
• Dosti (1964)
• Aaye Din Bahar Ke (1966)
• Farz (1967)
• Milan (1967)
• Shagird (1967)
• Mere Humdum Mere Dost (1968)
• Raja Aur Runk (1968)
• Do Raaste (1969)
• Jeene Ki Raah (1969)
• Aan Milo Sajna (1971
• Khilona (1970)
• Patthar ke Sanam (1971)
• Dushman (1972)
• Daag: A Poem of Love (1973)
• Bobby (1973)
• Roti (1974)
• Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974)
• Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
• Anurodh (1977)
• Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)
• Sargam (1979)
• Karz (1980)
• Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981)
• Kranti (1981)
• Naseeb (1981)
• Prem Rog (1982)
• Hero (1983)
• Utsav (1984)
• Mr. India (1987)
• Tezaab (1988)
• Chaalbaaz (1989)
• Ram Lakhan (1989)
• Hum (1991)
• Saudagar (1991)
• Khuda Gawah (1992)
• Khalnayak (1993)

Below is the list of Copied or Inspired Songs of Laxmikant Pyarelal –

Movie Name - Hum
Song Name - Jhumma Chumma
Copied from original Song – Mory Kante's Yeke Yeke and Tama Tama by mory kante

Movie Name - Hum
Song Name - Ek doosre se karte hai pyaar hum
Copied from original Song – Mory Kante's "Inchallah"

Movie Name - Ram Balram
Song Name - Ek Rasta Aha Aha
Copied from original Song – 'That's the way (I like it)', by KC and The Sunshine Band

Movie Name - Ram Balram
Song Name - Yaar Ki Khabar Mil Gayee
Copied from original Song – Carl Douglas' Kung fu fighting

Movie Name - Rajkumar
Song Name - Paayal meri
Copied from original Song – George Michael's Faith

Movie Name - Insaan
Song Name - Saathiya, Tu Mere Sapnon ka Meet Hai
Copied from original Song – Angelo, by Brotherhood of man

Movie Name - Karz
Song Name - Ek Haseena Thi
Copied from original Song – George Benson's 'We as love’ Karz, the movie itself was a lift from the 1975 movie 'The Reincarnation of Peter Proud'.

Movie Name - Karz
Song Name - Om shanti om
Copied from original Song – Lord Shorty's 'Shanti Om

Movie Name - Kshatriya
Song Name - Tune Kiya Tha Vaada
Copied from original Song – Michael Jackson's Will you be there


Movie Name - Judaai
Song Name - Tere Naam Ke Hum Deewane
Copied from original Song – Brown Girl in the ring by Boney M

Movie Name - Judaai
Song Name - Saamne Aa
Copied from original Song – Francis Lai's Love Story theme

Movie Name - Chaalbaaz
Song Name - Kisike Hath Na Ayegi yeh Ladki
Copied from original Song – Stevie Wonder's Part time lover

Movie Name - Yaadon ki kasam
Song Name - Ek haseena ki
Copied from original Song - Pashtun track, 'Larsha Pekhawar Ta'

Movie Name - Yaadon ki kasam
Song Name - Baith mere paas
Copied from original Song - Ghulam Ali's Punjabi ghazal,
'Baija mere kaul'

Movie Name - Naseeb
Song Name - Zindagi imtihaan leti hai
Copied from original Song – Boney M number, 'See the stars...still I'm sad

Movie Name - Lootera
Song Name - Raat se kaho
Copied from original Song – Dick Dale's 1961 number, 'Misirlou'

Movie Name - Arpan
Song Name - Likhne waale
Copied from original Song – Pakistani song, 'Asan hun tur jaan aaye' by Aalam Lohar.

Movie Name - Bobby
Song Name - Akhiyan ko rehne de
Copied from original Song – Pakistani singer Reshma's folk song, Akhiyan nu