When Shammi Kapoor Amitabh Bachchan co-composed song was used in Silsila
When Shammi Kapoor Amitabh Bachchan
co-composed song was used in Silsila
Not many may know that one of the highlights of the Silsila score by Shiv-Hari was Amitabh Bachchan singing not one but three songs.
Recently, from a video shared by Rajshri Unplugged, Shammi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan co-composed the song ‘Neela aasmaan so gaya’, that too in the midst of the shoot for Zameer, produced by B.R. Chopra,elder brother to Yash Chopra, the the maker of Silsila.
Shammi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan, both fond of music, amidst one of their jam sessions where Amitabh would play the guitar and Shammi would sing. The actors would jam in their hotel room after the day’s shoot.
Said Shammi, “And one fine evening, they made a wonderful tune. Shammi started singing a pahadi tune and Amitabh followed him on his guitar. The song was eventually penned by Javed Akhtar and rendered by Amitabh Bachchan in one version and in another by Lata Mangeshkar.
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