Jaikishan, of most successful Hindi film music director duo Shankar Jaikishan was born and brought up here.
It was also the last Shankar Jaikishan score in a Raj Kapoor film; it contains superhit songs like "Aap Yahan Aaye Kis Liye" and "Bhanware Ki Gunjan".
The music team of Shankar Jaikishan also worked frequently on R.K. Films productions during this period.
The video for the popular song "Chakke pe Chakka, Chakke pe Gadi..." by Shankar Jaikishan from the film Brahmachari was shot on this train.
Ravi Shankar | Shankar Jaikishan | Shankar Mahadevan | Shankar | Anoushka Shankar | Naren Shankar | L. Shankar | Uday Shankar | Shankar Ramakrishnan | Shankar Dayal Sharma | Shankar (actor) | Lakshmi Shankar | Gudumba Shankar | Girija Shankar Bajpai | Gingger Shankar | Gauri Shankar | Ananda Shankar | Tanusree Shankar | Shankar (director) | Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) | Ravi Shankar Prasad | P. Shiv Shankar | P. Shankar Rao | Pawan Shankar | Mani Shankar Mukherjee | Mahadev Shankar | Kamala Shankar | James Shankar Singh | Hari Shankar Roy | Gopal Shankar Misra |
The music was yet another thrilling endeavour of Shankar Jaikishan, with tracks ranging soothing melodies such as "Aaja Sanam" and "Yeh raat Bheegi Bheegi" in voices of Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey, to fast beat songs such as "Jahan Mein Jati Hun" by Lata and Manna and "Sawa Lakh ki Lottery," with the vocals of the maestro Mohammad Rafi.
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Chori Chori is a 1956 Hindi film directed by Anant Thakur, with music by Shankar Jaikishan and lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra.
She sang for composers Shankar Jaikishan, Roshan, Madan Mohan, S. D. Burman, Hemant Kumar, Chitragupta, Naushad, S. N. Tripathi, Ghulam Mohammed, Kalyanji Anandji and Laxmikant-Pyarelal singing the most songs for the first two in the list.
In that film, she sang under the music direction of Shankar Jaikishan the song "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" along with Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur and Pratibha.
Shivaranjani was a favourite of the legendary composers Shankar-Jaikishan (in fact, to be more precise, that of both Shankar and Jaikishan), in addition to the aforementioned song from Mera Naam Joker they also used it for O basanti pavan paagal ("O bewitching spring breeze") in Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai and O mere sanam ("O my love") in Sangam Mere naina Saon Vhado.