![]() The music for Barsaat was composed by Shankar–Jaikishan. For ₹ 500, Shailendra wrote these two songs: Patli kamar hai and Barsaat mein. At this time, Raj Kapoor was filming Barsaat (1949), and two of the film songs had not yet been written. However, after his wife became pregnant, Shailendra himself approached Raj Kapoor in need of money. Shailendra, a member of the left wing Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), was wary of mainstream Indian cinema and refused. Kapoor offered to buy the poem Jalta Hai Punjab written by Shailendra and for his movie Aag (1948). ![]() The filmmaker Raj Kapoor noticed Shailendra, when the latter was reading out his poem Jalta hai Punjab at a mushaira (poetic symposium). He started writing poetry during these days. He is considered as the all time evergreen Legend lyricist in the Indian film industry. Shailendra started his career as an apprentice with Indian Railways in Matunga workshop, Bombay in 1947. Afterwards Shailendra moved to Bombay for films and Indra Bahadur Khare got his fame in Raashtreey Kavita. ![]() Both started composing poems, sitting on the rock located on the bank of a pond in between railway 27 quarters and railway line near to Mathura station. Shailendra came in contact with Indra Bahadur Khare at the Kishori Raman Vidyalay (Now Kishori Raman Inter College) Mathura. ![]() His village in bihar mostly comprised agricultural laborers and Shailendra’s father had shifted to Rawalpindi to find work at a military hospital. He was born into a humble family, lost his mother and sister at a young age. His ancestors belonged to Akhtiyarpur, Ara district of Bihar. Shankardas Kesarilal - Shailendra was born in Rawalpindi, Punjab - now in Pakistan. ![]()
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