Anand Bakshi - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• Anand Bakshi wrote the lyrics for the very first films of several of today's stars, including Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Kamal Haasan, Rishi Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, among several others.

• He worked with several music directors who were the sons of the music directors that he had worked with in his early days: SD and RD Burman, Chitragupta and Anand-Milind, Kalyanji Anandji and Viju Shah, Roshan and Rajesh Roshan, Nadeem-Shravan and Sanjeev Darshan etc. He also worked with father-son pairs of film directors like Manmohan Desai and Ketan Desai, and Yash and Aditya Chopra.

• He wrote the first recorded songs of playback singers Mukesh, Shailender Singh, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, to name a few.

• Stars like Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Sunny Deol, Shashi Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla opted for Anand Bakshi when they started their own film production companies.

• The song he sang in Sholay, a qawwali, "Ke Chand Sa Koi Chehra" for R.D.Burman in Sholay along with Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey and Bhupinder. Anupama Chopra's Sholay: The Making of a Classic mentions that "The qawwali was recorded but never shot - the film was already longer than the requisite three hours. Bakshi was most disheartened. 'Perhaps if they had kept it' he wondered 'I might have had a career as a singer'."

• However, Anand Bakshi sung a song in film Charas Dharmendra. The song was "Ke Aaja ter yaadi aayi" and has to satisfy himself by singing only the "mukhda" of song - the rest of the song is sung by Lata-Rafi pair. It was great hit of the time. He stopped singing as many of the films he sang in did not do well at the box office and he got superstitious and stopped singing after "Balika Badhu".

• Anand Bakshi acted as a Fakir, begging for alms, in the 1966 film Picnic (1966) starring Manoj Kumar, Kalpana, Azra & Shubha Khote.

Anand Bakshi’s songs remixed and released in foreign films:

• In 2001, Anand Bakshi’s song, "Aaj mausam bada beimaan hai", was included in Monsoon Wedding.
• In 2009, Anand Bakshi’s song "Choli ke peeche kya hai", was included in Slumdog Millionaire.