Monday 1 February 2021

The Man Who Whistled in More Than 1500 Songs

 


Whistling is an art, it is being a part of Bollywood songs since the 30s. Many memorable songs have a whistle the highlight of those songs. Whistling is being used in prelude or interlude in many songs. As a matter of fact, whistling was quite a vogue in most of the Dev Anand films

How whistling can make a career is a perfect example to Nagesh Surve who for the first time whistled in Julie After that he never looked back. Having whistled in over 1,500 Hindi film songs, Surve became Hindi film industry's chief whistler, collaborating with top-notch music directors, right from Lakshmikant-Pyarelal and Shankarlal-Jaikishan to Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Pritam. 

Nagesh Surve was a musician, he plays the violin, he was a member of Shankar Jaikishan orchestra but this art was used by Kanu Roy,  music composer in Hindi and Bengali films for the first time in 1973 film Avishkar. Later Rajesh Roshan used his whistling in the song of Julie 1975.

Song of Julie 1975
After the success of Julie , his whistling became a constant in Bollywood songs, something that we got used to, without notice. Surve has whistled in music tracks for films like Karz (Ik Haseena Thi), Hero (Ding dong), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (Hai hai re hai yeh ladka), Satya (Sapne me milti hai), Fanaa (Chand Sifarish).
Song of Karz 1980

Song of Hero 1983
Song of Tezab 1988

Song of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 1998

Song of Satya

Song of Fanaa

Song of Koi Mil Gaya, 2003

















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