I am willing to be satisfied with that explanation, because a discussion
on Hindustani music can go interminably long.
Quote: because the Shankar / Jaikishan team just did not quite get it right.
Due either to ignorance, carelessness, or rebelliousness, they twisted the
rag and threw in so much unrelated stuff that it became unrecognisable."
I find it bit absolutist to charge the creative duo,Shankar-Jaikishan with
ignorance. There is in the semi-classical or classical based tradition of
music, particularly film music and other non classical traditions like Gazhals,
bhavageets,etc. a tendency to deliberately mix ragas. The prime object is to
'concoct' a tune just a shade off-tangent.There are any number of compositions
in the traditions referred to above where one is let into the mood of certain
raga
and then deliberately mislead away into a mixed-bag of notes. Pt. Abhisheki has
done
it in his compositions, Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar does it almost every time
he composes. Besides, ragas are based on something called Thaat' Many ragas
in one group may resemble, and sometimes they may be from different thaats yet
resemble like in the case of Tchaaya-nut,Jayjaywanti,Des, Kedar
and the like.
Sometimes Classical singers like Pt. Kumar Gandharva (whom the puritans may
not accept as a strict classicist!) oddly brought in an un-prescribed note into
the raga. There is a story how once he sang a note that HAD TO BE AVOIDED
(varjit)
while singingthe particular raga he was singing. After the performance a critic
is
supposed to have asked why he had done that. He replied' "You see, that note
was
hanging there right above my head imploring me to include her".
Charudatta Prabhudesai
