Shailendra poetry jalta punjab8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “I was dismayed by what Manoj had to tell me,” says Dinesh. A disbelieving Manoj paid for the DVD and rushed out of the shop to dial his brother in Mumbai. And the composers of the film were not the legendary Shankar-Jaikishen but Amar-Ackdar. The director was not the talented debutant Basu Bhattacharya but the never-heard-of Ram Lakhan. But it was not Shailendra who had produced this evergreen classic but two strangers, Anil Mehra and Ayub Khan. The DVD released by Sky and priced at $11.99, had Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman gracing the cover jacket. Delighted, Manoj reached out for it and was in for a shock. ![]() He was surprised to see a DVD of Teesri Kasam, the only film his father ever produced. A few weeks ago, his brother Manoj who lives in San Francisco dropped in at a video store to pick up a DVD. Producer-lyricist Shailendra’s son, Dinesh talks about the controversy and the film his father lived and died forĭinesh, son of the late lyricist Shailendra, is an angry man. Thirty-seven years after its release, Teesri Kasam is in the eye of a storm over a mishmash of fictitious credits on the DVD cover. ![]()
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