A TRIBUTE TO A FORGOTTEN MUSIC DIRECTOR... VINOD. These 2 finest songs were composed by a forgotten but a very talented music director Vinod, for the movie ANMOL RATTAN sung by Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar. There is another marvelous song of this movie … Yaad aane wale phir yaad aa rahe hain…. The lyrics were penned by great DN Madhok. These videos on Madhubala and Dilip Kumar are tribute to the great the music director Vinod.
Vinod was of the most talented music directors that Punjab has produced. His real name was Eric Roberts but for the film industry he chose a more familiar name Vinod. He was very creative, who produced some of the most soul stirring tunes, but he never got what he deserved in his life and or after death. He had obtained lessons in composing film music from Late Pandit Amar Nath, had studied the music from Master Inayat Hussain and learnt from Ghulam Haider to compose preludes and interludes for his tunes.
By 1946, he had started composing music for a number of films, including three Hindi films and a Punjabi film Chaman. However, Chaman could not be taken up due to communal tension in Lahore. It was made in India after 1947 for which Pushpa Hans and Shamshad Begum lent their voices. Lata Mangeshkar was a new in the film industry, looking for work and Vinod gave Lata Mangeshkar three songs to sing. All three numbers became landmark songs. Those were the days of tension on both sides of the Radcliffe line. While the film did not do well in Pakistan, the music of the film did a decent business.
The lovers of Punjab and Punjabi language, bow their heads before Vinod for all the great musical compositions he has given to his mother-tongue.
Vinod started composing songs for films in 1946. He composed music for the 1949 film Ek Thi Ladki, which, along with the song Larra Lappa Larra Lappa Layi Rakhda, Addi Tappa Addi Tappa Layi Rakhda became successful. He moved to Bombay when Roop Kumar Shorey, a producer for whom Vinod had previously composed songs, brought his team there. Vinod composed music for 36 films, viz. 30 in Hindi and 6 in Punjabi language. He also composed 4 non-film songs.
He died very young at age of 36 due to tetanus.
