Tribute To Jaidev... (Death Anniversary) 6 January 1987.

Outstanding Music Director Jaidev: A Mine of Talent that Remained Underexploited
Born in Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa) on August 3, 1919, where his father worked as an official in the railways, Jaidev (Jai Dev Verma) moved with his family to Ludhiana in 1927 after the death of his father where he began learning vocal music. While continuing his musical training, he also took up a job as a music teacher in a school.
Ali Akbar Khan, the Sarod Maestro was the musician at the court of 28-year-old Maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Jodhpur. When the Khan’s patron, the Maharaja, died in a plane crash, Ali Akbar Khan asked his young disciple Jaidev to pack up and accompany him to Bombay. At the initial stage of his career Jaidev acted in 4-5 swashbuckling/mythological films, but soon realized that ‘acting’ was not his forte.
In Bombay, Chetna Anand approached Ali Akbar Khan to compose music for his couple of films produced under the family banner Navketan – Aandhiyan (1952) and Humsafar (1953), starring Dev Anand. But both these films failed to click at the box office. Ali Akbar Khan moved on but Jaidev decided to stay on in Bombay and began assisting veteran music director S D Burman. In that capacity, under the Navketan banner, he contributed in landmark scores for Taxi Driver (1954), Munimji, House No. 44 (1955), Kala Pani, Laajwanti (1958), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) and the song in Agneepath – “Raat Bhi Hai Kuch Bheegi Bheegi”. He also assisted Burman dada in Sujata and Insaan Jaag Utha (1959).
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