Rajesh Roshan Bollywood Music Composer
Rajesh Roshan is a Bollywood music composer. Rajesh Roshan is the son of erstwile Bollywood composer Roshan and brother of film director and Actor Rakesh Roshan. Rajesh Roshan had learnt music at a very young age. He had a successful association with Basu Chatterjee, Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar.
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He shot to fame with the score for Julie (1975 film) for which he won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award. He is the first music director who made superstar Amitabh Bachchan to sing. He usually composes music for the films that his brother Rakesh Roshan either produced or directed, such as Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai (2000), Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) and Krrish (2006). He also composed the song "Jaane Tamanna" for the internationally acclaimed film Valley of Flowers (2006) by Pan Nalin.
In 2008, Rajesh Roshan was sued by another composer Ram Sampath for copying his tune and using it in the movie "Krazzy 4", produced by his brother. Ram Sampath had composed the tune for advertisements of mobile phone company Sony Ericsson. Incidentally, Roshan's nephew Hrithik is a brand ambassador of Sony Ericsson and had danced in the ad to the very same tune. The lift was so grossly obvious that the Roshans decided not to proceed with the case and went for an out-of-the-court settlement. Rajesh roshan is most rememberd even today through his two famous songs sung by the legend kishorekumar "Chookar mere manko kiya tune kya ishara" in "Yaarana starring Amitabh Bachan and "dil kya kare ab kisko kisise pyar ho Jaye" in Julie
n more than two occasions, he has used Vangelis's themes for the soundtrack of his movies without giving credit to him. For example, the soundtrack of Vangelis's 1492: Conquest of Paradise was used throughout the movie of Koyla. Also, Vangelis's theme for Voices was used in the movie Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai. Besides Vangelis, he has sampled Kingston Trio's A Hundred Miles, Bond (band)'s Victory , Ceddin deden's march song for movie Krrish, Bobby Bare's - 500 Miles Away From Home for movie Jurm, Michael Jackson's They Don't Really Care About Us for the movie Koyla and A.R.Rahman's "Mukkala Muqabla" for the movie Raghuveer. He is also uncle to Hrithik Roshan.
