Sridevi with Bappi Lahiri: Top Ten Films of Bappi Lahiri and Sridevi

 

Born on 27 November 1952, today is music director and sometime singer Bappi Lahiri's 69th birthday. The perpetually decked-in-gold composer's career is spotted with hits and flops, great reviews and sharp critiques, but Bappi da seems to have sailed through life without letting too much affect him. From winning the best Music Director award for Sharaabi to creating the cringe-iest Michael Jackson tribute song/video ever made (google at your peril), the jabs of media arrows seem to bounce off the rolly-polly one. Bless. Ignorance be bliss indeed. 

We have quite a collection of images of Sridevi with Bappi Lahiri over the years. After all, the music director's long link to the iconic Indian actress traces back to her first Hindi hit. Bappi da composed the chart-topping numbers for her in Himmatwala and throughout the 1980s, he was the music director of nearly a dozen of her films (although in an interview on TV soon after Sridevi's tragic passing, Bappi said he did 25 films with Sridevi - um.. not sure about that!). 

He said, "Sridevi ke saath maine almost 25 films kiya. Unka jo style tha woh ekdum pakad leta tha audience ko. Sri ki jo adayein thi, kya dance tha! Jaisa western, waisa classical. Main industry mein 48 years se kaam kar raha hoon, maine aisa versatility kahin nahi dekha," [With Sridevi I did almost 25 films. Her style used to absolutely capture the audience. Her grace, her dance, her western, her classical - I've been in the industry for 48 years, but I've never seen anymore more versatile than her."]. 

The most memorable collabs of Sridevi where Bappi Lahiri was the composer of her film soundtrack include;

1. Himmatwala (1983)
2. Jaani Dost (1983)
3. Tohfa (1984)
4. Maqsad (1984)
5. Masterji (1985)
6. Suhagan (1986)
7. Sone Pe Suhaaga (1988)
8. Gair Kanooni (1989)
9. Guru (1989)
10. Naaka Bandi  (1991)