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Music Makers

Anil Biswas: Creating the Blueprint for Hindi Film Music

Anil Biswas, the pioneering music composer helped establish the foundational structure of Hindi film music. A Silhouette tribute by NS Rajan to the one who has been called ‘Composer’s Composer’ and ‘Film Sangeet ke Bhishma Pitamah’ and fondly ‘Anil Da’ by music lovers.

Subha Das Mollick on The Aesthetics of Fractured Dislocation in Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema
Very significant essay on Ritwil Ghatak's aesthetics and he core ideas recurring in his body of work. For the first time somebody has referred to Ghat...
Indra Kumar on Khaniker Atithi and Zindagi Zindagi: Two Sides of One Coin
Please let me know which actress played the role of Shyama in the Bengali film Kshaniker Atithi. Was she Ajanta Kar or someone else? If Ajanta Kar ...
NS Rajan on Kanan Devi: ‘The First Singing Star’
Yes. She is a Legend. It is inconceivable now that someone with her background could achieve so much and in such a diverse manner in the 1930s and 40s...
Satbir chadha on Cover to Cover: The Bachchan Journey
Lovely article and collection of magazine covers
rachna rajesh on Kanan Devi: ‘The First Singing Star’
Fascinating write up on an incredible artist . Her extraordinary journey is stuff folklores are made of . I was oblivious to her legend till I read th...