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Tag Archives: Bhupinder Singh

The Super Hits and the Forgotten Gems: 50 Years of Bappi Lahiri

One tends to overlook the many achievements of the composer Bappi Lahiri, overshadowed as they have been by his ‘Tathaiyya, tathaiyya’ brand of cacophony, his infamous penchant...

Music Makers

Chetan Anand: Exploring the Unconventional to Make Landmark Films

Twenty one years ago, on July 7, 1997, Chetan Anand bid farewell. Silhouette pays tribute to the great film maker, the director, writer, producer, actor who dared to explore unconventional subjects that turned into landmark cinema.

Kunal Desai on Salil Chowdhury – A Continuum of Art
Thank you so much for your kind words and appreciating this write up.
N S RAJAN on Salil Chowdhury – A Continuum of Art
An absorbing and well researched article on the immortal Salilda and his music. Many aspects of his songs have been brought out here that even avid lo...
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...