A hand-picked basket of cherries from the world of most talked about books and popular posts on creative literature, reviews and interviews, movies and music, critiques and retrospectives ...
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A hand-picked basket of cherries from the world of most talked about books and popular posts on creative literature, reviews and interviews, movies and music, critiques and retrospectives ...
to enjoy, ponder, wonder & relish!
A lyrical portrait of Salil Chowdhury, this article journeys through his revolutionary beginnings, his seamless fusion of Western and Indian music, immortal film songs, deep artistic friendships,...
With every new book, author and music historian Manek Premchand deepens our understanding of Hindi cinema’s Golden Era. His latest work, Soulfully Yours Ravi, is perhaps...
While it is impossible to pin a particular style on Mohammed Rafi, there was always something extra special about his songs that had a touch of the classical, says Prakash Dharmarajan. This piece celebrates the ‘classical’...
The only way to understand what Mohammed Rafi meant to Hindi film music is to try and imagine what this would have been without Rafi’s contribution, says NS Rajan in this very personal tribute
Even though Rajinder Krishan worked with a diverse group of composers, singers, directors, and story writers and has a large portfolio as a lyricist, he seems to have no defining characteristics...
For a poet who was part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, Jan Nisar Akhtar’s lyrics for Hindi film songs were delicately shaded with the disparate colours of romance, writes Anuradha Warrier