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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!
OP Nayyar, the legendary music director, is known for his bold, uninhibited and foot-tapping music, as well as his soulful melodies. Kunal Desai explores the creative process behind OP Nayyar’s...
A tribute to Asha Bhosle’s versatility, the singer who could move across genres, moods, eras and languages with ease, revealing a different shade of her artistry each time.
This essay has attempted to explore the work of Rajinder Krishan (RK) the lyricist, vis-à-vis his collaboration with different composers between 1948-1973, his most prolific working period. This...
In Part 1 of this study, Monica Kar explored the lyrics Rajinder Krishan (RK) wrote for some composers who he didn’t work too much with. Part 2 explores the lyrics he wrote for some other composers...
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