Posted by gargi on 16 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Films, India, Media, Music
Kishore Kumar was a genius. And, it was his birthday about 10 days ago (4th August). I had wanted to do a little blog piece on my favourites sung by him. But, there were so many of them, and it was so difficult to make a choice that I went into some sort of a [...]
Posted by gargi on 12 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Films, India, Music
It is Monsoons The streets look washed. There skies look silver and grey. The trees are swaying. The air smells fresh. There is a cool breeze that refreshes. The world looks great.
The monsoons have always been my favourite season. Traffic jams, water logging not withstanding — the moment i see a rain cloud my heart [...]
Posted by gargi on 04 May 2008 | Tagged as: Films, India, Media, Music
The 1950's and 1960's possibly had the best in terms of musical talent in the Hindi Film Industry. The kind of music that was created was superlative by any standards. And, there was choice - there was classical, rock, jazz, folk, fun, … the lot. Amongst the greats of this era was Manna Dey. Not [...]
Posted by gargi on 26 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Films, India, Music
I had earlier posted a version of this post on Blogbharti, as a part of the spotlight series . Today, on the 58th Republic Day, I thought that it may be appropriate to post it on my blog… This version has pics… and a couple of other songs…
One of the things that interest me is [...]
Posted by gargi on 16 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Films, India, Music
16th of November is music director Roshan’s death anniversary….. the father of Rakesh & Rajesh & Grand Father to Hrithik Roshan - Roshan gave Hindi Film Music gems such as Taal Mile Nadi ke Jaal Mein, and Barsaat ki Raat…… Here are my top picks from his collection :
The Entire sound track of Barsaat Ki [...]
Posted by gargi on 30 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Films, India, Music
31st October is the death anniversary of one of the greatest music directors of the Hindi Film Industry. This is the first person who went beyond Indian Classical roots, or western classical roots - like many of his contemporaries - and made folk music the basis for his brand of Hindi Film Music. He left [...]
Posted by gargi on 16 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Films, India, Media, Music
It was Kishore Kumar’s death anniversary over the weekend, and Radio Farishta on World Space radio had a lovely tribute to his music.
It kind of got me thinking of my favourite Kishore Kumar solo’s over the decades of Hindi Film Music. So hear they are in alphabetical order (more or less)
Choti Si Yeh [...]
Posted by gargi on 29 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: India, Music
On her birthday, my favourite Lata Mangeshkar duets. She has sung with practically everyone and his cousin in her eons that she has ruled the roost of Hindi Film Music
Chod Gaye Balam - Lata and Mukesh voicing for a very young Nargis and Raj Kapoor. Film - Barsaat. The pangs of separation done [...]
Posted by gargi on 28 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Films, Media, Music
September 28th - The birthday of Lata Mangeshkar …. the woman with the golden voice.The first lady of Hindi film Music. For me, the last of the All India Radio generation , the lady and her music was a constant companion when I was growing up. Although in later years - i would think [...]
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