Harini Calamur's Writings
The Last of the Great Playback singers of Indian Cinema has passed on today, marking the end of a glorious era of Film Music. Manna De is no more. His music however, lives on. Compared to Mohd. Rafi or Kishore Kumar –…
This morning Shammi Kapoor passed away. My father was a huge fan of the actor. We grew up with music from his films. Later on when we got a Television – some time in 1985 – watching his films on Doordarshan became…
There is no special reason for this post – no birthday or death anniversary, except that a person I know and respect greatly asked me for one on Madan Mohan. And since, I do love Hindi music, and love the music of…
Mohd. Rafi –Â In all the years that i have been blogging (my first ever blog post was in June 2003) – I have done a fair few posts on Hindi film music. But, there has been no post on Mohammed Rafi. It…
Manna De turned 90 yesterday – the 1st of May. Compared to Mohd. Rafi or Kishore Kumar – he didn’t sing as much for Hindi films, but the songs that he sang left a mark. It’s been a long time since i…
Manna De 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,…
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…