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Anil Biswas: Guest Post by S. Krishna Kumar

Posted in The Magic of Movies!, tagged , , , , on August 17, 2023| 1 Comment »

Anil Biswas

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Hindi film songs based on Raga ‘Charukeshi’

Posted in The Magic of Movies!, tagged , , , , on February 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

findshars's avatarMy Views On Bollywood

By

Sharada Iyer

“Your classicism is of value only if you know how to fine-tune it to the peculiar visual needs of instant cinema. In the end in the recording room it is not who knows classical singing but who has the ability to modulate classicism to the adolescent needs of mainstream cinema”

– Raju Bharatan (taken from his book- ‘A Journey Down Melody Lane’, 2010)

The repertoire of our century old Hindi film music boasts of a wide range of songs based on a variety of classical Hindustani ragas. As the object of a raga is to express a certain emotional mood and sentiment each music director has captured the essence of the raga in his/her own way to fit into the milieu of the narrative- ranging from deep love and longing, to the agony of separation, a heart-felt devotional ‘bhajan’ or just a peppy dance number.

Instead of…

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