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Anil Biswas: The Maestro and My Father

Anil Biswas January 1, 2014

SoY heralds 2014 as the Year of Anil Biswas with guest article by Shikha Biswas Vohra (Anil Biswas is described as the ‘Bhishm Pitamah’ of Hindi film music, though he used to describe RC Boral as the Father, and himself, somewhat jocularly, as the Uncle (Chacha) of film music. Yet, did he get his due, […]

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Multiple Version Songs (15): In the ‘Realm of Remakes’ – Hindi to Tamil

Wo Kau Thi_Yaar Nee December 10, 2013

Guest article by N Venkataraman (In my introduction to Venkataramanji’s last article, I had traced how he had originally planned to write three articles on Tamil-Hindi version songs, which he later decided to expand to five. This is his fourth, which looks at similar songs from Tamil films remade from Hindi films. Its converse, i.e. […]

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Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (8): Avinash Vyas

Aviash Vyas August 20, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (Many talented music personalities from regional films/languages enriched Hindi film music. Some achieved great name and fame in Hindi films, especially those from Bengal, such as SD Burman, Hemant Kumar and Salil Chaudhary, or in the Vintage Era, RC Boral and Pankaj Mullick; or from Marathi, such as C […]

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Multiple Version Songs (13): Hindi and Tamil film songs (3) – Dance (r) s of Deccan

South Indian classical and traditional dance June 23, 2013

Guest article by N Venkataraman (Venkataramanji had planned his articles on Multiple Version Songs in Hindi and Tamil films in three parts.  After his first first two articles on ‘Inspired and adopted songs’ and ‘Songs from dubbed versions’, his final part was going to be on Remade films form one language to the other.  However, […]

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Multiple Version Songs (12): Similar songs in Hindi and Kannada

Sati Sulocana June 15, 2013

Guest article by Arunkumar Deshmukh (When I mentioned that Arunji is a living encyclopaedia, I was thinking of Hindi, Marathi, and perhaps Telugu films because of his early association with Hyderabad. While I was still struggling if I knew anyone who could write about Kannada, out of the blue, Arunji made an offer to write […]

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Multiple Version Songs (11): Similar songs in Hindi and Malayalam

Yesudas and MS Baburaj May 30, 2013

Guest article by Anuradha Warrier (There are some guests on whose arrival you exclaim, “Wo aye hamarey ghar khuda ki qudarat, kabhi hum unko kabhi apne ghar ko dekhate hain!”   Anu writes an outstanding blog spanning books, movies, music and whatever. She is also a writer and editor. With all that, and with the constraint […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (10): Gujarati to, and fro, Hindi (film) songs (2)

Garba dance songs in Hindi films May 22, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (In the tenth article in the series on Multiple Vesrsion Songs, which is the second part of Ashokji’s article on cross-pollination between Hindi and Gujarati songs, he looks at the influence of Gujarati light/folk sangeet on Hindi film music.  Some of the examples are very well-known songs without our […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (9) : Gujarati to, and fro, Hindi (film) songs (1)

Impact of Hindi film music on Gujarati songs May 14, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (Ashokji, who is the originator of the mega series on Multiple Version Songs, now takes us to the little known world of cross fertilisation between Hindi and Gujarati film and folk music.  He plans to do it in two parts, in the first part of which he presents an […]

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Multiple Version Songs (8): Hindi-Tamil film songs (2) Songs from Dubbed Versions

Gul-e-Bakaeali May 6, 2013

Guest article by N. Venkataraman (Mr Venkataraman’s first part of Hindi-Tamil similar songs was on ‘Inspired and adopted songs’.  He also mentioned in that article that he would be covering the subject in three parts.  In the second part he discusses songs from Hindi movies which were dubbed in Tamil.  Synchronizing the lyrics, meaning, meter […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (7) – Both versions by female playback singers (2) – A Happy and A Sad Version

Multiple version songs April 5, 2013

Guest article by Mr Ashok Vaishnav (Ashokji continues his mega series which is the seventh article in the series, a couple of which have been contributed by other guest authors, namely Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh and Mr N Venkataraman.  His last piece was on both the versions by female playback singers.  He develops the same theme […]

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