Music Directors

Remembering Mughal-e-Azam’s Music

Mughal-e-Azam August 22, 2010

Travesty of missing the Filmfare award This is the Golden Jubilee year of Mughal-e-Azam (1960), and the media, both print and electronic, is rightly full of the movie. Everything about the film was superlative – its lavish production, awesome battle scenes with thousands of camels, horses and soldiers (there were no computer generated imaging those […]

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Chitragupta – Magic Maker with Lata Mangeshkar

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When I try to compile the most melodious, the most beautiful songs of Lata Mangeshkar, the following songs invariably come to my mind: Song Film Kare kare badra ja re ja re badra Bhabhi (1957) Na to dard gaya na dawa hi mili Kali Topi Lal Rumal (1960) Sajna sajna kahe bhul gaye re pukar […]

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Door Papiha Bola

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Your relationship with songs that moved you, that brought tears to your eyes the first time you heard them and every time you hear them, is deeply personal.  How can others relate to your experience?  And no matter how well you write it would be less than what you felt. Nida Fazli famously said: Yun […]

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