Multiple version songs

Multiple Version Songs (16): Rabindra Sangeet and Pankaj Mullick

Rabindranath Tagore and Pankaj Mullick May 7, 2014

Hridaya Pankaje Rabi Viraje A tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) and Pankaj Mullick (10 May 1905 – 19 February 1978) by guest author N Venkataraman (The appeal of Rabindranath Thakur’s poetry and songs of love, nature and worship transcends the boundaries of language and culture. Pankaj Mullick, one […]

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Songs of Atariya

Romeo and Juliet on Atariya February 12, 2014

With a tribute to Begum Akhtar in her Centenary Year I had thought songs of atariya are one of the things – like lori, bidaai songs, bhajan, piano songs etc. – that have been irredeemably lost from our films. Loosely translated as ‘balcony’, atariya was the place where the heroine would go stealthily from the […]

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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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SD Burman’s Bengali songs and their Hindi versions

SD Burman October 22, 2013

Multiple Version Songs (14) With this post my SD Burman journey is intersecting Ashok Vaishnavji’s mega-project on multiple version songs. My journey has taken many interesting turns. I started with the idea of doing a post on my top ten favourite songs of SD Burman, which would have included his film as well non-film Hindi […]

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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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