Searching Hrishi Da

iView Author:Bhavesh Purohit
(Mumbai, India)
EMAIL:b_star87 [at] hotmail [dot] com

Title: Searching Hrishikesh…

About me, I have been a very silent reader of PFC but I liked it throughout and was just searching time to write in it.

I have seen all kinds of discussion here on PFC about world cinema where people praise directors like kurosawa, kielowski and tarantino, lynch. Of course they are brilliant and I love few of them too. But somewhere I also noticed that a lot of great Indian directors are ignored and discussed mostly in comments section. I thought about one of my favourite directors Late. Hrishikesh Mukherjee and even here where people are so passionate about films forget this passionate director. Maybe he have been discussed but I am sure not much.

Infact Hrishida, don’t know why is always ignored when great directors from Indian cinema are counted. He made so …


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Critical Adoor….

…..and a few more words for Mumbai industry

“Aamir” Soundtrack

“Sun Ke Chakkar Ghumyo; Dossri Bara Suna. Phir Bhi Haara. Saamjh Mein Na Kuch Aya. Ek aur Bara Suna. Phir Bhi Haara. Yeh Baat Mehfuz Hee Rehna Do. Saalaa Phaas Gaayaa.” These were my first reaction of the soundtrack; it doesn’t make any sense because the soundtrack did not make any sense to me. Now I have heard the soundtrack at least dozen of time. I wanted to hear the soundtrack over and over because there was something I was missing to understand the soundtrack.
The soundtrack is composed by Amit Trivedi, if I am correct, he was/is part of Om - The Fusion Band. He was on keyboards, I think. They did chart-busting track “Maula’, which featured in film Iqbal’s compilation album. Then, he also did some songs with first Indian Idol winner, Abhijeet Sawant, in his second album Junoon. He composed three songs: Dhoodien, …


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