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Met this legend for the first time exactly three years back and you can find an account of the meeting here.. Our local music group SurYatra had felicitated him earlier and Ravi ji always showers his blessings on us.. So every time we get the news of his coming to town, we always catch him for a discussion and he always oblige..

chehare pe khushi chhaa jaati hai aa.Nkho.n me.n suruur aa jaataa hai
jab tum mujhe apanaa kahate ho, apane pe Guruur aa jaataa hai!

At 83, he is still going strong and still working.. A man whose energy levels can even beat a forty plus worker today… He is one of the living legends of golden era of hindi film music. Here is an account of our meet held on October …

Better late than never. Capturing R.D. Burman’s life in a documentary. And when it finally came out, what a way to do it! Brahmanand Singh does complete justice to the boss. We saw Pancham Unmixed at IFFLA 2007 and were blown away. Its the simplicity with which Brahmanand unfolds the flow of the documentary.

Following are two videos. The first is a 4 minute trailer of the documentary. The second is a 25 minute discussion we had with Brahmanand after watching the doc.

We’ve got to see one of highly engrossing and moving documentary in such a long time. Now if only you could… the rest of the world doesn’t know what it’s missing.

PANCHAM UNMIXED : The Promo

 
PFC talks to …

BACKGROUND SCORES IN HINDI MOVIES

As hindi movies are full of songs, the music directors and film makers do not concentrate on background music. Hindi movies are not giving as much importance as foreign movies are giving. Somehow trends are changing. Now our technically confident directors and music directors take background score in consideration while planing the scenes.

In 80s and 90s there were some readymade tunes which filmmakers/music directors used to play for particular scene like comedy, chase, tragedy, love, action etc.

One of the frequently used tune was used in Ghayal for opening sequence in jail….

In early 90s directors straightly lifted background scores of Hollywood movies for ex. Mohra- When sunil shetty is fighting with other prisoners in jail…then background score is lifted from Terminator’s signature tune.

As we know sometimes background score plays more important role than dialogues. Background score can enhance effect of scene and overall movie. …

“Geet boodhe nahin hote, unke chehron pe jhurriyan nahi girti
wo palte rahte hain, chalte rahte hain
sun-ne walo ki umra badal jaati hai….”
- Gulzar in Fursat Ke Raat Din

It was an unusually calm and quiet Saturday yesterday. For the first time in last four months, the work had given permission to relax. Though the evening had watched a unusual strong spell of rains and storm, but the night was completely silent. After so many days I got a few moments for myself and I decided to celebrate with my favourite songs.. its been months since I spent time with them… In office, though the worldspace keeps playing for 24 hours, and sometimes they do play good songs too, but the fight of mind and heart makes it difficult to enjoy… many a times the heart conquers the mind and gets me into the song yet a telephone call or a team …

No! Wait a moment. Don’t judge this post by its title. The purpose of many a lives (and posts) is to make others look better. You ask for example? Ok, Tusshar Kapoor! My Wheel of Time posts serve the same purpose. Just as you are letting off some steam on the Roshans in one post and damning YRF in another, here comes this post which you can conveniently ignore. But you shouldn’t. Read it to understand how a post shouldn’t take itself too seriously or how to write a pedantic post. The purpose of all this is to let ordinary readers know that into each life some rain should fall. And they also serve who wait and bore. So, readership be damned, I have a greater purpose in life (God made me for a purpose et al) which is to dispense such wisdom to all of you. Here we …