Posts Tagged ‘r d burman’

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    Dacait(1987)- Sunny Paaji in Chambal
    /*  Spoilers  In Post The  camera  pans  over  the  desolate  landscape,  littered  with  ravines,  valleys,  criscrossing  streams.   Forbidding,  haunting,  the dreaded  Chambal  Valley,  India’s  own  Wild  West  frontier,  a name  that  spelt  terror  during the  70’s.   A  place  synonymous,  with  backwardness, ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at October 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 am
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    PANCHAM UNMIXED, a film on R.D.Burman – DVD releasing
    Collector's Edition A feature length-film that evokes awe, admiration and nostalgia … Attempting to explore legendary composer RD Burman’s music, Pancham Unmixed: Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai (an unending journey) takes an incisive look into the composer’s reflective artistry and buoyant-but-also-lonely inner being. Featuring a host of close friends, colleagues and admirers,...
    by Chetan Trivedi at October 14th, 2009 at 11:10 am
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    Jhankar Beats on the Birthday of ‘Boss’
    First things first. Today is Pancham Da’s 70th Birth Anniversary. Despite my limited knowledge of his spellbinding music, I still am a fan in my own humble way. So to not cause hurt to millions of real hardcore fans of His, I refrain from writing about the musical genius – RDB aka Pancham Da aka Boss. I thought I would rather write about something that actually...
    by Magik at June 27th, 2009 at 06:06 am
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    Poetic Liberty or Crazy Songs
    The world of Hindi film song lyric is like an ocean of expressions of emotions, mainly love and pain. For years, song writers and lyricists’ deep poetic thoughts with eloquent verses have been creating magnificent tunes which are sung across generations. Such songs are original, melodious, memorable and generally termed as ’good songs’ and often- ‘timeless classics’....
    by ~uh~™ at May 12th, 2009 at 09:05 am
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    Love Story 1942 – bak to da future???
    Past, present & future… some random musings of a filmi. It was long back, while I was in high skool, in a small town, very shy, silent & introvert. Not any more, but what the heck. Tax Free, for us, then was a huge incentive for watching films in a cinema hall. 1942 A Love Story was exempted from taxes & that allowed us (my & my kuzins) the liberty...
    by Magik at January 23rd, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    How to write Naach-Gaana?
    After yet another rejection of yet another offbeat screenplay (breakdancing gangstas, ichchadari nags with superpowers, indian zombies, refrigerators that molest little girls, romance between a guy and a dog, serial killer on a shopping spree, etc., not all in the same movie though), I decided to sell out (and hopefully sell a screenplay) by writing a mainstream movie....
    by dabba at April 10th, 2008 at 01:04 pm
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