Posts Tagged ‘Songwriting’

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    Find Of The Week: ‘Hinglish’ Song
    I had mischievously put forward a trivia question: First ever Hinglish Film song?, to the PFC authors. I did not know the answer, but I was confident that the Trimurti: PavanSaab, RKSaab & SubratSaab would know the answer, or Google will have the answer. I had a backup as well; I would have bluffed Kishore Kumar’s song “Oonche Sur Mein Gaye Ja” as...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 21st, 2008 at 02:03 pm
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    My Petty Effort…
    iView Author: Sourav Bhuyan Mumbai, India EMAIL: souravbhuyan[at]gmail[dot]com My Petty Effort….
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2008 at 04:01 am
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    It’s Only Words…
    iView Author: ANAND KADAM Bristol, UK EMAIL: anandk9 [at] yahoo [dot] com It’s only words ….
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am
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    Love at second sight: The ‘live’ly melodies of “Parwaaz”
    It was 1992 when I first heard Gham ka Khazana on Jagjit Singh’s Sajda album, a tape that would play infinitely during my father’s shaam-e-ghazals with his ghazal-loving friends. I was only 13 then, but my father, a brilliant ghazal singer in his own right, had established ours as a musical household from my very early years, and I have only him to thank for...
    by striker at December 14th, 2007 at 01:12 pm
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    Whose Lyrics is it Anyway
    A creative aspect in film making that is generally overlooked suddenly jumped to limelight courtesy Aaja Nachle..In the title song of the movie a line ‘Mochi bhi samjhe apne ko sunaar re’(A shoemaker thinks of himself as goldsmith) inadvertently created a furore that led to politics of casteism marring the box office fortunes of the movie in Hindi heartland..Suddenly...
    by krysh at December 5th, 2007 at 06:12 am
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    as DHAAL as it gets
    Responsible for Divyashakti, an adequately downbeat tale of revenge driven by principles and loss bolstered by an interesting villain, Tau (pronounced: taauu), played by Amrish Puri and two films with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan (Main Khiladi Tu Anari, a rip-off of The Hard Way and Keemat), Sameer Malkan was last heard of when he finished a songless thriller shot in...
    by George Thomas at November 1st, 2007 at 08:11 pm
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    Dum Laga
    [Update : Sept 27/2007. Stills of songs added] Do songs hurt the narrative flow (and form) of our films? I believe they usually do. When we were working on about the fifth draft of the screenplay (it went on till ninth by the time it was ready to be called ‘bound’), I realized that there are some ‘natural’ places where songs can have a place in the film, mostly...
    by Manish Tiwary at September 26th, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    Bat For TAJ MAHAL–Bollywood Ishtyle.
    On 07/07/2007 in Lisbon a new list of seven wonders of the world is going to be announced and our Taj Mahal is in the reckoning.The race is hotting up what with presence of Bipasha Basu amongst the hosts to announce the results! Suddenly everyone is having a rendevous with Taj–a bond, a relationship perhaps. ...
    by krysh at July 1st, 2007 at 04:07 am
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    Life…In A Metro
    “Will this survive the Kingfisher litmus test?” asked Oz as we inebriated ourselves while hogging on some butter chicken at Ambala Dhaba. I was hesitant to respond because Vijay Mallya’s concoction has a tendency to strip your tolerance levels considerably. The last film we saw under the influence (Nishabd) had us running to save our tender brains from...
    by Vijay at May 12th, 2007 at 03:05 am
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    Starting a change from P.F.C – Opinion, Expression and INSPIRATION..
    I want to dissect inspiration today. It’s been on my mind for a while. It’s the only truth that can help us do justice to whatever work we do in life. We start to change the world when we start to change ourselves. Who are we but Gods and kings?Inspiration is the only guide in this world that can show us a path that makes us alive.Inspiration is like undying faith.Inspiration...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 5th, 2007 at 08:05 pm
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    HUM TO OMKARA KE MUSIC KI DEHLIZ KI DAASI HAI JI BAS!!!!!!!
    The problem with reality is there is no music happening in the background, which is why music like this really appeals to a musically starved soul like me who looks forward to good Hindi film music. Soothens me big time. I can never get over the music of Omkara..How on earth did this man have the ability to make this film and on top of that make such fantastic music?...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 1st, 2007 at 12:05 pm
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    Ill pray for you brother..
    A.r Rehman is my favourite music director from the Indian film industry before Himesh Resham wali aawaz.. I heard his Pray for me brother and i was confused. Pray for me bro is dedicated to inspire ppl to eradicate poverty and to give hope from oppression,injustice and cruelity due to foreign forces or their own cruel leaders,those deprived of love,to fill a void,and to...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 11th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
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    I Write I Recite : Meena Kumari gives invaluable gift via Khayaam
    If you love music and especially hindi film and non filmi music and you don’t have music album, I Write I recite , then your collection, somewhere lacks something. The Tragedy Queen, Meena Kumari , who was said to have owned the melancholy and extreme sadness, lonliness and pain in real life, was a poet also. In a way from her maternal side she belonged to clan of Great...
    by Rk at April 5th, 2007 at 06:04 am
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    Video Review – Pray For Me, Brother
    AR Rahman finally releases a music video, something that was long awaited. This song, which was actually released as a single through a mobile phone company, was composed two years ago. Bharatbala, of Maa Tujhe Salaam fame, directs this video with an international crew. This is a fine example of how quality video-making can elevate a song from the stature of great to memorable....
    by Tushar at February 27th, 2007 at 05:02 pm
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    The OST Scene in India
    It has been a while since we have had OST’s being released for songless Indian films. The examples have been Black Friday, Sarkar, White noise, Bhoot, Black and more. The masters of the game are Indian Ocean, Salim-Sulaiman, Ashutosh & Dhruv, Midival Punditz, Amar Mohile, Nitin Raikwar, Monty, Sandeep Chowta etc. since Indian films have THE SONG has an indispensable...
    by Tushar at January 31st, 2007 at 07:01 pm
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    Maya Memsaab (’93) : A film inspired by Novel “Madam Bovari” of Flaubert
    A beautiful young woman, who thinks she is intelligent and has aristocratic hobbies lives with her ailing father in a big, palace like house in a small hill station kind of city in India. She is in to reading, music, painting and other kinds of arts. Her father gets heart attack and a local doctor comes to see him. Simple and humble doctor continues his visits and soon...
    by Rk at January 24th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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    Vivah : Suraj R Barjatya regains synchronization with his kind of cinema
       Nida Fazli the famous Urdu Poet wrote once –   Tum bhee likhna Tumne us shab kitanee baar piya paanee Tumne bhee to dekha hoga Chajaje upar pura chand.    A loose translation –   (You also write to me how many times you drank water that evening    You also might have seen full moon from your balcony)   If you like this poetry and understand the romance...
    by Rk at January 17th, 2007 at 06:01 am
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    BAISCOPE presents… with Nikhil Advani
    Here’s an event for PFC-ites in Mumbai… a few months back I had given an introduction to Baiscope Entertainment, an NGO designed to benefit fledgling filmmakers and others interested in film and the industry. Now they’re back with an event in Juhu and the director of the upcoming Salaam-e-Ishq will be in attendance. Highly recommend those of you in...
    by striker at January 12th, 2007 at 02:01 pm
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    Size doesn’t matter!
    I love short films. They’re perfect for when you’re in the mood to watch a film but don’t have the time. Hell, I even try to catch a couple here and there during the day at work. Sadly, the market for short films is just not there with the masses. Unless a Darna Mana Hai or Darna Zaroori Hai comes along with Ramu’s banner behind it, the audience...
    by striker at December 27th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
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    Music Interpretations – Omkara & RDB
    Continuing my inspired works based on music from films, here is some more stuff…. Omkara Omi lives Tej thaa jhonka kya karoon Out I take my gunpowder and there you go down I will not get any better now Now that I have tasted it once I am addicted till I die These blue sheets below me and the sodiums do no longer any good The make up looks a shade less real in the...
    by Tushar at December 10th, 2006 at 01:12 am
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    Song Project – Part I
    A recent post by HG on musicals reminded me of a project that I did few months back. It was based on Exploration of the Song in the Hindi film. The project was called Are You Song For It/Whose Song Is It Anyway? I plan to share some of the text from that project here in a series of articles. Here I go again. Bollywood. Songs. Dreams. Exploration of thought. Tradeoff of...
    by Tushar at December 10th, 2006 at 01:12 am
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    Ek Musical Film….
    (Note: This article is a bit random; bits and bobs – no flow!) Music (songs) is an integral part of our film industry. It is very-highly-likely that a hindi film would not be made without songs. Some say music – i mean, filmi music is part of our culture. And others say people would not watch a hindi film without songs – music is one of the key factor...
    by Honhaar Goonda at December 8th, 2006 at 01:12 pm
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    Water: still waiting…
    (It has been an year since I saw the film Water, and probably the same time since I heard the mesmerising music. I was happy to hear that the film and music are gonna release in India. But now it seems noone is bothered about the release. Meanwhile, I still go back to the music time and again. I recently wrote my lyrical/poetic interpretation of the film GURU. Based...
    by Tushar at November 23rd, 2006 at 10:11 am
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    Gulzar in Guru
    (Here is a little analysis of Gulzar’s work in Guru. I have picked some tracks from the album and translated them and added to the imagery (in the under-running emotion of the song) at places.) The songs are beyond comparison. The words deserve a separate in-depth session. I just immersed myself in the music, and what I came up with is these words. If you see more images...
    by Tushar at November 20th, 2006 at 07:11 am
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    Who Killed The Video Star?
    I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched ’round and ’round ’til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on – Bruce Springsteen Thinking of this song while wildly...
    by Tushar at November 16th, 2006 at 01:11 pm
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    The 48-hour Film Project: what say PFC?
    Here’s another idea I suggested to oz, and he suggested I post it here and check out reader reactions. 2001 marked the debut year of the 48-Hour Film Project, “a crazy idea to try to make a film in 48 hours” brought up by Mark Ruppert and his filmmaking partner Liz Langston. Basically, the producers at the 48hr Film Project have a huge meeting on a friday...
    by striker at November 15th, 2006 at 10:11 am
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    Master of the Arts III – The Crazy Kamal Connection
    Master of the Arts III – The Crazy Kamal Connection “When I look back, sometimes, I wonder if I was pretentious trying to make all those message oriented movies. I have no such illusions today. I am here to entertain people and all I will do is just that!” This is the essence of his career – chequered with fantasies and social satire, thrillers...
    by wb at October 19th, 2006 at 03:10 pm
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    Master of the Arts
    “Had I not been a film maker” said this man once, “I would have been a teacher and built a school on the lines of Shantiniketan“. No bout a doubt it, if we were to look at his extensive experimentation with cinematic work and his exhaustive toolbox of skills, including writing, music and painting. After half a century of film making career –...
    by wb at October 16th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
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    gulzarsaab- panchamda anecdote
    All of us have heard the famous, the classic Mera kucch saamaan…from ijazat. It was written by Gulzar and composed by Panchamda. Of course not many know the story behind the song…how it was composed. (I had the privilege of hearing it from Gulzarsaab and so sharing it with you guys) Gulzar and Panchamda were thick friends, who could talk about anything under...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 11th, 2006 at 06:10 am
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    for those in mumbai…
    for anyone in mumbai, i wanted to pass this out.. a friend of mine, manas malhotra, started up a nonprofit organization called baiscope entertainment. in essence, it’s similar to SAAFA. a little intro.. Baiscope Entertainment – a window of opportunities to the world of cinema. Its Your Cinema Forum. Where you talk, breathe, feel, watch and grasp cinema. It’s...
    by striker at October 6th, 2006 at 09:10 am
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