By the Sea Shore

The rough idea of this post was with me for a few months. A few weeks back, one of my friends shared photos of his recent holiday to seaside. Then suddenly, wheels started churning in my mind. “Oh! I have one incomplete song list on this theme”. I worked on it and here I'm! As …

S D Burman – The 50s

In this part of the series, I propose to throw light on his career during the 50s. As I already highlighted in last part, after the success of Mashal, Burman da abandoned the thought of leaving Mumbai instead started enjoying Mumbai. But Bengali folk songs always remained his favourite inspiration along with a strong knowledge …

Hindi songs featuring Umbrella

Last monsoon, I had a song list with songs picturised in the rain. This time around, I thought something a bit different for monsoon, and anyway, it's too late for a rain song list ! But what exactly would be that 'different' thing? I let it simmer at the back of my mind. Then one …

Voice of Dev Anand

Dev Anand, an iconic, chocolate hero of Indian Cinema, with his trademark bangs (Gregory Peck would disagree of course!) charm and quirky walk is still an inspiration! So I thought, why not start my blog writing, on this legendary actor? And to top it all, my father is a huge fan of Dev Anand, and …