The Classical Music Giants contribute to Hindi Cinema – I

Today, I'm in a mood for celebration. Firstly because this is 75th post on my blog, and secondly, the post was suggested to me by a blog reader, Dr Ravindra Shrikhande. He was kind enough to meet me in February, when he happened to visit my town for a conference. We had a short discussion …

The ‘Radio Songs’ from Hindi films

This year in the month of March, I had a song list, the ‘Songs picturised in a recording studio’. Some of the songs on the list were radio songs. By that I mean, the songs are shown to get aired on the radio. But as I wanted to highlight the interesting history of song recording …

My Favourites by Shailendra

Shailendra (30 Aug 1923 - 14 Dec 1966) was one of the most brilliant, talented & versatile lyricist of the golden era of Hindi film music. He started working at railway workshop in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1940s.He used to write poems and participate in poem symposia. Raj Kapoor was impressed by his poem 'Jalta …