Hindi films have a very neat structure. They can be divided into three parts – romance, conflict and resolution. The lovers meet, or childhood friends grow up into lovers and dance around trees and sing romantic songs. Then the villain strikes, who lusts for the girl or her wealth, and kidnaps her; or the girl’s […]
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YearlyArchive
- AK on Asha Bhosle with reluctant Naushad and C Ramchandra: Part 1 (solos)PS, Welcome to SOY. Music is a very subjective thing. We may have our personal choices, but we do not...
- PS on Asha Bhosle with reluctant Naushad and C Ramchandra: Part 1 (solos)One must remember the great Suman Kalyanpur. Her voice quality remains same at high pitch like Lata. But this is...
- Subodh Agrawal on Best film songs based on classical ragasThanks Shree Datye. This song is new for me. It sounded somewhat like Bhimpalasi to me, but I was not...
- Ashok M Vaishnav on The Sculptors of Film Songs (14): Four Shades of the Dusk of the SeriesAshok Kumar Tyagi # 1 It is certainly a great pleasure to know that not only you liked the series...
- Gaddeswarup on Female bonding and their duetsAKJi, I do browse the blog off and on but I am not able to put in the effort due...
- AK on The Sculptors of Film Songs (14): Four Shades of the Dusk of the SeriesPushpendra Mathur, Welcome to SOY and and thanks for your nice words.
- AK on Female bonding and their duetsGaddeswarupji, I was not familiar with the song. It seems the readers have also not added it. Thanks for adding...
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