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The Sculptors of Film Songs (6): S Hazara Singh

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Guest Article by Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati original) & Ashok M Vaishnav (English Translation) (Continuing their series on the Arrangers and Musicians our guest authors Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) now write on S Hazara Singh who played several instruments, but became a legend with Hawaiian guitar. His Hawaiian guitar […]

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The Sculptors of Film Songs (5): Manohari Singh

Manohari Singh July 13, 2023

Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) as a tribute to the legendary saxophone player Manohari Singh on his 13th Remembrance Day (Our immortal songs are memorable not only because of the melody created by the music director, but also because of the preludes, interludes, the musicians who played […]

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Love Counsellors in Bollywood

Mohabbat ki rahon mein June 30, 2023

Guest article by Anita Rupavataram (There is no upper age limit for falling in love. As our octogenarian love guru, DP Rangan, has explained in his recent series of articles, love entails going through different phases: ecstasy, agony, flippancy, and finally when the things go wrong, shikwa/shikayat. This has led to a mushroom growth of […]

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Shikwa in Bollywood

Na shikwa hai koi June 19, 2023

Guest article by DP Rangan (Our love guru DP Rangan, after exploring the ecstacy, agony and flippant sides of love, now explores another common aspect shikwa/shikayat, or ‘complaint’, ‘grievance’. Nay, Mr Rangan explains in the introductory lines that shikwa/shikayat is universal to human nature in all social interactions. The 84-year young Mr Rangan is a […]

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The Sculptors of Film Songs (4): Kishore Desai

Kishore Desai with his mandolin May 28, 2023

Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) (Our guest authors Piyush M Pandya and Ashok M Vaishnav have been writing an excellent series on the Arrangers and Musicians for the last few months in which they have already covered three of the most celebrated names: Sebastian D’Souza, Anthony Gonsalves […]

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Ballads of Love: Flippant

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Guest article by DP Rangan completing his Trilogy of Love (Our octogenarian guest author, DP Rangan, surely has great experience in ‘Love’. This is an evidence that age is not just a number, but wisdom and knowledge. After his previous two articles on the ‘Ecstasy’ and ‘Agony’ aspects of love, he concludes his trilogy with […]

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The Sculptors of Film Songs (3): Enoch Daniels

Enoch Daniels April 16, 2023

Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) as a tribute to Enoch Daniels on his 90th birth anniversary (b. 16 April 1933) in the continuing series on Arrangers and Musicians (After their articles on Sebastian D’ Souza and Anthony Gonsalves, the guest authors Piyush M Pandya and Ashok M […]

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Ballads of Love: Agony

Bhoolnewaale yaad na aa April 7, 2023

Guest article by DP Rangan (DP Rangan had written on the ecstasy side of love when the stars shine bright, sky is bluer than ever, flowers are in bloom, and the world smiles tenderly. But joy and sorrow are the two sides of the same coin – खुशी के साथ दुनिया में ह्ज़ारों ग़म भी […]

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Ballads of Love: Ecstasy

Dil mein chhupa ke pyar ka March 18, 2023

Guest article by DP Rangan (We celebrated Holi sometime back. This is the season of romance and love, when the flowers bloom, there is music in the stream of rivulets and rustling of leaves, and the hearts of even old people are aflutter with desire. There is a folk proverb to describe this: ‘फागुन में […]

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The Sculptors of Film Music (2): Anthony Gonsalves

Anthony Gonsalves February 27, 2023

Guest article by Piyush M Pandya (originally in Gujarati) and Ashok M Vaishnav (English translation) as a tribute to Anthony Gonsalves (12 June 1927 – 18 January 2012) (Greg Booth starts his celebrated book on the musicians and arrangers, “Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai’s Film Studios”, with the introductory chapter titled, “Who Is […]

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