Music Directors

Best songs of Asha Bhosle by RD Burman

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Wishing Asha Bhosle a very Happy 92nd Birth Anniversary (b. 8 September 1933- ) with her best songs by RD Burman At the beginning of blogging, I remember, I made a comment, talking about the blog that, On this blog you would not find best songs of Asha Bhosle by RD Burman. Today I can […]

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A Musical Association: RD Burman and The Kapoors

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Guest article by Dr Rajesh Deshpande (During our discussions about possible themes in RD Burman series, Dr Rajesh Deshpande made an obvious (!) mention of RDB-RK. I was taken aback that no one would associate Raj Kapoor with RD Burman. Dr Deshpande clarified he had in mind Rajesh Khanna! But our cross-understanding led to discussing […]

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Gulzar and RD Burman: A combination in contrast and excellence

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Celebrating 91st Birth Anniversary of the lyricist, poet, story-writer, director and producer Gulzar (b. 18 August 1934) with his combination with RD Burman No two persons can be more different than Gulzar and RD Burman – one was known to be a serious, sensitive poet; the other, bit of a Chhote Nawab, hyper, carefree, impatient. […]

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RD Burman’s best songs for Rafi

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Continuing the series of tributes to RD Burman with his best songs for Rafi on the latter’s 45th Remembrance Day RD Burman composed over 125 songs for Rafi. He was friends with Kishore Kumar, and their personal and musical temperaments matched. Plus, post-Aradhana (1969) an era changed, and Kishore Kumar’s vocals seemed to be transformed […]

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RD Burman sings for RD Burman

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Continuing the series of tributes to RD Burman remembering him on his 86th Birth Anniversary (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) with my favourite songs sung by him RD Burman was renowned as a music director. He is credited with changing the way music was made. He was fascinated by different streams of music: […]

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R D Burman and His Orchestration Improvisations – String Instruments

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Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (SOY regulars are aware that this blog is celebrating 2025 as the year of RD Burman with some contribution from me and some guest articles. Among guest authors, our veteran Ashok M Vaishnav has taken up the cudgels with his first article in the series with RD Buman’s improvisations […]

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OP Nayyar’s association with Mahendra Kapoor

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Guest article by Ravindra Kelkar in OP Nayyar centenary series (Ravindra Kelkar wrote a series of articles on OP Nayyar eight years ago. The grand centenary celebrations of Rafi on SOY inspired Mr Kelkar to mount a similar tribute to OP Nayyar whose centenary is on 16 January 2026. He also offered to write a […]

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R D Burman and His Orchestration Improvisations – Rhythm Instruments

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Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (My first post of the current calendar year was a review of RD Burman’s biography by Anirudh Bhattacharjee and Balaji Vittal. In that review I had also mentioned that for me RD Burman was a post-1970 phenomena, which was beyond the time period I had set for this blog. […]

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OP Nayyar’s transition from Shamshad Begum, Geeta Dutt to Asha Bhosle

OP Nayyar with Shamshad Begum, Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle April 14, 2025

Guest article by Ravindra Kelkar launching OP Nayyar’s Centenary Celebrations with a tribute to Shamshad Begum on her 106th birth anniversary, and also wising a very Happy Baisakhi, Bihu, Vishu and similar festivals across India (Ravindra Kelkar is another once-an-SOY-regular who has woken up after a deep slumber. This time it came as a bigger […]

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Book Review: R. D. Burman: The Man, The Music

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The book review as a tribute to RD Burman (27.6.1939-4.1.1994) on his 31st Remembrance Day R. D. Burman: The Music, The Man Authors: Anirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2011 ISBN: 978-93-5029-049-1 Pages: 342+24 (Index, Acknowledgements) Price: Amazon (Paperback): ₹399 I have to admit I am an R. D. Burman-skeptic; in fact, I […]

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