“Insaan kisise duniya mein ek baar mohabbat karta hai...is dard ko lekar jeeta hai, is dard ko lekar marta hai.” Lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni, Music by Naushad & Singer Lata Mangeshkar. Pain is an essential ingredient of love; it adds to the taste! The charm of love is that it happens; we fall in love and...
‘Ai mere watan ke logon, zara aankh mein bhar lo paani’ - As this song plays anywhere! Anytime! our mind reels back to Lataji, Dharmendra and ‘Haqeekat’ and we name to the scores of the valiant men who laid down their lives during the 1962 Chinese aggression. But do we know that these men in...
by: Sudnya Patkar, (daughter of a well-known song and solo violinist Pt. Gajananrao Karnad pens a life portrait of her illustrious father). Pandit Gajanan Madhav Karnad was born in a middle-class Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family on 28th April 1923. A distant relative visiting the Karnad family noticed the child would just not let go of...
Every country in the world has its own culture that includes literature, arts, painting, music and other important elements. Indian musical culture and heritage are rooted back to hundreds of years with legendary tales of classical musicians like Tansen, Baiju Bawra in the North Indian/ Hindustani musical tradition and Purandara Dasa, Thyagaraja, etc in the...
Song: Na jaane kyun hota hai... Movie: Chhoti Si Baat (1976) Music: Salil Chaudhary | Lyrics: Yogesh | Singer: Lata Mangeshkar ‘Kehne jaisi baat to hai aur kehne ki hai chaahat bhi, lekin hothon ko azeez hai chup rehne ki aadat bhi’- Anand Sahastrabudhe. Love evokes uproar and silence at the same time! It all gathers within, starts gushing...
Song: Piya bina baasiya – Abhimaan’ 1973 Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri Music: S D Burman Singer: Lata Mangeshkar “Am I supposed to know everything that happens to everyone in this house?” Ahhh! The fangs of distance penetrate deep into the soul...and a song oozes out...gently... Pain is tender, pain is sweet, and pain itself is a soulful treat! Subir leaves the room in...
Song: Tere bina zindagi se – Aandhi’ 1975 Lyrics: Gulzar Music: R D Burman Singers: Lata - Kishore Kumar “The only happiness in this life is to love and be loved...” What starts with sharing an overcoat moves on to the realization that life is all about sharing; otherwise, it’s just existence! The Vibraphone starts with Sanjeev Kumar putting his...
