Nisha Jalori | nishajalori@gmail.com "The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles" forced to quote it as this feature of mine will cover a versatile singer, who at the ripe age of 75 years, has a successful career as a practising doctor and a multi lingual singer. Dr. Aparna Mayekar has sung more than...
KV Ramesh |kvr4060@gmail.com Many directors went through tough times before they tasted success. For Raj Khosla, it was no different. Born May 31, 1925, Raj Khosla came to Bombay (now Mumbai) to be a playback singer. Guru Dutt - Dev Anand pair "discovered" Raj Khosla. There is an apocryphal story that the trio promised each...
Kunal Desai | desaikunald@gmail.com ‘That Parsi Girl’ as she was initially known due to her unfamiliarity with the usual all-male ensemble of musicians in Bombay film studios when she started playing for films at the age of 18. Eventually, Zarin Daruwala became a name to reckon with for any piece of Sarod playing in songs or...
Nisha Jalori | nishajalori61@gmail.com Lata Mangeshkar - the Nightingale of India - the voice of a million centuries, a singer who embodied music and melody for generations, left for her heavenly abode this year. And as we commemorate her birth anniversary, we are reminiscent of the treasure trove of songs she left behind. As a homage to...
by: Anisha Nandan | anisha.45687@gmail.com Devendra Kudalkar, son of Late Shri Shashikant Kudalkar, a great rhythm arranger, is continuing the legacy of his uncle, Laxmikant Kudalkar, a composer who was a member of the combo Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Currently, Kudalkar performs on the drums and percussion with the German orchestra Sonoro, a unit of Musik Forum Durlach, a...
Excerpts from Cinemaghar written by Atul Merchant ‘Jataayu’. The joke of the century was that the most mediocre film Be-Imaan bagged 7 Film fare Awards in 1973. Years of allegations about the media corruption and unfair practices in Award nominations was proved beyond doubt in the year 1973 when Be-Imaan was awarded as the Best Movie, Manoj...
Mr. P. P. Ramchandran Mr. P P Ramchandran, popularly known as Mr. PPR., deserves all praise for his achievement, especially at 83 + age. His name should be included in guinness' book of record. He is married to books, has more than 2000 books in his personal library at home. He has reviewed over 1000...
“Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...” William Wordsworth When feelings become ink, they engrave soul-stirring emotions on paper. That paper, then, is more of a sculpture than scripture! Alam is one such artiste...who makes kites that soar high in the sky and who writes poetry that goes deep within the heart! In his final moments,...
The year was 1963, I was an 8-year-old studying in the Indian heartland of Gwalior, growing up in a family that did not allow viewing movies except for the mythological ones; the same time period when 'Harischandra Taramati' and 'Sant Gyaneshwar' were running houseful every day and every show. On the other end, Radio Ceylon,...
