Arun Puranik | arun.puranik@gmail.com One still thinks of the Parsi riots that happened roughly 75 years ago while discussing Imperial Cinema. The first Bombay Talkies film, "Jawani ki Hawa", by Himanshu Roy, was released on September 16th, 1935, at Imperial. Devika Rani, the movie's main character, is a pretty young woman who doesn't want to...
Dinesh Ghate 'Jain' | dinesh@swaraalap.com Make music not war always because I believed that music is flowing. You go anywhere and you will come across the music. It can be through water, breeze, trees, etc. Similarly, Music can be created by man from any equipment, instrument, in fact, any object and material. These thoughts were...
K V Ramesh | kvr4060@gmail.com If one were to look at the sheer volume of work of Shakti Samanta, we would be astounded by the high quality of songs in his films. And what songs they were; memorable is an understatement to describe the sheer high quality of output, leave alone the commercial successes. Shakti...
Rubina Khan | rubina@swaraalap.com Bipin Pandit, COO of the Advertising Club. He is well known for his dedication to work. But equally, he is known for his passion for music. He is always keen to do something for music and his enthusiasm led to the formation of a platform for young musical talent with the...
Atul Merchant | merchatul@gmail.com Lata Mangeshkar, the incarnation of Sharda Maa - the Goddess of Music, left for her heavenly abode on 6 Feb 2022. we arranged a show on 12 June 2015, to reminisce about the treasure of her renditions. Keeping up with its motto of “By the Musicians for the Musicians”, Swar Aalap felicitated two...
Pinky Maidasani, who has been recognized as India's first female folk rapper, stands out in this genre of music since her rap has a strong Indian flavor. Pinky, the artist who has recently performed for the Bollywood song "Dance Ka bhoot", began her musical career as one of the candidates and a finalist on the...
Shankar Iyer | burmanfan@yahoo.com Swar Aalap, an organization committed to the cause of musicians, organized an eventful programme with well appreciated prolific Indian Playback Singer and The Javed Ali performing on stage. Manik Sabhagriha, Bandra witnessed an energetic and engaging evening filled with songs and live performances by the singer that left the audience wanting for...
Atul Merchant 'Jataayu' | merchatul@gmail.com Baba gathered forty orphaned children and brought them to his house. He bathed them, fed them, and gave them accommodation in his house. Baba’s gesture became the talk of the town. In 1918, the last year of World War I, the Spanish flu pandemic claimed 50 to 100 million lives worldwide,...
Rubina Khan | Anisha Nandan The ability to utilize one's senses to see and feel is listed as the definition of Sentient when one searches for it on Google. Isn't that what sets an artiste apart from the rest of us? As artists, our goal is to perceive and feel the unusual in order to...
