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गीत उत्सव – अपनी कहानी छोड़ जा

Dinesh Ghate 'Jain' | dinesh@swaraalap.com दोस्तों, आप सभी संगीत के चाहनेवालों को मेरी तरफ से शुद्ध देसी नमस्कार। कोविड काल में सभी की तरह हमने भी कोशिश की थी गीत और संगीत के ज़रिये मित्रों, शुभचिंतकों, परिवार और अपने आप का मनोबल बनाये रखने की। कुछ हद तक हम इसमें कामियाब भी रहे। गीत उत्सव...

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Yeh Jeevan hai – Basu Chatterjee

K V Ramesh | kvr4060@gmail.com Mainstream Hindi cinema, popularly called Bollywood, always has its stereotyped larger-than-life characters. The “hero” and heroine were usually “whiter than white”, while the villains were blacker than black.  Nothing in between. The stories were largely formulaic with occasional flashes of innovation. That changed mainly in the late 1960s and through...

DIR & MUSIC - Bimal Roy

Film Maker Par Excellence – Bimal Roy

Apni kahani Chhod jaa, kuch to nishani chhod jaa, Kaun jaye is or, tu phir aaye na aaye Mausam beeta jaaye Mausam Beeta jaaye... , The rousing song, set to the tune of a Soviet Red Army March Polyushko Polye orchestrated by Salil Choudhary, seemed to be a perfect metaphor for Bimal Roy’s film making style that...