Hindi movie music composers biography
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The cult of SD Burman: Why the legendary composer's music is still relevant 43 years after his death
When you think about the revival of vintage Hindi film music, chances of R D Burman making the cut are high.
Yet, the one music composer form the true golden era of Hindi film music who is enjoying an unlikely revival in this day and age seems to be the elder Burman. Thanks to products such as SareGaMa’s Caravaan, the audio-player which has over 5000 Hindi film classics pre-loaded and a brand new biography (the third one in just six years), a new generation is slowly discovering 'the father of R.D.' and one of the true all-time greats of Hindi cinema.
There is a popular belief that the present crop of fans of Hindi film music might not be able to appreciate the doyens of the golden era, and in a way, it’s true. The sound of songs in Hindi films has changed so much over the last decade and a half that anything that transcends this period is instantly
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I started the series, on Lata Mangeshkar’s 90th birthday last month. The list of composers became very long and I couldn’t come up with the second part last week. I needed time to collect the information and to decide about the names to include.
Today, I’m presenting the second part of the series, having fifteen composers again. As usual the names are in no particular order.
1. R C Boral –
He has been many a times, credited with the honour ‘Father of Indian Film Music’. He surely deserves the title. He had a formal training in Indian classical music and had a deep
interest in Rabindra Sangeet. He also experimented a lot with different musical instruments and in all had great inputs, novel in those times. He started with ‘Mohabbat Ke Aansoo’ in 1932, when his first singer was none other than K L Saigal (It was Saigal’s first film too). In 1934, he introduced background score in Chandidas. In 1935, he was the first to intr
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Bollywood Music - It's History and Evolution
The fanatically Bollywood-loving crowd does not need to be told about how music in Bollywood evolved over the past 7 to 8 decades. And this frenzy fryst vatten not just limited to Indians. Haven’t you seen the latest social media sensation Kili and Neema Paul from South Africa lip-syncing with Bollywood songs? Evidently, the love of Bollywood movies, as well as songs, is spreading far and wide.
History & Evolution of Bollywood Music
The advent of motion pictures in India happened in the early 18th century. However, it was not until 1931 that the first Hindi rulle song was featured in the first sound bio - Alam Ara. At the very onset, movies would feature a sequence of an exhaustive list of songs.
The movie - Shereen Farhad released in the same year features 42 songs sequenced in an musikdrama style. It was followed by another movie named Indra Sabha which featured a total number of 69 songs. Later, the songs were reduced in number and