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Hindi Film Music - Features

Hindi Film Music - Features

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  •     Fabulous Four - (Shankar, Jaikishan, Shailendra and Hasrat)
    It was camaraderie at its best. The fact that it created a creative team par excellence was an added bonus. A fond look-back at Shankar, Jaikishan, Shailendra and Hasrat's unique bonding!...
  •     Top Valentine Songs
    With Valentine’s Day approaching fast, romance is in air and race is on to find the perfect words to convey your heart’s deepest feelings to your sweetheart. Let me assist you in this endeavour. So for the D-Day on Feb 14th, I will give...
  •     Top 10 Power Songs 2004- 2005
    Amongst the hundreds of Hindi film-songs and remixes churned out daily, there are only a few which really make their mark- sometimes through a distinct voice, sometimes through a different style and sometimes through sheer luck. Such songs then becom...
  •     R.D.Burman- a continuing nostalgia
    In the business of music, the ultimate merit in the eyes of peers is success. Everything else is secondary, if at all, relevant. Paradoxically, if Rahul Dev Burman, the best loved music composer of Bollywood ever inspires universal awe, admiration an...
  •     Loris - a lost world
    The night is still. The sleep is hard to come by. A soft, soothing song wafts through the air enveloping the tired mind. Under its magical spell the mind slowly drifts into the tranquil ocean of dreams away from the stresses and the strains of this l...
  •     Songs that made history
    When I look back at the wonderful array of songs in Hindi popular music, I always feel indebted to them. These songs have enriched my world so much. Those great voices, those superb tunes and those enchanting lyrics that jelled into all those memorab...
  •     Indian Popular Music- Decline and fall
    "If we don’t do something about it, then the future generations of listeners would know only one type of music- Item songs!" So said the famous classical and pop singer Shubha Mudgal in a recently televised public discussion on the present s...
  •     The Remix Menace
    Remixes. Nowadays they come at you thick and fast. The formula is rather simple. One just has to pick up a fairly popular Hindi film song from the yesteryears, spice it up with a synthesised music track, add some unintelligible English Rap and alter ...