Music Review : Yuvvraaj

Facts regarding the music of Yuvvraaj :

• This is for the first time A. R. Rehman and Gulzar are teaming up together with Subhash Ghai!
• A. R. Rehman and Gulzar have worked together and have witnessed tremondous success with scores like - Dil Se, Saathiya and Guru.
• Subhash Ghai and A. R. Rehman have worked together before in Taal and Kisna, and the results were pretty good!
• Subhash Ghai hopes to regain his musical showmanship with Yuvvraaj!
• Sukhwinder Singh is missing from the soundtrack of Yuvvraaj!

The first thing that strikes, after you are through with the whole album is that Subhash Ghai's musical inclination in this movie has shifted towards the Mani Ratnam school of film music! Subhash Ghai has tried real hard in this soundtrack to keep his distinct identity as well as to be in sync with the demands of the present times! This dillemma is reflected particularly in these two songs - Shanno Shanno, Zindagi! Don't read the credits of the song, and hear the songs. They don't sound like coming out of a Subhash Ghai's movie, much more like coming from a Mani Ratnam movie!

Now, let's check out the songs individually!

1. Main Hoon Yuvvraaaj (Salman Khan and the Fifth of Beethoven)
The album starts with Main Hoon Yuvvraaj featuring Salman Khan and the Fifth of Beethoven. This is an introduction to the album with a Western Classical orchestra playing in the background and Salman Khan giving a description of his character! The influence of European style of music gives us a sign to what could be expected from the songs of Yuvvraaj.
Overall this musical piece does it's job nicely in setting up the tone for the album!

2. Tu Hi To Mera Dost Hai (Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghoshal and A. R. Rehman)
A very good song to start the album with! The singing of all the three singers are top class, it has good melody, nice arrangements, and some good lyrics. The European influence is throughout there in the song!
This song is probably the one which is going to burn the music charts. It has repeat value, and is not a song that will be forgotten easily.

3. Shanno Shanno (Sonu Nigam, Srinivas, Karthik, Timmy, Sunaina, Vivienne Pocha, Tina and Blaaze)
A regular Rehman song made different by Gulzar Saab's lyrics! The antara sounds suspiciously similar to "Chori Pe Chori" from Saathiya! The Mani Ratnam effect starts with this song!
It is an okay song, but it does not sound out of place in the album. Maybe , the song will look good with the visuals!

4. Tu Muskura (Alka Yagnik and Javed Ali)
What a song!!! This was my first reaction to this song when I first heard it. The lyrics, the melody, the singing, all are first rate. The song is a perfect example of confluence of two different style of music schools - Subhash Ghai and A. R. Rehman! Subhash Ghai's touch is there in the singing and the melody, while A. R. Rehman's excellence in music arrangements strums the strings of your heart!
One of my personal favourites, I rate this song as one of the best of the year! Strongly recommended!

5. Mastam Mastam (Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Benny Dayal, Naresh Iyer)
The blending of the two different schools of music comes out good in this song! But this song desperately misses Anand Bakshi! Ah, what a song it could have been, were Bakshi Saab had been alive to write the lyrics for this song.
A good song but could have been better! What could have been bettered has been stated earlier!

6. Zindagi (Srinivas)
A typical Rehman number in terms of composition and arrangement with some very average singing. Subhash Ghai tries to recreate "Nahin Saamne Tu" from Taal, but fails to do so! Gulzar Saab tries to go simple in his words, which saves this number to some extent. Had the lyrics been heavy, God knows what would have happened to this number.
An okay number which will find few takers!

7. Dil Ka Rishta (Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonu Nigam, A. R. Rehman)
The Showman is back with this song! A vintage Subhash Ghai number arranged in present times. The exhuberance in singing transcends the song to a different level! Listen to Roop Kumar Rathod and Sonu Nigam in this song, and you know why Subhash Ghai style of music has lived on for so many years. The singers sing as they should have sung for a Subhash Ghai movie! This song is a tribute to Subhash Ghai - Laxmikant Pyarelal association, and I loved that! The graph of the song, the arrangements, the singing, all have the L-P touch!
A very good song, which will look and sound even better when watched alongwith Subhash Ghai's vision!

8. Manmohini Morey (Vijay Prakash)
The song has a start similar to "Dhoom Tanaa Naa" from Thakshak, and then it moves to Subhash Ghai's territory with the clip of "Muskura" acting as interlude! A classical raga based song with modern arrangements, the amalgamation works!
An interesting piece, it has competent singing by Vijay Prakash! Again will work fine with the visuals.

9. Shanno Remix (Featuring Ember)
A remix by Krishna Chetan! This remix is a bit different when compared to the other remixes we have been hearing lately. Very interesting beats have been used to remix this song, and this subtle change has made a huge difference to the remix!
I don't have the taste for the remixes that are used to fill the audio CD's, but this remix works for me! Good!


Now what is the final result -
A sure shot hit! An album with more plusses than minusses, Subhash Ghai has another winner in his hands! How I wish, he maintained his style in the two songs - Shanno Shanno and Zindagi! Things would have been different then! The collaboration of the three geniuses have worked big time, when seen in context to the year in which Hindi Film Music has degraded itself to fit in the mobile world (read caller tunes, ringtones, etc.)! Not a classic, but not a downer! Gulzar Saab has tried very hard to fit himself in Anand Bakshi's shoes, but we miss Anand Bakshi! His touch would have taken this album to different heights!
A good score which will find appeal both with the masses and classes!

Rating : Very Good!!!!

Bye for now!
आपकी अपनी आवाज़
Vishal

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Our Past Is Dying!!!!!!!!

Hi,

It has been incredible 15 days! I am touched and am honoured by the kind of response I am getting to my blog. The intention was exactly the same. I wanted the lovers of Hindi Cinema Music to come forward and talk about what made them lovers of this kind of music. I am thrilled to tell one and all, that this is happening! My friends, let us all join hands and preserve the treasure we have got!
Hindi Cinema Music is like a garden which has variety of flowers! You may love the fragrance of one flower and I may love another! But at the end of the day, we all are on the same side. Ras ke pujari aap bhi hain aur hum bhi, to hammein dooriyan kisliye (Roughly it means you and me , both are devotees of music, then why should there be any distance between us!)। I am here to spread love for our music, and I request all of you to do the same। Only being a lover of Hindi Cinema Music wont do! If you are in love with our music , then you have to spread it !
I have a very valid point to support what I have said earlier! How many of you have faced this - a kid dances to the tunes of Bachna Aye Haseeno and exclaims, damn Vishal - Shekhar are cool! They don't even know that this masterpiece was composed by a maestro named R. D. Burman ! For that matter the remix version of Mere Naseeb Mein Tu Hai, Leena O Leena, Yeh Mera Dil have been burning the dance floors for quite a while! I can guarantee you that the Youngistan (the new generation) don't even have a clue about the original composers and the singers of these songs. Add to that, they don't even know that there was a original song from where it has been ripped! Not knowing the facts is okay, but what is disastrous is the fact that they don't have the inclination to know the facts. This is no way their fault! The fault lies with us - have you ever informed your kid about the source behind these remixes and adaptations. I am sure, most of us dont care to do that, and that's why the ignorance. Doston (Friends), in this case ignorance is not bliss, it is a blunder!
Chitragupta, Usha Khanna, Roshan, Vasant Desai, Sonik Omi, Khemchand Prakash, Suman Kalyanpur, Shamshad Begum, Suraiya - does these names ring a bell? When was the last time you have heard their songs being played - there contributions have become extinct as far as the recall value is considered. Pull up your socks before the same happens to Shankar Jaikishan, Laxmikant Pyarelal, S. D. Burman, Mohd. Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh, and the rest of the Gods of Hindi Cinema Music!

जाने वो कैसे लोग थे जिनके प्यार को प्यार मिला
हमने तो जब कलियाँ मांगी कांटों का हार मिला !

Bye for now!
आपकी अपनी आवाज़
Vishal

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Clinical View of A Hindi Cinema Song !

Hi,

Have you ever noticed that in a Hindi Cinema song there is a definite pattern in which a song is framed? If you haven't, then let me tell you that in majority of the songs, there is a fixed pattern!
A Hindi cinema song generally consists of a prelude, the mukhda, the interlude, and the antaras! A song starts with the prelude music which is followed by the mukhda, which is further followed by the interlude music which acts as a bridge between two or three set of antaras. The mukhda comes after the prelude music and subsequently appears after every set of antara! Mukhda is a hindi word and the most liberal translation of it in English means face, and the word antara can be translated to heart/soul! You can very well understand that the mukhda of a Hindi Cinema Song is the face of the song, which in turn means that the mukhda tells you in short, what the song is all about! The antaras are the heart or the soul of the song, which is nothing but a detailed explanation of the contents of the mukhda!
The prelude music sets up the tone for a song and generally by hearing the prelude music of a Hindi Cinema song, you can identify whether you are going to hear a happy, sad, romantic, patriotic, sentimental or a philosophical song! In short the magic of a Hindi Cinema song starts right with the prelude music.
The interlude music connects mukhda with antaras and acts as a bridge between the antaras. The interlude music is the thread that binds the song together. It's function is to combine the different parts of the songs and make it one ! This means, the interlude music is the one that prevents a song from being disjointed!
Now when we know what are the basic components of a song, you might be eager to know what are the roles of a music director and a lyricist in a Hindi Cinema song! Actually the making of a song involves three parts - music compostion, music arrangement, lyrics! Philosophically speaking, the music composition gives body to a song, the music arrangement gives flair or dignity to a song, and last but not the least, the lyrics gives the character to a song. Take away any of the component mentioned above, and the song becomes incomplete!
Which is more important - the music or the lyrics - is probably one of the toughest question in this world? According to me, both of them are equally important, and I dont want to waste any further time to evaluate the superiority of either of the two!

गीत तेरे साज़ का
तेरी ही आवाज़ हूँ
तू भी मेरा साथी बन जा
मैं तेरी हमराज़ हूँ !

Bye for now!
आपकी अपनी आवाज़
Vishal

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Who Were The Most Popular Amongst Them All ???????

Hi,

I was listening to one of the collections of the most popular songs of 70's, when it striked to me that let's put up a list of the most popular music directors, singers and lyricists between 1950 to 2000! The idea is not to belittle the talents of these geniuses by placing them up in a ladder, but to explore which one of these contributed the most in terms of quantity, to entertain us. Before putting up the table of ranks, I must make it clear that the ranking has been done strictly on the basis of the most popular songs contributed by these talents.
So let's start rocking and find out the most popular amongst them all!

The 10 Most Popular Music Directors :
1. Laxmikant - Pyarelal
2. R. D. Burman
3. Shankar - Jaikishan
4. Kalyanji - Anandji
5. Bappi Lahiri
6. S. D. Burman
7. Rajesh Roshan
8. O. P. Nayyar
9. Nadeem - Shravan
10. Anand - Milind

The 10 Most Popular Singers :
1. Lata Mangeshkar
2. Mohd. Rafi
3. Kishore Kumar
4. Asha Bhonsle
5. Mukesh
6. Kumar Sanu
7. Manna Dey
8. Alka Yagnik
9. Mahendra Kapoor
10.Amit Kumar

The 10 Most Popular Lyricists:
1. Anand Bakshi
2. Majrooh Sultanpuri
3. Shailendra
4. Sameer
5. Hasrat Jaipuri
6. Sahir Ludhianvi
7. Rajinder Krishan
8. Shakeel Badayuni
9. Indivar
10.Gulzar











Take a look at the above rankings, and let me know what you feel !

गाता रहे मेरा दिल
तू ही मेरी मंजिल हाय
कहीं बीते ना ये रातें
कहीं बीते ना यह दिन!

Bye for now!
आपकी अपनी आवाज़
Vishal

The Musical Journey...2 (continued)

Hi,
A very Happy Dusshera to everybody out there! May Goddess Durga shower all her blessings to you and your family members.
Let's continue with the tags I had associated with the decades of Hindi Cinema Music.

Energetic 80's

According to the purists, this was the worst decade of Hindi Cinema Music and they generalise that by blaming Bappi Lahiri! But I beg to disagree that whatever came in this decade was totally crap! There were some real gems from this decade which continue to shine even today. The early half of this decade was dominated by Bappi fever , who made us feel for few years that disco was what Hindi Cinema music is all about! Disco from Bappi Lahiri's stable was bearable, anything that was intolerable was the music he scored for those South movies (movies produced by Southern India production houses). Bappi Lahiri is a music director who started his career in 1970's and in the seventies he was what I feel at his very best. Listen to the scores of Chalte Chalte (Chalte Chalte Mere Geet), Aangan Ki Kali (Tumhein Kaise Kahoon), Zakhmee (Jalta Hai Jiya Mera), Toote Khilone (Maana Ho Tum) and you will get the idea why I feel so! Bappi Lahiri gave good music in the 1980's in movies like Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal, Sharabi! So it is quite unfair to blame him for all the troubles in 1980's!
Anyways, coming back to the 80's, this decade gave us scores like Silsila, Love Story, Aasha, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Karz, Hero, Prem Rog, Disco Dancer, Saagar, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Tezaab, Ram Lakhan, Maine Pyar Kiya amongst others! The Bappi fever was so severe in the early 80's and continued till 1985, that it threatened to change the course of Hindi Cinema Music. But that was not to be! Laxmikant - Pyarelal single handedly took over the charge and the fever was effectively medicated by the popularity of scores like Ghulami, Pyar Jhukta Nahin, Naam to name a few! Actually the flag of good popular music in the mid 80's was left only in the hands of L-P! And then, destiny intervened! Anand- Milind arrived with a bang in 1987 with a phenomenal score in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, and gone were the Disco days! The movie's timeless melodies were the biggest reason for it's success. A score that was a trendsetter, and it single handedly brought back the era of love stories with good music. This trend was ably carried forward in the late 80's by a movie called Maine Pyar Kiya, which proved the eternal singing power of Lata Mangeshkar!
My opinion is that this was the most thrilling decade as far as the music in Hindi cinema is concerned! The highs were towering and the lows were stooping in this decade! The highs were achieved by scores like Silsila, Love Story, Ek Duje Ke Liye, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Maine Pyar Kiya, and in the same decade the lows came in the form of Mawaali, Justice Chowdhary, Pataal Bhairvi and several others which I don't even feel like mentioning! This contradiction of sorts among the music scores makes this decade one of my personal favourites! Only in this decade you can find scores which fill your heart with warmth and at the same time, you will find scores which will encourage you to stop listening to Hindi Cinema music! This is what I feel is the beauty of this decade! A thriller of a decade, and this thrill makes this decade, the Energetic 80's!

Transitional 90's
India became a liberal economy in the early 90's and this led to the opening of print media, electronic media, and suddenly India was bombarded with real time informations and news from the whole world! More and more Indians started getting the flavour of different cultures from all around the world and this exposure had it's reflection in the Hindi Cinema as well! Suddenly our filmmakers, the music directors all started looking west for inspiration. The previous decades were not oblivious from the west, but it became much more pronounced in the 90's, solely because there were some quick real time informations out there! This decade is also best remembered for the fact that the old guards of the Hindi Cinema Music, namely Laxmikant - Pyarelal, R. D. Burman, Kalyanji - Anandji handed over the mantle to a younger breed of music directors! This decade also saw the end of the era system. Not a single music director from this decade can claim that they enjoyed the unmatched success of their predecessors! Every year in this decade saw a new music director taking over the guard, but sadly no one had a consistent run in the popularity charts.
This decade gave us scores like Aashiqui, Saajan, Saudagar, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Khalnayak, Baazigar, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, 1942 A Love Story, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Dil To Paagal Hai, Gupt, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Taal, to name a few!
This decade had variety in music which is incomparable with any of the previous decades. The search for starting a new trend in Hindi Cinema Music was throughout there in the decade of 90's. The fading out of veteran music directors and the old guard of filmmakers was the primary reason behind this search! The younger breed of filmmakers came into the scene in this decade and had very noble intentions to create a new sound, a new flavour of Hindi Cinema music. There were many experiments made in this decade and the biggest of them was made by a music director from the South (Southern India) named A. R. Rehman. Right from his very first movie - Roja - he tried some fresh musical arrangements for his songs. This experiment worked big time and suddenly he bacame the blue -eyed boy of the whole nation! More often than not, his experiments failed post Roja, but no one can doubt his musical talents as far as the arrangement of a song goes! This decade's irony can very well be identified by the co existence of experimental music of A. R. Rehman and that of the conservative sounding music of the likes of Nadeem - Shravan and Anand - Milind!
My opinion is that, 90's music reflected the times we lived in! Every Indian was confused with his identity - he wanted to be a cool, chilled out guy who wanted to take on the world on his own terms, and at the same time he also could not let go of the Indian values with which he was born! This very irony is reflected in the Hindi Cinema music of the 90's! That makes this decade the Transitional 90's!

इक दिन बिक जायेगा माटी के मोल
जग में रह जायेंगे प्यारे तेरे बोल!
दूजे के होठों को देकर अपना गीत
कोई निशानी छोड़ फिर दुनिया से गोल!

Bye for now!
आपकी अपनी आवाज़
Vishal

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The Musical Journey....2

Hi!

Right away I thank my readers for the support and the encouragement they are providing me! That should show on the comments section too! Please put in a word or two in the comments section that follows the post. Positive, Negative, Good, Bad or Ugly, any kind of comment will do ! Par comment mangta hai, kya??? That will really help this blog to be more informative and interactive in every possible manner!
In my last post, I spoke about the impact the music of Barsaat had on the the music scene in Hindi Cinema. Let's pick up the threads from there and move ahead to explore what the next decades had in store as far as Hindi Cinema music is concerned.
The decades that followed can easily be tagged with the kind of music that came in that particular decade. This will help us in getting an overall idea about the kind of music we can expect when we listen to a song from a particular decade.

So here we go!
Soft 50's
Melodious 60's
Youthful 70's
Energetic 80's
Transitional 90's

A brief description for the tags that has been assigned for the decades follows :

Soft 50's

The decade when Hindi cinema music started coming on it's own! The decade when music for movies like Awara, Baiju Bawra, Madhumati, Shri 420, Nagin, Naya Daur, CID, Anari, Paying Guest, Goonj Uthi Shehnai, Anarkali blessed us! Listen to any of these album and instantly the world seems a better place to live in! Everything's so pure about them - the lyrics, the music, the singing! No one seems to be in a hurry, and that reflects in the songs. There is a certain calmness in the songs which engulfs the listener and takes him to a world he thought never existed!
My opinion is that this purity and calmness comes from the way the music was composed. The music arrangements and the singing were softly done, the lyrics were simple, and that is why nothing from that decade hurts the ears! That according to me makes it Soft 50's!

Melodious 60's

The decade of romance! Romantic songs were abundant in this decade and that is one of the most striking feature of this decade. Romantic songs from movies like Sangam, Mere Mehboob, Aradhana, Jab Jab Phool Khile, Aarzoo, Do Raaste, Suraj, Taj Mahal, Junglee, Guide and many others continue to linger in our memories till this date. A certain lilting quality can be found in the songs from this decade and they were ably performed by the romantic heroes who ruled in this decade. Notable amongst the romanitc heroes were Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna. Melody ruled supreme and that's what make the songs from this decade eternal!
My opinion is that songs started having a larger than life appeal and that reflected in the music arrangements and the style of singing! Listen to Chahe Koi Mujhe Junglee Kahe sung by Mohd. Rafi for Junglee to experience this! But the grandeur did not overtake the melody in the songs and that's why of all the decades of Hindi Cinema Music, the most songs that are still remembered is from this decade. That makes this decade the Melodious 60's!

Youthful 70's

The decade of Flower Power! Hippies, hashish, denims were the order of the day for this decade. But that was one side of the coin, there was another side of this decade that was ably represented by heroes like Rishi Kapoor. And then there were the shining stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Rajesh Khanna, Shashi Kapoor who ruled the roost in the 70's! It may surprise you that while talking songs, why have I started talking about the heroes of this decade. This is because this decade saw songs being made for stars rather than the movies! Movies took a backseat in the sense that by hearing the songs you can identify the stars that may have starred in that particular movie! But the overiding feature of the songs in this decade is that the zest cannot be overlooked! Be it any movie, be it any star, the songs in this decade had a youthful flavour to it. Even in movies like Haathi Mera Saathi, Yaadon Ki Baraat starring veterans like Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, the songs were full of energy. The youthfulness can be sampled in the songs of movies like Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Yaadon Ki Baraat, Bobby, Johny Mera Naam, Hum Kisise Kam Naheen, Amar Akbar Anthony, Haathi Mere Saathi, Julie amongst many others!
This decade also started a trend of having designer songs that were made to fit in a movie! Just for example listen to Duniya Mein Logon Ko from Apna Desh and you will know that this song was there in the movie just because Monica My Darling from Caravan was a huge hit and the filmmakers wanted songs from the same genre in their movie. Some of the movies that featured designer songs are Anamika, Raja Rani, The Train amongst others!
My opinion is that there was not a single popular score in this decade which was dull. This energy in the songs are totally due to the treatment of the songs by the leading music directors of this decade, namely, Laxmikant - Pyarelal, R. D. Burman, and Kalyanji - Anandji! This energy in the songs is what makes this decade the Youthful 70's!

(To be continued..........)

गीत गाता हूँ मैं
गुनगुनाता हूँ मैं
मैंने हंसने का वादा किया था कभी
इसलिए अब सदा मुस्कुराता हूँ मैं !

Bye for now!
आपकी अपनी आवाज़
Vishal

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The Musical Journey....1

Hi!
In India, music is an integral part of the day to day life of an Indian. When we talk about music in India, class, caste, sex - all the lines of discrimination fall apart. Not a single ceremony, whether child birth, marriage, religious ceremony, is complete without songs! Add to that, even small day to day events call for songs in India. When you are in love, when you are putting your child to sleep, when you are with your beloved, when you are in dumps, when there is nothing to say, when we have much to say - we generally have songs for practically each of these moments! Have you ever thought about the fact that all these songs have a single origin point, and they more or less originate from the Hindi Cinema!
When Hindi cinema music has and is making such an irreversible impact on our lives, it becomes very important for all of us to acknowledge this fact. Hindi cinema music has been for long crying for some respectability and dignity, and the time has come my friends, that we all come together and just do that! Let us go back in our memories and find out what is so beautiful about the Hindi cinema music! Let's dig deep into our history and marvel with pleasure, how a song of an average duration of four minutes can become so integral to our lives.
The musical journey of Hindi cinema started with Alam-Ara in 1931, and that was 77 years back! This journey of Hindi cinema music has been very exciting with all the twists and turns, highs and lows and had it's own ups and downs! In it's initial years, the music scene in Hindi Cinema kept on exploring itself and tried real hard to fit itself in the paradigm of Hindi cinema. This turmoil for Hindi cinema music continued from 1931 till 1949. There were sparks in between this period but nothing came in those years which could have have been followed in the years to come.
In 1949, the showman of the millennium -Raj Kapoor, alongwith a team comprising of music directors - Shankar & Jaikishan, singers - Lata Mangeshkar & Mukesh, and lyricists - Hasrat Jaipuri & Shailendra came together for a movie named "Barsaat", which according to me is the baap of all the music in Hindi cinema! The soundtrack of "Barsaat" has made such an impact that till this date whatever respectability and recognition songs have got in Hindi cinema could be singly attributed to this movie! The soundtrack of this movie was in true sense a trendsetter! The music arrangements, the singing style, the lyrics - all were so defining that till this date the basic pattern for a creation of a song somehow can owe its birth to this movie!
If we can divide the era of Hindi cinema music in two parts - pre Barsaat and post Barsaat, it is not hard to find the difference. The music of Barsaat declared with a bang that mainstream Hindi cinema music cannot be ignored, it cannot be taken for granted, and most of all - it is here to stay! Post Barsaat, Hindi cinema music has evolved to have it's own separate identity from the Hindi cinema itself. Movies are hits or flops, but their songs are treated distinctly. The Hindi cinema music has its own charts, they are hits or flops which has nothing to do with the movie they feature in!
Music in Hindi cinema does not live within the shadows of Hindi cinema, and this is the sole reason which makes Hindi cinema different from the rest of the world cinema! We may be making remakes of English, Korean, Italian movies, but the Indianness in all these movies comes from the music that features in all those movies!

Bye for now!

तुम मुझे यूँ भुला ना पाओगे
जब कभी भी सुनोगे गीत मेरे
संग संग तुम भी गुनगुनाओगे !

आपकी अपनी आवाज़,
Vishal

Mujhe Kisi Se Pyar Ho Gaya from the movie Barsaat (sung by Lata Mangeshkar)


Jiya Bekaraar Haifrom the movie Barsaat (sung by Lata Mangeshkar)

Introduction

A BIG Hi to everyone!

So finally I am here fully enthusiastic and encouraged by one and all. One and all here means the lovers of our music - the sangeet - the Hindi film music! It was high time one spoke about the various aspects of Hindi film music, and this is what this blog intends to do. Every now and then I'll pick up a topic which may range from the very old times to the most recent times and put across my views on them. The only common thing will be that I'll focus on the positive aspects of Hindi film music.
One of the objectives of this blog is that it has been started to make you aware about the very finer points of Hindi film music - those little things that have got lost in the passing times. It'll be my sincere effort to make you aware of those things that existed but you never knew!
Now the question that may arise in your mind is what makes me eligible to start this blog? Who am I?
The answer to these questions is that I am you! I am not a musicologist trying to put across any special qualities or the special nuances of Hindi film music! I am a common man just like you who has been listening to Hindi film music from the time I was born, and I know I'll continue to do so till the time I die! Yes, one thing that may be of some interest to you is that I have a collection of around 16000 Hindi film songs from 1940's till the most recent ones. Listening to all these songs made me realise that there is much more hidden in all these songs than what appears!
I dont have immaculate writng skills and I request to everybody out there that they forgive me if they find anything that they may not appeal to them.
No way this blog will become a platform for any kind of hatred to anybody in particular. I'll try to keep this blog as a forum where you and I can discuss about Hindi film music in general. No mud slinging or personal venedetta shall be encouraged.

Please do put up your comments to whatever I write - I'll deeply appreciate that!
Bye for now!

कल और आयेंगे नगमो की खिलती कलियाँ चुननेवाले
मुझसे बेहतर कहनेवाले तुमसे बेहतर सुननेवाले!

आपकी अपनी आवाज़,
Vishal