World Cinema & Music

Pancham Da : King of Romantic Music & Song 🎹🎼🎼🎸🎻🎷🎺🎼🎼🎼 RD Burman’s influence on the music industry is undeniable. A look at some of the lesser known facts about this musical genius. Rahul Dev Burman was born on 27th June, 1939 to renown music composer Sachin Dev Burman and his wife, Meera. At the tender age of 9, RD Burman composed his very first song ‘Aye meri topi palat ke aa.’  This was only the beginning for RD. Pancham Da, as he was fondly called, went on to revolutionise Bollywood with his inimitable style of music. From electronic rock to jazz, his music had multicultural influences and his compositions often included a mix of Western, Latin, Oriental, Arabic & Bengali Folk music. RD Burman ruled the music industry from the 1960s to the 1990s, composing the musical score for 331 films. Here are a few interesting facts about the music personality: Becoming Pancham pancham There are many stories about how RD Burman got the nickname ‘Pancham....

The Beatles: The Greatest Band  in the History of the World 🎹🎼🎼🎻🎸🎷🎺🎼🎼💐🌹💞 The Beatles are greatest band in the history of the world. There. I said it. You’d be hard pressed to prove me wrong. The work of John, Paul, George and Ringo is some of the best music the world has to offer. When you take into account the Beatles’ vast catalogue of quality albums and songs, their financial success, and their seemingly never ending appeal to the masses through new mediums, they truly can be considered the greatest band of all time. They didn’t just write songs. They wrote the soundtrack to our lives. The span of their career in comparison to their actual time together is unbelievable. From the first gritty guitar chords that rattled the windows of small clubs across Europe, to the modern 3-D, computer generated Fab Four bursting forth in vivid color in living rooms all around the world; the Beatles have captured the hearts of people young and old. It’s unlikely that these four...

My instrument is my orchestra – The Maestro Zubin Mehta 🎼🎼 Maestro Zubin Mehta is one of the world`s leading  Music conductors. He is a vivid symbol of today`s cross-cultural world and a living proof of the power of music to bridge different cultures and to break social and political barriers. His tremendous sense of social responsibility has taken his music from India to Buchenwald - from Sarajevo to the Palestinian territories. He has sought to develop the universal appeal of music and through it to bring peace and comfort to all areas of the world.  🎼🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎼🎼🎷🎺🎸🎻🎻🎻🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 Doing telephone interview is nerve-racking because the communication between you and the interviewee relies on one thing- the voice. It is even more nerve-racking when the voice is from one of the greatest conductors in the world, Maestro Zubin Mehta. Maestro Mehta was in Florence when I made the telephone call. This beautiful city in Italy, birthplace of the Renaissance...

You can realise God as you progress in music: Ilayaraja🎹🎼🎼🎻🎸🎺🎷 “You all have done ‘punyam.' That is why you are all learning music at Tiruvaiyaru,” said musician Ilayaraja to the students of the Government Music College at Tiruvaiyaru on Friday. In a tete-a-tete with the students, the maestro said that it was like “kshetradanam” for musicians like him to come to Tiruvaiyaru. “If that is so, how privileged are the students who live in Tiruvaiyaru and learn music! At a time when students are opting for computer science, medicine and engineering, you students have chosen music, which is one of the best and peaceful courses. You can realise God as you progress in music; nothing in between.” “Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself. That was why he asked the king, ‘Nidhi sala sugama?' and explained to him that Bhagwan Shri Rama's ‘sannidhi' is the sugam (comfort) for him.” Asked by the stud...

DADASAHEB PHALKE: Remembering the Father of the Indian Film Industry       A hundred year back, one man’s passion and vision gave birth to what has become a billion dollar industry today which has managed to carve a unique identity for itself commanding respect from a worldwide audience and holds the distinction of producing the maximum number of films in the world in a year. The man was Dhundiraj Govind Phalke or Dadasaheb Phalke as he is popularly referred to and with the release of his first silent film ‘Raja Harishchandra’, he not only became the Father of our Indian Cinema, but also inadvertently sowed the seeds of a passionate and deep-rooted relationship between movies and moviegoers in our country which has only grow deeper with the passage of time. May 3rd, 1913: This historic day marked the beginning of the journey of Indian cinema. ‘Raja Harishchandra’, the first indigenously made Indian cinema was released at Mumbai’s Coronation Cinema, Girgaum, where cr...