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  Sachin Dev Burman ( S D Burman) Sacin Dev Burman was one of the pioneers of Bollywood Music and a pillar in the development of Hindi Film songs. His style in composing Hindi film music had a novelty and had his own stamp. Songs composed by him is still and will forever remain in the hearts of those who love music. Sachin Dev Burman, popularly known by his initials, S D Burman is the name of one of the finest music directors that the Indian film industry has had. He was born on October 1, 1906 in Comilla (now Bangladesh).  His mother's name was Nirmala Devi and his father's name was Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman.  His father was the second son of Ishanachandra Dev Burman, the Raja of Tripura; so SD Burman is descended from a royal family.  SD Burman was one of nine children and the youngest of five boys. SD Burman earned his Bachelor’s degree from Comilla Victoria College and then went on to acquire a Masters degree from Calcutta University. SD Burman's musical t...

  Vasant Desai Desai was born in 1912 into a wealthy family in Sonawade village,  Savantwadi  state, ruled by the  Bhonsale  clan, and grew up in Kudal area, also in  Konkan  belt, Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra in western India. Desai was with the famous Prabhat Film Company since it started making talkies. He acted, sang, and sometimes composed songs in Prabhat's films like Dharmatma and Sant Dnaneswar. After learning the craft of music composition, he stuck solely to it since the 1940s. Desai scored music for a majority of films of V. Shantharam’s latter broke away from Prabhat to form his own film studio. Their relations soured in late 1950s after which Vasantrao Desai never worked for his former mentor again. Desai's memorable songs are,  Hindi Filmi Devotional song , Ae malik tere bande ham  from  Do Aankhen Barah Haath , 1957, and play back singer, Vani Jairam’s debut son...

  Anil Biswas   Early Life : Anil Krishna Biswas was born on 7 July 1914, in a small village of Barisal district in East Bengal (now in Bangladesh) in the household of J C Biswas, where at a young age he acted in a local amateur theater as a child star. He was fond of listening to music since his childhood. As he grew up, he displayed considerable musical talent, by 14 he was already accomplished in playing tabla, [3]  while singing and composing music at local music concerts; though soon he joined the Indian Independence Movement, while still doing his matriculation, and was repeatedly jailed for his revolutionary activities, leading to repeated disruption of his studies. Eventually in 1930, after his father’s death he left for Calcutta in disguise to escape further arrest. He was advised by the film director Hiren Bose who knew him from Kolkata (earlier Calcutta) days to move to Mumbai (earlier Bombay). In Mumbai initially he strug...

  Naushad Ali  I wish to start about this great and admirable person NAUSHAD ALI quoting what Ajay Mankotia told about him on 05 May 2016 which is the death Anniversary of Naushad Ali. Old masters never die. The music lovers and connoisseurs still adore him. Like a diamond, a genius is forever .  Shanmukhananda Auditorium in Mumbai cannot be accused of being a small hall. Far from it, it is one of the biggest in Asia with a seating capacity of more than 2,700 people at three levels. If you add the aisles and other spaces on the sides and at the rear, then the audience can swell up to 5,000. About three decades back, I attended a felicitation ceremony for a music director who was no longer active. It was his birthday. The entry was free, and the hall was packed to the rafters. Before the official program began with Dilip Kumar as the main speaker, short clips of his songs were screened on one side of the empty stage. The crowd, mostly on the wrong side of the 50s, was in ...

  Having discussed about the lyricists in the previous chapter I will now dedicate the present chapter for Music Directors or Composers who have given life to the poems/songs/ lyrics by composing ever memorable tunes which they had adopted from various Ragas.These music Directors are not Copy Cats but had gone into the depth of the Raga, the situation of the film, the actor(s), the lyric before they compoised the music for the song. That is why many of the songs are ever green types and will remain ever green for ever. A song comprises of the following principles. a.       The lyric written by the lyricist according to the situation of the fim. This forms the skeleton to give the shape. b.      The music composed by the Music Director gives life to the skeleton. c.      The singer(s) are the heart, the beats of the same is controlled by the Music Composer. d.      The instrumentlists and ...