VISHU

  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 About three decades back, I attended a felicitation ceremony for a music director who was no longer active.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 ...