Tag: film
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Thoughts On Amit Trivedi’s “Bombay Velvet”
This is not a review of Amit Trivedi’s Bombay Velvet. I loved the album to bits and wanted to share a few things that stood out for me as I was listening to it: It struck me as a rare album in that it is so thematically consistent. We hear Neeti Mohan’s voice in six…
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2014 Bollywood Music Review
2014 was not a great year for Hindi film music. The Indian Express carried a bleak piece discussing the death of Hindi film music in 2014. We have observed the rise of multi-composer albums and albums riding on one or two item songs for a few years now. This trend continued in 2014. The other…
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2012 Bollywood Music Review
MySwar has a lot of data on Bollywood music over 2012 and we thought it would be fun to see what the data told us. So here goes: Number of film music albums released: 123 Number of songs: 843 Artists who passed away in 2012: Mehdi Hassan, Ravi, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anil Mohile, Shahryar Notable…
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Pancham Unmixed – DVD Review
Pancham Unmixed is a homage to R.D. Burman by film-maker, Brahmanand Singh, the key word being “homage”. It is not a documentary or biography but an unabashed tribute offered by the filmmaker to his hero. The 2-hour film is a compilation of interviews with people who knew and/or worked with Pancham and also with a…