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  • Nostalgiaana Radio (R4) Online Shows – Part 4

    [This is the fourth part of a series of posts about Nostalgiaana R4, a radio-styled show of retro Hindi film songs. Previously in this series – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.] A unique set of curated songs wowed listeners on last week’s shows. Focus continued to be on the three decades – 1950s, 1960s…

  • Asha Bhosle’s Iconic Collaborations

    Asha Bhosle‘s Hindi film playback singing career spanned nearly 80 years. She worked with nearly every prominent music director during this period, from O.P. Nayyar, with whom she first made her mark, to A.R. Rahman during her golden years. However, it was with R.D. Burman, whom she married in 1980, that she worked most extensively.…

  • Nostalgiaana Radio (R4) Online Shows – Part 3

    [This is the third part of a series of posts about Nostalgiaana R4, a radio-styled show of retro Hindi film songs. Other posts in this series – Part 1, Part 2, Part 4.] A unique set of curated songs wowed listeners on last week’s shows. Focus continued to be on the three decades – 1950s,…

  • Nostalgiaana Radio (R4) Online Shows – Part 2

    [This is the second part of a series of posts about Nostalgiaana R4, a radio-styled show of retro Hindi film songs. Other posts in this series – Part 1, Part 3, Part 4.] A unique set of curated songs wowed listeners on last week’s shows. Focus continued to be on the three decades – 1950s,…

  • Nostalgiaana Radio (R4) Online Shows – Part 1

    [This is the first part of a series of posts about Nostalgiaana R4, a radio-styled show of retro Hindi film songs. Other posts in this series – Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.] Team Nostalgiaana has rekindled the Radio Nostalgia of Retro Hindi film songs through specially curated online shows, served to nearly 200 dedicated…

  • Manna Dey – The Playback Singer Who Was Too (Classically) Good For Bollywood

    Manna Dey was born Prabodh Chandra Dey on May 1 1919, in Calcutta. Growing up, he was mentored by his uncle K.C. Dey, a popular singer and composer. He also owed his solid grounding in Hindustani music to Ustad Dabir Khan. When K.C. Dey left for Bombay, young Manna accompanied him. His first break as…

  • How Can I Contribute To MySwar?

    Every once in a while, people ask us, “How can I contribute to MySwar?” and we offer piecemeal answers each time. Of late, we have been asked this question a lot, and it makes sense for us to give a holistic answer. In most cases, the people who ask this question have already contributed or…

  • New, Improved Song Recommender on MySwar

    By Abhishek Gupta On MySwar, every song has a Similar Songs section that shows songs related to the one you’re browsing. Our earlier system used a basic static algorithm where similar songs were pre-generated for each track. This meant recommendations were often stale and inflexible — any change in the logic required regenerating the entire…

  • The Evolving Lexicon of Hindi Film Songs

    I have always been fascinated by the changing lexicon of Hindi film songs and how it correlates with changes in popular culture with time. To explore this phenomenon, I compiled a list of all unique words used in the titles of Hindi film songs – as documented on MySwar – and determined how many times…

  • Poetry In Hindi Film Songs

    Hindi cinema has a long tradition of tapping into India’s rich literary history for its songs. Since it is customary to attribute the lyrics of all Hindi film songs to the all-encompassing role of “Lyricists”, music listeners do not realise at times that some of them were not written for cinema. Sometimes, song lyrics are…