When I first began to research the songs of Shamshad Begum in order to do…
She is the forgotten legend, even though she was considered one of the top singers…
To Read The First Part Click Suraiya was the last of the singer-actresses before ‘playback’…
Born Yudhishtir Sahni, Balraj Sahni was an unassuming man, who, with his natural style of…
Bombay, The city of dreams. The city that never sleeps. The city of hope. Call…
24.12.1924 – 31.07.1980 I have always maintained that I do not have a ‘favourite’ singer…
Read The Part -1 It was interesting to learn that Manna Dey‘s first recorded song…
The late Shammi Kapoor loved to narrate an anecdote of how incensed he was with…
I had always intended to start off this series (The Masters) with a post on…
I was having a (heated) discussion with a friend about song picturizations today; and about…