Posted on Trivia- The Spice of Life on 24/12/2022 Image Courtesy : https://anchor.fm/sm-irfan [ Here’s wishing all the readers Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!] Think of the sarod and the names that come to mind at once are – Ustaad Allauddin Khan, Ustaad Ali Akbar Khan and the living legend Ustaad Amjad AliContinue reading “Sarodia Zarin Daruwala Sharma and Film Music”
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Songs with echo and reverberation
Posted on Trivia – The Spice of Life on 08/10/2022 Stills from songs of Madumati and Jhumroo (Courtesy : YouTube) Echo and reverberation is a subject which a technical expert would deal with at a completely different level, explaining the nuances of sound designing and editing – the difference between reverb and echo and soContinue reading “Songs with echo and reverberation“
Songs of wishes, desires and expectations– fulfilled and unfulfilled
Posted on Trivia- The Spice of Life on 11/09/2022 Screen grab Courtesy : YouTube As long as we live, we have desires. Our entire life is devoted to chasing one wish after another, one desire after another. Gautama Buddha in fact said that desire is the root cause of all misery. Be that as itContinue reading “Songs of wishes, desires and expectations– fulfilled and unfulfilled”
The Mela Songs
Posted on 20/11/2021 on Trivia – The Spice of Life There are umpteen Hindi movies where siblings get lost in a mela only to providentially meet years later as strangers. The mela or the fair, thus, is infamous for being the venue for orchestrating such disunion. While a lot has been written about this trope,Continue reading “The Mela Songs”
Songs of Reminiscence – Flashback Special
There are umpteen Hindi film songs – both old and new – which speak of reminiscence (yaad). This has been a frequently portrayed emotion in Hindi movies especially to accommodate a soulful melody. In this post, I am trying to explore this genre of songs but with a rider – there has to be aContinue reading “Songs of Reminiscence – Flashback Special”
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