Majrooh sultanpuri biography of william shakespeare

Welcome to October, 2018 edition of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Just as the world had seemed to come around to the public announcement of planned demise of RK studios, that we  too had focused in  September, 2018, Krishna Kapoor, the most charming and respected ‘outsider’ ‘wife’ in  the film world, and of course, the axis around which Raj Kapoor created his showman business, passed away on 1 October, 2018.

Krishna Raj Kapoor: the grand matriarch – Madhu Jain – Impeccably turned out in her white, embroidered organdy saris, pearl strings and well-coiffed hair, she was a picture of poise to the outside world, no matter how difficult things might have been at home….Raj Kapoor once famously said that he was happy with his Ambassador car; the Mercedes was for his wife. Just as he equally famously and not very generously said that his wife was the mother of his children and Nargis was the mother of his films.

Krishnaji, very richly, was profusely eulogized in the front-line press and media: Here are just two links: Krishna Raj Kapoor passes away at 87; remembering her unique love story with RK and  Krishna Raj Kapoor: A Life In Pictures

And, now, we take up the tributes in October, 2018:

Annapurna Devi – The Pink Star Lost To The World –was born as Roshanara Khan, she was one of the daughters (the other 2 being – Jahanara and Sharija and brother Ustad Ali Akbar Khan) of Ustad Alauddin Khan. She was maestro of classical vocal music, Sitar, and Surbahar. She herself created musicians like Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nityanand Haldipur, Nikhil Banerjee, Amit Roy, Basant Kabra and many more who were her students. Her music remained hidden to the world.

The Faint Echoes of the October Revolution: A Centenary of the Capricious Philosophy in the Socio-political life! – The (Guest) author, Shalan Lal, has very deftly woven the history of the October (Russian) Revolution with the fall out effect o

"If music is the food of life, carry on." William Shakespeare captures the essence of passion to perfection. Music is all-inclusive. The perfect companion to times when you're happy, sad, broken in heart or in love. There are lots of timeless classics for you to create the perfect playlist for Valentine's Day, from western music to Bollywood ballads.

Here's our pick of the 5 romantic songs that you can play for your beloved on February 14.

Bahon Ke Darmiyan

Bahon Ke Darmiyan song by Alka Yagnik and Hariharan, the romantic track from the 1996 movie Khamoshi: The musical is often seen as a popular love ballad in the Hindi cinema. The 7-minute album, with lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri, talks about the pangs of love and the marriage of two lovers. Salman Khan and Manisha Koirala was pictured on the song.

Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaaye

From the film Jurm by Mahesh Bhatt, the Kumar Sanu-Sadhana Sargam duet is timeless in its appeal. It was an unofficial remake of the old English song 500 Miles.

Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender The song that Elvis Presley recorded in 1956 had lyrics from Ken Darby and Presley itself. The song is often regarded as a romance genre cult classic and has seen a number of versions over the years.

Pyar Hua Chupke Se

The Kavitha Krishnamurthy rendition was composed by the legendary R D Burman with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. The song from the film 1942: A Love Story earned Burman his last Filmfare Award for Best Music Director while Kavitha Krishnamurthy got herself a hat-trick in the Best Female Singer category.

How Deep Is Your Love

The pop ballad was written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 is often considered to be one of the greatest hits of music history. In 1978, the song won Best Pop Performance by a Group at the 20th Grammy Awards.

Majrooh Sultanpuri: The Poet For All Reasons
By Manek Premchand
Pages: 534
First Edition: 2021
Blue Pencil, New Delhi

Among the four markers of a film song – the film in which it appeared, the singer, the music director and the lyricist – the last generally gets a raw deal. The music lovers identify a landmark song by the first three, and remember the lyricist the least. Ironically, film experts and writers, too, tend to relegate the lyricists in the shadows. Manek Premchand’s latest book, “Majrooh Sultanpuri: The Poet For All Reasons” is an emphatic thumbs up for the importance of a lyricist – Majrooh Sultanpuri in the present case – in the creation of a song.

The girth of the book would give you an idea that it has everything you would expect from a book on a film personality. Majrooh Sultanpuri’s life history has been given in sufficient detail, and we get a lot of new information and details which most of us are not aware of. We all know that he had strong political leanings and he also served jail for over a year for his political activities. Not during the British rule for taking part in the National Movement or for being an ultra-left activist, but in Independent India. Majrooh Sultanpuri took the Transfer of Power as a great betrayal by the Congress leaders, especially Nehru, that they accepted a dominion status and agreed to be a part of the Commonwealth, which meant Mountbatten stayed on for sometime as the Governor General. He went underground in 1949 after reciting a highly disparaging poem about Nehru at a mushaira. Ironically, he was incarcerated when India had already become a Republic, Mountbatten long gone, Commonwealth was just a slender thread, and his friend, a liberal socialist Nehru, its PM.

Later, his song ‘Jaata kahan hai deewane’ (Geeta Dutt, CID, 1956) got the goat of the ultra-puritan Morarji Desai, then CM of Bombay. He summoned Majroo