If you are like me - 1 hour of Sachin Dev Burman Special on Retro Caf Episode #9 felt like few nano seconds proving Einstein's relativity theory all over again. 😭😭
But not to worry, after the SD Part 1 appetizer here goes the Part 2 of Dada Burman Special.👍🏼
Yes, you heard me right - Retro Caf is back with the new episode #10: Sachin Dev Burman (SD) Special Part 2!!!
What's more? Retro caf is now serving a special flavor - with a twist of a cool competition for the India-Forums members.
⭐️"Guess the Next Retro Cafe Featured Person game".
How to play?It's easy as 123. We will give you some clue about the featured person of the next episode of Retro caf, and you need to guess who he/she is!
Let's start the game with:
Guess the Featured Person of next week's Retro Caf
Classical Dancer, Beauty personified, she can turn from being the girl next door in one minute to the worlds most seductive person the next, Hindi films are incomplete without her and she gave dance numbers a new definition in Indian Cinema. Guess who is the artiste? Want another hint…. By and far the most dignified of the vamps, who have graced the Indian celluloid. Guess who is she?
Please send in your entries to kirtib, by pm, by Friday, 9/6/06, 11.00 p.m. India time... The lucky winner will be picked up by the Development Team and will be given an option to dedicate one song of that artiste to any member of his/her choice. The winner will also have the option of dedicating the message (two minutes message) live on Retro Caf. Yahoo!👍🏼
So what are you waiting for? Start guessing NOW!
Coming back to SD Burman, (sorry I tend to get an attack of verbal diarrhea when it comes to something about Dada Burman😳 )
Dada Burman has the highest average of hit songs among any composer in Hindi films. Obviously, such success stemmed from his unshakeable belief in himself, and he was known to refuse films where the filmmaker wanted 'hit' songs. "I compose only good songs", he would tell this brigade. S. D. Burman won only a few awards – because he never cultivated them but his greatest triumph lay in the fact that his choosiness made every score count. There was a time in Bombay when the lyrics were set to tune by the music directors. Dada changed the theory. The tune first, the lyrics later. Today nine out of ten songs are composed in this manner. Also for every song sequence Dada had many alternative tunes thus giving the producers a wide choice. Dada would often compose a tune instantly, and his music had a strong foundation of folk and classical and was known to innovate by mixing them with Western arrangements. He was averse to commercialization, but he would also aver that a tune should be so simple that 'even my servant should be able to sing it'. When necessary, he would compose exquisite classical numbers, but he would always say that film music was not the medium to show off one's classical prowess.
S D Burman's death in 1975 marked the end of the last phase of the golden age of melody.
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