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Friday, December 24th, 2010 by admin
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Five favorite ghost songs from Indian/Pakistani Films

Here are my five favorite ghost songs from Indian/Pakistani films in no particular order. 1. Jhoom Jhoom dhalti raat (Lata Mangeshkar) Kohraa (1964) featured the ethereal Waheeda Rehman as the mysterious rake Biswajeet’s second wife who’s haunted by his dead wife. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), the chilling ambience of this film was sublimated ...

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Sunday, December 19th, 2010 by admin
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Mehdi Hasan: a yardstick

It was not until Mehdi Hasan: The Man and his Music, the book that I conceived, compiled, edited, partly wrote and almost entirely rewrote, hit the bookstores that I realised the great singer’s popularity hasn’t receded over the years. Though the stroke that paralysed him ten years ago has left him at best wheelchair bound ...

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Saturday, December 18th, 2010 by admin
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Top 5 break-up songs

‘I Will Survive’ – Gloria Gaynor Here’s perhaps the best break up song of all time; anyone who has been dumped and then had their lover return to them after months are bound to connect with this classic break-up song! It’s one of the most popular songs and almost everyone has heard it and found ...

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Sunday, October 24th, 2010 by admin
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“I believe in Popular Film Music..” Shaukat Dehalvi Nashad

Although no one says it to my face, I know that there is a section in the film industry who decry my music as “a   re-hash of familiar tunes.” This amounts to a charge of plagiarism. I have no defense, no apology, to offer, except to say that, if am a plagiarist, I am one ...

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Sunday, September 5th, 2010 by admin
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Ghazal

This is a form of light Hindustani vocal music the song texts of which are entirely in Urdu. Ghazals are extremely popular and their poetical content is important. There is, however, a tradition that the ghazals should be usually based on ragas. One remarkable exponent of the traditional style of ghazal in India has been ...

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