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Author : Harish Bhimani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In Search of Lata Mangeshkar written by Harish Bhimani and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Latā Maṅgeśakara, b. 1929, Hindi and Marathi playback singer.
Author : Lata Mangeshkar
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184304617
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Lata Mangeshkar written by Lata Mangeshkar and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lata Mangeshkar is one of the best singers of the Hindi film industry. She is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded artist in the world. It is estimated that she has more than 30,000 solo, duet and chorus backed songs in 20 different languages from 1948 to 1987. Now, it must way over 40,000! Lata Mangeshkar was born on 28th September, 1929 in a place called Indore. Her father Dinanath Mangeshkar was a renowned classical singer himself. Lata was introduced to music at a very young age. The life history of Lata Mangeshkar is truly fascinating. Read this short biography of Lata Mungeshkar.
Author : Mohan Deora
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352643178
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)
Download or read book On Stage with Lata written by Mohan Deora and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION BY LATA MANGESHKAR Lata Mangeshkar's life and career are widely known, and yet there is an aspect that remains largely unrecorded: her life on the international stage. Beyond the confines of a recording booth, or as the voice of generations of actresses, she was an accomplished and magnetic performer on stage. She attracted vast audiences of Indian origin who have made their home in many countries, including the US and Canada. Mangeshkar transformed how the Indian film music concert was perceived in the West by refusing to be part of the low-key song-and-dance performances that were held earlier in community halls, schools and colleges. She insisted that she and her colleagues would sing only in mainstream auditoriums - this was an unheard-of demand because Indian film artistes had never performed on those stages at that time. In ON STAGE WITH LATA, Mohan Deora - co-promoter and co-organizer of Lata Mangeshkar's international tours from 1975 to 1998 - allows us to journey with her and the top male playback singers, including Mukesh (who tragically died during a Detroit tour), Manna Dey and Kishore Kumar. Deora and Shah write about the participation of big-name stars including Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman and Farida Jalal. Mangeshkar is described here in her interactions with musicians, colleagues and friends as she meticulously prepared to sing on stage. The tours led to planning and glitches, camaraderie and tension, and anecdotes galore. They also provided the authors with a unique opportunity to observe the clarity of thought with which Lata Mangeshkar approached her work, and to see a great artiste at the height of her powers. A fine eye for detail makes the book a delight to read as Mohan Deora and Rachana Shah record an important slice of India's cinematic and cultural history.
Author : Raju Bharatan
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9385827162
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Asha Bhosle written by Raju Bharatan and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive saga, at once riveting and revelatory – studded with rare nuggets of information and fascinating anecdotes – that sparkingly brings out the life and times of an internationally acclaimed incredibly versatile singer. Asha Bhosle – a Guinness world record holder plus recipient of the Padma Vibhushan and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award – has held one and all spellbound for six decades now. Her voice, both fluid and flexible, has infused neo life into a variety of genres – from the melancholy melody to the rollicking rock-’n’-roll; from the soulful creation to the vibrant disco; from the romantic rhapsody to the rambunctious folk song; from the dainty ghazal to the boisterous qawwali; and from the pathos-filled rendition to the naughty-naugthy seductive number. The author – on the strength of his vast and varied exposure and experience – turns the focus on enthralling behind-the-scenes happenings that shaped the advance of this artiste with a remarkable range and a noteworthy body of work. ‘The world has no time for losers’ has remained Asha’s performing credo. This volume captures Asha Bhosle in her numberless shades. It is about how – in her silken rivalry with elder sister Lata Mangeshkar – she moved with panache from O. P. Nayyar to S. D. Burman to R. D. Burman. It is about how she served a galaxy of composers; about how, in the end, she reached the pinnacle all by herself. Against odds that would have driven any other woman into quitting. No quitter ever, Asha Bhosle, as the supernova supreme, just went on to underline the adage: ‘No power like woman power’. No more can you stay away from this marvel of a musical biography than you can stay away from the matchless musicality of Asha Bhosle. If she is one of a kind, so is this musical masterpiece capturing all the resonances and nuances going with her piquant persona. Here is a long-awaited career study shedding light on the twists and turns marking the starry-eyed world of Hindustani film music.
Author : Neepa Majumdar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091787
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! written by Neepa Majumdar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian notions of celebrity. She argues that discussions of early cinematic stardom in India must be placed in the context of the general legitimizing discourse of colonial "improvement" that marked other civic and cultural spheres as well, and that "vernacular modernist" anxieties over the New Woman had limited resonance here. Rather, it was through emphatically nationalist discourses that Indian cinema found its model for modern female identities. Considering questions of spectatorship, gossip, popularity, and the dominance of a star-based production system, Majumdar details the rise of film stars such as Sulochana, Fearless Nadia, Lata Mangeshkar, and Nargis.
Author : Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Ode to Lata written by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now his mother's messages ramble on his answering machine when he wants no one but his one obsession, Richard, to call. Passionate and unflinchingly honest in its narrative, Ode to Lata scavenges the depths of one man's misguided search for love in a world of emotionally-void encounters and tangled memories. All the while, Ali's story is intertwined with the unraveling of his parents' own doomed relationship and the film music of Bollywood's eminent singer Lata Mangeshkar (Diva of Indian film music and the namesake of the book's title).
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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9354224431
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Akhtari written by and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akhtaribai Faizabadi, or Begum Akhtar as she was better known, was a legend even during her own lifetime, and one of the last of the great singers from the tawaif community. Akhtari documents her eventful life and her music through essays and reminiscences by some of her closest friends and associates, and by people who knew her work deeply -- including the likes of Bismillah Khan, Lata Mangeshkar, Shubha Mudgal, etc. The volume also includes long interviews with Begum Akhtar herself as well as some of her disciples. A bestseller in the original Hindi -- and now available in English -- this is a volume to treasure for all of Begum Akhtar's fans and lovers of music.
Author : Balaji Vittal
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9351364577
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Gaata Rahe Mera Dil written by Balaji Vittal and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look behind the scenes of fifty celebrated songs, from an estimated repository of over one lakh!'De de khuda ke naam pe': when Wazir Mohammed Khan sang these words in India's first talkie, Alam Ara, he gave birth to a whole new industry of composers, lyricists and singers, as well as an entirely new genre of film-making that is quintessentially Indian: the song-and-dance film. In the eight decades and more since then, Hindi film songs have enraptured listeners all over the world. From 'Babul mora, naihar chhooto jaye' (Street Singer, 1938) to 'Dil hai chhota sa' (Roja, 1992); from the classical strains of 'Ketaki gulab' (Basant Bahar, 1956) featuring Bhimsen Joshi to the disco beats of Nazia Hassan's 'Aap jaisa koi' (Qurbani, 1981); from the pathos of 'Waqt ne kiya' (Kaagaz Ke Phool, 1959) to the exuberance of the back-to-back numbers in Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977), here is an extraordinary compilation, peppered with trivia, anecdotes and, of course, the sheer joy of music. Find out answers to questions like:With which unreleased film did Kishore Kumar turn composer?In which song picturization was dry ice first used?Which all-time classic musical was initially titled Full Boots?Where was the title song of An Evening in Paris shot?The idea for which song originated when the film-maker visited Tiffany's in London?Which major musical partnership resulted from the celebrations around an award function for a commercial jingle for Leo Coffee? How many of your favourites find mention here? Make your own list!
Author : Namita Gokhale
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780141006994
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Gods, Graves, and Grandmother written by Namita Gokhale and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Mother Left, In A Long-Ago Time, We Had Been Very Rich&. My Grandmother Had Been A Great Singer, A Kothewali Whose Voice Was More Liquid And Beautiful Than Lata Mangeshkar S. Eleven Nawabs And Two Englishmen Were Besotted With Love Of Her&. From These Great Heights Gudiya S World Plunges Into The Depths Of Almost Complete Penury When She Arrives In Delhi With Her Ancient Grandmother, Ammi, Fleeing Small-Town Scandal And Disgrace. Just When All Seems Lost, Ammi Works A Miracle: A Slab Of Green Marble Stolen From A Building Site, And Five Rounded Pebbles From A Sahib'S Garden, Are Transformed By The Power Of Her Singing Voice Into An Inviolable Place Of Worship. From Here On, Gudiya S Life Takes On An Extraordinary Momentum Of Its Own. Ammi Dies A Small-Time Saint, Pandit Kailash Nath Shastri Predicts A Future Of Impossible Luck, The Irrepressible Phoolwati Becomes An Unlikely Guardian, And The Inhumanly Handsome Kalki Rides In On His White Horse And Steals Her Heart. As We Follow The Twists And Turns Of Gudiya S Story, We See Unfold Before Us The Peculiar Dance Of Chance And Will That Is Human Existence.
Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9351940454
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Bollywood: A History written by Mihir Bose and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood may define our idea of movies, but it is the city of Bombay on the west coast of India that is now the centre of world cinema. Every year, the Indian film industry produces more than 1,000 feature films; every day, 14 million Indians go to a movie in the country; a billion more people a year buy tickets for Indian movies than for Hollywood ones. The rise of Bombay as the film capital of the world has been both remarkable and amazing. Bollywood movies themselves are a self-contained world with their multiple song and dance routines, intense melodrama, and plots that contain everything from farce to tragedy, but always produce a happy ending. The men and women who created these movies are even more remarkable; and it is this fantastic, rich, diverse story, a veritable Indian fairyland, that Mihir Bose, a native of Bombay, tells with vivid brilliance in the first comprehensive history of this major social and cultural phenomenon.
Author : Swati Shailesh Lodha
Publisher : Fusion Books
ISBN 13 : 8128822926
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Come On! Get Set Go written by Swati Shailesh Lodha and published by Fusion Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book gets around a message which transcends the barrier of age, region & religion. Do read it." - The Hindu "The book is written in a simple, lucid style with no complicated jargon. It delivers on its promise to bring out the best in you." - The Pioneer "Its a highly interactive book. I believe, its a book for all those who have dreams and zeal to fulfill them. An energetic effort by the energetic duo." - Mahesh Bhatt "Its a character building book. A must book for all anywhere, anytime, any age, any profession. One must read it. A milestone in self-awareness." - Kiran Bedi "Its a simple but very effective book for getting success. To succeed, come on! get, set, read. Read it immediately." - Surendra Sharma "A wonderful book by a wonderful trainer duo."
Author : Nasreen Munni Kabir
Publisher : Om Books International
ISBN 13 : 9380070144
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music written by Nasreen Munni Kabir and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2011 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When composer A.R. Rahman's first film Roja was released in 1992, his astonishing music with its other-worldly melodies, tonal texture, pulsating rhythms made an instant impact in India. His abundantly flowing talent has given life to the scores of over a hundred films, including Dil Se, Bombay, Lagaan, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, 127 Hours and Jodhaa Akbar. According to a recent estimate by the BBC, 150 million copies of his albums have sold worldwide. A.R. Rahman has won a host of awards, together with a Golden Globe, a Bafta, two Oscars and two Grammys for his score in Slumdog Millionaire. In 2010, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour, awarded by the Government of India. Despite all his great success, Rahman remains a deeply private person, shying away from the glitz and glamour of show business. A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music is in the form of biographical conversations between the composer and Nasreen Munni Kabir in which we hear of Rahman's amazing journey from modest beginnings to an assured place in world music history.
Author : Ritu Nanda
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780670049523
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Raj Kapoor Speaks written by Ritu Nanda and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raj Kapoor Is Many Things To Many People: Producer, Director, Actor, Editor, Musician, Story-Teller, A Man Of Many Moods, An Acknowledged Patriarch Of India S Film-Making Industry. He Is Also Known To The World As An Extraordinary Showman, Lover, Idealist, Sage And Reformer. Raj Kapoor Has Always Been A Controversial Figure. Although His Films Always Evoked Extreme Reactions, He Knew That Mass Audiences Had Made Him, And He Never Deserted Them. There Will Be Endless Debates About His Exact Contribution To The Art Of Cinema, But Few Can Deny That He Was The Greatest Entertainer Known To Indian Films, The Last True Movie Mogul Of Indian Cinema. Raj Kapoor Worked With The Cinematic Tradition He Inherited, Made Modifications And Added New Elements To It, And Thus Created A Popular Art Form That Was Consonant With His Temperament And View Of Life. He Infused A Distinctive Mode Of Popular Romantic Sensibility Into Indian Cinema. Raj Kapoor Has Been Portrayed In Various Ways. He Was Imperious And Majestic, A Dreamer Of Big Dreams; His Creations Were Clearly Several Times Larger That The R.K. Studios, Which Remains A Living Monument To One Man S Vision, Energy And Enterprise. In This Book His Daughter Records The Lesser-Known Facets Of His Magnificent Personality, Without Interpreting His Thoughts, So That When Readers Thumb Through The Pages, They May Feel His Presence.
Author : Abdellah Taïa
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609809912
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book A Country for Dying written by Abdellah Taïa and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Paris, Summer 2010. Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of her pre-transition male persona. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris, seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, Allal, Zahira's first love back in Morocco, travels to Paris to find Zahira. Through swirling, perpendicular narratives, A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities, a schism of a postcolonial world where, as Taïa writes, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future."
Author : Akshay Manwani
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9350297345
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Sahir Ludhianvi - The People's Poet written by Akshay Manwani and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sahir Ludhianvi is probably the only songwriter in Hindi films whose poetry was accepted in its purest form and incorporated as a film song. So great was his stature as an Urdu poet that he never had to mould his poetry to suit the demands of film songwriting; instead, producers and composers adapted their requirements to his poetry. His songs in films like Pyaasa, Naya Daur and Phir Subah Hogi have attained the status of classics. This exhaustive biography traces the poet's rich life, from his troubled childhood and his equally troubled love relationships, to his rise as one of the pre-eminent personalities of the Progressive Writers Movement and his journey as lyricist through the golden era of Hindi film music, the 1950s and 1960s.
Author : Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000084167
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Passionate Modernity written by Sanjay Srivastava and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context. This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, ‘footpath pornography’, magazines such as Sexology Mirror (in Hindi), women’s magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality.
Author : Manohara Śyāma Jośī
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670082090
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book T'ta Professor written by Manohara Śyāma Jośī and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious And Disturbing & I Have Never Read Anything Like It & Joshi Is A Genius Khushwant Singh A Thin, Short Man With Illusions Of Grandeur, Khashtivallabh Pant, Dubbul Ma, Is A School Teacher In A Remote Kumaoni Village, Where He Is Mockingly Referred To As T Ta Professor. A Great Admirer Of The Englishman S Attire, T Ta Is Also Deeply In Awe Of The White Man S Language. He Always Carries A Notebook To Jot Down English Words That He Hears For The First Time, Acknowledging A Word As Acceptable Only After He Has Consulted His Oxford Dictionary. His Vanity Makes Him A Terrific Target For Lampooning And The Narrator In This Novel, A Writer Who Never Manages To Finish The Stories He Sets Out To Write, Is Determined To Produce A Biting Satire , And Wastes No Time Finding Out More About T Ta S Life. When T Ta Starts To Tell His Tale, What Begins As An Innocent Idyll Turns Quickly Into An Erotic And Scatological Romp, And T Ta Turns From A Ridiculous Comic Character Into A Pathetic Pervert. As The Story Unravels, The Multiple Narratives Reveal A Complex Figure, Comic And Tragic By Turns, And The Novel Changes Gear And Darkens Into A Gothic Bleakness Of Unimaginable Dimensions.
