A hardened intelligence officer, Krishna goes soft on a female agent; perhaps a wife who discovers that she is gay. The R.D. Burman composition and its picturisation not only bring out the lively ...

Hindi film songs are a cultural phenomenon. One needs only to see the soulful classical influences on toe-tapping beats to understand it Is melody more important or rhythm? Is the beat more appealing ...

A drumbeat starts. It is picking up pace. A grand piano joins in. Then, the trumpets and the saxophones. A flute. A trombone. Slowly, a familiar melody from the movie Solva Saal (1958) emerges and the ...

It says something about the almost criminal lack of state recognition for Hindi film music that before A.R. Rahman was bestowed the Padma Bhushan in 2010, no composer had received the honour. Not SD ...