Thoughts....

Back in 2006, still in California and with Parents visiting here, we went to watch movie Vivah . You can not go wrong with Sooraj Badjatya when it comes to watching movies with Parents. He graduated himself from bringing Semi-Sweet movie Maine Pyar Kiya to complete Sugary Vivah. Maine Pyar Kiya had some fight sequences which got limited to a Slap on Bindu’s face by Ajit Vachhani in HAHK, but by Vivah, Sooraj completely forgot about physical touch ;).  Vivah tells the story of two individuals and relates their journey from engagement to marriage and aftermath. It all starts with Groom side going to Bride’s place for initial “seeing of Bride”, a very typical Indian culture before marriages. Ravindra Jain created a beautiful song for that whole event, this was like Ravindra Jain’s Homecoming to Rajshri Production. He was their property till the phenomenon of Ram Laxman hit the silver screen through Maine Pyar Kiya, well Ram Laxman is, even though they look like two people in fac...

Raj Kapoor was the first global star India has produced, He was considered the Show Man of the Industry. He would have keen involvement in every aspect of film making, whether it was lyrics or music or art or costumes. He has produced and directed multiple successful movies. One of those was Awara (1951), The movie is listed in the top 100 movies of all time. Such was the success of Awara, that it was later made in Turkey as Avare (1964) People who have seen Raj Kapoor's Classic Awara (1951) would remember that there was a dream sequence in the movie, depicting Heaven and Hell. The entire portion starts with Nargis singing  Tere Bina Aag Yeh Chandni  while in heaven and calling for Raj Kapoor who in Hell singing  Yeh Nahi Hai Yeh Nahi Zindagi, Mujhko Ye Narak Na chahiye, Mujhko Chahiye Bahar . And then Back to Nargis when Raj Kapoor is seen entering the Heaven and Nargis is overjoyed, expressing the emotions with the  Ghar Aaya Mera Pardesi . The entire...

Well extremely sorry for not writing for past week or so, I just got busy. With that being said, I remember my Nanaji (Maternal Grand Father) as he always used to say people who would complain about being busy was that "Even if you guys have more than 24 hours in a day, you will still be busy" So, Point is that Being Busy is just my lame excuse, I may be just lazy to not write down, But enough of that, I stopped on Pancham and will continue with him today. Pancham was accused of Plagiarizing right through his career, He had to defend himself against it, and in most of the interviews he often clarified that inspiration was part of the game in any field of art and his rule was to use one line and recreate an entire song out of the same, and which you can see that most composers did. So How do you differentiate between Inspiration and plagiarism? The answer most likely lies with every individual. Every creative individual will definitely know where inspiration ends a...