Bhupen Hazarika

The legend unplugged

Do you recall your initial days as an aspiring composer in Mumbai?
I came to Mumbai to work in the Indian People’s Theatre Movement (IPTA) with Salil Chowdhury, Balraj Sahni and other Marxist intellectuals.

Music 2000

As we step into the new millennium, what can we expect -- musically?
The ’80s and especially the ’90s have seen a paradigm shift in the quality, style and packaging of film music.

Going Solo

Duos scoring music in Hindi films is a concept almost as old as the talkie Hindi film. Husnlal-Bhagatram was Hindi cinema’s first official composer team, and then came Shanker-Jaikishan, Kalyanji-Anandji and Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

Reviews

PHIR BHI DIL HAI HINDUSTANI
Sony Music, Rs. 55
The team of Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Aziz Mirza and Jatin-Lalit have always come up with hummable numbers (Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman, Yes Boss), and needless to say the music of this film,

Cooking music on the web

Chefs Mandar Agashe and Adinath Mangeshkar have cooked up Musicurry, India’s first web music radio, playing music 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Millennium fever hits the music industry

With just 14 days to go before the year 2000 dawns, record companies in the West have joined the millennium frenzy, issuing countless compilations of yesterday’s hits, brought up to date by putting the magic word on the cover.