FROM HEER RANJHA TO MAUSAM By Kohinoor Dasgupta Yeh duniya, yeh mehfil / Mohammed Rafi Chetan Anand’s musical Heer Ranjha  (1970) dealt...

FROM EK KALI MUSKAYI  TO DASTAK By Kohinoor Dasgupta Na tum bewafa ho / Lata Mangeshkar Madan Mohan’s music was sensitive. I am using the...

FROM WOH KAUN THI TO NAUNIHAL By Kohinoor Dasgupta Naina barse / Lata Mageshkar Lag jaa gale / Lata Mangeshkar Shokh nazar ki bijliyan/...

FROM KHOTA PAISA  TO AKELI MAT JAIYO By Kohinoor Dasgupta This phase gave us a composer who had earned a degree of freedom to influence...

FROM ANKHEN TO JAILOR Madan Mohan & the performers By Kohinoor Dasgupta HINDI films of the last century often had a scene or two at a...

There was a buzz about Ganguli after Gaman.

By Kohinoor Dasgupta January 7, 2023 Jaidev (August 3, 1918 – January 6, 1987) JAI Guru DEVA! 'Madhushala’ shono ni ?!” (Haven’t listened...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta (originally published in 2010 on draupadiarjun.blog.co.in, hosted by "Indiayogi") MEENA KUMARI was born Mahjabeen...

By Kohinoor Dasgupta May 9, 2022 T wenty-four years have gone by since the voice of Talat Mahmood fell silent. A year ago, I was foggy...