Mukesh – Golden era of Bollywood

Bollywood has a large scale of music. There are thousands of people associated with it. People say, true music of Bollywood comes from golden era. It came during 1950-1980. Mukesh Chand Mathur is one of the main founder part, commonly known as Mukesh. He is one of the best Bollywood playback singer ever heard. His magical voice makes people pleasure and happy.  Initially when he started his career, he wanted to be actor in Bollywood. He acted in some movies but could not able to get that applause. In his small age a music teacher came to his home to teach music to her sister. That the time he known his singing abilities. Then he started his career as a singer. Mukesh is basically being popular because of raj Kapoor. His voice is voice of raj Kapoor. He sung most of the songs of raj Kapoor. Mukesh won National award in 1974 for Best Playback Singer. He also won 4 FlimFare awards and many other awards. His son Nitin mukesh is also a play back singer. His Grandson Neil Nitin Mukesh is a famous Bollywood actor. His soulful voice makes him different from others. Here are some of best tracks of Mukesh that nourished by his voice.

1. Kahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaye (Anand)
2. Maine Tere Liye (Anand)
3. Kabhi Kabhi mere dil me (Kabhi Kabhi)
4. Ek pyar ka nagma hai (Shor)
5. Chand si mehbooba ho meri (Himalay ki God mein)
6. Sawan ka mahina (Milan)
7. Ek din bik jayega (Dharam Karam)Ye mera deewanapan hai (Yahudi)
8. Deewano se ye mat pucho (upkar)Tauba Yeh Matwali Chaal (Pathar Ke Sanam)
9. Suhana safar Aur ye (suhana safar)kahin karti hogi wo mera Intzaar(fir kab milogi)
10. mein har ek pal ka shayar hu (Kabhi Kabhi)Mein na bhulunga (Roti kapda aur makaan)

Amit Trivedi- the musical soul

Music is soul of India and everyone. In form of Folk and classical music India has its own recognition across the world. From the ancient time music has been successful to connect the people with socialism and religion. In Bollywood and outside of it number of talented music composers are there who defines and make the real value of music in various forms like classical, folk, spiritual, rock etc.  One of popular and multitalented composer among them is Amit Trivedi.

Amit is a music composer, lyricist and singer. His versatility in music makes him different from other Music composers. He composes different kind of music that directly touches your heart and his musical soul shows how he works with things.  He is not a professional singer and even never got trained as a singer but his different voice that contains sacredness, purity, is enough to attract and liked by the people.

Onset Journey of Amit Trivedi in Bollywood

A native Gujarati family boy, Amit trivedi was born in Mumbai. During his college time Amit started playing the keyboard and liked to sing song at some events in college. His mother and sister is good singer and with Amit they are used to sing and jam with music. In his college days he joined a band called “OM”. His friend Amitabh Bhattacharya, a great lyricist in Bollywood also was part of this band. During the struggle days they worked together.  After end up of college study, Amit trivedi started to compose music for Gujarati theatre and composed background music for TV serial, advertisements and live performances. He makes music for Airtel, coca-cola, diary milk etc. He signed a contract with Sony music and composed 4 songs for Abhijit sawant’s album junnon.

Amit’s life changed when he met Shilpa Rao, his friend and talent playback singer in Bollywood. Shilpa introduced him to Anurag kashyap. Amit has said many times in his interview about Anurag.  He told “Anurag sir is a great person. He always supports me and changed my life completely”.  In Bollywood Amit started his career with movie Aamir (2008). Anurag Kashyap recommended him for this film to director Raj Kumar Gupta. His performance was appraisal by many people in this movie. Subsequently, Amit composed for Anurag kashyap’s movie Dev D. He won Nation Award for Best Music Direction in Dev D. Amit also gives great background scores as a composer. In wake up sid his background score was greatly loved by people. For Udaan, he won Filmfare Award for Best Background Score. As a composer he makes hundreds of songs. Currently he is working on Bombay. Here for you some of  best tracks of Amit trivedi: -

1. Iktara (wake up sid)
   
   


2. Shaam (Aisha)
   
   


3. Manja (Kai Po Che)
   
   


4. Meethi Boliyan (Kai Po Che)
   
   


5. Zinda (Lootera)
   
   


6. Ankahee (Lootera)
   
   


7. English Vinglish
   
   


8. Gal Mitthi Mitthi (Aisha)
   
   


9. Kinarey (Queen)
   
   


10. London Thumakada (Queen)
    
    


11. Emotional Attyachar (Dev D)
    

12.  Udaan (Udaan)

Anurag Kashyap-legendary part of Indian cinema

In 1913 Dada Saheb Phalke laid the foundation of Indian Cinema in India. Journey of Indian cinema since 1913 has embraced a lot of talented stars and thousands of directors, producers, actors, and actress are working in Bollywood. Some of them have been given a great exceptional contribution to Indian cinema. In this all scenarios, there are some people who have given a new direction to it. They have changed the scenario of Indian cinema and one of them is Anurag Kashyap.

A glance on Anurag kashyap's inspirational life

Anurag Kashyap, a Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Lyricist. From journey of a television writer to a Bollywood producer Anurag has taste every part of life. In the voyage of the small city of Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur to Mumbai there were many hurdles came into his life. When he came to Mumbai, initially he wanted to work with Bollywood movies. But after facing so much struggle and failure, he started his career in Prithvi theatre in Mumbai.  Eventually, in 1999 a successful turning point came in Anurag’s life with ram Gopal Verma’s movie Satya. Anurag as a story writer for satya collected so many appraisals. He debuted as a director with movie paanch, but unfortunately couldn’t release. Anurag is better known for his original and realistic concepts of movies.  His forthcoming movie is Bombay velvet will be released in 2015.

In a umpteen number of Indian drama Anurag kashyap has been given his valuable contribution as a director, story writer etc. he is a multitalented part of Indian cinema. Here I have picked some movies that helped him to enjoy the taste of success by playing   and grabbed applaud on Box office and critics.

1. Dev. D
   
   
   Dev. D is an Indian romantic drama, directed, screenplay and written by Anurag Kashyap. Starring Abhay deol, Mahi gill, Kalki koechlin. Anurag Kashyap nominated as a Best Director for this movie in Filmfare Awards. In national and filmfare Awards Dev. D won so many awards in various categories and got positive response from critics.


2. Gulaal
   
   
   Gulaal, a crime based thriller drama directed, screenplay and written by Anurag Kashyap starring Kay.Kay. Menon. This movie won best breakthrough performance and standout performance by Music director Award.


3. Gangs of wasseypur 
   
   
   it’s based on Indian crime drama, directed, written, screenplay and produced by Anurag Kashyap. from box office and critics Gangs of wasseypur collected positive reviews. For gangs of waseypur Anurag kashyap won filmfare for best dialogue,IIFA award for best dialogue, Filmfare critics Award for best movie. In many other categories movie won many awards.


4. Black Friday 
   
   
   Black Friday is true story of Bombay bomb blasts in 1993 and Indian crime drama, directed, screenplay and written by Anurag kashyap. Anurag kashyap won Best screenplay for this movie. in Locarno international Film festival black Friday nominated for best Movie and in Indian Film festival of Los Angeles won grand jury award. this movie is appreciated across the world by critics.


5. Udaan 
   
   
   Udaan is real story based on Anurag kashyap’s life, produced and screenplay by Anurag kashyap.Anurag kashyap grabbed Filmfare Award for best story, Filmfare award for best Screenplay, Zee cine critics’ award for best film for Udaan. In various other categories Movie won so many awards.


6. Shaitan 
   
   
   Shaitan is Hindi thriller film, produced by Anurag kashyap. Shaitan is nominated and won number of awards in various film category and Awards.


7. The lunchbox 
   
   
   The lunchbox is based on a middle Mumbai office worker and a young housewife, produced by Anurag kashyap. This movie is appreciated all over the world by critics and got success to win a place at box office, in various Award categories.


8. Bombay Talkies 
   
   
   Bombay talkies is Co-written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. It’s a Indian anthology film consists four short films. Bombay talkies got successful to grab positive reviews from critics and had expectable opening on box-office


9. Lootera 
   
   
   Lootera is Periodic romantic Hindi drama, produced by Anurag kashyap.Anurag kashyap nominated for best entertaining Romantic film in Big star entertainment Awards for Lootera. this movie received highest positive reviews from critics. in umpteen number of other categories Lootera grabbed number of Awards.

        10.Queen


Queen, a comedy cum emotional drama based on a middle class girl from Delhi, India. Queen is Edited and Produced by                    Anurag Kashyap.

Lata Mangeshkar- backbone and soul of music existence

This saying would not be wrong that Lata Mangeshkar is backbone of music existence. She is a great Indian personality who devoted her whole life to music. She matched with each generation of music perfectly and one after another recorded huge hits. The say about her is much less. I am also a biggest fan follower of her (lata mangeshkar or music). Writing about this great artist here I want to express my love and reverence for the legendary Singer Lata mangeshkar.

Awards

She is honored with innumerable awards for her contribution in Music industry and listed in Guinness Book of World records as a recorded artist of the most songs. One of the most important and special thing about her is that she is the topmost second women (First is M.S. Subbulakshmi) in non classical music category who achieved civilian award “Bharat Ratna”. Here are some few awards:

• Bharat Ratna (2001)


• Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1989)


• Padma Bhushan (1969)


• Padma Vibhushan (1999)


• Maharashtra Bhushan Award,


• National Film Awards (1972, 1974 and 1990)


• Filmfare Awards (1959, 1963, 1966 and 1970).

Biography of lata Mangeshkar

On September 28, 1929 Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India got a immense soul of music, Lata mangeshkar.  Her father Dinanath Mangeshkar is himself a well-known singer of classical music. Her sister Asha bhosle is also a renowned singer in Music industry. At very young age she introduced with Music industry with her tremendous talent. Life history of Lata mangeshkar is truly impressive.

In very young age of her she lost her father thus she got all the responsibilities of family. To bring financial stability and take care of her family members she acted in 8 movies from 1942 to 1948. In her startup of career she has to face struggle. In 1942 she debuted with her first song in Marathi film but unfortunately edited out. Then in 1947 she recorded her first Hindi film song “Aap ki seva me” but did not get so notice.

In 1948, Lata mangeshkar got rejected owing to her thin voice, while she was auditioning for the Movie shaheed. At that time Ghulam haider recognized the potential of her and gave her chance to sing in Majboor.

Finally her song “Dil mera toda” got notice and proved as a breakthrough for her to tout. In 1949 she gave four major hits to Music industry from films Barsaat, Andaaz, Mahal,Dulari. From the movie Mahal “aanewala” became immense popular and that was the point she was recognized and got a secure firm place in Industry.

Lata mangeshkar has sung with many talented popular singers like Mohammad Rafi, kishore Kumar and Mukesh etc. she was a great determined and one of the powerful women in the industry. Lata mangeshkar was healed with immense power. She understood and felt the need and of each song very closely and sung with her beautiful rhythmic voice flawlessly. Lata Mangeshkar got a nickname “nightingale of Bollywood”.