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A Journey Down Melody Lane
This book presents a kaleidoscopic view into the world of Hindi film music, which has held us spellbound for close to 80 years! India's topmost music historian, Raju Bharatan, delves into the legendary treasury that is our song history to spotlight how stardom and songdom do meet to make the film number a part of the nation's psyche. He also describes how songs audio-visually immortalized. It also reveals such as: which composer was to originally score the music for Umrao Jaan, why there was an ego stand-off between Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi for three years in the 1960s. How Rahul Dev Burman lost out on a prestigious award in the late 1960s. How a factual error went unnoticed in the question-and-answer format of Slumdog Millionaire which recently swept the Oscars.
