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RD Burman Birthday: Remembering Pancham and his seven Bengali 'puja' songs which became Hindi superhits

Happy Birthday RD Burman: The lesser-known fact about the legendary music director RD Burman, or Pancham, who'd have turned 85 today had he not died 30 years ago, is that he debuted as a Bollywood composer and a 'Puja song' composer in the same year, and some of those Bengali compositions became runaway hits in Hindi films.
Film music director Jeet Gannguli remembers late Ustad Rashid Khan who sang many of his compositions

Gannguli recalls how Ustad Rashid Khan treated him like a brother in more ways than one.
80 years of Ilaiyaraaja: Best songs of the music maestro across 5 film industries

The enduring legacy of pan-Indian film-music composer Ilaiyaraaja, who turned 80 on June 2, through his songs in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada. His music was one of the firsts to bridge the north-south gap.
Murder Mystery 2 composers Avinash-Vishwajeet: 'We’d never dreamt of working on a Hollywood film'

The Mumbai-based composer duo of a song in the new Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler-starrer Netflix film 'Murder Mystery 2', after composing film music in Marathi, among others, for 25 years, on their first Hollywood project and being told not to make a 'Disney song'.

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Music Composers

RD Burman Birthday: Remembering Pancham and his seven Bengali 'puja' songs which became Hindi superhits

Film music director Jeet Gannguli remembers late Ustad Rashid Khan who sang many of his compositions

80 years of Ilaiyaraaja: Best songs of the music maestro across 5 film industries

Murder Mystery 2 composers Avinash-Vishwajeet: 'We’d never dreamt of working on a Hollywood film'