Trivia Tunes Archives

Trivia Tunes: When Mohammed Rafi felt he won’t be able to navigate the extremely high scale of ‘Dil Ke Jharonkhe Mein…’: “I will be out of breath” : Bollywood News

Variety on displayAnu Malik’s debut concert in Mumbai left me thinking. In sheer variety (his career is over 40 years old) and melodic power, Anu Malik will be among the last of the composers to present an unalloyed three-hour-plus show of an assorted thali of pure film music, something that today’s generation of piecemeal composers […]

Trivia Tunes: When a classical legend took a dig at Mukesh’s talent : Bollywood News

Neeraj Shridhar’s songs re-createdNeeraj Shridhar seems to be back suddenly! Albeit in re-creations! Not only has he sung the sole lingering track of Bhool Chuk Maaf—the re-created ‘Chor bazaari’ from Love Aaj Kal (2007), composed by Pritam, but he is also the main singer of the re-created ‘Papa to band bajaaye’ in the new Housefull […]

Trivia Tunes: When Hema Sardesai’s song in Pardes was attributed to Nadeem-Shravan : Bollywood News

The timeless patriotic songRecently, two patriotic films, Sky Force and The Diplomat, have respectively had cult numbers re-created: ‘Ae mere watan ke logon’, the non-film cult song that has rocked the nation since it came out first in 1965, and ‘Bharat humko jaan se pyaara hai’ (from the 1993 Roja) remodelled as ‘Bharat’ (the title […]

Trivia Tunes: When Jatin-Lalit composed two title songs for two titles of the Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla starrer : Bollywood News

Music to the rescueThe films released so far this year have not been musical winners at all. There are a couple of good songs each in Azaad, Emergency and Sky Force but none that remain with you after the song and film are over. The only song that makes some mark is the re-created ‘Ae […]