Urge to Fly http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/music/ Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:48:51 +0530 blogSpirit.com All Rights Reserved http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/06/29/remembering-madan-mohan-pancham.html http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/06/29/remembering-madan-mohan-pancham.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Khwaahish-e-Parwaaz) Film Music Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:45:00 +0530 June is the month when Hellen Keller was born. June is the month when Thomas Hardy was born. Robert Stevenson, W B Yeats, Salman Rushdie, Donald Trump, Meryl Streep….all born in June – the month that has greatness written all over it!.<br /> <br /> And, if I didn't mention it earlier, I was born in June too! <span style="font-family: Wingdings">J</span> <br /> <br /> This week marked the birth anniversaries of two Hindi film music composers who I absolutely adore – Madan Mohan Kohli and Rahul Dev Burman. It is difficult for me to say exactly why I have such fondness for their compositions, but the fact is that I return to their compositions quite frequently.<br /> <br /> As my tribute to Madan Mohan and RDB, I can easily come up with a Top 10 list or something like that, but after the hugely involved listing exercise I indulged in for close to 3 months, I don't think I want to do any other list (at least for some time). (For those interested in lists, I did an <a href="http://urgetofly.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/06/27/rdb.html">RDB Top 25</a> list a few years back).<br /> <br /> I thought it would be cool to dig out some gems from the oeuvre of these composers, which are usually not talked about. Some of these songs might be well-known, but they usually get overshadowed by other creations of these composers.<br /> <br /> <u><b>Madan Mohan Kohli</b></u>: When we talk of Madan Mohan today, it's mostly in reference to his association with Lata Mangeshkar. Together they created endless masterpieces. Given how much everyone loves to talk about&#8230;