Anand Bakshi
Did You Know? A R Rahman Once Served The Indian Army, Tap To Read More
Many films centered on the Indian Armed Forces have been created in Hindi cinema. Whether it's Sunny Deol's flicks 'Border' and 'Maa Tujhhe Salaam Ho,' Vicky Kaushal's film 'Uri: The Surgical Strike,' or the newly released actor Siddharth Malhotra's film 'Shershaah,' the public gets introduced to the true life of the Indian Armed Forces through these films. These videos depicted how troops in the Indian Army became martyrs in order to safeguard our nation. Today, we'll tell you about Bollywood stars who served in the Indian Armed Forces prior to working in the industry. | Click Here...
Rakesh Bakshi On His Legendary Father Anand Bakshi
If the great bade dinon ke bard Anand Bakshi had lived,he would have been 91 on 21 July. Bakshi Saab’s son Rakesh Bakshi remembers his father as a man and a poet consumed by his art. “He would often think of the words along with the tune, which he would share with the composer. Of course he contributed to the tunes . But he never spoke about it. Nor did any one connected with the creative process.So why should I? All I can tell you is that in those days my father and and the rest of the music creators worked as a team. There was never any question of, Maine ki | Click Here...
Lalit Pandit On Working With Anand Bakshi In DDLJ
Lalit Pandit, one-half of the Jatin-Lalit duo recalls the experience of working with Anand Bakshi. “Anand Bakshi Saab, my brother Jatin and I met for music session of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge(DDLJ) at Mr Yash Chopra’s bungalow.Bakshi Saab would get the briefing for the song situations, go back home , write the song and then return again to Yashji’s home with the words for the song.” Lalit makes a startling revelation. “Do you know the opening two lines of Mehndi lagake ke rakhna—Yeh kudiyan nashe di pudiya, yeh munde gali de gunde – was not only writte | Click Here...
Subhash Ghai On Anand Bakshi
Anand Bakshi who wrote more than 4500 lyrics during his long career of 40 years, out of which at least 3000 songs were superhit. Bakshi Saab wrote the lyrics of 16 film produced and-or directed by Subhash Ghai. Ghai has been researching for a documentary on Bollywood’s most prolific bard for a decade. In an interview with me Ghai had said ,"I am in the process of putting together the pieces of Bakshi Saab's life. But yes, I don't want to make a dry boring staccato documentary that no one would watch. This was a man who wrote some of the most entertaining songs f | Click Here...
Lata Mangeshkar On Anand Bakshi
He was the longest-lasting lyricst of the film industry. From Sher-e-Baghdad in 1957 to Kuch Dil Ne Kaha in 2002, Anand Bakshi wrote a majority of the most popular Hindi films songs during his 4-decade career. The Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar who sang a sizeable chunk of Bakshi Saab’s poetry says there was no other lyricist as popular as Bakshi. “Unke shabd logon ke dil aur dimaag pe chhaa jateen thhi. Whether it was Sheesha ho ya dil ho aakhir toot jata hai(Asha) or Jaane kyon log mohabbat kiya karte hain (Mehboob Ki Mehndi) the connection with | Click Here...
Anand Bakshi ; The Lyrical Genius
Anand Bakshi (21 July 1930 – 30 March 2002) was a popular Indian poet and lyricist. Bakshi was fond of writing poetry since his youth, but he did this mostly as a private hobby. In a 1983 interview with Doordarshan, Bakshi recounted that after his initial studies, he joined the Indian Army, where due to a paucity of time, he could only write occasionally. He continued to write poetry whenever time permitted, and used his songs and lyrics in local programmes related to his troop. He worked in the Army for many years and simultaneously tried to market his songs in the Mumbai film wor | Click Here...