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Edwina's two other elder sisters Cecilia and Irene never joined the film line, neither did their spouses. However, Edu's husband Keith did dance in just one film Do Ustad (1959).
Keith with Edwina, Raj Kapoor with Madhubala.
Their marriage (1960),
Keith in 2011.
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In the previous Musing, I quoted Salilda as saying,
"our raga classification is so vast that almost any melody from any part of the world can be classified as a raga or a misra-raga."
Today I present a contrary point of view, which is actually closer to my own opinion.
Recently, thanks to Pavan Jha and Falguni Trivedi Shah, I received a wonderful book titled, Hindi Film Sangeet Ka Safar, Meel Ke Patthar (Hindi), by Vijay Verma. I like the book very much and recommend everybody to get a copy. On Page 333, shown here, Vermaji says,
My translation:
In 'Dhunon Kee Yatraa' Pankaj Rag, in his well-written chapter centered on Hemant Kumar, has counted about 30 of his songs in Hindi films as based on Ragas. But here I would beg to differ a bit. The question is, did we ourselves find a Raga in an already completed song, or, the composer himself has composed the song keeping in mind that Raga? If we try to find a Raga, and do not hesitate to stretch things, we can find Ragas everywhere or we can impose Ragas on everything, but this is not meant by a song-based-on-a-Raga.
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Thanks to great sleuthing by Arun Simha, we have this mention from Oct 12, 1969 Times of India, quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Typical university libraries have access to the Proquest database of Times of India issues. If you can get the original article, I will be grateful.
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