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Published: 21 October 2024

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Many of you are no doubt familiar the website on Kanan Devi launched by Dr Jyoti Prakash Guha. I am happy to report that this website has found another home. It is now available in a section of my website.Here is the link

Dr Guha's Kanan Devi website

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Published: 08 December 2024

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Film Badi Bahen

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Published: 17 September 2025

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According to the music director Ravi (Shankar Sharma), the original tune made by Lucilla Pacheco on piano. Hemant Kumar found it to be too western. The Ravi Indianized it on harmonium. Kalyanji (Virji Shah) had imported a new keyboard instrument called clavioline. He then played it on this instrument. The movie and the tune became very popular I remember hearing it again and again in every function of any kind. It was issued on a record.

Here is the record from collection of the late Suresh Chandvankar.

PS: As far as I know, the clavioline was the first keyboard instrument which was used in a film song. Looks like the record was recorded by Anandji, Kalyanji's brother.

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