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Published: 03 December 2017

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There are many instruments in this piece by Walter Kaufmann in Toofani Tarzan (1937). Experts please help.

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Published: 06 March 2018

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Should the music director prepare the tune first and then the lyricist fit the words to it or vice versa? The question has been around since the days of live theater. According to Pt Radheshyam Kathavak, an eminent dramatist of his day,

The tradition was that the music director would make the tune and the writer would then write the lyrics to fit it. I wanted to change this tradition because due to this good lyrics could not be written. I, as a writer/singer believed that good lyrics is what attracted the public first, tune came later. I wished that along with good lyrics the tune be good too, that would be like gold and fragrance. But this is possible only if both are created by the same person. Also, if there are two different but able people having the same mind, they can do it too.

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Published: 23 October 2018

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When the Cinematograph Enquiry Committee (1927) came to Lahore, it interviewed many people. One of them was Lala Lajpat Rai. the Lion of the Punjab. The chairman tried to convince him that the knowledge about the British Empire was important to Indians. Lalaji fearlessly interrupted him and replied that he had no use for the Empire at all! About one year after this, the brave freedom fighter died of lathi injuries sustained during a non-violent protest against the Simon Commission. Bhagat Singh and his fellow revolutionaries avenged his death a few years later.

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