I have also made documentaries like Ragpickers, Scavengers of a Different Graveyard, Uncaging the Body (that won the Apsara Award for Best Short Film, 2003-2004), A Burden of Love (on Alzheimer’s disease), and I am working on two feature films - Jhalki … Ek Aur Bachpan,set against the backdrop of child labor and Between Our Worlds, an Indo-German production, touching upon farmers’ suicides and corporate greed. I never met him and that is why I met over 200 people to know him. The footage of Knowing Pancham is over five hours long, has been edited and is in the process of being sub-titled. Well, it won’t any longer remain in my hard drive and will reach his fans. I was always asked what I was going to do with the unused footage from Pancham Unmixed. There will be many wanting to sing like him or to compose like him but there will be only one RD Burman To the vandals, those who propagate his legacy and his fans. It is like saying that only one person can claim to know Shakespeare really well. After his death, a lot of people, who had distanced themselves from him, are appropriating him and his legacy. Not to me.” He understood perhaps that Pancham was finding it tough to deal with the lows. Shammi saab reportedly called him out and scolded him and said, “Young man, I have done this a lot in my life but you won’t do this. According to a story that I heard, Shammi Kapoor saab who loved him very much once went to see him but was told that Pancham was not at home even though he was. It may also be because when you are down and out, you don’t want anyone around. Apart from his team that worked with him on 1942-A Love Story and a handful of people, he had no one. Between the 40-crore films and the seven-lakh documentaries, we must make space for well-made biographical stories.ĭuring the filming, I have kept my perspective out of the frames but it is obvious from a few statements that he was extremely lonely in the last years of his life. But it is only now that it will be seen on TV. Pancham Unmixed received a humongous response, it won two national awards among many others, toured almost 40 festivals, was watched across the world. With the film on him, I have set the ball rolling for entertaining and informative biographies. Even then, the quality of his work remained uncompromised. The fact that at his peak, he composed music for almost 20-21 films in one year! And yet by late 80s, when composers began to undercut remuneration and started to get more work than RD, even his friends abandoned him. He has fans across five generations but his story has always affected me.
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I remember a young listener praising Bally Sagoo for Chura liya hai! Today, his music is still being remixed, replayed on every radio and TV channel, in clubs and at weddings. So I tried to uncover his life and genius and to answer the question just WHY he was great. He is one of our all-time greats and there was no serious work on him. Since we do not have a system of preserving the memories of our legends, on Pancham's birth and death anniversary, I would see random capsules on TV where just about anyone would be holding forth on him. I am instinctively familiar with his kind of music.the murkis, the khatkas. My grand-uncle and SD Burman learnt music from the same guru, so there is your connect! Plus, I grew up with his music. When I made the film on her, a buzz was created and some help was generated.Ī Sufi rendition of Musafir Hoon Yaro in Karachi sparked off the need to film RD's unbelievable reach. He was very upset and suggested that the state should step in and help her. This film came about when sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan told me that Asghari had been awarded `1 lakh. I wanted to capture the irony of our neglect of those who must not be forgotten. And yet, as an old woman, she was forgotten and was thinking of exchanging her awards for two square meals.
Here was an exponent of a fading tradition who had sung in royal courts (she sang in the Tikamgarh court for 35 years) and had received Padma Shri and Tansen Samman, Shikhar Samman and what have you. She dared to be a dhrupad singer in a largely male-dominated discipline. In a chat with City Express, he shares his passion for untold stories, his sadness over the callous disregard for our musical heritage and more. Singh is also in the process of filming Kagaz Ki Kashti, a detailed account based on the life of ghazal legend Jagjit Singh. He has already filmed Asghari Bai, a narrative based on the dhrupad singer who was reduced by poverty to consider trading her awards for money. Singh's passion for documenting legends is not new.
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