On March 14th 2019, we reach a milestone for Bollywood cinema: the talkies. Alam Ara released March 14, 1931 bringing the revolution of sound and thus music. The release occurred at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai and was so popular the police had to be called to control the crowds. With the film having been lost to the sands of time it’s impossible to know who actually wrote the album, but we do know that Wazir Mohammed Khan was the first playback singer. Things have not changed since, as the soundtrack of any film has a profound effect on the careers of the actors in the film, on how the film itself does and on the legacy of those who took part in it. After all, a song in a Bollywood movie is not simply music directors, instrumentalists and playback singers, it’s the cameraman, the location people, the set designers and...
- 3/14/2019
- by Swarup Chakravarthy
- Bollyspice
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