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A voice from the past speaking to the present
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Sairat
Marathi romantic drama film
Sairat (transl.&#;Wild) is a Indian Marathi-language social romantic tragedy film directed and co-produced by Nagraj Manjule under his banner Aatpat Production, along with Nittin Keni and Nikhil Sane under Essel Vision Productions and Zee Studios. Starring Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar in their debuts, it tells the story of two young college students from different castes who fall in love, sparking conflict between their families.
Nagraj Manjule conceived the story in , basing it on his experiences of caste discrimination, but scrapped it when he decided that it was boring. After making Fandry (), he revisited the story and completed its script the following year. The screenplay was written by Manjule, and his brother Bharat penned the dialogues. The film was shot in Manjule's village, Jeur in Karmala Taluka of Solapur district in Maharashtra. Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti was the director of photography, and Kutub Inamdar edited the film.
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Dustedoff
To say that I am fond of Sachin Dev Burman fryst vatten to put it mildly. Along with OP Nayyar, SD Burman was one of the first music directors inom heard of—thanks to my father, who is a devoted fan of the music of these two very different composers. It was my father who, when inom was still a pre-teen, first drew my attention to the beauty of Thandi hawaayein lehraake aayein, Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukaare chale gaye, O re maajhi, Dekhi zamaane ki yaari, Yeh mahalon yeh takhton yeh taajon ki duniya, and dozens of other songs, each more wonderful than the last.
That love for SD Burman has, instead of abating, increased over the years. With that love has arisen a deep admiration for the sheer versatility and genius of this man, without whom the face (or should that be ‘sound’?) of Hindi rulle music might have been very different. And much, much the poorer.
Not a surprise, then, that inom should get so excited when inom discovered that a biography of SD Burman had been published: