Madan Mohan- An Unforgettable Composer
Madan Mohan is not an unknown name to any music lover. He is truly one legend whose work has (to use an awfully overused cliche) survived onslaught of time, and that too when originally they weren’t on the most popular stars. Yet, the power of his melodies were such that someone like me, who was barely two years old when he left for the heavenly abode, it has given me an immense satisfaction. In the past years, I have made a conscious effort to seek and unearth many of his unknown and rare gems, and they are exactly that - gems!
On the occasion of his death anniversary, which falls on 14th July 2007, a musical show has been organized by Keep Alive (Manohar Iyer) at Borivali, Mumbai.
And on this day, a book would be released titled ‘MADAN MOHAN - AN UNFORGETTABLE COMPOSER’ (they really couldn’t have thought of any better way to describe him!). I am right now a bit constrained to speak on the book, or its authors/contributors, but it has a number of celebraties who have written their own views on his music. It would be priced less than Rs 500, and it will be an ‘easy-read’ book, giving insight to a man who did wonders when he entered the recording room.
I will definitely let you know about the book once it is released - and will leave with just one tiny information that it has an article by yours truly as well. I just cannot describe the kind of pride I feel right now, having my piece in a book dedicated to my favorite composer!!!
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July 12th, 2007 at 9:24 am
It will be great to read this book and your own piece in it. I know Manohar Iyer is great fan of his.
July 12th, 2007 at 9:25 am
And so are you(and me)!
July 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am
I was wondering when I would hear about this on the blog. So when are you coming to Mumbai?
July 12th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Heyyyy ! Congrats ! You get to write about your favourite composer and it gets published too
Madan Mohan is one of my favourite composers too. His melodies are haunting, they hit me in the gut, literally. Also, it is my observation that his songs are quite complicated to sing, but when Lataji sings them, they sound so easy ! Way to go…hope to see more of your writing in print 
July 13th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Manish - Thanks
Pri - You know the details now
Zoya - Thanks
Amen to your last line!
July 13th, 2007 at 6:44 am
DJ
We all are proud of you for having achieved this milestone. You deserve this.
May God bless you to make more and more achievements like this.
Ameen.
-Harshadbhai
Atlanta, USA
July 12 2007
July 13th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Holy Schmoly! Wow! Congrats Deej! Already famous! Haha good for you yaar. You are a celebrity now.
I don’t understand music much but I do know that I love the tunes of Madan Mohan. Or atleast the ones I have heard so far. and I still regret the fact that the song Yeh hum aa gaye hain kahan did not receive as much attention as it should have love it!
Good luck DJ with all future ventures!
July 13th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Congrats ! Hum sabki duva qubool ho gayi. Mai re main kaase kahoon.. per bahot khushi huvee.
July 14th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Congrats Sirji!
& I am back in the blog world after a long hibernation…
July 17th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Kaushi/ Dhoop/Navjot - Thanks a bunch [:)]
July 18th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Hey “Dimpak” — congrats (officially)
I tell U dude — you put your head to it…and you can so come up with a series like Harry Potter (but on a totally different story/genre of course) — you know, something that is so amazing to read, like everything else you write. Really — take meeeee seriouslyyyyy…write a novelllllllllllll - lol
Once again, me happy for ya