11.0 Information about various RMIM series


"Masters Review" review of old movies by Amin Meghani (ameghani@bnr.ca)
"Masters Review" was born out of several RMIMers desire to be informed of well-known/well-liked Indian movies, which paradoxically enough, were very hard to find. A list was compiled consisting of (Hindi) movies directed by the venerable trio of popular directors: Hrishi Mukherjee, Basu Chatterji and Gulzar, the so-called `Master' directors of Indian cinema. Most of their movies are not readily available, and to motivate netters to make the extra effort of locating them, the Masters Reviews posts were started by Amin Meghani. These consist of brief reviews of movies taken from the Masters List. No real spoilers are included, just enough info to generate interest in watching the movie. The current list of `Master' director includes, Basu Chatterji, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Yash Chopra, Gulzar and Bapu.

Masters Reviews are done only sporadically, depending on the availability of time, and a movie! So far, only Amin Meghani (ameghani@bnr.ca) has posted Masters Reviews. But he invites all interested readers to contribute reviews of their favorite movies, and add to the Masters List or Masters Reviews at any time.

"EYE ON BOLLYWOOD" - review of recent movies by Amin Meghani
(Note: Now this series is continued in the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.local.indian. "EYE ON BOLLYWOOD" (EOB) traces its origins to the summer of 1992, when the first article was posted. The originator of this series, Amin Meghani, discovered that RMIM did not carry enough discussion of new movies available at video stores, and thought there was sufficient interest to start such a series.

EOB is a fairly regular series: a new article is posted about once a week (depending on the frequency of new releases). The post contains a listing of the most recent (Hindi) releases in video stores. In EOB, each movie is listed along with its star cast, director, and MD, and is star-rated (*, **, ***, ****, 0) to help the reader make an informed decision [* Poor; ** Fair/Average; *** Good; **** Excellent; 0 worthless!]. A recent enhancement of EOB includes the addition of a "New Audio Releases" section.

Amin Meghani maintains the Masters Reviews, as well as the current (latest) post of EOB, and will email these on request.

Lyricists Collection - Collection of Songs from various Lyricists like Gulzar, Kaifi Azmi, Sahir, Shakeel, Majrooh. by Dr. Dinesh Prabhu.
This was a series on the lyrics from Hindi films from the master pens of Gulzar, Kaifi Azmi, Sahir, Shakeel, and Majrooh. This was done by Dinesh Prabhu (IISc, Bangalore). Contact: Rajan Parrikar (parrikar@spot.colorado.edu) for songs. [Note: All these songs have found their way into the ITRANS songbook]

From the Porky Files
RMIM welcomes Jagjit and Chitra Singh
CountDown to August 15th - Patriotic songs
All three done by: Porky (C.S.Sudarshana Bhat). The series "From the Porky Files" has lyrics of old Hindi film songs (this series still continues). "RMIM welcomes Jagjit and Chitra Singh" was a series in which some popular ghazals of Jagjit Singh were posted. The third series was "CountDown to August 15th - Patriotic songs" which as the name suggests was a series on patriotic songs. [note: all these songs have found their way into the ITRANS songbook].

Follow The Star by Satish Subramanian (subraman@cs.umn.edu)
This was a series of popular songs from the movies of famous film personalities. The film personalities that were covered were Amitabh, Dev Anand and Shammi Kapoor.

Magic Moments: RD-Gulzar by: Ashish Bokil (abokil@hubcap.clemson.edu)
This was a series of songs from films which came from the combination of R.D.Burman and Gulzar. This is an on going series on RMIM. You can see the songs of this series at Sami's Magic Moment's page.

CHAYAGEET by Samiuddin Mohammed (sm0e@lehigh.edu)
This is series that is based on the Vividh Bharati program of AIR called "CHHAYA GEET." Chhaya Geet was a 30 min program in which songs based on a particular theme used to be played. Each post in this RMIM series has 7 songs based on a particular theme or situation. Series catchline: "For every REAL life situation, there exists atleast one REAL song which can be sung in your IMAGINARY world!"<> You can see the entire series at Sami's Chhaya Geet Page!

RAAG aur GEET by: Kedar S Naphade (ksn2@Lehigh.EDU)
This series is an offshoot of RJGK-19 which was titled "Indian Classical music in Films". It is inspired by a couple of requests to post an explanation of the relationship between the song and raag for the songs in the quiz. In this series Kedar picks a song based on classical music, and gives the basic structure of the raag, and provides some notation of the film song to demonstrate the likeness between the raag and the geet. This series can also be accessed at Kedar's Raag aur Geet page

Pankha Road se Pintu Diwana by ShashiKant Joshi (rava0002@gold.tc.umn.edu)
In this series, ShashiKant posts some golden oldies from his personal collection collected from, and as a tribute to, Vividh Bharati. Pankha Road se Pintu Diwana was a constant "sifarishi" of songs on VB, and this is a kind of tribute to him too. Provides a great nostalgic trip down memory lane.

A Sher a Day (ASAD) by Abhay Avachat
As the name of the series says, Abhay posts a sher a day in Urdu in this series and explains it and also adds some trivia about it. The entire series can be found at the, ASAD Page maintained by U.V.Ravindra

Abhi To Main Jawaan Hoon by Snehal B. Oza (snehal@wipro.wipsys.soft.net)
In this series Snehal posts a song a day (mainly from the 40s-60s) and adds his comments on the music of the film and also related films.

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