A lot of this is down to the strength of the Asha Bhosle vocal performance, which is, in a word: epic.Īsha Bhosle was born in Sangli, India in 1933.
While my exploration of the Bollywood genre has led to my discovering more musical gems than I can count, “Dum Maro Dum” remains a strong favorite to which I can keep returning.
At the same time that The Beatles were first messing around with pulling sitars into their music, Burman had already assimilated all of Indian classical, Indian folk music, Western pop music, various East and South East Asian music traditions and a whole lot else into his oeuvre. Burman was absolutely vociferous in his ability to adapt and utilize musical traditions from all over the world. While it is often unfairly maligned and dismissed as easily disposable pop music – accompaniment to sell what are often fairly low budget films – the composers and performers behind it frequently incredible musicians. This got me to go back and start listening to and seeking out Bollywood soundtracks.īollywood is an interesting genre. Between the twangy guitar stabs, swirling psychedelic sounds and the super high (provided by Asha Bhosle plus backing chorus) vs super low vocal (by Zeenat Aman) combination, I was hooked. Burman, was like nothing I had heard before. The song, written by arguably the the greatest Bollywood composer of them all, R.D. When I first heard the swirling psychedelic drone that kicks off the 1971 film, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, my opinion almost immediately changed. Certainly, they were not the equal of the Indian classical music that I liked and respected.
Despite having several Indian friends growing up and being exposed to a number of Bollywood films when staying over at their homes, I never took a lot of interest in these seemingly randomly plotted and pageant-like film productions that always struck me as more than a little silly.
Song of the Day: Asha Bhosle & Zeenat Aman “Dum Maro Dum”Īsha Bhosle‘s incredible voice on this psychedelic Bollywood title cut proved to be the gateway that got me to take an interest in Bollywood music.
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