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Rocking with R.D.
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Gulzar speaks on his partnership with R. D. Burman
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Lyricist-filmmaker Gulzar
THEY MET as they were starting out on their careers and remained close associates and friends till the end. "I met Pancham when I wrote my first song Mora Gora Ang Lai Lae," Gulzar says. "I was assisting Bimal Roy on `Bandini' (1963) and Pancham was assisting S. D. Burman. We became friends but I never dreamt of making films. That happened by the way."
Reams have been written about the magic of the R.D.-Gulzar partnership. Gulzar laughs as he confirms the legend about Mera Kuch Saaman... (`Ijaazat').
"Pancham did say that I would ask him to set a newspaper headline to music next!"
And what about the many R. D. Burman remixes dotting the musicscape?
Gulzar purses his lips as he says, "When you excavate ruins, you find utensils, carvings and paintings.
These things tell us the history of the age - what animals, colours, instruments were there at the time.
Fine arts are a document of the time and these remixes are a crime as they pollute history. The arts should be left as the creator made them."
"Look at the colouring of `Mughal-E-Azam' - you lose the historicity of that single frame in colour when the whole movie is in colour. Bimal Roy shot his movies in black and white and you cannot spoil the conviction of the man by converting them into colour. This is unfortunately what happens when the medium is in the hand of commerce."
"There can never be another R. D. Burman and no one should try to be another R. D. Burman because however good you are, you would always be a copy." Will there be another who would be dubbed `the sound of the generation?'
"That person is yet to come. I am sure when he or she arrives, we would be able to recognise them instantly." Are all the songsters tuned in?
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