Archive for the ‘Musical’ Category
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Baiju Bawra (1952)
The greatest strength of this historical film about Baiju Bawra (Bharat Bhushan), the musician who challenged the court musician Tansen to a musical duel (a jugalbandi; performed here by Ustad Amir Khan and Pandit D. V. Paluskar) to avenge the murder of his father, is not surprisingly the outstanding music composed by one of Hindi ...
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