Panchamda's love affair with football
Even as the FIFA World Cup Football 2010 fever reaches its frenzied crescendo , retro Indi-pop music lovers will be amazed to know that legendary Bollywood composer-singer Rahul Dev Burman’s whose 71st birth anniversary was observed recently, was a hardcore “soccer freak” Not many are aware that the versatile musical genius.
Panchamda (RDB’s nickname) had a fetish for football Says senior Bollywood producer Barkha Roy ( of musical jubilee hit ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ (1982) which fetched RDB his first-ever Filmfare Award ) “ Besides being a fabulous composer, Burmansaab had this flair for using various kinds of foreign musical instruments for the first time.
Often he would blend bizarre sound-effects into his musical interludes of western songs like he did in most of the chartbuster songs of my movie ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’. With the ‘FIFA’ World Cup football fever in full swing, had Panchamda been alive he would have surely used the South African trumpet-horn ‘vuvuzela’ sounds in some of his Hindi songs Or maybe he would have composed a special Football fusion Indo-African tune,”enthuses Barkha who some ambitious “artistic” plans up her sleeve as a grand tribute to her mentor RDB.
Even legendary singer Asha Bhosle has revealed that her hubby Rahulda was a passionate football freak and an ardent fan of the legendary Brazilian player Pele . “Somehow he even seemed fascinated with Latin American music and Brazilian rhythms which he incorporated in several songs.That’s how he ventured to bring out his international Latin American album ‘Pantera’ which was way ahead of its times,” explains madame Bhosle.
Ace percussionist and keyboards player Kersi Lord who used to be part of RDB’s core team recalls how Rahulda used to regularly “drop in at my house during the initial phase of his career to listen and get exposure to a variety of global music L.P.s, ( Discs) particularly Rock-Jazz and Afro-Latin American scores, as I had a vast collection of them.”
Eminent cine-biz guitarist and arranger Ramesh Iyer who was closely associated with Pancham for nearly 15 years having played in dozens of his song-recordings fondly remembers how RDB used to sometimes take a “soccer break”. “Dada (RDB) used to sneak out with his music-buddies to watch live football matches at downtown grounds whenever he had free time in the evenings.
After watching his favourite teams playing, he would rush back ‘fully charged and excited ’ for a music-sitting or recording session and make impulsive creative changes in the music notations. Even at home he would love to watch football matches on two TV screens and would video-tape them. Maybe Dada used to get some sort of an inspirational ‘kick’ out of watching the soccer frenzy,” insists Iyer
Even as the FIFA World Cup Football 2010 fever reaches its frenzied crescendo , retro Indi-pop music lovers will be amazed to know that legendary Bollywood composer-singer Rahul Dev Burman’s whose 71st birth anniversary was observed recently, was a hardcore “soccer freak” Not many are aware that...
Even as the FIFA World Cup Football 2010 fever reaches its frenzied crescendo , retro Indi-pop music lovers will be amazed to know that legendary Bollywood composer-singer Rahul Dev Burman’s whose 71st birth anniversary was observed recently, was a hardcore “soccer freak” Not many are aware that the versatile musical genius.
Panchamda (RDB’s nickname) had a fetish for football Says senior Bollywood producer Barkha Roy ( of musical jubilee hit ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ (1982) which fetched RDB his first-ever Filmfare Award ) “ Besides being a fabulous composer, Burmansaab had this flair for using various kinds of foreign musical instruments for the first time.
Often he would blend bizarre sound-effects into his musical interludes of western songs like he did in most of the chartbuster songs of my movie ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’. With the ‘FIFA’ World Cup football fever in full swing, had Panchamda been alive he would have surely used the South African trumpet-horn ‘vuvuzela’ sounds in some of his Hindi songs Or maybe he would have composed a special Football fusion Indo-African tune,”enthuses Barkha who some ambitious “artistic” plans up her sleeve as a grand tribute to her mentor RDB.
Even legendary singer Asha Bhosle has revealed that her hubby Rahulda was a passionate football freak and an ardent fan of the legendary Brazilian player Pele . “Somehow he even seemed fascinated with Latin American music and Brazilian rhythms which he incorporated in several songs.That’s how he ventured to bring out his international Latin American album ‘Pantera’ which was way ahead of its times,” explains madame Bhosle.
Ace percussionist and keyboards player Kersi Lord who used to be part of RDB’s core team recalls how Rahulda used to regularly “drop in at my house during the initial phase of his career to listen and get exposure to a variety of global music L.P.s, ( Discs) particularly Rock-Jazz and Afro-Latin American scores, as I had a vast collection of them.”
Eminent cine-biz guitarist and arranger Ramesh Iyer who was closely associated with Pancham for nearly 15 years having played in dozens of his song-recordings fondly remembers how RDB used to sometimes take a “soccer break”. “Dada (RDB) used to sneak out with his music-buddies to watch live football matches at downtown grounds whenever he had free time in the evenings.
After watching his favourite teams playing, he would rush back ‘fully charged and excited ’ for a music-sitting or recording session and make impulsive creative changes in the music notations. Even at home he would love to watch football matches on two TV screens and would video-tape them. Maybe Dada used to get some sort of an inspirational ‘kick’ out of watching the soccer frenzy,” insists Iyer
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