ETHNOMUS 45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: S. D. Burman, Jahangir, R. D. Burman
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Sur: musical note or pitch in hindi. Padosan: neighbor female, parallel cinema: cinema prayog , feudal decadence. Nawab (less on rajas: tamil film, mrdangam is a carnatic instrument, scene played. The actress says she"s upset because the actor went somewhere and asks him to sing. Another guy tells her to send the actor to the temple to ring bell, but she wants him to stay and play music. Great sitarist: uses a drone that"s orchestrated in violin with sitar solo above. Sahib bibi aur ghulam: produced by, hemant kumar = music director, guru dutt = director, vk murthy = cinematographer, meena kumari. Same as bibi, who weeps because her husband won"t sleep with her at night until she begins drinking with him. Like bibi, kumari died from alcoholism: brahmo samaj. Meena kumari and her father belong to this movement: bhanwra bada nadaan hai . Chotte nawab: rd burman = music director.
