फसल उत्सव 🌾🌽🍊🫛🥕🌾🌞 The Harvest Festival is here 💛🧡 How about posting your favourite songs featuring farms, barns, fields….songs amongst the crops!? 😊

Such a beautiful thread 💖😁

🎧 NEW EPISODE! Tum samajhte ho yeh kaam tum akele kar sakte ho? Ji nahi…. main janta hoon ki yeh kaam main akela kar sakta hoon As Deewaar turns 50, Alok Sharma, Diptakirti Chaudhuri, Shiva and I revisit the film that turned a young promising actor called Amitabh Bachchan into

New Book Announcement! On the diamond jubilee of the Indian Republic, we bring 75 assorted diamonds (songs), uncut gems woven together and embellished with polished gems. Coming this year: An Alternative History of Hindi Film Music. Shantanu Chaudhuri

Earth is all decked up for the grand wedding this month 💫😊

All those in Nagpur, do join us for a musical evening 😊 Sunday 16th February, 6 pm. (For rest of the details, please check the banner).

My son Ameya Buty has taken all the pain to collect information and facts about the family and put it together on this website 😊 A prestigious lineage that spans over two centuries as landowners and financiers. butyfamilynagpur.framer.website

Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2 Bloomsbury Publishing brings out this book under its 33 1/3 series. In conversation with the eminent authors - Ani and Chandrashekhar Rao thesongpedia.com/there-is-a-lat…

In the article below, Shantanu Ray Chaudhari, a Hindi Film Music connoisseur and editor-in-chief, Om Books International, digs deeper into Gulzar’s ocean of songs to find some rare pearls. thesongpedia.com/the-rare-gulza…

#Gulzar I have always been fascinated by what lies beyond what we generally regard as his canon as a songwriter. 10 rare gems on his birthday Thank you Deepa Buty (दीपा बुटी) Deepa Buty for giving these awara, bhatakte nazmein a home at Songpedia. Grateful thesongpedia.com/the-rare-gulza…

It isn’t just Sholay which became 50 years old. The young and rebellious Julie too is 50 years old now. But her beating heart keeps her as well as the audience, young 😊 Shantanu Chaudhuri thesongpedia.com/my-heart-is-be…

In an era ruled by Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, it isn’t surprising that despite this golden streak in 1975, Preeti Sagar’s career in Hindi film music is more about flashes of brilliance rather than a long arc of mainstream playback success. thesongpedia.com/the-many-melod…

Concluding our #PreetiSagar series. Shantanu Chaudhuri talks to her about her work, her songs, her jingles and her nursery rhymes. Thanks to all the readers and followers of TheSongPedia for appreciating this series. thesongpedia.com/i-have-sung-ov…

#BhupenHazarika at 100! His was a voice that sang not just of rivers and romance, but of justice, memory and the moral heartbeat of a people ~ writes Shantanu Chaudhuri #birthcentenaryyear thesongpedia.com/bhupen-hazarik…

#DevAnand ♥️ Let’s have a peek into some of the songs from his pre Baazi days and for a change get accustomed with Dev Anand, the bashful boy. We will also be chronicling his many firsts from his initial career. thesongpedia.com/dev-anand-the-…

All those in Nagpur, here’s a great opportunity to watch 3 iconic films of #GuruDutt, as we celebrate 100 years of this legend. I’ll be talking about Mr and Mrs 55 and Chaudhavin ka Chand. For rest of the details please check the banner. Hope to see you there 😊

Aziz Nazan (1938–1992) was not merely a performer but an institution in the qawwali tradition of the 1970s and ’80s. Shantanu Chaudhuri pays rich tributes to the legendary qawwali singer #AzizNazan on his death anniversary today. thesongpedia.com/the-eternal-la…

Chadhta suraj dheere dheere... has always been special. I have dipped into it everytime i thought of myself having achieved anything worthwhile to remind myself. it's all ephemeral. So on the legendary qawwal #AzizNazan death anniversary, a tribute. Deepa Buty (दीपा बुटी) TheSongPedia

She has openly said that playing an instrument in a film song was more difficult for a musician. Celebrating the one and only #ZarinDaruwalaSharma on her birth anniversary today. Enjoyed writing this piece, hope you enjoy reading it as well 😊 thesongpedia.com/vidushi-zarin-…

#GuruDutt #BirthCentenary An overview of Guru Dutt’s Kaagaz ke Phool by Kunal Desai The Music Room thesongpedia.com/kaagaz-ke-phoo…