A Journey Down Melody Lane  (English, Paperback, Bharatan Raju)

A Journey Down The Melody Lane: The Making Of A Hindi Film Song (Paperback) is a comprehensive manual on Hindi film songs, written by the famous film song historian Raju Bharatan.

Summary Of The Book

The Hindi music industry has left millions of people mesmerized for more than eight decades. Raju Bharatan’s A Journey Down The Melody Lane: The Making Of A Hindi Film Song is a one-of-a-kind book that takes readers deep into the roots of many songs and explores what goes behind making a Hindi film song.

Raju Bharatan has used his experience and expertise in the music created for Bollywood films to write this book. He informs readers of how singing has always been associated with romance and emphasizes that it takes genuine and intense feelings to compose a song. Moreover, he explains how songdom and stardom combine together in Bollywood, the Hindi film industry, to create a song that sooner or later becomes a part of the psyche of the entire nation.

The author covers a time span of almost sixty years of Hindi cinema to reconstruct the stories behind various songs. He shows how celebrity tie-ups are filled with passion and emotion, and how the vibes created from this kind of pairing get reflected in the tune of a song. Readers are also made aware of the creative inputs of the lyricist and the singer in the making of a song, as well as the role played by the music director who gets to decide its melody.

Through this compendium of Hindi film songs, A Journey Down The Melody Lane: The Making Of A Hindi Film Song, readers are taken on an intriguing and inimitable journey that showcases the construction of the melody that is the final product.

About Raju Bharatan

Raju Bharatan is a leading Hindi film song historian. One of Bharatan’s popular books is Lata Mangeshkar: A Biography and Rivals In The Sun: A Survey Of The 1952 Tour Of England. He is known for his unmatched knowledge of Hindustani music. He is a passionate follower of Indian cricket. He has over fifty years of knowledge on the Indian film industry.