Author Info | - Rajiv Vijayakar has been an entertainment journalist for over 30 years now. A dental surgeon by qualification, he has been Mumbai correspondent for the American weekly India–West since 1993, and has had long associations with prestigious Indian publications like Screen, Deccan Herald, Mid-Day, Stardust, Showtime, Movie Mag International, Star & Style, G Magazine, AV Max, Bollywoodhungama.com, Shaadi Times, Worldspace.com and others.
Author of Dharmendra: Not Just a He-Man (2018), Rajiv has also published two other books—
The History of Indian Film Music: A Showcase of the Very Best in Hindi Cinema (2010)—which is now on the teaching course at Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA—and Main Shayar Toh Nahin (2019).
Rajiv has been on the 62nd and 58th National Film Awards jury. His research paper, The Role of a Song in a Hindi Film, is now on the syllabus of South Asian cinema studies at the University of Edinburgh.
He is also the sole Content Team Member for Hindi Film Music at the Indian Music Experience, India’s first and digitally interactive museum on music, which opened in 2019 in Bangalore.
Rajiv has also been awarded the Hindi Seva Samman in 2013 on Hindi Diwas by the Vishwa Hindi Academy, Mumbai, for his contribution to Hindi cinema and music.
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