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He is known as the grand daddy of all the compilers. He started it all. But his books are in English, how can he tell you how to say Madan in Hindi, you ask? Well, it turns out he had a translation made of at least one book. He supervised it, he wrote the introduction, so it is authorized by him. By golly! In that book, in Hindi it is
maadan = मादन
As far as I am concerned, case closed. I will not try to persuade any one, but here is Firoze Rangoonwalla telling you how to say it :)
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In Sikandar (1941) and in Ek Phool Do Mali (1969), 'Aulaad vlo phoolo phalo'
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In the previous Musing, I quoted Salilda as saying,
"our raga classification is so vast that almost any melody from any part of the world can be classified as a raga or a misra-raga."
Today I present a contrary point of view, which is actually closer to my own opinion.
Recently, thanks to Pavan Jha and Falguni Trivedi Shah, I received a wonderful book titled, Hindi Film Sangeet Ka Safar, Meel Ke Patthar (Hindi), by Vijay Verma. I like the book very much and recommend everybody to get a copy. On Page 333, shown here, Vermaji says,
My translation:
In 'Dhunon Kee Yatraa' Pankaj Rag, in his well-written chapter centered on Hemant Kumar, has counted about 30 of his songs in Hindi films as based on Ragas. But here I would beg to differ a bit. The question is, did we ourselves find a Raga in an already completed song, or, the composer himself has composed the song keeping in mind that Raga? If we try to find a Raga, and do not hesitate to stretch things, we can find Ragas everywhere or we can impose Ragas on everything, but this is not meant by a song-based-on-a-Raga.
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