kaushal inamdar
April 5, 2017
A late night phone call Late last night, or more accurately early this morning at 1 AM, as I was working on the background score of a new feature film, my mobile phone rang. Although the phone ring did not startle me, it did cause a bit of a […]
March 27, 2017
For a long time I have been contemplating the revamp of my website, which was lying in a time warp. I have always been fascinated by computers and the internet. The first computer that I owned was a Spectrum 128K, way back in 1987. It was hardly a computer! It […]
June 26, 2015
‘बालगंधर्व’चं संगीत करताना ज्या अनेक आव्हानांना सामोरं जावं लागलं त्यातलं प्रमुख आव्हान होतं की शंभर-सव्वाशे वर्षांपूर्वीचं संगीत पुनर्निर्मित करताना ते अस्सल तर वाटायला हवंच होतं पण त्याच बरोबर जुनाट वाटता कामा नये याची खबरदारी घ्यायची होती. ज्यांनी बालगंधर्वांचं संगीत ऐकलं आहे, त्यांना पाहिलं आहे त्यांच्या मनातल्या बालगंधर्वांच्या प्रतिमेला तडाही जाता कामा नये पण […]
August 30, 2014
महाराष्ट्रात संगीतकार म्हणून मान्यता मिळवायला जे तीन प्रकार ‘मॅन्डेटरी’ समजले जातात ते म्हणजे – भावगीत, लावणी, आणि गणपतीचं गाणं! संगीतकार म्हणून १९ वर्षाच्या माझ्या कारकीर्दीत मी या तीन प्रकारातला भावगीत सोडला तर इतर दोन प्रकार हाताळले नव्हते. नाही म्हणायला ‘बालगंधर्व‘ या चित्रपटात ‘नेसली पितांबर जरी’ या पारंपारिक लावणीचा पुनर्निर्माण करण्याचा […]
August 5, 2014
As a child, I don’t remember having cried at anybody’s death or funeral. Death was, perhaps, beyond comprehension. Then as one went into teens, it was quite common to be imprisoned by the stereotypical theory of ‘Boys don’t cry’. So tears were resisted. But on the 13th day of October […]
July 29, 2014
I was the chief guest at a CD release function some time back. Dr. Shashank Inamdar, a music loving doctor from Goregaon composed music for an album based on the Ganapati Atharvashirsha. The songs were sung by veteran music composer Shridhar Phadke and sung by the supremely talented Sadhana Sargam. […]
August 23, 2013
20th August 2013 was a bleak day for Maharashtra. Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, crusader against superstition was assassinated by unknown assailants near the Omkareshwar temple in Pune. And Jyotirbhaskar Jayantrao Salgaonkar breathed his last at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. The quirk of destiny (for loss of a better word) and […]
August 19, 2013
As I type this post I am sitting in Susmit’s Limaye’s music room in Goregaon. We are in the middle of the 3rd reel of composing the background score for PitruRoon, a movie being directed by Nitish Bharadwaj. Nitish is directing his first movie and his enthusiasm is infectious. We […]
March 15, 2013
यंदाच्या २७ फेब्रुवारीला – मराठी भाषा दिनी मराठी अभिमानगीताच्या प्रकाशनाला ३ वर्ष पूर्ण झाली आणि पुन्हा एकदा यूट्यूबवर असलेल्या मराठी अभिमानगीताकडे लोकांचा ओघ वाढला. मराठी लोकांचा या गीताला भरभरून प्रतिसाद मिळाला. कौतुकाचा वर्षाव जसा या गीतावर झाला तसेच काही प्रश्नही उपस्थित केले गेले. त्यातला वारंवार विचारला जाणारा प्रश्न म्हणजे मराठी […]
August 26, 2012
The title is, I admit, a little misleading. I am generations away from having any memories of the person, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. But some historical figures hold sway generations after they have physically perished. And Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak definitely is one such figure. My maternal grandparents lived in […]