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Obituary
 Vijaybhaskar, well known music director, passed
away on March 3. He was 77. He died of a heart attack. Just
before his death, he had finished work on a novel-based film
Poorvapara
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In tribute
The Music Magazine
carries an interview with him, done over
several sittings in early 2001. He gave a lot of his time --two to
three hours at each session -- and chatted freely about
his long musical journey through Hindi, Kannada
and Tamil films. He had just won the Rajkumar Award, Karnataka
government's honour for lifetime achievement in
cinema
Excerpts from the
interview:
'I worked with Naushad till Baiju
Bawra. I was a freelancer. I used to go wherever I was called,
and because of that I could gauge the work of various
composers'
'I used to
think, "What is it that is heard behind the main melody?"
I became very curious about counterparts. I went to my piano teacher
Mr Hunt and asked him about the sound in recorded songs. He said I
should study theory to understand all
that'
Posted on 12 March
2002
TMM Desk
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