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Vanraj Bhatia est un Son Indien né le 31 mai 1927
Vanraj Bhatia (born 1927) is an Indian music composer, who is best known for providing music for most of Shyam Benegal's films, and for his private albums with Music Today. Although he gave good music to many art movies, he never came to main-stream commercial movies, therefore, his success was limited.
During the 1970s and 1980s he worked with many art film makers in India. In the 1990s he composed the music of Vijay Singh's international film Jaya Ganga (1996). He won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Tamas in 1988, and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1989. Padmashree for 2012 has been conferred upon him in field of Art - Music.
Born in 1927 in Bombay, Vanraj Bhatia trained in Western classical music while studying at the Elphinstone College in Mumbai for M.A. (English Honours); after graduating in 1949 he left for the Royal Academy of Music, London, to study music composition, which he passed with a Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1954.
Thereafter he entered the Paris Conservatory where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and Howard Ferguson between 1954 and 1959. During his studies abroad he received various scholarships, including the Sir Michael Costa Scholarship (1951-4), a Rockefeller Fellowship (1954-8), and a French Government Scholarship (1957-8).
Career
In 1960, he started his career as Reader in Musicology in charge of Western Music, at the Faculty of Music Delhi University, where he stayed until 1965.
Meanwhile, in 1959, he created his first advertising jingle for Shakti Silk Sarees. From that point on he became one of the pioneering ad jingle makers in India, and also one of the most successful, later moving to Mumbai and working for the advertising industry. In all he has created over 7000 scores for advertising jingles, corporate and business films.
His first film as a music composer was Ankur (1974), and he soon became a regular composer for Shyam Benegal and other art film makers of the time. His most noted works in this period are Manthan (1976), Bhumika(1977), Junoon (1978), 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981), Trikal (1985) and Mandi (1983) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983).
He has also created music for Indian theatre productions such as “Tughlak” and “Andha Yug”
In the following decade, his work was heard constantly on Indian television with the title scores for TV series like Khandaan, Yatra, Lifeline, Discovery Of India, Wagle Ki Duniya, and the made-for-TV film Tamas (1987), for which he received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1988.
In the 1990s, he worked in many commercial Hindi films as well as providing background scores for many other films, working on over 40 films during his career. His most noted works were for Shyam Benegal's film Sardari Begum in 1996 and for Vijay Singh's international film Jaya Ganga.
In 2012, the first act of his opera Agni Varsha was premiered in Queens, New York.
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Nationalité Inde
Naissance 31 mai 1927
Mort 7 mai 2021 (à 93 ans)
Récompenses Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Naissance 31 mai 1927
Mort 7 mai 2021 (à 93 ans)
Récompenses Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Vanraj Bhatia (born 1927) is an Indian music composer, who is best known for providing music for most of Shyam Benegal's films, and for his private albums with Music Today. Although he gave good music to many art movies, he never came to main-stream commercial movies, therefore, his success was limited.
During the 1970s and 1980s he worked with many art film makers in India. In the 1990s he composed the music of Vijay Singh's international film Jaya Ganga (1996). He won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Tamas in 1988, and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1989. Padmashree for 2012 has been conferred upon him in field of Art - Music.
Biographie
Early life and educationBorn in 1927 in Bombay, Vanraj Bhatia trained in Western classical music while studying at the Elphinstone College in Mumbai for M.A. (English Honours); after graduating in 1949 he left for the Royal Academy of Music, London, to study music composition, which he passed with a Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1954.
Thereafter he entered the Paris Conservatory where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and Howard Ferguson between 1954 and 1959. During his studies abroad he received various scholarships, including the Sir Michael Costa Scholarship (1951-4), a Rockefeller Fellowship (1954-8), and a French Government Scholarship (1957-8).
Career
In 1960, he started his career as Reader in Musicology in charge of Western Music, at the Faculty of Music Delhi University, where he stayed until 1965.
Meanwhile, in 1959, he created his first advertising jingle for Shakti Silk Sarees. From that point on he became one of the pioneering ad jingle makers in India, and also one of the most successful, later moving to Mumbai and working for the advertising industry. In all he has created over 7000 scores for advertising jingles, corporate and business films.
His first film as a music composer was Ankur (1974), and he soon became a regular composer for Shyam Benegal and other art film makers of the time. His most noted works in this period are Manthan (1976), Bhumika(1977), Junoon (1978), 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981), Trikal (1985) and Mandi (1983) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983).
He has also created music for Indian theatre productions such as “Tughlak” and “Andha Yug”
In the following decade, his work was heard constantly on Indian television with the title scores for TV series like Khandaan, Yatra, Lifeline, Discovery Of India, Wagle Ki Duniya, and the made-for-TV film Tamas (1987), for which he received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1988.
In the 1990s, he worked in many commercial Hindi films as well as providing background scores for many other films, working on over 40 films during his career. His most noted works were for Shyam Benegal's film Sardari Begum in 1996 and for Vijay Singh's international film Jaya Ganga.
In 2012, the first act of his opera Agni Varsha was premiered in Queens, New York.
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Halla Bol (2008)
, 2h30Réalisé par Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drame
Thèmes La télévision
Acteurs Ajay Devgn, Vidya Balan, Pankaj Kapur, Darshan Jariwala, Sanjay Mishra, Anupam Shyam Saikia
Rôle Musicien
Note59%
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgn) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapoor), who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realise his dreams. Ashfaque's determined struggle pays off and he gets a break in films. He gets a new screen name – Sameer Khan. With the passage of time, he moves up the success ladder in a very short time.
Escape from Taliban (2003)
, 2h46Genres Drame, Guerre, Thriller
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Manisha Koirala, Hansika Motwani, Alyy Khan
Note45%
À la fin des années 1980, Sushmita Banerjee, une jeune Indienne, épouse par amour un homme d'affaires afghan avec lequel elle part vivre dans un village proche de Kaboul. Elle y ouvre un petit dispensaire mais l'arrivée au pouvoir des Talibans rend sa vie de plus en plus insupportable et elle décide de s'enfuir.
Genres Drame, Comédie, Romance
Acteurs Milind Soman, Tanuja, Meera Vasudevan, Rajendranath Zutshi, Asif Basra, Manish Prakash Chaudhari
Note62%
Radha (Meera Vasudevan) is with an advertising agency, and has a chance to see and meet prominent models. She meets her dream boy, Vikram Verma (Milind Soman), on one such day. Needless to state, she is madly in love with him, but he has eyes for his girlfriend, the gorgeous model, Maggie (Namrata Barua). Radha's attempts to make him notice her are in vain, and in desperation she confides in her grandma (Tanuja), for a solution. Her grandma, who wants Radha to get over her crush and get on with her life, instructs her to follow a number of simple rules, which will make Vikram notice her.
Hari Bhari (2000)
, 2h14Réalisé par Shyam Benegal
Genres Drame
Thèmes Féminisme, Politique
Acteurs Shabana Azmi, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Nandita Das, Surekha Sikri, Shrivallabh Vyas
Rôle Musicien
Note73%
The movie tells the story of a middle aged Muslim woman Gazala (Shabana Azmi), who is ill treated by her husband and sent back to her parent's home, just because she is unable to give birth to a son. Gazala does have a daughter Salma (Rajeshwari Sachdev). The plot revolves around Gazala's stay at her mother's home and the problems faced by the women of the house, being her mother and sisters-in-law. The film is a beautiful description of the problems faced by women in the name of fertility, or in a different sense the urge to have a male child, especially in rural India. Shyam Benegal provides a masterpiece, reflecting on the sorrowful plight of rural Indian women. The irony lies in the point where the movie begins with a scene which shows a bull being brought to impregnate a buffalo. Five different women, each with a different story depicting the harsh realities of a woman's life.
Samar (1999)
, 2h6Réalisé par Shyam Benegal
Genres Drame
Acteurs Rajeshwari Sachdev, Rajit Kapur, Kishor Kadam, Ravi Jhankal, Seema Biswas, Yashpal Sharma
Note72%
The larger theme of the film is centred on India's caste system, though it is depicted as a film within a film.
Jaya, fille du Gange (1998)
, 1h34Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Anupam Shyam Saikia, Jean-Claude Carrière
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note69%
Nishant (Asil Rais), un jeune écrivain indien vivant à Paris, arrive à la source du Gange, dans l'Himalaya, pour commencer un voyage initiatique le long du fleuve sacré. Hanté par le souvenir d'une belle Parisienne nommée Jaya (Paula Klein), il poursuit le dessein d'écrire un livre autour de ce périple. Au bord du Gange, il rencontre Zehra (Smriti Mishra), une ravissante danseuse et poète dans la grande tradition des courtisanes indiennes, qui travaille dans une maison de passe. Nishant réussit à l'arracher au bordel. Elle se joint à lui dans sa descente du Gange. Zehra découvre alors une nouvelle vie - l'amour, la complicité, la promesse de suivre Nishant à Paris... À mi-chemin du voyage, alors que leur amour ne cesse de croître, il reçoit un télégramme de Jaya lui donnant rendez-vous à Bénarès. Deux amours, l'un réel, l'autre irréel, vont ainsi s'affronter. Zehra réalise brutalement que le fantôme d'une femme peut bouleverser la réalité de son amour.
China Gate (1998)
Réalisé par Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Action, Aventure, Western
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Samir Soni, Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Danny Denzongpa, Mamta Kulkarni
Note64%
The story begins with Col. Krishnakant and his ten men who were sacked from the Indian army as they failed in the China Gate mission. After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of dreaded dacoit Jageera, Sandhya goes to Col. and asks for his assistance in bringing an end to Jageera's rule in the Devdurg region. Krishnakant agrees to assist her and summons ten of his fellow officers and subordinates to assist him in this mission. They assemble at Devdurg with the necessary ammunitions and arms to combat Jageera, not realizing that Jageera has influence over the local police detachment, who will prevent Krishnakant and his men to possess any guns and weapons. This does not deter the men, and they continue to stay on in Devdurg and gain the confidence of the villagers. What the villagers do not know that Krishnakant and his men had all been dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice and retreating when attacked by the enemy.
Pardes (1997)
, 3h11Réalisé par Subhash Ghai
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Comédie romantique, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Shahrukh Khan, Amrish Puri, Mahima Chaudhry, Apurva Agnihotri, Rani Mukherjee, Alok Nath
Rôle Compositeur de musique originale
Note68%
Kishorilal a fait carrière et fortune aux États-Unis. Sa femme est décédée cinq ans auparavant, lui laissant un seul et unique fils, Rajiv, lequel n'a jamais foulé sa terre d'origine. Il a aussi pris à sa charge son neveu, un jeune orphelin né en Inde et émigré aux États-Unis, Arjun, en phase de connaître le succès en tant que chanteur. Kishorilal se rend un jour en Inde chez un ami de longue date, Suraj, qui l'héberge au sein de son accueillante et attachante famille. Il est très rapidement porté par cette ambiance traditionnelle et ses valeurs, et est fasciné par l'innocence et la pureté d'âme de la belle Ganga, la fille de son ami. Kishorilal demande donc la main de Ganga à son ami, qui accepte malgré les réticences des femmes de la maison qui ne voulait pas voir la jeune fille partir pour les États-Unis. De retour aux États-Unis, Kishorilal demande à Arjun de l'aider à convaincre Rajiv d'épouser Ganga, car celui-ci risque de ne pas accepter une épouse si éloignée de son mode de vie. Arjun accepte et entreprend de persuader celui qu'il considère comme son frère. Rajiv consent à cette union après un bref séjour en Inde au cours duquel il se retrouve confronté à la rigidité et à la morale des patriarches de la famille de Ganga, à l'honnêteté et au dévouement excessif de la jeune femme, à l'hostilité des habitants du village vis-à-vis des immigrés... Ganga et lui retournent ensemble aux États-Unis pour célébrer très prochainement leur mariage, et à son tour Ganga se trouve face à des cas de figure inattendus : Rajiv boit, fume, a déjà eu des rapports sexuels avec son ancienne petite amie, qu'il continue de fréquenter... Bref, leurs tempéraments et leurs attentes sont littéralement opposés... Ganga de son côté s'est beaucoup attachée à Arjun.
, 2h28Genres Fantasy, Action, Aventure, Animation
Thèmes La musique, Mythologie, Poésie, Religion, Musique, Mythologie hindoue, Adaptation d'un poème
Acteurs Shatrughan Sinha, Amrish Puri, Namrata Sawhney, Noël Godin, James Earl Jones, Rahul Bose
Rôle Music Director
Note91%
Le démon Rāvana, seigneur de Lanka, sème terreur et désolation dans le royaume d'Ayhodhya. Rāma, le fils de Dasharatha, roi d'Ayhodhya, protège les brahmanes contre les mauvais tours des démons, en compagnie de son frère Lakshmana. Lorsque Rāvana enlève la belle Sîtâ, la femme de Rāma, celui-ci lui déclare la guerre et part en quête des moyens de le terrasser pour sauver son épouse. Il trouve dans sa quête des alliés inattendus et puissants, en particulier le roi singe Hanuman et de son armée. Après un long voyage, Rāma, à la tête d'une armée colossale, doit porter la guerre à Lanka pour vaincre Rāvana et ses innombrables légions de démons, et retrouver enfin Sîtâ.
Char Adhyay (1997)
, 1h50Réalisé par Kumar Shahani
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Rajat Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan
Rôle Musicien
Note66%
Ghatak: Lethal (1996)
, 2h38Réalisé par Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drame, Action
Acteurs Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri, K. K. Raina, Sanjay Batra
Rôle Musicien
Note74%
Kashi (Sunny Deol) is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful son of Shambhu Nath (Amrish Puri) living in Banaras. Shambhu Nath who was a freedom fighter awarded with Tambra Patra, is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi comes to Mumbai with his father for his medical treatment of throat and stays with his brother Shiv Nath (K. K. Raina). Kashi meets Gauri (Meenakshi Seshadri) and starts liking her. He learns that the colony is being terrorized by a tyrannical gangster named Katya (Danny Denzongpa) along with his other six brothers. Before Kashi's arrival, a resident named Sachdev (Om Puri) tries to initiate revolt against Katya but gets ruthlessly killed by him, thereby making Malti (Ila Arun), wife of Sachdev, go mad. Katya and his brothers become enemy with Kashi when he beats up their goons when they were beating up Malti. Shambhu Nath is later diagnosed with throat cancer and has only a few days to live.
The Making of the Mahatma (1996)
, 2h24Réalisé par Shyam Benegal
Genres Drame, Biographie
Acteurs Rajit Kapur, Pallavi Joshi, Sean Michael
Note68%
Sardari Begum (1996)
, 2h15Réalisé par Shyam Benegal
Genres Drame
Acteurs Kiron Kher, Surekha Sikri, Amrish Puri, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Uttara Baokar
Rôle Musicien
Note70%
The police are called to investigate the death of a woman during a riot in the walled city of Delhi. She was killed by a stone thrown by an agitated mob. The woman killed is known in the community as "Sardari Begum" (Kiron Kher), a popular singer and courtesan. The religious nature of the incident and the impending elections combine to attract the media's attention. When a young reporter covering the funeral, Tehzeeb Abbasi (Rajina Raj Bisaria), discovers her father among the mourners, her curiosity prompts her to investigate further. Then comes the revelation that the singer was in fact her aunt, who was disowned by her family for rebelliously learning music from a concubine.
Naseem (1995)
, 2hRéalisé par Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drame
Thèmes Religion
Acteurs Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Mayuri Kango, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kay Kay Menon, Surekha Sikri, Ravi Jhankal
Rôle Musicien
Note70%
Naseem means Morning breeze, and charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem (Mayuri Kango) in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
Bangarwadi (1995)
, 2h4Réalisé par Amol Palekar
Genres Drame, Aventure
Acteurs Chandrakant Kulkarni, Upendra Limaye, Nagesh Bhosale
Note79%
The story begins with the young schoolteacher walking alone towards the village called Bangarwadi, across a deserted landscape. When the teacher reaches Bangarwadi, he finds that the school is not working and people are reluctant to send their children to school. The schoolteacher, with a support of Karbhari (village head) successfully convince the local people to send their children to school. Over the next months, he successfully runs the school. Teacher tries to help the illiterate and needy people of the village with all possible means, which sometimes land him into troubles. After successful run at school, he convinces the villager to set up a gymnasium through community participation. He invites the king of the state, Pant Pratinidhi for its inauguration. A sudden death of village head leaves village and schoolteacher shocked, this is followed by a prolong drought. The schoolteacher tries his best to get help from government with frequent letters describing the graveness of situation, but gets no response. Drought forces people of Bangarwadi to abandon the village, leaving the schoolteacher alone with no students.