It has been a while Rahul Dev Burman aka Pancham da is no more with us. This post is not a event chronology or series of trivia. There are thousands of websites on this maestro where there are very interesting facts. One such website is www.panchamonline.com.
This post is just to reflect my inner respect for this genius. I dont know why since childhood days I was attracted to his style of music. At at time I had no idea who was Pancham / Rahul Dev Burman. As I grew up and I understood that all my favorite music belong to him. What a coincedence? Well, I won't call it so. It was pure love for the music, which always my ears and my heart has loved to listen.
He was perhaps mistaken, misunderstood and misintepreted in many senses, and his disappearence from the music scene in mid 80's was quite a evident of such instances. He perhaps couldnot fight then ongoing 'disco' and 'meaning less' music trends. His failing health also didnot allow him to fightback at that time.
But his last creation was perhaps one of this best. "1942 A Love Story", will be remembered as one of the best RDBurman composed movie. But in mid 70's to early 80's, he was the king. His music has become a cult and in today's remix world 99% music is from his olden melodies.
He had a great understanding of Indian Classical Music (both Hindustani and Karnatak), as well as he had great understanding of Western Music and its trends. He has done lots of experimentations with music instruments, sounds and tunes. He has drawn inspirations from many great maestros from the past.
He had his roots deep into the essence of melody. His creations are always had two phases where he use to compose a song and also use to compose the music arrangement of the song. He had a great sense of orchestration and usage of new instruments.
I can still write 10 more pages on him, but this is just my thoughts otherwise.
