Sunday, 4 October 2015

Musical revolutionary in Indian cinema

Pancham Unmixed (2009)

Directed by Brahmanand S. Singh this documentary features contributions from a large number of people in the Bollywood music business. We follow the career of R. D. Burnman also known as Pancham da who is credited with revolutionising the music of Bollywood.

As someone with little knowledge of Bollywood or music I thought this film did a good job of explaining what was special about it's subject but could have done a better job at showing what the state of Bollywood music was like before he began his career. Some more comparisons to contemporaries might have helped but this film does not fall into the the trap of just being hero worship at least. I really enjoyed the small glimpses of the different films from across the ears of Indian cinema that this film provided.


3/5

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