Super Saturday for vintage music lovers

Madhapur: Sustaining nostalgia, month after month can be an exacting task. It becomes more arduous if the team of enthusiasts stay and work out of different parts of the city. Yet, Dakshin Dhwani, a group of diehard old Hindi film music lovers came up with their ‘ Kuch Toh Log Kahenge’, their ninth programme in their ‘Musical Memories’ series, which began in July last year.

The programme at Phoenix Arena, Madhapur, which had programmes chock-a-block in its various venues on a weekend evening was based on the creations of two leading lyricists- Anand Bakshi and Sahir Ludhianvi. Five leading directors from K Asif, Nasir Hussain, Manmohan Desai, Devendra Goel and I S Johar were also recollected for their unique contributions to the Hindi cinema of that era.

Beginning at 7 pm, when the climate turned salubrious outside the auditorium, the team members rendered more than 25 songs spread over five decades, over a three-hour tenure. It was surely a tribute to the longevity of Anand Bakshi who wrote for films released in the new millennium too, which was picked up by the younger singers. Sahir Ludhianvi, a rebel and a noted writer of the post- Independence era too was lovingly recalled with a news reel on his life.

The team also showed the life and times of Anand Bakshi and K Asif as video clips, which kept the audience engrossed. In a first this time, the group introduced a 7-year old singer to belt out a number from the 1971 classic ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ which the boy rendered with aplomb.