Biography

Rahul Dev Burman was born on June 27, 1939 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a composer and actor, known for Sholay (1975), Dhurandhar (2025) and 1942: A Love Story (1994). He was married to Asha Bhosle and Rita Patel. He died on January 4, 1994 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.

(1990) Amitabh would best be remembered by historians as a 'Bollywood Legend', but Rajesh Khanna would remain a 'Permanent Superstar' for generations because of his natural charisma on and off screen. Khanna has done vast genres of films, experimented and performed many roles and also has keen interest in story, music and lyrics of songs in his films. Khanna is more versatile.

Today, people are liking, say the film songs of the 50's, tomorrow they may like the film songs of the 70's. This kind of thing is always there

Today 9 out of 10 songs are copied. I do not want to name the music directors who play cassettes to their musicians and say that so and so instrument should be exactly the same. But I have never done these things. Sometimes we are inspired by other music which we try to improvise and give them an indigenous outlook. Recently, in a film Beat Street, similar to Saturday Night Fever, the entire music is taken from Lienoi Richie's songs. Everyone does that.

I performed in Las Vegas in 1979 and my friend Gavankar asked me to cut an original western album. I recorded Pantera album in San Francisco and critics praised it a lot in USA. A private TV channel invited me in San Francisco and some popular music critiques were also present. Based on records sales, on WBMX chart-buster list, my album Pantera was ranked #2 in New York, Chicago and Pennsylvania. In South America also, the sales were high. In Brazil alone, we have sold 50K records. I was in New York for dinner with a friend and the band at Hilton Hotel played one of my songs unaware that I was there!