Veteran singer Asha Bhosle took to social media on Sunday to recollect her late husband, legendary music composer Rahul Dev Burman aka R D Burman on his beginning anniversary. Bhosle shared a throwback black and white {photograph} of herself posing along with Burman on Instagram and wrote: “Thanks for the music (not simply from me but additionally the hundreds of thousands of hearts that beat to your insanity). Pleased birthday Pancham.”
Earlier within the day, a number of Bollywood celebrities took to social media to recollect R D Burman and his music on his beginning anniversary.
Asha Bhosle’s elder sister, playback legend Lata Mangeshkar tweeted in Hindi, “R D Burman ko kaun nahi jaanta. Wo janam se rajputra tha aur sangeet ka wo raja tha. Aaj uski jayanti hai. Most important uski yaad ko aur uske sangeet ko vinamra abhivadan karti hun. (Who doesn’t know R D Burman. He was a prince by beginning and the king of music. At the moment is his beginning anniversary. I pay my humble tribute to his recollections and music.)”
Poet-lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar wrote, “At the moment on June 27 it’s RD Burman’s beginning anniversary. Time is at all times variety to genuinely nice individuals, it retains enlarging the picture of a genius increasingly. No shock that his reputation among the many gen subsequent and the younger musicians is growing by the day.”
Burman was well-known for the mixture of songs he created with Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar. However, he had additionally created one of the memorable songs of Indian music historical past with India’s nightingale Lata Mangeshkar.
A few of their iconic songs are, ‘Baaho Me Chali’ from ‘Anamika’, ‘Bhai Battur’ from ‘Padosan’, ‘Sharm Aati Hai’ from ‘Padosan’, ‘Raina Beeti Jaye’ from ‘Amar Prem’, ‘Na Koi Umang Hai’ from ‘Katti Patang’, ‘Bada Natkhat Hai’ from ‘Amar Prem’, ‘Dil Bar Dil Se Pyare’ from ‘Caravan’, ‘Phoolo Ka Taaro Ka’ from ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’, ‘Bangle Ke Peeche’ from ‘Samadhi’, ‘Rhim Jhim Geere Sawan’ from ‘Manzil’ and plenty of extra.
Earlier within the day, megastar Amitabh Bachchan additionally remembered Burman and his music ‘Biti Na Bitai Raina’ starring his spouse Jaya Bachchan. RD Burman (Rahul Dev Burman), the one son of well-known music composer Sachin Dev Burman, is taken into account to be one of many best composers to have ever lived within the nation.
Proper from the Nineteen Sixties to the 90s, Burman composed music for 331 movies. He was primarily energetic within the Hindi movie business as a composer, who additionally offered vocals for a couple of compositions. The vast majority of his work was together with his spouse, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi. Regardless of being the inspiration for quite a few budding Bollywood music administrators, he solely obtained three Filmfare Awards, one in every of which was awarded posthumously for ‘1942: A Love Story’.