Eminent journalist D Padukone launches book on R D Burman

Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and senior music-biz journalist Chaitanya D Padukone today on the birth anniversary of music maestro R D Burman launched a book on the interesting anecdotes never known before about the legend. ‘R D BurMania’–PanchaMemoirs’, is a book nothing less than a goldmine for the legion of ardent Pancham Da across the globe as it contains loads of information and never known

facts about the music maestro. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has penned down foreword for the book, revealing his personal experiences with Pancham Da during the song sitting of ‘1942: A Love Story’. The book strings together amazing, amusing and agonizing yet fascinating anecdotes, incidents and idiosyncrasies while unraveling the mystique behind Bollywood’s most adored composer-singer.

The author has shared a warm rapport with the legendary music maestro for ‘ten years’. Besides the captivating memoirs as a bonus bonanza, the author has included frothy yet heartfelt quotes in the tribute to RDB as shared by a galaxy of celebrities. The luminary list includes late superstar Rajesh Khanna, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, singers Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, director Ramesh Sippy, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, A R Rahman, cricket maestro Sunil Gavaskar, Shekhar Kapur, Zeenat Aman, Hema Malini, Mahesh Bhatt, Amit Kumar, Leena Chandavarkar-Ganguly, Babul Supriyo, Jackie Shroff, Anandji Shah, Pyarelal Sharma, Goldie (Ramesh) Behl, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Ananth Mahadevan, producer Devi (‘Masoom’) Dutt, producer Barkha Roy (of ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’), Ashim (Shakti) Samanta, Vidya Balan, Udit Narayan, Poonam Dhillon, Padmini Kolhapure, Annu Kapoor, Anup Jalota, Bhupinder Singh, Nitin Mukesh, Talat Aziz, Sonu Nigam, Himesh Reshammiya, Raj ‘Daddu’ Sippy and Karan Shah.Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and senior music-biz journalist Chaitanya D Padukone today on the birth anniversary of music maestro R D Burman launched a book on the interesting anecdotes never known before about the legend.

‘R D BurMania’–PanchaMemoirs’, is a book nothing less than a goldmine for the legion of ardent Pancham Da across the globe as it contains loads of information and never known facts about the music maestro.

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has penned down foreword for the book, revealing his personal experiences with Pancham Da during the song sitting of ‘1942: A Love Story’.

The book strings together amazing, amusing and agonizing yet fascinating anecdotes, incidents and idiosyncrasies while unraveling the mystique behind Bollywood’s most adored composer-singer.

The author has shared a warm rapport with the legendary music maestro for ‘ten years’.

Besides the captivating memoirs as a bonus bonanza, the author has included frothy yet heartfelt quotes in the tribute to RDB as shared by a galaxy of celebrities.

The luminary list includes late superstar Rajesh Khanna, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, singers Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, director Ramesh Sippy, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, A R Rahman, cricket maestro Sunil Gavaskar, Shekhar Kapur, Zeenat Aman, Hema Malini, Mahesh Bhatt, Amit Kumar, Leena Chandavarkar-Ganguly, Babul Supriyo, Jackie Shroff, Anandji Shah, Pyarelal Sharma, Goldie (Ramesh) Behl, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Ananth Mahadevan, producer Devi (‘Masoom’) Dutt, producer Barkha Roy (of ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’), Ashim (Shakti) Samanta, Vidya Balan, Udit Narayan, Poonam Dhillon, Padmini Kolhapure, Annu Kapoor, Anup Jalota, Bhupinder Singh, Nitin Mukesh, Talat Aziz, Sonu Nigam, Himesh Reshammiya, Raj ‘Daddu’ Sippy and Karan Shah.