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Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: World Music Network
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 40154
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1182
UPC: 605633118223
EAN: 0605633118223
ASIN: B000N3STMA
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Chandni O Meri Chandni - Hari, Shiv | | • | Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana - Jaikishan, Shankar | | • | Mehbooba Mehbooba - Burman, Rahul Dev | | • | In Aankhon Ki Masti - Khaiyyam | | • | Aaja Aaja Main Hoon Pyar Tera - Burman, Rahul Dev | | • | Tere Chehre Se Nazar Nahin - Khaiyyaam | | • | Chahe Mujhe Koi Junglee Kahen - Jaikishan, Shankar | | • | Awaara Hoon - Jaikishan, Shankar | | • | Theme Instrumental - Kumar, Hemant | | • | Chabi Kho Jaye - Pyarelal, Laxmikant | | • | Yeh Shem Mastani - Burman, Rahul Dev | | • | Mere Desh Ki Dharti - Anandji, Kalyanji | | • | Kehta Hai Joker - Jaikishan, Shankar | | • | Chalte Chalte - Mohammad, Ghulam | | • | Mere Sapno Ki Rani - Burman, Rahul Dev |
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Album Description
Love triangles, glitz, melodrama, music and tragi-comedy are all part of the hugely successful musical-movie genre known as Bollywood. The Rough Guide To Bollywood Gold showcases the leading singers and revisits some of the most glamorous movies from this vast and ever expanding scene. Artists include: Jolly Mukherjee & Sridevi, Kishore Kumar, Rahul Dev Burman, Asha Bhosle, Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor and Shailendra Singh
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| Customer Reviews:
 Why is Aishwarya Rai on the cover of this classics CD? October 18, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I like this CD just fine, but I have a picky issue with the packaging. It confused me to find that the "Gold" refers to a classic Bollywood era roughly 1960-1980. I was expecting a more contemporary collection because World Music slapped Aishwarya on the cover as an obvious marketing ploy. Why not one of the heartthrobs of the era?
The songs all have great character; the info in the booklet about performers and careers is nice; the extra data track interview with DJ Ritu is half good (she is interesting - the interviewer, unfortunately, is a dork who seems prepared only with superficial questions); some of the songs make me want to seek out the movies, and it was nice to hear the live, very rare version of R.D. Burman singing his own Mehbooba Mehbooba (though I think I like the version in Sholay better).
 Bollywood at Its Beautiful and Bombastic Best April 26, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a fix of Indian pop culture, this CD will definitely do the trick! "Bollywood Gold" is full of wonderfully vibrant music, all of it overflowing with powerful emotion spiced up with a healthy dash of sentimentality and melodrama. The instrumentation is good, of course, but in this genre vocals are the main thing, and so this CD features some of the classic voices of Indian film--beautiful and charismatic voices either feminine or masculine (and highly distinct in that regard) that tell a story in their own right, that are able to evoke a wide range of feelings in the listener regardless of whether the latter understands the lyrics or not. If you've seen these movies, you'll relive them here for sure. If you haven't, like me, then the enchantment of this music might trick you into thinking you have--or else inspire you to go looking for them afterwards.
As with most "Rough Guide" CDs, this one excels in giving the listener a fine range of tracks both listenable and representative, all lovingly handpicked by an expert aficionado of that specific musical form. "Bollywood Gold" comes to us courtesy of DJ Ritu, who in the liner notes does a wonderful job of introducing the different singers (Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey, Jolly Mukherjee, and Mahendra Kapoor) as well as giving a crash course in the social history of playback singing in Indian film, after which each track (in order) is explained in good, relevant detail (including but not limited to what movie the song comes from). All of this comes after a movingly personal reflection on what this wonderful music meant to Indian immigrant families in England, of how important it was in their lives--making this quite a bit more meaningful than the average "greatest hits" album. And, as this listener found out, some of that enthusiasm is definitely contagious.
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