For the purists, he was an anathema, for those born in the ‘60s and ‘70s, he was a god. You can only think of RD Burman in the extremes. He’s venerated by many as a composer who put Indian ...

The cultural diversion paved a path for the world to enter a new genre. As the younger generation says, ‘RD Burman ran so that new pop singers and musicians could run’.

This was the first song composed for the film. The story goes that RD Burman landed up at Gulzar’s home at one o’clock in the night to make him hear the tune made for this song. Both of them ...

Only Rahul Dev Burman understood what Amit Kumar was going through: RD went through the same comparison with his father the illustrious Sachin Dev Burman in the early part of his career.

The term 'prodigy' is reserved for a select few, and composer Rahul Dev Burman, fondly known as RD Burman or Pancham ... Veteran actor Ashok Kumar named him Pancham because little Rahul had ...