There’s scant record of video interviews taken by me, given the lack of availability of technology, even if the interviewees VVIPs – be it the Big Bull Harshad Mehta or the Vidhata of modern Maharashtra Balasaheb Thackeray, Aditya Vikram Birla, Lata Mangeshkar…
Big Bulls First Interview
(What looks like a set is actually a corner of Harshad Mehta’s drawing room in his sprawling Madhuli apartment at Worli, Mumbai.) During two longish interviews. I found him to be a genial, no-nonsense person, ready to consider multiple points of view, though impatient – as if suffering from high IQ. He convinced me that many others in his place…
A series of Radio Interviews with Lata Mangeshkar
The year is 1980-81. Lataji simply didn’t give interviews – Press or Radio. But – just back from after a mammoth 42-day concert tour of USA, Canada, the West Indies & Guyana (South America) with me compering – I prevailed upon her that the true Lata should materialize on media. She relented.
Jeetendra – Age is really just a number!
PLAY Backstage with Jeetendra – anchoring his platinum jubilee celebrations in Mumbai. The veteran star simply refused to utter a word as the interview tape rolled, “No baba… I can dance, romance, fight & mouth dialogue written by others. But no interview. Arre munh-se kuchh ulta-seedha nikal gaya toh!” Finally, I pretended to give up,”Okay, koi zabardasti naheen. No Sawal,…
And then there’s one that’s more interpreting than interviewing
Lata Mangehkar did a unique concert at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada, in June 1985 – a third-world country was, for the first time, mounting a major charity concert for a third-world country. Next day, a major newspaper, Toronto Star reported that an Indian singer donated $ 150,000 to Canada’s major charity organisation – the United Way.
EK SAFAR: An 8-part TV interview series with Lata Mangeshkar for ZeeTV
If there are ever un-rehearsed, spontaneous, unstructured interviews, these are it. These were produced by MusiCurry – a music company run by Adinath Mangeshkar.
Film star Asha Parekh
If there are ever un-rehearsed, spontaneous, unstructured interviews, these are it. These were produced by MusiCurry – a music company run by Adinath Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
If there are ever un-rehearsed, spontaneous, unstructured interviews, these are it. These were produced by MusiCurry – a music company run by Adinath Mangeshkar