Author: Anil Malik

About two weeks backs I had written blog on National Register for Citizen (NRC), where I also wrote about Citizen Amendment Bill (CAB). Now this CAB is getting very hot in political circle, because few of the political parties are vehemently opposing it. The parties who are opposing this bill are TMC Congress, DMK, SP,…

So we have entered into the last month of 2019.  There has been lull in the political scene of the country after the govt formation in Maharashtra. So today I am  writing on a different topic altogether, and the topic is about Indian History. Some times I wonder whether the Indian history what I learnt…

This weekend, I am going to write on the lyricist, who did not start his Bollywood career as lyricist but started his career as writer. He used to write story, screenplay  and dialogue for the Hindi films. He formed a successful writer duo team with other writer, who started his career as actor and acted…

So  more than a month after the results were announced for the Maharashtra assembly elections, now there is clarity about the formation of govt. After the brief stint of BJP and NCP (Ajit Pawar) led govt, which resigned yesterday, now the decks have been cleared for the alliance of 3 political parties ie Shiv Sena…

In this last Monday of Nov 2019, some interesting news which I want to share with you all. The most interesting story still going around is of Govt formation in Maharashtra, and I am not writing about the same, as the matter has reached Supreme Court level, and the outcome of the same will affect…

This weekend I am continuing with the lyricist Gulzar, and here is balance of  songs penned by him which are my favourite. Please note that songs are listed in random order 1 Meri Jaan Mujhe Jaan Na Kaho- Anubhav (Film F), Geeta Dutt (Singer S), Kanu Roy (Music Director  MD). On screen Tanuja with Sanjeev…

In the last two years National Register  for Citizens (NRC) has been in the news, and the controversy associated with it. Now what is NRC- in a simple sense it is a register where records of Indian citizens is supposed to being recorded state wise. The north eastern states, which were facing infiltration from neighbouring…

Quite some time back, I had written a blog about the royalty payments to singers, music composers and lyricists of the songs. The royalty which is received by film producers had to be shared by them with the singer, composer and lyricist of the songs as per Copyright Act and Copyright Rules. In fact IPRS…

It has been almost a week since Maharashtra was put under President’s Rule.  During last week on 12th Nov, I wrote about formation of govt in Maharashtra with how the political parties with diverse ideologies are uniting to form a govt. Today also, I am writing on the same topic as now it is almost…

Continuing  with my weekend blog on lyricists of Hindi films, in this series I am left with now only two lyricists, and they  are considered  among top five lyricists of Bollywood. Today I am writing about the lyricist who although started his lyrical career in early 60s during the golden period of Hindi film music…