Growing up in India, I spent a lot of time listening to Hindi music on Radio Ceylon. I didn't know it at the time, but my attachment to the Colombo-based broadcaster was a perfect example of its ...
Podcast: Pre-Partition stories, filmi music made Radio Ceylon a household name in India and Pakistan
What might Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, have to do with the popularity of filmi music? Quite a bit, it turns out. During the Second World War, Mountbatten, then supreme Allied ...
On 21 February 2024, the Radio legend and the voice behind the nostalgic salutation "Behnon aur bhaiyyon" Ameen Sayani passed away at the age of 91, due to a heart attack. One of the most popular ...
Ameen Sayani in the late 1970s | Courtesy Rajil Sayani and Srinivas Agarwal’s family via BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies “Behno aur bhaiyo, aap ki khidmat me Ameen Sayani ka adaab (sisters and ...
In 1952, B V Keskar, Union minister for Broadcasting, decided to ban film songs from All India Radio for their ‘erotic’ nature, and relay only classical music. It meant listeners had access to songs ...
You have been doing very little on radio these days.(Laughs) That's not entirely correct. I have been on Red FM and a few other stations, but I think since I have not been on Radio Ceylon for a long ...
President Droupadi Murmu condoled the passing away of radio personality Ameen Sayani, who died due to a heart attack at the age of 91. Ramesh Bais also condoled the demise of Ameen Sayani, who won the ...
Mumbai: Famous radio personality Ameen Sayani, the iconic voice behind 'Binaca Geetmala', has died at the age of 91, his son Rajil Sayani said on Wednesday.Sayani suffered a heart attack on Tuesday ...
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