: Bhupinder Singh: A limited-edition, classy artist #IndiaNEWS One of the relics of the engineering faculty at Jadavpur University in Kolkata is a hangout joint called “Satyen da r canteen�? (Satyen’s

Bhupinder Singh: A limited-edition, classy artist #IndiaNEWS
One of the relics of the engineering faculty at Jadavpur University in Kolkata is a hangout joint called “Satyen da r canteen�? (Satyen’s canteen). One day in 1988, during one of our regular informal quizzes at the canteen, Anirudha Bhattacharjee, then an MTech student, asked a bunch of juniors that included me: “Who played the guitar in the intro music of Chura Liya from Yaadon ki Baaraat?�? We were blank. “It was Bhupinder,�? Anirudha revealed. “Bhupinder? The ghazal singer? You mean he used to play the guitar too?�? a couple of us asked in surprise. Over the following weeks, months, years, and decades right through till 2015, by which time Anirudha and I had co-authored RD Burman: The Man, The Music and Gaata Rahe Mera Dil – 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs, our discovery of singer-guitarist-actor Bhupinder Singh led us to many enchanting destinations.Bhupinder started out as a Hawaiian guitarist until senior guitarist Bhanu Gupta convinced him to learn the Spanish guitar. Bhupinder mastered this too and became one of the few who performed the bluesy style of guitaring in India.With Abhilasha (1968), he entered composer RD Burman’s team as a singer and guitarist. By the late...Read more

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