In Conversation With Ameen Sayani Part-5
By kamla bhatt • Jun 6th, 2007Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Featured, India, Mumbai, People
In Part 5 we find out what did Ameen Sayani tell Kishore Kumar, the Hindi film actor/singer/music director about those pathans? Did Mr. Sayani finally get that long promised interview with Kishore da or did the singer give one of his famous slips and not show up?
Mr. Sayani also talks about his meeting with another elusive and gifted actor: Sanjeev Kumar and his attempts to do an interview with him.
Tune back in for Part 6 of our conversation where Mr. Sayani talks about one his favorite music director: Roshan, who is Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather.
Technorati tags: Ameen Sayani, Kishore Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Roshan, Bollywood
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
Kamla,
I was looking forward to this podcast for the past couple of weeks.
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At your end?
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In the meantime, please check if possible if you or others are able to listen or download.
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G Vishwanath
Okay Kamla, you can ignore my previous comment.
I succeeded in downloading this podcast this morning. I don’t know I why couldn’t do it yesterday.
I hope to listen this weekend. What about the next part of VK Murthy?.
Regards
G Vishwanath
Thanks Vishwanath…and good to know you were able to download.
VK Murthy is next in the pipeleine …will have it up shortly…watch out for that.
Thanks for listening.
kamla
Kamla,
I listened to the podcast this morning.
I am disappointed to note that the wrestlers did nothing interesting to Kishore. I was hoping for some juicy bit of gossip to enliven my morning walk.
As regards the old name of Rajesh Khanna before he became an actor, if my poor memory serves me right it was Jatin Khanna.
I can’t say this with authority or confidence.
If it is important to any one, let them get this confirmed.
I must admit that this bit of trival information is from a dog-eared and outdated copy of a glossy filmy rag in a Barber’s shop which I happened to be leafing through half attentively with Radio Ceylon playing in the background and to the accompaniment of the sounds of the clipping of scissors and the “whoosh” from the bottle sprays and the sounds of traffic invading the saloon through the glass swivel doors, while I patiently waited for my turn for the ritual monthly cutting of what little is left of my hair on a lazy Sunday morning many moons ago.
Regards
G Vishwanath
[...] In this final episode of our conversation Mr. Sayani talks about his friendship with music director Roshan, who is Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather. [...]
Again you have come up trumps. How I wish , like you, we could hear Kishore Kumar’s contribution to the Saridon ad. as also the moving tribute he paid to S. D. Burman, when he passed away.
Lots of interviews have been done by various newspapers with Ameen, but they could never capture in print the magic of his voice, which has been possible in your unique podcast. As for example- when he is talking to you, Ameen-ji cannot hold back the excitement he feels, when he mentions Sanjeev Kumar. It comes through so vividly.
Thanks again for this lovely exchange of views with Ameen -ji.
Radha