Rivaaz and Jaana Pehchana sink expectedly.
The 71-year-old music composer is suffering from a urinary infection causing a problem in his kidney, sources said.
Cinema screens bring in over 60% of the Rs 19,100 crore that Indian films earned in 2019. The reception a film gets in theatres impacts the price of every other revenue stream -- TV, OTT, overseas. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar explains why the theatre business is not doomed and why OTT won't become the first window of release.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
'I don't celebrate my success and that's why I don't moan my failures.'
As often is the case on celluloid, romanticising death is as significant as making every moment count where a young life's passing makes the realisation all the more heartbreaking and momentous.