Anand Tiwari on Bandish Bandits and Creating Stories Based on Classical Music
4 years, 7 months ago

Anand Tiwari on Bandish Bandits and Creating Stories Based on Classical Music

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Indian cinema, primarily Bollywood, has always relied on music. This year, the Amazon Prime web series Bandish Bandits saw the nitty-gritties of classical and Gharana music. While he grew up with classical music watching maestros like Pandit Ravishankar live, one incident was catalysing. While shows and films on classical music isn't as rare, the art form itself continues to face the threat of oblivion. Many classical musicians face poverty and many traditions like the ‘Guru Shishya Parampara’ isn't functional anymore.

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Streaming Now: Prakash Jha's Thought-provoking Film Pareeksha, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's Music in Bandish Bandits
4 years, 7 months ago

Streaming Now: Prakash Jha's Thought-provoking Film Pareeksha, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's Music in Bandish Bandits

News 18  

Prakash Jha's film Pareeksha, starring Adil Hussain as a rickshaw puller who dreams of an elite education for his child, is available on ZEE5 this week. Amazon Prime Video's Bandish Bandits is a web series full of musical numbers with a love story at its heart. Pareeksha Written, directed and produced by Prakash Jha, Pareeksha -The Final Test stars Priyanka …

Bandish Bandits review: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's brilliant soundtrack anchors Amazon Prime Video's romantic musical
4 years, 7 months ago

Bandish Bandits review: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's brilliant soundtrack anchors Amazon Prime Video's romantic musical

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There is a lot to take home from Bandish Bandits, the 10-part Amazon Prime Video India Original show that released on Tuesday. Radhe, brought up in a cloistered household run by his grandfather, has led 21 years of his life by the tenets of “Parampara, Pratishtha aur Anushasan.” We are told Radhemohan Rathod, the family patriarch, is waiting for a …

Amazon Prime announces new Indian original series Bandish Bandits, featuring soundtrack by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
4 years, 8 months ago

Amazon Prime announces new Indian original series Bandish Bandits, featuring soundtrack by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Hindustan Times  

Amazon Prime Video on Monday announced its romantic musical drama, Bandish Bandits, which will be available to stream from 4 August, 2020. The 10-part series star Ritwik Bhowmik as Hindustani classical performer, Radhe, and Shreya Chaudhry as popstar Tamanna, alongside veteran actors including Naseeruddin Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Sheeba Chaddha and Rajesh Tailang. Bandish Bandits also features an …

Amazon Prime Video India orders new romantic musical series, Anand Tiwari's Bandish Bandits
6 years, 1 month ago

Amazon Prime Video India orders new romantic musical series, Anand Tiwari's Bandish Bandits

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Bandish Bandits explores the central theme of whether music is discipline or is it liberation, as per showrunner Amritpal Singh Bindra Mumbai: Amazon Prime Video has given an order for a new original series, titled Bandish Bandits. The romantic musical series is created by Still and Still Media Collective and directed by Anand Tiwari, the streaming service said in a …

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