Bappi Lahiri
1952–2022
Bappi Lahiri brought the synthesiser and the disco beat into Hindi film music and was mocked for it for a decade before being reassessed as the person who modernised its sound. Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal, Sharaabi, Dance Dance.
He came from a Bengali classical family - his mother was a singer, his granduncle was Kishore Kumar - and composed his first film score at nineteen. The gold chains were a deliberate trademark. Disco Dancer was an enormous hit in the Soviet Union, which is how a generation of Russians came to know Hindi cinema.
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Other known for
- Aap Ki Khatir (1977) on RLB-Tube
- Chalte Chalte (1976) on RLB-Tube
- Disco Dancer (1982) on RLB-Tube
- Love Love Love (1989) on RLB-Tube
- Muqaddar Ka Faisla (1987) on RLB-Tube
- Sharaabi (1984) on RLB-Tube
- Zindagi Ek Juaa (1992) on RLB-Tube
- Om Shanti Om (2008) no copy found