a Director's cut...

I remember listening to music with father and all of us sitting in the family room sofas. While we discussed music, most of the arguments were about Kishore and Rafi and Hemanta and Lata and other singers. I do not remember many discussions about composers. While I did pay attention to the composers it is only much later that I could understand the importance of composers in the creation of music. Today, listening to Ilayaraja composing a Hindi tune, I realized how limited my appreciation of the genius of those composers was.