Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, U2’s the Edge, and the White Stripes’ Jack White chat with each other and to Guggenheim, usually while holding tight to their instruments and stopping every so often for a little demonstration. Think of these 50 titles as a time capsule, ready to be opened today, next year, or decades from now.ĭirector Davis Guggenheim starts with a simple but profound idea for It Might Get Loud: assembling three guitarists from different backgrounds and generations, and getting them to talk about their influences, philosophies, and techniques.
Most important, these documentaries (and exceptional concert films, in case you were wondering) contain performances that are as essential to understanding these artists as any of their records. It touches on pop, hip-hop, rock, punk, R&B, jazz, country, and folk collectively, it tells a story of art forms, cultures, and business models in transition.
The list of 50 documentaries below features old classics, new favorites, and a few films that deserve a wider audience. It’s a marvelous time to be a music buff. Netflix has done so well with music-themed films that it commissioned some of its own, such as What Happened, Miss Simone? and this week’s big Beyoncé drop and thanks in part to art-house patrons, Blu-ray buyers, and premium-cable subscribers, the market for movies about musicians has become lucrative enough that even long-shelved projects like The Wrecking Crew and the arty Leon Russell sketch A Poem Is a Naked Person have seen the light of day. Lately there have been a flood of movies about cult bands, forgotten local acts, and background players - and even a few docs, like Amy and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, that have found new ways to approach some of the most popular musicians of the past half-century. The past few years have been something of a golden age for music documentaries, with the Oscar-winning success of Searching for Sugar Man and 20 Feet From Stardom opening up the field for films about less obvious stars. Moreover, it was Sahir who demanded that the name of the composer be announced along with the name of the composer in the film songs aired on the radio program ‘Vividh Bharati’ a demand which was well heeded to.This story was originally published in 2015 and has been updated to reflect recent releases, including Beyoncé’s Homecoming on Netflix. He always considered the lyrics of film songs pivotal to their popularity. At the time of his stepping into the film industry, his collection of poems ‘Talkhiyan’, had become acclaimed in the extreme. Sahir’s empathy was not just limited to his poems, as a matter of fact, he never took seat of the man-pulled rickshaws of that time.Īt the young age of 18, the fame that Sahir obtained as a poet was something that very few others ever got. Jitani bhi bildinge thi, setho ne bant li hai Rahane ko ghar nahi hai, sara jahan hamara What followed was Sahir penning some memorable lyrics that not only dovetailed beautifully with the film’s story, but also reflected the poet’s social concerns, perspectives, and humanism. Although the film director wanted to take the duo of Shankar-Jai Kishan as composers, only Khayyam fulfilled Sahir's stipulation.
When Sahir Ludhianvi was writing the lyrics for Ramesh Sehgal's film "Phir Subh Hogi", based on Russian novelist Dostoevsky's famous novel "Crime and Punishment", he stipulated that film’s music would be scored only by a composer who has read Dostoevsky's novel.
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