Sometimes informative, sometimes reflective and profound, this music buff’s treasure-chest of RD Burman, reverberates with a musical feel of its own, into RD’s and perhaps all ours … lives, hopes, fears, insecurities, intuitions, creativity and the most compelling truths that we have somehow always known in all our hearts.

This book is an exciting coffee-table book on RD Burman by director and award winning film maker Brahmanand S Siingh and IIT-IIM graduate Gaurav Sharma.

‘Diamonds & Rust’ is a somewhat unusual and amazing tapestry of anecdotes, insights, observations and take-offs on RD Burman, the maverick Indian music composer. It sprinkles thoughts from some of the most celebrated greats of all times (from Lennon and Quincy Jones to Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda and Anais Nin to Gibran, Emerson, Rumi and Lao Tzu), which connects us with RD Burman’s life, music, attitude and deeper philosophies.

Revolving around the award-winning cult biopic on RD Burman, ‘Pancham Unmixed’ and its additional priceless interview collection, ‘Knowing Pancham’, this elegantly composed and designed coffee-table book on the brilliant and loved composer’s life gives us a very different set of perspectives into his music and persona like never before.

‘Diamonds & Rust’ comes with a priceless collection of over 5 hours of conversations in the form of a video book, ‘Knowing Pancham’, for the first time in India, specially meta-tagged into the following chapters of a legendary Indian musician’sRD Burman’s life and his musical journey.

‘Knowing Pancham’ is a collection of over 5 hours of interviews, anecdotes, insights and observations featuring people who knew RD Burman best, worked with him and some of the newer generation who revere and interpret his music.

Book – Diamonds & Rust

Author – Brahmanand S Siingh & Gaurav Sharma

Publisher – Mobius Biopics Pvt Ltd.

Hardcover – 200 pages

Price - Rs. 799/- (the book is available separately)

Box Set: Rs. 1849/- (The Special Collector’s Edition Pack is complete with Pancham Unmixed Film DVD + Knowing Pancham DVD + Knowing Pancham DVD + Coffee Table Book ‘Diamonds & Rust’)

Reviewedby Verus Ferreira