Sonu Nigam is Mush. Mush is Sonu Nigam. No male voice active in Indian music fraternity today can romance the way he does. That one voice we frantically search for once the tracklisting of every biggie Bollywood film is out. Three decades – Sonu Nigam has been mesmerizing us with […]
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The Kreem of The Crop!
One of South India’s ruling musicians, MM Keeravani celebrates his birthday today. Well established in Telugu, Keeravani often crossed borders to other South Indian languages and Bollywood. Famous for songs with a strong melody base, Keeravani was known by his pseudonyms Maragathamani, Vedanarayana in various southern film industries and the very fancy […]
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Hamsalekha – The man who reinvented Kannada film music…
Growing up listening to Hamsalekha’s eclectic music is one. Discovering Kannada film music through Hamsalekha is another. I belong to the second category. Not a native Kannadiga, I was introduced to the illustrious and much-underrated Kannada film music by friends and film aficionados. There was one constant factor in majority of […]
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Hey Lara Dutta! Can we have more of you, please?
They say model-turned actors make lousy performers. I beg to differ. There are plenty of names to prove them wrong but one person I will always vouch for is Lara Dutta. Witty, spontaneous and intelligent, Lara Dutta didn’t quite get the kind of roles that merited her prowess. Today as […]
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10 songs you didn’t know were composed by Sandesh Shandilya!
Very often do we end up loving songs, but refuse to acknowledge the people behind them…. unless it happens to be an A R Rahman track. For me, Sandesh Shandilya‘s music always made an instant connect – like Khayyam, Anu Malik and Ravi saab’s music did to me. ‘My kind of music’ […]
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Colours, bhang and a Holi playlist!
The Holi season is in. The perfect time of the year for roadside romeos, party-hoppers and bhang lovers to have truckloads of fun! After all, the catchphrase for the day is, ‘Bura na maano… Holi hai’. Just in case you still don’t have a DJ or a playlist sorted, this compilation is […]
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12 songs that celebrate Rani Mukerji’s celestial appeal like no other…
Every year I craft a customary picture collage for Rani Mukerji on her birthday. The collage indeed looks good, makes me feel on top of the world and all that. 😉 But they never really served a big time purpose other than being circulated within my circle and other admirers of Rani. The […]
