Archive for January, 2009

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A R Rahman: The making of a genius

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

The Oscar nominations for Slumdog Millionaire has turned the spotlight squarely on everyone associated with the movie. More so on the man behind the film’s music — A R Rahman. Rahman has become the first Indian to get three Oscar nominations.
PEOPLE magazine’s latest issue explores the musician’s amazing journey with the help of his mother [...]

Jagjit Singh Challenges Rahman to Compose Ghazals

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Neet

While AR Rahman’s fans are happy and proud after he got a Golden globe and Oscar nominations for his Slumdog Millionaire soundrack. But back home in India people are still critical. Director Mahesh Bhatt thinks Slumdog Millionaire is clearly not Rahman’s best work.
Ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh criticized Rahman saying,” “It is a fact, just that [...]

Yana Gupta hakes her leg to the song “Sona Kannalle Koltaale”

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Neet

Yana Gupta, the famous Bijli Giri girl, is back in South cinema, showing her electric dance moves. The Czech beauty won hearts in the South a few years ago with her sizzling item number in ‘Jogi’ starring Shivrajkumar. Now, the saucy belle is set to show her sensuous gyrations again for the Kannada film ‘Jotegaara’, [...]

Bollywood not my ultimate destination : Bollywood Singer Mohit Chauhan

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Neet

Bollywood Singer Mohit Chauhan, former member of Indipop band Silk Route, has notched up his first solo hit of the year with “Masakalli“, a song from Abhishek Bachchan’s upcoming film “Delhi-6“, but feels that Bollywood is not his ultimate destination.
“I don’t think Bollywood is my ultimate destination, I believe it’s a part of my journey. [...]

Rahman to sizzle Oscar Night

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Neet

A. R. Rahman has received an invitation he would remember for a very long time to come. The music wizard will be opening Oscar Night on February 22 with a song that features in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ ‘Jai Ho’. Singer Sukhwinder Singh would accompany Rahman on stage.
Latest reports reveal that Rahman is altering the song a [...]

Katrina and Ranbir struggle with dance steps

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Neet

Neither of them is clumsy-footed. Yet Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor had difficulty getting a dance step right.
Choreographer Ahmed Khan really put the two stars to task while shooting the song ‘Follow Me’ for director Rajkumar Santoshi ’s film Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani . The song is a rap number and Ahmed came up [...]

Soulful, classical music

Monday, January 26th, 2009 | Neet

This event promises to be one wonderful treat for all music lovers in the city. This year at its annual Janfest, St Xavier’s has lined up some of the leading names in Indian classical music who are all set to stir the event with some soulful music. While the college will be celebrating its 140th [...]

Robot – Official News

Sunday, January 25th, 2009 | Neet

Ayngaran International and Eros Multimedia have officially announced that superstar Rajnikanth, ace director Shankar, and music wizard A. R. Rahman are teaming up once again for their new film ‘Robot’.
‘Robot’ is all set to become grand and entertaining film ever made in Indian cinema. The movie will be simultaneously produced in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and [...]

Music should flow freely: Premji

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | Neet

Actor and musician Premji Gangai Amaran is a busy bee these days shuttling between studios and his recording theatre. His songs in Adhae Neram Adhae Idam, which stars Jay and Vijayalakshmi, has won rave reviews from the industry men. Let’s catch up with Premji, who spills the bean on his musical venture and of course [...]

Trio enters tollywood!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | Neet

What inspired the three of you to compose for Tollywood?
Well, producer Bujji and director Kishore were our fans. We didn’t know that! They approached us and things fell into place. Also we were excited about this project because Siddharth was in the lead and we think he’s a fine actor. It was a great experience [...]