Subhash Nagre, an influential, Godfather-like man has two sons: Vishnu, an irresponsible film producer more interested in actresses than in work, and Shankar, recently returned from studying in the U.S. When someone frames Subhash for murder, he is forced to reexamine the source of his power and his relationship with his sons.
Archive for the ‘Personalities’ Category
Sajda – My Name Is Khan : Shah Rukh and Kajol
December 30th,
2009
2009
Paa : Trailor :Amitabh Bachhan’s New Look
November 4th,
2009
2009
Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor’s 3 Idiots – Full Trailer : First Look
October 29th,
2009
2009
Happy Birthday : Rare Collection Of Childhood Photographs of Kareena Kapoor
September 20th,
2009
2009
A R Rahman wins 'Grassroot Grammy'
September 2nd,
2009
2009
Oscar-winning musician A R Rahman has pipped another great Ilayaraja to win the ‘Grassroot Grammy’ held in the US.
The ‘Mozart of Madras’ bagged the top prize for the soundtrack in the Tamil film Godfather in the ‘Best Indian album’ category at the ‘Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards’ held recently.
Bangla band ‘Krosswindz’ and Ilayaraja were among others nominated in the category.
With over 50,000 members worldwide, the ‘Just Plain Folks 2009 Music Awards’ is aimed at supporting grassroot songwriters and musicians through networking, education and promotional support.
Rahman also won the third place in the ‘Best Indian Song’ category for ‘Innisai’ (Radio Mix) from Godfather while his ‘Illamai’ was fifth in the same category.
Ilyaraja’s “Music Journey: Live in Italy” was third in the ‘Best Indian album’ category.
In ‘Indian Classical and Traditional Album’ category, Shweta Jhaveri’s “Avishkar” clinched the first position.
The awards received responses from over 163 countries
Remembering Legend Kishor Kumar On 4th August
August 3rd,
2009
2009
Kishore Kumar was a prolific vocalist and sang in many Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam and Oriya. Along with Mohammed Rafi , and Mukesh, he was one of the leading male Bollywood playback singers from the 1950s to the mid-1980s.
Kishore Kumar was born in a Bengali family in a small place known as Khandwa. This place is situated in the state of Madhya Pradesh. He was youngest among his siblings with two elder brothers and a sister (Sati Devi). Both of his elder brothers ventured into acting and established their names in a big way. The eldest one, Ashok Kumar is known for giving numerous hits. Right from his childhood, he was interested in becoming a playback singer. To follow his dreams, he too soon shifted to Mumbai and started living with his brothers.
Kishore Kumar had no formal training in music. Knowing that, it feels even more wonderful to see his repertoire. He was a great mimic and his favorite singer was K L Saigal. He always imitated Saigal with perfection. He took his own sweet time to develop his natural style of singing. He continued trying for work and also started to refine his voice. He is credited to give a style known as ‘Yodeling’ which was his signature style. Yodeling is basically an Austrian style which he perfected to the hilt and used it in his various hits. A complete natural, he kept on experimenting with new voices and often non-sensical terms in his songs.
Happy Birthday To Sonu Nigam : 30th July
July 29th,
2009
2009
Sonu Nigam, one of the most versatile and talented singer of Bollywood was born on the 30th of July 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana. Sonu’s family moved to delhi when he was very young.
Sonu started singing at a very young age of four-and-a-half years, he sang a Mohammad Rafi number at a concert where his father was due to perform. This earned him praises as well as criticisms as a Rafi-sound-alike.
When Sonu was just 17 years old he moved to the city of dreams, Mumbai in search of work as he wanted to pursue his career in music. Sonu’s parents were also singers and hence he inherited the singing talent. He has two younger sisters.
A Tribute To Jaipur Rajmata Gayatri Devi
July 29th,
2009
2009
Gayatri Devi was born on 23 May 1919 into a royal family, the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar. She was known as Ayesha within the family. The principality of Cooch Behar covers 1318 square miles in what is now West Bengal, India, and has been in existence since 1511. Gayatri Devi’s mother, Maharani Indira Devi, was a famous beauty and socialite, who travelled extensively with the family in Europe. Gayatri Devi studied at Shantiniketan and abroad, and speaks several languages.
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