Washington: 9 Eleven, a Bollywood-style thriller by Indian American director Manan Singh Katohara, has won the Best Feature and Best Director awards at the 2012 World Music & Independent Film Festival (WMIFF) here. Written and directed by Katohora, who won the 2012 Rising Star Award for the film at Canada International Film Festival, the film had been nominated in a record eight categories at WMIFF. The awards were announced at...
04:26 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Film: 'Barfi!'; Music Director: Pritam; Lyricists: Neelesh Mishra, Swanand Kirkire, Ashish Pandit; Singers: Mohit Chauhan, Nikhil Paul George, Papon, Sunidhi Chauhan, Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Swanand Kirkire, Rekha Bhardwaj; Rating ****1/2 Pritam has been hit with several allegations of plagiarism in recent times. With 'Barfi!', the music director hits back at critics with a vengeance through the soundtrack that has eight numbers. It's vintage Pritam at his best. The album...
03:28 PM, Aug 28, 2012
A chubby, rapping singer with slicked-back hair and a tacky suit is the latest musical sensation to burst upon the world from South Korea, via a YouTube music video that has been seen by over 60 million people in under a month. In a nation famed for the pretty-boy but often bland bands of K-Pop, nobody was more surprised by the success of the video 'Gangnam Style' than its creator,...
12:24 PM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: A music video by singer-composer Venu Mallesh has gone viral on the internet. The song has been sung with a distinct South Indian accent and is very catchy due to its tune. It reminds the listeners about the song 'Kolaveri Di', which had become a mega hit some months ago. The song is in English and conveys the intended meaning through simple lyrics. We have compiled the lyrics...
07:02 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Los Angeles: Samsung's new music service tries to combine four things into one: an all-you-can-listen plan like Spotify, a pay-per-song store like iTunes, an Internet music storage service like iTunes Match and a radio service like Pandora. That's a great premise at a great price: At $10 a month, Music Hub promises an affordable, ad-free listening experience. In practice, though, Music Hub can make your head spin. There are some...
01:55 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Los Angeles: Avril Lavigne and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger aren't just making music together. They're getting hitched. A spokeswoman for Lavigne confirmed a Tuesday report from People magazine that the 27-year-old pop singer and 37-year-old rocker became engaged earlier this month after dating for six months. The magazine says Lavigne was introduced to Kroeger in February when they met to co-write a song for Lavigne's upcoming album. It will be...
01:24 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: It seems music director Pritam Chakraborty has taken the plagiarism charges seriously. Now, he wants to reclaim his position as a talented and original composer. Listen to Barfi songs if you dont believe it. A new song of Barfi called Kyon has got good response after the lyricist of the film Neelesh Misra posted the link to the audio of the song on the micro blogging site Twitter....
12:05 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: They are young and ambitious and raring to be played out in clubs and parties. More famous outside India, a bunch of four boys drawn from all four corners of India are rewriting the script of electronic music in the country. Meet 'Jalebee Cartel', the electronic dance music band named after the sweet, twisty and ubiquitous delicacy, which has stormed into the global music arena and was featured...
02:13 PM, Aug 21, 2012
On Gulzar's 78th birthday, CNN-IBN pays tribute to the talented lyricist, writer, director and poet. ...
02:41 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Mumbai: Director Anurag Basu explains, "Ranbir can't sing, but we have six songs in the film that are used to express the protagonists' feelings without lip-syncing. Priyanka's character also doesn't sing in Barfi!." While there will be no lip-syncing for Ranbir in Barfi!, Kishore, another film Anurag is making with the actor, will have only lip-synced songs. Says Basu, "I've never had my characters singing on screen although my films...
12:00 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Music Director: Jeet Ganguly Lyricists: Amitabh Bhattacharya and Faraz Ali Singers: KK, Shreya Ghosal, Neeraj Sridhar, Mohit Chauhan and Usha Uthup Rating: 3 out of 5. Filmmaker and choreographer Farah Khan steps into the world of acting with a not-so-usual romantic comedy 'Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi', which has six tracks exuding true blue romance. The album starts off with a tender number 'Ishq mein tere bina'. It has...
03:41 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Folk singer Sharda Sinha, who has lent her voice in Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur 2, says the experience of singing in the film was amazing. The 59-year-old has sung the famous Electric Piya for Gangs of Wasseypur 2 and she thinks that folk music gets a wider reach when it is part of films. "Films provide a bigger platform for folk music and in which ever films...
12:24 PM, Aug 06, 2012
London: Swimmer Michael Phelps uses it to get into his zone, marathon runner Paula Radcliffe uses it to psyche herself up, and gymnast Louis Smith uses it to calm himself down. Whether it's aggressive rap, mellow reggae or calming country, music has become an integral part of many Olympians' medal plans. And science shows its effect is far more than superficial. "Music can have a genuine effect, both before and...
04:54 PM, Aug 03, 2012
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc announced a scan-and-match digital music service on Tuesday, stepping up competition with Apple Inc's iTunes. The new service will find music files on users' computers, create matching versions of those songs and store them in the cloud, Amazon said. As part of the new service, Amazon announced licensing agreements with hundreds of music publishers and distributors, including Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Vivendi SA's Universal Music...
11:00 AM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: One of the regular days, as I made my way to work this morning I switched on the music on my phone and listened to 'Naav' from 'Udaan' (2010). Yes, it has been almost two years since the movie released but this track still imparts ginormous inspiration and sweeping exhilaration to my nubile senses. Many a days, I just play the complete album of 'Udaan' or 'Rockstar' while...
06:31 PM, Jul 30, 2012
London: London's 2012 Olympics opening ceremony raced into the British charts with a collection of music from the kaleidoscopic extravaganza becoming the week's fifth-best selling compilation album after just 24 hours on sale. Friday's 27 million pound 'Isles of Wonder' spectacle, devised by filmmaker Danny Boyle and watched around the globe, was performed to a roller coaster of British music that ran from Mike Oldfield's blockbuster 'Tubular Bells' to Dizzee...
12:04 PM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: A plain, simple, red-coloured thread was once enough to symbolise a brother's pledge on Raksha Bandhan to protect his sister. But girls today are on the lookout for a variety of threads studded with beads, crystals and even cartoon characters, as well as expensive threads with gold and silver motifs for the occasion. The markets are awash with emerging trends. Kriti Creations, a store in Khan Market, is...
11:19 AM, Jul 28, 2012
As admission season is around, CNN-IBN takes a look at some unusual career options for those who want to walk the road less taken. ...
01:40 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: As soon as the first trends showed that Pranab Mukherjee had established a huge lead over PA Sangma in the presidential election, people started celebrating outside his residence in New Delhi and at his village Mirati in Birbhum, West Bengal. As the music band played the tunes of 'Yeh Desh Hai Veer Jawanon Ka' the crowd broke into an impromptu jig outside his 13, Talkatora Road residence. At...
02:50 PM, Jul 22, 2012
