'Fukrey' Music Review: It's a young and vibrant album
by IANS
Music Director: Ram Sampath

Singers: Amjad Bagadwa, Ram Sampath, Yash Divecha, Vrashal Chavan, Mika Singh, Tarannum Malik

Rating: 3 out of 5

The music album of director Mrighdeep Singh Lamba's 'Fukrey' has six tracks. Simple and sweet, the tracks are high on fun and entertainment quotient. ...more    
01:56 PM, May 19, 2013

'Aurangzeb' Music Review: Hear it for its interesting songs
by IANS
Music Directors: Amartya Rahut and Vipin Mishra Singers: Sasheh Agha, Ram Sampath, Keerthi Sagathia, K. Mohan, Marianne D'Cruz Aiman, Vipin Mishra. The music album of director Atul Sabharwal's debut movie 'Aurangzeb', a crime thriller, has five tracks and its four musical versions. The compositions are interesting and centred around power, which is in sync with the theme. The first track is 'Barbadiyaan', a peppy number sung by Ram Sampath and...  
05:41 PM, May 05, 2013

'Talaash' Music Review: Beats overshadow the voices
by IANS
Music Director: Ram Sampath Lyricist: Javed Akhtar Singers: Suman Sridhar, Vishal Dadlani, Sona Mahapatra, Ravindra Upadhyay and Ram Sampath Rating: 3 out of 5 Ram Sampath, who entertained music lovers with the quirky and peppy numbers in 'Delhi Belly', has composed for 'Talaash' five original tracks and one remix, with the lyrics being penned by Javed Akhtar. The album starts with a bang with a jazzy and groovy number 'Muskaanen...  
03:15 PM, Oct 31, 2012

Sampath to take over as the new CEC today New Delhi: Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath on Monday will take over as the 18th Chief Election Commissioner of India at the EC headquarters in the Capital. A 1973 batch IAS officer, 62-year-old Sampath will take over from SY Quraishi whose term came to an end on Sunday. Sampath, who was appointed as the CEC last week, will preside over the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014. A low-profile bureaucrat, who has...  
01:19 AM, Jun 11, 2012

Sampath to take over as the new CEC on Monday New Delhi: Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath will take over on Monday as the 18th Chief Election Commissioner of India at the Election Commission headquarters in the Capital. A 1973 batch IAS officer, 62-year-old Sampath will take over from SY Quraishi whose term came to an end on Sunday. Sampath, who was appointed as the CEC last week, will preside over the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014. A low-profile bureaucrat, who...  
10:42 PM, Jun 10, 2012

Palash Sen sues 'Satyamev Jayate' for plagiarism New Delhi: Aamir Khan's new TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' has managed to fetch accolades from all quarters of the society, but singer-composer Palash Sen of the band Euphoria is not happy about it. Palash Sen has accused the music composer of the title track of 'Satyamev Jayate' of stealing tunes from one of his songs. Coincidentally, Palash Sen's song is also called 'Satyamev Jayate'. Sen has filed a case against...  
01:11 PM, May 07, 2012

Music composers unhappy with court ruling on rights

The Bombay High Court ruling that music companies own the rights has composers and lyricists up in arms. ...
10:01 AM, Aug 03, 2011

Royalty issue: Composers unhappy with verdict
by IANS
Mumbai: Composers and lyricists like Javed Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj and Ram Sampath on Tuesday expressed resentment over a recent Bombay High Court ruling that FM channels don't have to pay separate royalties to composers and lyricists for broadcasting their songs. "I don't know how the case was fought, the arguments that went in, but the judge said the record company should only get the royalty. The royalty doesn't come to...  
09:35 AM, Aug 03, 2011

Court issues notices to Aamir, censor board
by IANS
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Monday issued notices to Bollywood actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan and two others in connection with the public exhibition of an objectionable song in his latest production venture "Delhi Belly", a lawyer said. While hearing a public interest litigation, seeking a ban on showing the controversial song "Bhag DK Bose", a division bench also issued notice to the censor board and Ram Sampat, the writer of...  
09:11 PM, Jul 25, 2011

Sampath hits back at Sinha for slamming 'DK Bose'
by IANS
Mumbai: Composer Ram Sampath and Ra.One director Anubhav Sinha are engaged in war of words - the latter slammed Sampath's song "DK Bose" from Delhi Belly by calling it "unfit" and the music director retorted by labelling Sinha a hypocrite. Sinha, who has previously made films like Tum Bin, Tathasthu and Cash among others, said that "DK Bose" is unfit on moral grounds and unsuitable for children. He went on...  
07:48 PM, Jun 06, 2011

Calling the tune: Indian composer to re-do 2 INXS songs
by IANS
Mumbai: Mumbai A player Javed Khan showed immense courage and heart to play the match against England XI after his father passed away few hours before the match. Javed was in the hospital til late night on Friday as his father was undergoing an open heart surgery. At around midnight, the 22-year-old allrounder lost his father, Mohammad Jayish Khan. Despite the huge personal loss, he showed up at DY Patil...  
11:23 AM, Jul 15, 2008

Krazzy 4 released with original soudtrack Chennai: The chairman of selection committee Krishnamachari Srikkanth on Sunday expressed huge disappointment on Indian team's dismal performance Down Under terming it as a collective batting failure. We are totally devastated. It is quiet disappointing in the manner we have played in Australia. Now sitting in Chennai, it is difficult for me to pinpoint a particular reason as to what went wrong. Definitely our batting has failed consistently throughout the...  
04:20 PM, Apr 11, 2008

Krazzy row over but court makes 'lifting' tough Lahore: Dav Whatmore, the man tipped to become Pakistan's next cricket coach, arrived for an interview in Lahore Saturday, moving a step closer to taking the sport's hot seat. The 57-year-old former Australian batsman, who coached Sri Lanka to World Cup glory in 1996, is the favourite to replace Waqar Younis who quit the post in September last year over health issues. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) appointed former opener Mohsin...  
01:28 AM, Apr 11, 2008

Two Krazzy 4 songs plagiarised: Bombay HC David Warner launched a stellar attack on India's bowlers after Australia had bowled the opposition out for 161. He began with a series of coruscating drives and cuts and sped to his half-century off just 36 balls. As Warner attacked India's pace bowlers, Ishant Sharma responded by having a go at him verbally. This clearly rattled Warner, who replied in kind. The umpires had to intervene and separate the two...  
12:38 PM, Apr 10, 2008

Krazzy! First music and now even the plot is a copy News is that the film is a copy of the Hollywood film The Dream Team. ...  
02:21 AM, Apr 10, 2008