MUMBAI: Simi Garewal is coming up in a new avatar on NDTV Imagine. The Rendezvous with Simi... host will now judge musical entertainment show Say Shava Shava on upcoming Hindi general entertainment channel NDTV Imagine.
Karan Johar and Garewal will judge the singing capabilities of soap stars Aman Verma, Apurva Agnihotri, Divyanka Tripathi, Juhi Parmar, Mannish Goel, Mouni Roy, Narayani Shastri, Pulkit Samrat and Sumeet Raghvan.
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MUMBAI:"Wow! Is that what mummies look like?" were the words on everyone's lips when the gorgeous-as-ever Karisma Kapur made an appearance on the Christmas special episode of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs. Ravishing in a black outfit, the yummy mummy stole hearts of judges, participants and even the small kids who were there in the audience. Quizzed about making a comeback, the diva said,"I never really went away.
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MUMBAI: Fun and joyful excitement envelope the air as lucky listeners of Radio Mirchi 98.3FM across Mumbai celebrate the prize money won on Doon Kya Ek lakh.
It all started with continuous SMSes and calls made to Radio Mirchi by countless Mumbaikars, but only a few fortunate ones made it. Kapil, a simple lad who runs his own hotel just got lucky. He had been sending SMSes almost every single day since the time the contest was announced on-air. He finally hit the jackpot on the last day...
Mumbai: Media major UTV Motion Pictures will launch its music label, UTV Music with the release of Ashutosh Gowariker's Jodhaa Akbar next week, it is learnt.
Music for the film, which was previously to be released by Big Music, has been scored by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.
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NEW DELHI: The Ficci Radio Forum has sent a memorandum to the I&B ministry requesting wide ranging policy reforms for the industry, including licenses across the country and allowing news, and also asked it to resolve issue between the industry and the music industry.
Despite the Indian radio industry being a true mass medium, covering 97 per cent of the populace, available in 24 languages and 146 dialects, Ficci says it is facing a challenge from the Indian Performing Rights Society, IPRS and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL).
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MUMBAI: Channel [V] is launching [V] Campus Star beginning February 2008. Through this competition, Channel [V] will single out one college from India that rocks on the college festival circuit, championed by one representative.
[V] Campus Star will give away a cash prize of Rs 5,00,000 to the winning campus and "the coolest guy/gal," along with a complete Channel [V] style makeover for his/her college.
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NEW DELHI: While the number of FM Channels in the country has grown from ten to more than 200, the penetration of radio has only risen marginally from 45 to 53 per cent since the channels are not able to give creative programming in the absence of permission to broadcast news and current affairs.
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MUMBAI: Big FM Kolkata station is launching Komlalebu week to celebrate winter with various shows and contests.
The Komlalebu week will kick start with RJ Mou doing Kelenkari with the listeners atop the gently floating vessels on the river Ganges.RJ Riddhi and Preksha with a bus full of kids will spend a whole day at the Alipur Zoo as well. There will also be a fancy dress competition for the little ones.
As a part of the campaign two children will get an opportunity to meet Aamir Khan.
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MUMBAI: Aamir Khan rarely addresses the Media, B4U music has caught him in a cross fire with kids shooting questions at him. He shares his experience as a first time director. Aamir gets nostalgic about teachers and his childhood memories.Aamir the father shares his experiences about his kids.
Watch Aamir talk about all this and more on B4U Star Stop on 26th Dec at 18.30 hrs on B4U Music 26th and 27th Dec at 18.30 hrs in a two part series.
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In an attempt to revise its brand identity, Radio Mirchi now has a new jingle. Although the previous jingles of Radio Mirchi have been good (remember the even earlier 'It's Hot!?), they haven't been something out of the box. The flow of the last jingle as 'radio radio radio mirchi' was quite catchy but probably wasn't connecting with the 'modern' generation with its extreme hip-hop-fixation....
