MUMBAI: BBC Ek Mulaqat presents a special interview with Deepika Padukone, Bollywood actress and daughter of noted sporting personality Prakash Padukone. She speaks to BBC Hindi India Editor, Sanjeev Srivastava, about her experience of working with super star Shahrukh Khan, her interest in sports, and her dream man. Below are some excerpts from this special episode of BBC Ek Mulaqat, which is scheduled to be broadcast on BBC Hindi and on Radio One on Sunday, 3 February:...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide's audio and music business, under a new five-year strategy developed to drive the exploitation of popular music and capitalise on the corporation's rich archive, has strengthened its team with several senior appointments.
Jon Mansfield who was Emap Music MD has been appointed BBC Worldwide's audio and music business head of content development.Mansfield will be joined by Stephen Davies who comes on board as head of digital ventures and Salim Mukaddam, who has been promoted to head commercial affairs.
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MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that Asian Network will launch its biggest marketing campaign next week across television, radio and online.
The New Sound Of Asian Britain campaign launches on 4 February 2008 and profiles the network's passion for the best in Asian music and culture.The BBC TV trail creates a new musical soundtrack, composed specially from many shorter musical scenes layered and looped together. It mixes modern influences like drummers and DJs with more traditional Asian sounds and instruments including Bollywood singing.
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Irshad Khan is considered among the world's best Sitar players and the leading Surbahar (BassSitar) player of his generation. First recognised as a child prodigy, today he has emerged to be among the most sought after and versatile Indian musicians of India. With uncompromising dedication in training both vocally and instrumentally, he has gained proficiency in classical vocal. Irshad Khan has achieved phenomenal control in combining the intricacies of "gaiki-ang"(vocal) with the "tantra-ang"...
MUMBAI: Bhaskar Group's My FM has launched in Kota, taking its tally to 16 FM stations across the country.
My FM is already operational in places that include Jaipur, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ahmedabad and Bhopal.
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MUMBAI: BIG 92.7 FM, Bangalore's No 1 Radio Station, is playing host to popular Sandalwood celebrities who are visiting the BIG FM studio this week to interact with their listeners on the popular show 'No Tension' hosted by RJ Deepu. RJ Deepu who hosts 'NO TENSION' between 5.00 pm - 9.00 pm on weekdays had the pleasant opportunity to bring on-air the sizzling Actress Daisy Bopanna to interact with listeners of Big FM and talk about her experiences during the shoot of her latest venture "Gali...
