MUMBAI: Film director Vikram Bhatt under his in-house music label ASA Music has released ghazal king Jagjit Singh spiritual album 'Nivedan' on 27 July in Mumbai.
Legendary composer Khayyam unveiled the album along with Bright Advertising owner Yogesh Lakhani and ASA Music Suresh Thomas. The event was also graced by Meet Brothers, Jagjit Kaur, Aditi Govitrikar, Shivangi Kapoor, Siddharth Kannan and many more. Delhi based singer Amrish Mishra performed on the occassion.
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MUMBAI: To promote Prakash Jha's 'Aarakshan', Red FM has organized a seven city interactive contest across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Jaipur and Indore.
The Contest is on-air till Monday 1 August and listeners can participate by taking the pop quiz. One lucky winner from each city will be flown down to Mumbai and will get a chance to be tutored by the star cast of 'Aarakshan' including Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Prateik Babbar, Manoj Bajpai and Prakash Jha.
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MUMBAI: Legendary opera star Plácido Domingo is appointed as chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
Domingo will look after improving copyright legislation, work of music rights owners, digital music sector and support industry's public education efforts around digital music.
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MUMBAI: After cases in the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, Aamir Khan production Delhi Belly has now been dragged in another case in the principal bench of the Allahabad High Court.
The Allahabad High Court has issued notice to actor and producer of Delhi Belly, Aamir Khan and asked to file reply within three weeks on public exhibition of an objectionable song Bhaag DK Bose. The court also issued notice to censor board, song writer and singer of the song, claims lawetalnews.
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MUMBAI: Grammy Award winner talks about losing 80 pounds on Oprah Winfrey Show, BIG CBS LOVE
They say – It's never too late to do something.... On the upcoming episode of Oprah Winfrey Show, singing sensation Jennifer Hudson and a mother of a two year old proved it.
Hudson transformed herself from a big fat woman of size sixteen, to a svelte lady of size six.
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MUMBAI: Big FM Delhi breakfast show �Dilli ki metro' host �RJ Vidhi' was offered a role by Golmaal director Rohit Shetty in his next untitled film.
Estatic RJ Vidhi said, The role came out of nowhere, it was a normal day where I was interviewing Rohit shetty, and in general talk I informed him about my birthday on which he responded by offering a role as a gift....
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MUMBAI: Karbonn Mobile has launched its first android phone �A1' in the Indian market. The company plans to introduce three more android smartphones with investment of five million US dollars on the marketing and advertising for these smartphone series.
The handset powered with 2.2-Android version sports 2.8-inch touch screen, Adobe Flash 10.1 version, 600MHz processor, GPS functionality and also supports android applications like Google Map and G-Sensor.
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Acclaimed lyricist, poet, writer and member of parliament Javed Akhtar give his views on the Bombay High Court IPRS royalty ruling in favour of Radio City in a conversation with Poonam Ahuja.
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MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court judgment freeing FM radio player Radio City from paying royalties or licence fees to the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) is making singers, music composers and lyricists see red. They have demanded that the IPRS should take prompt and stringent action against what they called a strangely out of tune ruling....
Says a livid music composer Anu Malik, The judgment is quite distressing as music directors' and lyricists work very hard. If they are not going to be paid royalty for their songs, then they are going to be demotivated....
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