In November 2007, Anees Bazmee's Welcome kicked in a new trend in Hindi film music. No longer do multi star cast films mean an impressive line-up of stars, they also imply an equally august roster of music composers.
Sunday, Mission Istanbul and Jimmy followed Welcome. Pahlaj Nihalani's Khushboo and Kumar Mangat's Haal E Dil were next, and C Company and EMI were children of the same trend.
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MUMBAI: A contestant of Chak de performed on the song tera sarafa and the performance was based on student's love for his teacher. This performance reminded Sandip Soparkar, one of the judge, about hisschool days. He said, "It reminds me of the time when I was in school and i used to eye a lot on my teachers."
Manoj Tiwari dressed as a Sadhu with a kamandal in his hand which acted as a lie detector. He keeps that lie detector aka, kamandal on all the contestants' hand to bring out fact...
