MUMBAI: Once again, the cream of Bollywood titles is headed the T-Series way. The music label has snapped up music rights of two highly anticipated films - Raju Hirani's Aamir Khan starrer 3 Idiots, as well as Ken Ghosh's Shahid Kapoor starrer Yahoo.
3 Idiots is scheduled for a Christmas release while Yahoo is likely to be released by the end of this year, or early next year.
Also in T-Series' kitty is Blue, the Tony D'Souza film for which A R Rahman has compiled the score and...
MUMBAI: Nokia recently announced that it has tweaked the Nokia Music desktop software by making some 'small enhancements' in key areas.
The major change is the implementation of 'connection mode switching'. The primary use of this feature would be to easily select the mode of connection when users can plug their device to the computer.
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MUMBAI: The Information and Broadcast Ministry has given its approval for setting up a community radio in Orrisa. The Ministry signed a Grant of Permission Agreement with Young India, Konark for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station. They obtained Letter of Intent and SACFA from the concerned Ministries. They were allotted the frequency of 90.4MHz to air their station.
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MUMBAI: North east based Positive Radio owned FM venture, Radio Ooo La La is sailing in troubled waters, having defaulted on license fee payments and having to grapple with intra company issues. Positive Radio has four frequencies to carry out radio operations in the north east- Itanagar, Shillong, Guwahati and Agartala.
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MUMBAI: After crooning with A R Rahman, Pussycat Dolls are now collaborating with rap-artiste Hard Kaur for their new album. The Pussycat Dolls' agent approached the singer to lend her voice for their new album, it is learnt.
The singer says, The agent told me that they were keeping track of my music and liked my work. I'm thrilled for sure. I already sent Pussycat Dolls the chorus I have written which goes on like Move over, Hard Kaur is here. They loved it and now we'll be recording ...
MUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group Chairman and CEO David Renzer and UMPG Nashville President Pat Higdon recently announced the signing of a worldwide publishing agreement with Keith Urban.
UMPG will publish Urban's catalogue throughout the world, including his recently-released fifth studio album, Defying Gravity, which topped both the Billboard Top 200 and Country Album charts upon its release this March.
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MUMBAI: The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has asked filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma to re-edit the music track'Jai Shri Shambhu' from his upcoming film 'Agyaat' as it encourages substance abuse.
The track shows leading lady Priyanka Kothari puffing a'chillum'(pipe) while she croons'Dum Maro, yeh hai Sahara.' With respect to this, the Censor board communicated to Varma that the lyrics depicted substance abuse. The filmmaker has been asked to re-edit the lyric or drop the song completely.
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New Delhi: The government on 17 July revoked the licence to Radio Tarang, the Hissar based FM radio station in Haryana as it has not submitted the requisite bank guarantee and has been non-operational since 12 September last year.
The action has been taken under Clause 25.1.2 of the Grant of Permission Agreement (GOPA), ministry sources said.
A show-cause notice had been issued to M/s Singla Property Dealers Pvt. Ltd asking why action should not be initiated against them for violation of GOPA.
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MUMBAI: Muthoot Group's radio venture Chennai Live 104.8 FM has been furnishing a bank guarantee of Rs 3,00,000 before the Chennai high court from March 2009. The radio station that operates only in Chennai is liable to submit the guarantee as a result of a legal tussle with (Indian Music Industry) IMI's licensing arm- IPRS (The Indian Performing Right Society)
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MUMBAI: MTV India's getting back to music in a big way. Its latest 'reality hunt' Kurkure Desi Beats Rock On is currently in the auditions stage.
The gratification for winners is a music video, an album under the T-Series label, a lot of promotions and airtime on MTV, and the oppurtunity to perform in New York or New Jersey and compete with bands from 15 countries on the international platform called Doritos Kurkure desi Beats 'Be heard'. Here, the winning band has a chance to win a 20,000 USD.
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