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Really unfortunate, if true!
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ROFLMAO! Enjoy the comedy
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Interviews/BCaxIJ96/3/Bappi-Lahiri-Speaks-About-My-Love.html

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Indiatimes
The music maestro, who’s been wooed by the West ever since Jai Ho had the world on its feet, has signed a Hollywood romantic comedy called Couples Retreat that’s being directed by Peter Billingsley and which features Kristen Bell, Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman.
Rahman, who is known to fob off lucrative temptation if his heart [...]

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Farhan Akhtar can’t stop smiling these days. Don’t blame him. He received a call from Oscar winner AR Rahman, who asked him to sing for him for the film Blue.
Caught completely off guard by the call, it took time for Farhan to realise that it was indeed Rahman who was talking to him on the [...]

Rediff

One would think that having an ace music director husband Vishal Bharadwaj would make life easy if you’re a singer. Rekha Bhardwaj did have a lot of things going her way, but showbiz was never a piece of cake.
The hugely talented singer of such songs like Namak Ishq (Omkara), Ranaji, Beedo (Gulaal) and Genda [...]

Pretty good!
April 13, 2009
Rediff

India batting legend Sachin Tendulkar will become the first Indian sports personality to be portrayed at Madame Tussauds, in London. His wax figure was launched at the Taj Lands End Hotel in Mumbai on Monday.
Tendulkar met with Madame Tussauds sculptors in hometown Mumbai earlier in the year to be measured and photographed [...]

Pallavi Jassi, Suanshu Khurana
Posted: Mar 20, 2009 at 1256 hrs IST
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The new music directors in movie-town are young, ready to experiment and break into the big league
When director Anurag Kashyap wanted the rawness of a brass band in a song in Dev D, 29-year-old composer Amit Trivedi got one straight into the studio and the [...]

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The multifaceted Piyush Mishra explores the palette of his creativity
When you listen to the song Are ruk ja re bande by Indian Ocean from Black Friday, how do you react? Yes, it’s electrifying mix of angst and admiration for the lyrics of the song — it takes you back to the days of terror strikes. [...]

Exhaustive piece here. Superb read!
JUNE 2009 – HOW COULD AR RAHMAN BECOME THE FIRST Indian musician to hold an Oscar? This rhetorical question arises from the signs, over the years, that if the genius from Chennai found his way to global recognition, it would be through the Grammies. That was the international award I thought [...]

IBNLIVE: Videos 1-5

By Joginder Tuteja, February 12, 2009 – 12:23 IST
Bollywoodhungama
In his new innings, Rishi Kapoor is having the best phase of his career. He has immense appreciation coming his way with Luck By Chance. Some even went on to say that he was the best part of the film. Well, quite credible considering the film had [...]

Hindustantimes
Over the past two weeks, I was in the US doing some concerts, including a sellout at Carnegie Hall that I’m very proud of. I boarded the plane back to Delhi on a real high from the successful shows and also the joys of having been there for Obama’s inauguration. But then, on the flight [...]

“Have you heard his Delhi 6 songs ‘Rehna Tu’ and ‘Dafatan’? Forget Slumdog Millionaire, if the Oscar guys heard these numbers, they would come here and award him.”
Read the full interview here

Saddening! RIP!
Behindwoods
Tamil cinema’s best-loved comedian, and one of its greatest actors is no more. Nagesh passed away today (Jan 31st 2009). We will never see the likes of a Nagesh again: acrobatic and versatile, he could have you in splits and then in tears. He had a genius for the tragic-comic. You could even go [...]

Hindustantimes
Sample this: Indian screen icon Amitabh Bachchan is credited with 135 releases in over 40 years. He played the baddie – be it the ‘dada’, the don, the killer or the thief – in 35 movies.
Contrary to the image of the angry young man who swore by the gun and bashed up baddies in high-decibel [...]

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Delhi-6 : Soundtrack listing and details
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January 12th, 2009 – 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
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Mumbai, Jan 12 (IANS) Bollywood music director A.R. Rahman Monday became the first Indian to win the Golden Globe Award, for best original musical score in Danny Boyle’s movie “Slumdog Millionaire”. The honour bestowed on the maestro has brought much cheer to the Indian film industry.”The [...]