2009 September | Bollywood.TV Blog

Astounding “Poets of the Fall” in India

Recently, Saregama Music Company launched the music album “Best of Poets of the fall”. The band comprises of singer Marko, guitarist Olli and keyboardist Captain. They started out their musical adventure from scratch in 2003. Marko sold everything he had to invest in pursuing the love of his life, music, with his buddies Olli and Captain. He moved into his folks’ basement, when he couldn’t keep a place of his own any longer. The guys then built a little studio of their own in Captain’s living room for the recording and producing sessions, and kept an office in Olli’s beat up old car. The result of the recording sessions was a novel blend of pop, rock, metal and industrial sounds.

The band’s first single was Late Goodbye, written for the acclaimed computer game Max Payne 2. Reaching millions of people through the game, the song went number one in Finland, and earned the guys’ international recognition and the first prize at the G.A.N.G. Awards in 2004.

‘BLUE’ launches music on pen drive and microchips

Bollywood’s most ambitious and promising project, the much-anticipated underwater extravaganza ‘BLUE’ has added another feather to its cap.

For the first time in Bollywood, this underwater action thriller by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd., pioneered by T-series, launched its music on pen drives and memory chips. And to do the honors were none other than Akshay Kumar and Music Maestro A R Rahman who has composed the soundtrack for the film.

Saregama pays tribute to Lata Mangeshkar

Nightingale of the century the veteran Lata Mangeshkar has glorified the country’s name with every song she has sung. This Queen of melody completes her 80th birthday on September 28. On this prestigious occasion, Saregama decided to pay tribute to this living legend. The music company has compiled a new collection of eight CDs comprising all her resonant songs.

The album is tilted ‘80 Glorious Years of Lata Mangeshkar: Safalta Ki Shikhar Par Kal Bhi Aaj Bhi’. Each CD has selection of chartbuster songs through her career (40’s-2000’s). The album comprises of songs like ‘Jiya Beqarar Hai’ from the film ‘Barsaat’ (1949), ‘Lara Lappa Lara Lappa Laai’ from film ‘Ek thi Ladki’ (1950), ‘Inhin Logon Ne’ from film ‘Pakeezah’ (1971), ‘Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya’ from’ Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960), ‘Bindiya Chamke Gi’ from ‘Do Raste’ (1969), ‘Dekha Ek Khwab’ from ‘Silsila’ (1981), ‘Chudiyan Khanak Gayeen’ from ‘Lamhe’ (1991), ‘Kuch Na Kaho’ from ‘1942-Love Story’ (1994) and many more.

‘ALADIN’ drums up the tempo!

A magical spell was cast on the people who were present at J.W Marriot on Monday evening where the cast and crew of Eros International’s upcoming family entertainer ‘Aladin’ directed by Sujoy Ghosh, came together to launch the music of this eagerly awaited film.

Gracing the music launch was Big B himself, Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Sunil Lulla of Eros International, Director Sujoy Ghosh, Biren Ghose– Executive Director– Eros International, Music directors Vishal-Shekhar and Singers Shaan and Sunidhi Chauhan.

Sujoy abused Vishal to croon ‘You May Be’ in ‘Aladin’

Music composer duo coerced by Director Sujoy Ghosh to sing for their own composition after auditioning singers for almost a year

You could ask anyone from the Aladin team about their favourite song, and the reply would be ‘You May Be’.

Synopsis: I AM OMAR (2009)

CAST: Rahul Bose, Arjun Mathur, Abhimanyu Singh (from GULAL)

LOCATION: Shot in Mumbai

OMAR is a film that reveals the nexus between the police and Male sex workers to blackmail and abuse gay men. In India because of the archaic law created by the British, which has been long discarded in UK; law under article 377 criminalizes homosexuality, whereas any man caught in a homosexual act can be imprisoned for life. The police to harass and extort money from gay men very often use this law.

OMAR tells the story of how because of fear of society and law Gay men very often get blackmailed, and are scared to do anything about it. This film is based on real life stories and incidences. It questions the law and a society where the concern should be addressing the deep and growing violence in society, but instead concentrates to go all up in arms against an expression of adult consensual love.

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Synopsis: I AM MEGHA (2009)

CAST: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri

MUSIC: Amit Trivedi

A Kashmiri Pandit woman has to go back to Kashmir after 20 years and confront her past. A past of losing trust, and faith in humanity. A past that saw 300,000 Kashmiri Hindus leave Kashmir. Since the mid eighties Kashmir has witness the final exodus of the Hindu population. MEGHA belongs to those forgotten minorities who have become refugees in their own country. This film questions the definition of freedom and “Kashmir for Kashmiri”. While the film does not deny or overlook the enormity of the atrocities committed by the military and government over decades, it questions a concept of freedom that eliminates the minority community from its homeland.

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