Bhupinder's magical legacy lives on in the musical masterpieces he left behind.
S P Balasubrahmanyam sang songs about life and loss with enough soul to break your heart, notes Sukanya Verma.
'A Colourful World is for every child, telling them that like the different coloured crayons in a box, they should also appreciate their differing identities, shine and live peacefully with other human beings in our colourful world.'
Asha Bhosle's terrific singing the song almost didn't make it into the film.
Sameer who wrote all the hits of Nadeem-Shravan's including Aashiqui, Sajan, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin, Raja Hindustani and Dhadkan reveals to Subhash K Jha how they began their historic collaboration.
After 26 years, Aditya Chopra is set to direct DDLJ again and it will mark his debut as a director on Broadway.
'If you look at its melody, it's nothing.'
On his 90th birthday, Sukanya Verma highlights a fraction of the legend's marvelous versatility in this curated list of his 25 unique moods.
'If you listen to the title track of Judgementall Hai Kya, you will find some crazy things happening in it -- from crazy laughter to as if someone is inside your mind.'
Since debutant Yuvan Shankar Raja brings in a new sound with this album, he deserves a few hearings.
'All my life, I have made expensive films. This time, I want to make the least expensive film ever made in Bollywood.' 'It's an honest attempt to climb Mount Everest without knowing if I will reach the peak.'
'I was born a lower middle-class person, am one today and will die as one,' Billboard's International Power Player Devraj Sanyal tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
The IIFA weekend saw a bevy of Bollywood stars, with green carpet arrivals, performances and awards.
'Bottomline, hairline and waistline -- you have to watch them always.'
The love story of Shakuntala and Dushyant is so familiar, from textbooks, comics, stage and screen versions, that it has become part of our cultural DNA. If a film-maker thinks he can make it his own by producing a 3D version with excessive CGI, he achieves nothing but overkill, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Vinod Kambli lived up to his old friend and former team-mate Sachin Tendulkar's challenge by crooning a rap song. Last month, Tendulkar had challenged Kambli to come up with a rap version of his song Cricket Wali Beat -- conceptualised and curated by Shamir Tandon. The original version, which released on April 3, 2017, is Tendulkar's unique collaboration with music star Sonu Nigam.
Rajiv Kapoor was the true inheritor of his father Raj Kapoor's mantle, especially in the use of music and songs, feels Subhash K Jha.
Shyamoli Sanghi is India's newest teen popstar.
'We all live very intense lives. S*** goes down all the time.' 'This 'eureka moment' doesn't really happen.' 'The discipline of writing and polishing a song is way harder,' Prateek Kuhad, the singing sensation, tells Veer Arjun Singh.
'I would never celebrate the success of my songs, be it with Baar Baar Dekho or Dear Zindagi. With Jahan Tu Chala, I made it a point to enjoy its success.'
Gulzar, best known for penning memorable hits like 'Tujhse Naaraaz Nahi' and 'Tere Bina Zindagi Se' besides directing critically acclaimed films like 'Aandhi' and 'Mausam', was on Saturday chosen for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest official recognition for film personalities in India.
A screenplay and superstar in perfect tandem, it doesn't get better than this, applauds Sukanya Verma.
'We shot the song Zinda Banda for about six days.' 'We were dancing relentlessly for six days to a point when we thought our knees had started making sounds!' 'He was on set, every day, dancing next to us for all those six days.'
Do you know Ashaji crooned a seductive night club song, Zooby Zooby Je L'aime Vous for An Evening In Paris?
Aseem Chhabra rates the movies he's watched in 2023, and tells you where you can watch them!
27-year-old Poojan Sahil who created the song can't be happier at its acceptance and success. The video of the song has almost 2.7 lakh views on YouTube in less than a week and is being widely shared across social media platforms.
A quick look at the winners.
Had he not taken his final curtain call on April 23, 1992, Satyajit Ray would still, undoubtedly, have been making movies.
As much as we enjoy and write reams and reams about our amazement at the Kantara climax, 30 years on from now, will we remember these portions more fondly or the ones where Shiva is simply hanging out with his friends, mulls Rohit Sathish Nair.
'There were no singers like Lata, Kishore, Rafi or Mukesh. And until now, there is nobody. Nobody with that kind of voice, nobody with that kind of brain to learn. Not only to learn, but to improvise. We improvised music, we improvised the songs. Nowadays, they just listen and copy.'
'Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein is still among the most favourite films in my repertoire.'
The music composer looks back at his long and successful career, and also sings in his trademark style.
'Since when have our concert audiences become so intolerant?' the legend asks Subhash K Jha.
'If you are mature and haven't done terrible things to each other, love doesn't have to go away.'
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