Amonkar was recognised as one of the foremost singers in the Hindustani tradition and as an innovative exponent of the Jaipur gharana.
Torbaaz is a well-intended movie, but suffers from step-fatherly treatment that doesn't quite let you feel the emotions, notes Moumita Bhattacharjee.
'It is the journey of my father -- how he made it in this industry in no time, from a nobody to a music mogul.'
Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
Sen, a product of the Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy, has been in the form of his life for about a year now.
Yorgos Lanthimos's royal drama has 12 nominations!
The nominees for the Academy Awards enjoyed a special Oscar luncheon at the Fairmont Century Plaza in California on March 7, 20 days before the big day on March 27.
Oscar winners, festival favourites, massy entertainers, all-time classics, Sukanya Verma offers plenty to pick from on OTT this week.
'There is a whole gang working against me.'
Shreyas Talpade plays the titular role with aplomb, applauds Deepti Patwardhan.
The 20th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) will be held in Mumbai.
...it's Moonlight and not La La Land
The Oscars is prestigious and all artists covet it but ultimately, the business of winning is ruthless and political. And India has seldom risen to the challenge, argues Sukanya Verma.
Eminent Shehnai exponent Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan, one of the best-known players of the instrument after the legendary Bismillah Khan, passed away in Kolkata following prolonged illness. He was 77.
'Visibility is very important, but visibility is also very expensive.' Swapnil Joglekar explores the Parasite phenomenon.
The 'Tamil Thai Vaazhthu', an invocation, is only a prayer song and not a National Anthem and hence, there is no need for every one to remain in standing posture when it is rendered, the Madras High Court bench here has ruled.
'It was so nice to see that someone of her stature, where she came from and whose family she was married into and how she held herself in spite of everything that was thrown at her.'
Here's looking at the most entertaining bits at the Oscars this year.
'Where the maestro has gone, I am sure Krishna would himself listen to his soulful music.' Sunita Budhiraja recounts her encounters with Balamurali Krishna whose music touched the lives of millions.
The actress was named honorary member of American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Check out the new talent coming your way.
It's worth a watch, Aarush S promises.
The camaraderie between the Genie and Aladdin is expressed in Hindi, a language that only the two of them can use to communicate with each other. The rest of the cast speaks in English, making Hindi the indigenous aspect of a globally loved tale.
'For all of us at Amazon, it is 'Bharat first'.' 'We are keeping the Indian customer at the centre of what we are doing.'
Saarang 2010, the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras will be held at the IIT Madras campus between January 21-25.
The Oscar winning music composer hopes music can relieve the ongoing tension between India and Australia following racist attacks.
A quick look at the Oscar 2016 nominations.
Indian music maestro A R Rahman struck gold once again, bagging two trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles for his music in Slumdog Millionaire.
The nominees were announced on January 16.
Long before Resul Pookutty's Oscar blast, Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan used sound as a leitmotif in his films. For Adoor, known world over as one of the finest filmmakers ever from India, sound is as important as any other factor in a film.
A look at the winners of the 89th Annual Academy Awards.
Justice, revenge, romance, tears, take your pick from Sukanya Verma's OTT recommendations for the week.
American soul, funk and R&B legend Isaac Hayes was found dead Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. The Academy Award-award winning musician was 65. His body was reportedly found near a piece of exercise equipment, and no foul play is suspected. Best known for the Oscar-winning Shaft theme song, the talented singer, songwriter and composer was always a music prodigy, even throughout an impoverished childhood.
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never had a child; and Aarti stood up in defence of her colleague. Aseem Chhabra shares interesting memoris of Satyajit Ray on the latter's birth centenary on May 2.
The 43-year-old musician, who won the Oscars for Best Original Music and Best Song for his compositions in Slumdog Millionaire at the 81st Academy Awards, arrived at the Chennai airport from Dubai by an Emirates Airways flight at around 2.30 am.
A far cry from its reputation of Hollywood's no holds barred night for glamour and glory, this year's Globes was a bizarrely informal affair.
Sheshadri, who now runs a dance academy in Dallas, Texas, has penned the lyrics, composed music and sung the numbers in the yet unnamed album.
Deepika Padukone makes Padmavati look even more beautiful.
Cashing on the success of celebrity show Big Brother and her last film Metro, the actress is promoting a new production of the musical Miss Bollywood in London.
