'We played at Zakir's request. It was an amazing experience for me playing with a famous tabla player's son.'
Shah Rukh Khan won his first National Film Award for best actor for Jawan, sharing the honour with Vikrant Massey for 12th Fail. Rani Mukerji was named best actress for Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway. 12th Fail was adjudged best feature film.
The Indian classical musician made a special guest appearance at Anita Dongre's show.
An increasing number of young classical musicians are dabbling in fusion music, discovers Aditi Divekar.
Noted Indian musicians came together to pay tribute to Ustad Alla Rakha on his 15th death anniversary.
The sitarist, considered among the greatest sitar players alongside Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee, belonged to Jaipur's Senia Gharana of music started by the descendants of Tansen's family and known for working towards preserving the purity of ragas.
After a dry, dreadful, spell of darkness and desolation, it looks like Bollywood love stories are ready to rock the silver screen again.
Instead of a puppy love story treatment, Laila Majnu could have been handled as a mature love story, feels Sneha Chakrabarti.
>The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal
Both West Bengal and Odisha are slugging it out for getting the GI tag for the delicious sweet