'His music compositions were like a canvas painting.' 'The flow of notes, its juxtaposition with the rhythm gave a visual movement to the songs.'
Well-known Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, died in Kolkata on Tuesday night, officials said. He was 53.
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Sofia Ashraf, along with a guitarist and three other women, stormed Sasikala's residence and sang the song, protesting her elevation.
'It's like he came on a Time Machine and left in the same vehicle. A fairytale ending, but not a happy one.'
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'He could memorise a song in any language, but he understood the feelings behind the words in every language.'
'I tell the next generation of singers to take a leaf out of Lataji's book.' 'Be it Kavita or Alka, every time I give a song to a singer, I tell them, 'Dhyaan se suno, listen attentively, phir socho, Lataji isse kaise gaati'.'
One could be anywhere -- huddled around a transistor radio at home in the evenings, walking past a neighbour's house, or waiting at a bus stop and Lata Mangeshkar's voice would reach us. Aseem Chhabra pays rich tribute to The Legend.
'40 years later, the world is still singing I Am A Disco Dancer.'
'KK had an emotional bandwidth which echoed all the seasons of the heart.'
'Rapists do have families. I wanted to see how a father or mother would deal with it.' 'They go through shame as well and get discriminated from the rest of the village.' 'Why don't we show it that way?'
'...as much as in India, it's only because she sang for mankind, not the details on the passport.'
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'I come from a small town and I never thought I would ever sing professionally or become a playback singer.' 'But I made a career here.'
'I still can't process that he is gone. It feels like a bad dream.'
''He was extremely gentle, humble, soft-spoken, down to earth, giving respect to senior musicians as well as to budding ones.'
For two hours, Javed Ali sang. And his fans went crazy.
'He said, "There was nobody to help me. I came from Kolkata to Mumbai to make a career of my own".' "'I have my own journey, and you need to experience that to value what you will have in the future.".'
The apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has sought action against comedian Kunal Kamra for tweeting a "doctored" video of a boy singing a patriotic song in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Long before she won royalty rights for playback singers, there was an undisclosed incident in Lataji's life where she not only put a male colleague in place, but also refused to sing with him thereafter.
The proceeds from the concert will go to the India COVID Response Fund.
Pamela Chopra, playback singer, writer and late film-maker Yash Chopra's wife, passed into the ages on Thursday, April 20, at Mumbai's Lilavati hospital. She was 74.
The 'Pran Pratishtha' of the idol of Ram Lalla -- the childhood form of Lord Ram -- will be attended by people from all walks of life, including representatives of major spiritual and religious sects of the country and of various tribal communities and prominent personalities.
'I have lost a piece of my heart.' 'I can cry me a river and write words & words.. but I can never completely express what he means to me.' 'Mera yaar ...KK!!'
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'He was an extremely naughty child, always in trouble and creating trouble.' 'He wanted to fly a kite at night, and sometimes, bunk school.' 'When I insisted on sending him, we could get a call from school that he had fainted.'
'My character Meena seemed like a selfish, cold, heartless woman, who abandons her lover because he is moneyless. But look the girls today. They are as practical as my Meena was in Pyaasa so many years ago.'
The controversy about The Kashmir Files may have got all the eyeballs but there was much more to the closing ceremony of the 53rd edition of International Film Festival of India in Goa.
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'I could tell there was an extraordinary intensity about Amitabh Bachchan even in bad films.' 'Kuch baat thi.' 'Salim saab and I insisted on casting him in Zanjeer.'
'When you sing, you have to be in the song. You have to feel it or else, don't do the song.' 'That's why I haven't delivered a bad song in my career.'
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