A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
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Bappi Lahiri, who enthralled Hindi cinema lovers with his remarkable music in the 1980s and 1990s, was cremated at Mumbai's Pawan Hans crematorium in the presence of family, friends and fans on February 17.
Unhappy with the recreation of his song Masakali, A R Rahman has asked fans to listen to the original track, saying his team put in a lot of hard work and sleepless nights in composing it.
On Ashaji's 89th birthday on September 8, Subhash K Jha revisits some of her lesser-known classics.
'Chand Chhupa Badal Mein were originally written for a film that Ram Gopal Varmaji was directing.' 'One day he said, "Mehboob, the lyrics that you have written are really beautiful, but the hero of my film is a goon. He cannot sing such beautiful lyrics".'
Even though each episode is about an hour long, you won't reach even blink: Divya Nair applauds Suzhal: The Vortex.
'Since both Ram Charan and NTR Jr are dancing in this song, I don't want one of them to feel one up.'
Sukanya Verma makes a playlist of 15 profound Rajesh Khanna ditties.
I thought Saudi Vellakka a glancing, loving depiction of the judicial system as a pageantry filled with performers trying to do right by everyone, do everything by the book, and failing despite their best attempts, observes Sreehari Nair.
'There is no way they would accept any repetition from us. 'The audience constantly needs to be surprised, and I need to surprise myself too.'
The Filmfare OTT awards 2021 were held at Mumbai's Taj Lands End hotel, and the big winners of the night were quite expectedly, Scam 1992 and The Family Man 2.
'I'd define my personal style as comfy, timeless and easy going.'
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's news-makers and events.
The 78th edition of Hollywood's prestigious awards ceremony sees just a sprinkling of stars at the Rainbow Room in New York.
It was heartening to see so many women -- young and old, many in hijab and burqa shaking their bodies, raising their arms and singing with complete abandonment.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
Aseem Chhabra highlights 10 films that moved him, films that may show up in theatres near you.
The former world champion ended with a total lift of 201kg (88kg+113kg), which is far from her personal best.
Boman Irani makes his OTT debut with Masoom, and it was good to see the actor on screen after a long time, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'I've spoken to Gangubai's soul.' 'I've had long conversations with her in my mind.' 'I understood her suffering, anger, joys and sorrow.' 'I had to connect to the soul of this amazing woman.' 'I think I did.'
Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
'She had shown some signs of improvement, but then she went into multi-organ failure.'
'Finally it was S D Burman who brought us together.'
Manoj Jain tells you how to fight stress and find peace in your daily lives.
Sushmita and her thoughts... Malaika-Gauri get together... Divyanka's ode to summer...
Mitra was the editor of The Pioneer newspaper and was considered a respected voice on a variety of issues, ranging from politics to popular music, before poor health kept him out of the public eye for some time.
'We are not organising any large celebrations on New Year's Eve to avoid last-minute changes in guidelines.'
The remarks of Maryam came after Khan called India a "nation with a great sense of honour".
'40 years later, the world is still singing I Am A Disco Dancer.'
In EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has kickstarted the long-pending anti-trust investigation into Google, the internet search giant may have finally met its match.
Fireworks and music broke out across the country after the 3-2 shootout win
'I kept thinking the bedroom door would open any minute and Didi Atya would step out...'
The rather amateurish, even ham-handed, attack would lend some credence to a 'false flag' theory, of the PTI leadership staging this incident, to provide new impetus to a flagging agitation, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RAW, India's external intelligence agency.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni and several Indian cricketers are expected to fly to Rajkot to attend the reception.
A party at a Prague music club has led to coronavirus infections in 68 people so far, including active athletes, the Czech capital's hygiene service said on WednesdayThe Czech Republic has recorded 14,324 cases of the new coronavirus and 360 deaths - a small fraction of the worst-hit European nations - but it has seen a resurgence of new cases in the past weeks.
Sikandar Kher's Nishikant Adhikari is a solitary poet by the corner, trying to remind us that the honest plans of honest people don't always come to respectable ends, observes Sreehari Nair.
'People say my personality doesn't have sharp edges, but politics doesn't have to be about pulling down your opponents or bad mouthing them.'
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