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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Aadesh Shrivastava


Aadesh Shrivastava, (born 6 June 1966) is a film music composer from Bollywood. His wife Vijeta Pandit was an actress in Bollywood, her sister Sulakshana Pandit was also an actress in Bollywood, and their brothers Jatin Lalit are also music composers

With clean, fresh and simple music, Aadesh Shrivastava has got hit on the Bollywood song charts. His brothers-in-law Jatin Lalit are also successful music directors in Bollywood.
Aadesh wanted to become a doctor, but his passion for music was so strong that he decided to make his career as a composer.He learned to play the drums, and shifted to Mumbai, where he met Sapan Jagmohan. He then proceeded to gain a foothold in the industry by playing drums for stalwarts among music directors such as O P Nayyar, Shankar Jaikishan and Salil Choudhary. He assisted Laxmikant Pyarelal for almost a decade before taking the responsibility of a professional composer.

Aadesh's got his first big break with film Kanyadaan in the year 1993. Among the singers who sang in this movie, there was Lata Mangeshkar who did sing his first song. But unfortunately, the film did not release, and the songs went unnoticed. The same thing happened with Jaane Tamanna, but he bounced back with Aao Pyaar Kare. One track, Haathon mein jo aa gaya jo kal was a hit and his fortune was smiling at him. His other films are Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya and Shastra.The chart buster Kya ada kya jalwe tere Paro from the film Shastra got him in limelight once again. In 1998, his music in the film Angaarey became a hit.
Aadesh also sang a number of songs and rendered hit songs such as Sona sona, Shava shava, Gustakhiyaan and one of his career bests: Gur nalon ishq mitha etc. He won accolades for his work in Kunwara, Tarkieb and Shikari in the year 2000. In 2001, his success continued with the movie Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.

Awards

2003 Nominated Screen Best Music - Chalte Chalte (2003)
2004 Nominated Popular Award Best Music Director - Chalte Chalte (2003)
2002 Nominated Popular Award Best Music Director - Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001)
2001 Won Award for Technical Excellence Best Background Score - Refugee (2000)

Friday, February 11, 2011

Runa Laila


Runa Laila (born 17 November 1952) is a playback singer of the subcontinent who lives in Bangladesh. She is effective in Ghazals also. She made a hit pair with famous singer Ahmed Rushdi after replacing Mala. She also has done numerous playbacks for movies in Bangladesh, India and Pakistani film industries during late 60s,70s and early 80's. Her best known number is Dama Dam Mast Qalandar, a song covered by many artists.

Runa's career as a singer came about by accident. It was her elder sister Dina who first got the break, but on the day of her performance, she developed a sore throat and Runa was asked to stand in. She was so little that she could not hold the 'Tanpura'. She held it horizontally and sang a 'kheyal'. She started appearing on the 'Zia Mohyuddin Show', a Karachi TV stage show (1972–74)and later did songs for numerous Pakistani films in the 70s. "Umra Jan Ada" (1972) was one such super hit film in which all but one song were sung by Runa Laila.
Sister Dina (once married to Pakistani politician from Sindh Makhdoom Amin Fahim) would have followed in her footsteps but had to give up singing when she married. She later died of cancer. In memory of her sister, Runa held six concerts in Bangladesh and donated the entire proceeds to a children's hospital in Dhaka to build a cancer ward which has been named after her sister

She sang playback for many movies in Bangladesh and India and, before the independence of Bangladesh, in Pakistan. She is known for her songs "Dama Dam Mast Qalandar" and "Mera Babu Chhail Chhabeela Main to Nachoongigi", which have been sung by other artists.
She made a sensational entry into the Hindi filmdom with Ek Se Badkar Ek in 1974. Music lovers all over India were swinging to the rhythmic beat of Dama Dam Mast Qalander.
Her songs in "Gharonda", which was released later, also did well with the audience. After that she withdrew from Mumbai but is still popular in India. Some of the music directors she has worked with are Jaidev, Kalyanji Anandji and Bappi Lahiri.
She is equally popular in the Bengali pop music space with songs like "Sadher Lau Banailo Morey", "Shilpi ami, tomaderi gan shonabo" and "Bondhu Tin Din Tor Barite Gelam".

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Pankaj Udhas


Pankaj Udhas was born on May 17, 1951 in Jetpur near Rajkot in Gujarat to a family of Zamindars. His elder brother, Manhar Udhas is a stage performancer, and so young Pankaj needed no initiation into the world of music.. He's been the Padmasree Award winner.


His first stage performance during the Indo-Chine was was one that changed his life and made him a star. He sang Ae Mere Watan Ke Logon and won for himself a prize of Rs. 51 . Pankaj was so moved by winning that he took up music professionally as his career.

Pankaj was so attracted towards the form of music by Mehndi Hasan and Begum Akhtar that he went on to learn Urdu to be able to grasp the depth of ghazals, thus Pankaj Udhas found his destiny.

The man deserves the credit for making ghazals popular at a time when it was losing its foothold over the masses.From his first ghazal album Aahat released in 1980, Pankaj has released around 40 albums with countless number of compilations. In all his albums he has always tried to present ghazals in a manner more appealing to the masses yet maintaining the essence of ghazals.

The songs like 'chithi aayi hai' from 'Naam' became the National Anthem of its time. Moreover the songs like 'Gaya fir aaj ka din bhi' from 'Dil aashna hai' gave him immense popularity.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Jaspinder Narula



Jaspinder Narula is a noted Punjabi singer and Bollywood playback singer, who shot to fame after a duet ‘Pyar to hona hi tha’ from the 1998 film Pyar To Hona Hi Tha with Remo Fernandes for which she won the 1999 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, her other notable films are Mission Kashmir, Mohabbatein, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and Bunty Aur Babli. She also a singer of Sufi music, and as well as Gurbani and other Sikh religious music.
In 2008, she won the title of India's Best Live Performer in the NDTV Imagine singing reality series, Dhoom Macha De (2008).

Jaspinder’s tryst with singing began early. Her father K.S. Narula was a music composer of 1950s. Initially Jaspindar Narula kept away from film singing and specialized in singing bhajans and Sufiana compositions. She finally moved to Mumbai a few years later at the advise of noted music director Kalyanji who heard her at the private gather in Delhi and asked his son and music director, Viju Shah to give her break in films like, Master, Aar Ya Paar and Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan (1998).
She excels in singing folk and devotional songs. She has lent her voice to record numerous music albums for a large number of successful Bollywood films like Dulhe Raja, Virasat, Mission Kashmir, Mohabbatein and Bunty aur Babli to name a few.

Awards

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Bally Sagoo


Bally Sagoo (born Baljit Singh Sagoo) is a British Asian musician and DJ who was born in Ranjit Nagar, Delhi, India, but grew up in Birmingham, England, in a predominantly Black neighbourhood, influenced by disco, rap and Motown music. In an interview "Re-mixing Identities: "Off" The Turn-Table," Bally said:
"Indian music was Indian music. So I just left that side of things and I moved into the Western side of things and I was getting into English and American music... I was a typical example of someone who didn't know what Asian people were about. I was too much into the Western society business. My friends were mainly black and I didn't have many Asian mates because of, talking fifteen years ago you know, we didn't have funky Asian music... Then all of a sudden things just changed. I just got so much into it and my mates were like 'my god Bally Sagoo's doing Indian music.'"
He gained success as a DJ in the club scene and broke into music by revamping old Bollywood hits and fusing them with hip hop. He is widely credited as one of the original pioneers of what is now modern Indian music, and for triggering the explosion of modern Bhangra pop music (although his music was and is more a fusion of Western dance and hip hop with existing Indian music). This is specifically seen in his 1994 album Bollywood Flashback,(The remix of Asha Bhosle's "Chura Liya" from the album is widely considered as an industry benchmark and the gold standard for Bollywood mixes) followed up with Rising From The East in 1996. Bally runs a production company named Ishq Records that manages several artistes like Gunjan. He has worked twice with the Pakistani pop singer Hadiqa Kiyani.

In 2003 he won an "Outstanding Achievement Award" at the UK Asian Music Awards.

On an international scale, his most famous work features prominently in Gurinder Chadha's film Bend It Like Beckham and upcoming film It's a Wonderful Afterlife. He worked together with Amitabh Bachchan for a musical rendition of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's poetry and produced Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's album Magic Touch.
In 2007 he starred in the Punjabi film Sajna ve Sajna.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Ismail Darbar


Ismail Darbar (born 1 June 1964) is an Indian composer and violinist who works in Bollywood.

He is from Surat, Gujarat. Ismail Darbar worked for several years as a session violinist for leading music directors Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin-Lalit and even A.R.Rahman. Finally he got the break after so many years with the film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. Later on his music in both 'Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya' and 'Devdas' was highly acclaimed. He played violin for Jatin-Lalit in the movie Khamoshi: The Musical. Ismail darbar was studying Music Directing With Mohammad Sulaiman Sediq In Afghanistan And Sulaiman Was also the Teacher of AR Rahman in 1990.


Awards

Shreya Ghoshal



Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer. Best known as a playback singer in Hindi films, she has also performed several songs for other Indian film industries such as Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu songs.

Ghoshal's career began when she won the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contest as an adult. Her Bollywood playback singing career began with Devdas, for which she received both the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer and the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent. Since then, she has worked in more than 180 films and received four National Film Awards and seven Filmfare Awards.


Ghoshal caught the attention of a music director Ismail Darbar when she participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time as an adult. In 2000, he offered her the opportunity to be the voice of Paro, the lead female character of the film Devdas, who was portrayed by Aishwarya Rai.Shreya sang five songs in the film. Her performance won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, as well as Filmfare's RD Burman Award for New Music Talent, given to upcoming talents in music. She also won the National Film Award for the song "Bairi Piya".

Since Devdas, she has received awards singing under musicians including Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman, M. M. Keeravani, Shantanu Moitra, Mano Murthy and Pritam. She has won many awards both in the north and south film industries of India.

She has received State Film Awards from Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu industries. She debuted in South through the song "Yen Chellam" in Vasantha Balan's album and got noticed after singing the duet "Munbe Vaa" from Sillunu Oru Kaadhal under composer A. R. Rahman. She debuted in Malayalam through a studio album of composer Alphons Joseph and later gave voice to his song "Vida Parayukayano" from Big B.
 
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M. M. Keeravani (kreem)



Maragatha Mani Keeravaani, better known as M. M. Keeravaani or under the alias M. M. Kreem, is a National Award-winning music composer who works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam cinema.
He is also a singer. Keeravani is known for his contributions to the Telugu film industry with compilations for huge hit films like Annamayya. He has composed music for Hindi films such as Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), Sur, Zakhm, Saaya, Jism, Criminal, Rog and Paheli. In Malayalam, he has scored for landmark films like Neelagiri (1991), Soorya Manasam (1992), and Devaraagam (1996). He has composed for over 100 films in various Indian languages and is still actively composing music for several upcoming films. He has another name in Tamil Called "Maragadhamani"
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Javed Akhtar



Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is a Hindi/Urdu poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed. Akhtar continues to be prominent in Bollywood and is the most popular and sought-after lyricist.

Akhtar arrived in Mumbai on 4 October 1964. In his early years living in Mumbai, he managed to write the dialogue for a minor film for Rs. 100. Occasionally, he used to work as an assistant. He got a job as a scriptwriter on Yakeen which flopped. Akhtar then joined with his friend Salim Khan to develop the story for Adhikar. They were hired by G. P. Sippy's Sippy Films as resident screenwriters and produced the screenplays for successful films like Andaz, Seeta Aur Geeta, Sholay and Don.

Akhtar used to write his scripts in Urdu, which were then written out in Hindi by his assistant. Another assistant would type out a one line summary in English. His association with Salim Khan lasted until 1980. After this Akhtar wrote some scripts on his own, but mostly moved into writing lyrics for films, in which he achieved success.
Akhtar has also attempted more serious Urdu poetry aside from writing lyrics for movies. A major set of his works were compiled in Tarkash, which was also rendered into audio in his voice. Singers such as Jagjit Singh and the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan have sung some of his non-movie poetry.

Awards
Javed Akhtar was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1999 and received the Padma Bhushan in 2007. Akhtar has also won the Filmfare Award fourteen times, seven times for Best Script, and seven times for Best Lyrics for "Ek Ladki Ko Dekha..." in 1942-A Love Story, "Ghar Se Nikalte Hi..." for Papa Kahte Hain, "Sandese Aate Hain...." for Border, "Panchhi Nadiyan Pawan Ke Jhonke..." for Refugee, "Radha Kaise Na Jale" for Lagaan, "Kal Ho Na Ho" for Kal Ho Na Ho , "Tere Liye..." for Veer-Zaara and "Jashn-e-Bahara" for Jodhaa Akbar.

Akhtar has won the National Award five times. In 1996 he won for Best Lyricist for the film Saaz and in 1997 he won the National Award for Border. He again won the National Award in 1998 for Godmother. In 2000 he again won the National Award for the song "Panchhi Nadiyan Pawan Ke Jonke..." from the film Refugee and in 2001 for "Radha Kaise Na Jale" from Lagaan.

He has won the 1995 and 1997 Screen Videocon Awards. He also won first Zee Award for Best Lyricist for "Sandese Aate Hain" from the film Border. He was awarded a Videocon Screen award as well as a Lux Zee Cine award for "Panchhi Nadiyan Pawan Ke Jhonke..." for Refugee.
In 2001 Akhtar received the "National Integration Award" from the All India Anti-Terrorist Association and the Avadh Ratan from the U.P. Government. He also won the 2003 Hakim Khan Sur Sammaan Award from the Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur.