This year has been huge. Though there were very few releases in the first half of the year, there have been enough movies to give me a tough time when I decided to ‘nominate’ some movies to decide which has been public’s favorite. So here is my shortlist of movies for Your Award of Best [...]
Composer: Salim-Sulaiman Singers: Anushka Manchanda, Salim Merchant Lyrics: Anvita Dutta Guptan Salim Sulaiman are now the official composers for YashRaj Films. Well, for most of their movies, their BIG projects. And the new name in the list is Pyaar Impossible. The first promo of the movie is out and you can listen to a two [...]
Continue reading about Alisha (Pyaar Impossible): Anushka Manchanda
When Adnan Sami came, he was a hit because he was new and fresh. Now Adnan Sami is lost because he is not new anymore and he is not bringing much new. Probably that’s the reason he keeps on doing small experiments and this time comes with the brother of deceased legendary Michael Jackson, Jermaine [...]
Continue reading about Ek Ladki Deewani Si (Adnan Sami): Music Review
I don’t know whether I should be doing this, but since I am a critic, or at least aspiring to be one, I think it’s good if I let my opinion go out. And this is what I am doing here. In the past few days my blog has got some regular visitors who come [...]
Akshay Kumar…… Nitin Bankar Katrina Kaif…… Anjali Kakkad Sunil Shetty…… Ram Mishra Paresh Rawal…… Harbans Chadda Neha Dhupia Sameera Reddy…… Manpreet Oberoi Archana Puran Singh…… Archana Aditi Govitrikar Asrani Chunky Pandey…… Harbans’ son Johny Lever Manoj Joshi Rajpal Yadav Supriya Karnik Tinu Anand Vikram Gokhale Sharat Saxena Himani Shivpuri Shakti Kapoor Ratan Jain De Dana [...]
A typical Priyardarshan movie, De Dana Dan is yet another piece where you feel like going inside the 70mm screen and telling the characters “Stop, please stop the unnecessary confusion.” Yes, this is what happens, nobody in the movie knows why, how and from where things are happening.
A little, lovely song from Himesh Reshammiya’s Radio – Love on Air, which reminds me of 90′s songs with Nadeem Shravan’s music and Vinod Rathod’s voice. The song sounds like it’s being played on an orchestra we once used to see in North Indian weddings, largely because of the drums being played in the background. Set [...]
Continue reading about Rafa Dafa Kiya Nahi Jaaye (Radio – Love on Air)
I don’t know if you heard the first album of Sona Mohapatra, ‘Sona’. But I can surely say you would have heard ‘Bolo na’ which was somehow even my mother’s favorite song at that time. Well, I was in love with many songs of the album, especially Abhi nahi aana and main raat aise jaagi [...]
Journalism in India has become a rat race. While being ‘Sabse Tez’ has become the mantra of News Channels, even newspapers go limits sometimes. Yes, I have become habitual to those news channels. I know how to deal with them now. I have removed India TV from my TV and I know when to switch [...]
Let me ask you a question. On an average, how long before the release of a movie do you get its songs? A month? two months? More?? OK. Let me give some recent examples. Kurbaan released on 20th November, while you can see my review of Kurbaan dated 12th October here. De dana dan is [...]
It seems I am very much inspired by Shashi Tharoor’s Elephant, Tiger and Cellphone. That could be the only explanation of my every fourth blog post title being in three words. Anyways, this time it’s about Domino’s Pizza delivery services and me and since I could not think of anything else, I titled the post [...]
My dear blog Happysing (yes, I’m talking about the one you are reading right now) is one month old today. And in this really short period, the blog has been really successful, especially if you consider that there was no long pre-planning before the blog was started. In fact I’m still not final with the [...]
I have finished reading more than 75 books till date, maybe something around 90. But there is a huge number of books I started, bought, or borrowed but never reached their end, for different reasons. One of these books was Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. For the first time in my life I [...]
Perfect strangers The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari The Gift Swami – Sharatchandra (H) Men of Steel – Vir Sanghvi United States of Europe True Believer Elephant Tiger and Cellphone Inscrutable Americans HT leadership summit: India: the next global superpower? Life on a Refrigerator Door The Wedding Above Average Apne Apne Ajnabi – Agyeya (H) [...]
Song: Pocket mein Rocket Album/Movie: Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Music composer: Salim-Sulaiman Singer: Benny Dayal I dunno if it’s hunger somewhat satisfied or hunger increased. I had got a 3-4 second piece in the teaser of Rocket Singh, Salesman of the year, and since then I’ve been waiting for the music to release. [...]
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