Category: Music
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What’s Your Bollywood Music Quotient
How well do you know your Bollywood music? Try out this quiz and find out. [polldaddy survey=”D44FF460D0D14DD7″ type=”button” title=”Take The Quiz!” style=”rounded” text_color=”121AFF” back_color=”78C2FA”] If you need help, try these: Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Chhodenge Mujhe Pyar Tumse Nahi Kishore Kumar Black’s vocal track Allah Ke Bande Kuch Na Kaho (Female version) Shankar – Jaikishan…
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Piracy, Copyright Law and Social Trends
This post is prompted by a comment on my review of Partners In Crime, a documentary covering the grey areas of piracy. In my view, the grey areas discussed in this DVD do not legitimize piracy, they expose deficiencies in copyright law. Piracy has been around for a long time and will continue to be…
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Pancham Unmixed – DVD Review
Pancham Unmixed is a homage to R.D. Burman by film-maker, Brahmanand Singh, the key word being “homage”. It is not a documentary or biography but an unabashed tribute offered by the filmmaker to his hero. The 2-hour film is a compilation of interviews with people who knew and/or worked with Pancham and also with a…
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Mavrix Monthly Update February 2012
Listing for the 60s went live on MySwar in Feb. You can find them here. New features.Other than some bug fixes and a few UI/UX related changes, we added these features this month: Categorized search suggestions – As you type in the Search box, we provide suggestions categorized as Albums, Songs and Artists to make…
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Piracy Is Mainstream
I’ve been an anti-piracy advocate in my friend circle for many years now. Over time though, I realized that people like me were rare and specially in India, we became outcasts. Friends and relatives look at me like I am nuts when I refuse to lend them my iPod so they can copy songs from…
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60s Hindi Film Music – Newly Added On MySwar
The first page I went to after the 60s upload was through? Phoolon Ke Rang Se – one of my all-time favorites and the first song on the first cassette I ever owned! Check out your favourite albums from that decade. Would it be Guide, Kashmir Ki Kali or Aradhana? Or your favorite song –…
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If You Like Kun Faya Kun
A non-establishment, music-buffs-based group called RMIM Puraskar came up with it’s list of the best songs of 2011 this morning and Kun Faya Kun came out on top. So I decided to give to check out MySwar recommendations based on Kun Faya Kun. Here it goes: Huq Ali – I was absolutely floored by this…
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Mavrix Monthly Update January 2012
MySwar.in opens up to public. We started the new year with a bang by opening up the MySwar beta for public on Jan 10. Thanks to all those who have used the website! Many of you have given us valuable feedback and we will be addressing them in future releases. Meanwhile, if you like what we…
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India Losing Music Genres Due To Bollywood?
The title of this post is a direct quote from an interview with Shubha Mudgal. Many months ago, I made a similar observation is a post titled Is Bollywood Overdose Killing India Music?. There is no denying the fact that Bollywood music’s overwhelming popularity suppresses non-film music. But isn’t Bollywood itself a melting pot of…
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If You Like Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar
Yesterday was Kaifi Azmi’s birthday. I am picking up one of my favorite songs written by him to play the MySwar recommendations for Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar: Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho – The song on the top of the list is hardly surprising. It is similar to Jhuki Jhuki Si Nazar in many…