Tag: Bollywood
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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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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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Partners In Crime – Documentary Review
After my posts – Piracy is Mainstream and Why People Don’t Talk About Pirate Consumers – one of the readers of the blog recommended that I watch a documentary called Partners in Crime. I had heard about this documentary on Twitter but never got around to seeing it. I finally saw it last week and I…
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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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Bollywood National Award Winning Songs – 2001 to 2011
Ever wondered why some songs are so much more loved than others? The songs listed below give us some insight into what makes some songs special. These are my personal favorites from the list of Bollywood songs/albums that have won a National Award in the Best Singer category over the last decade. Enjoy! Movie: Lagaan…
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MySwar Beta Announcement – Reactions And How We Are Responding
I announced the MySwar beta a few days ago on this blog, on our Twitter account, our Facebook page, directly to a few people who I view as early adopters and music geeks and also a forum called RMIM. All of us at Mavrix also shared the announcement with friends and family. While I haven’t…
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Nostalgic 90’s with Kumar Sanu
Writing about the Hindi film music of 90’s is like writing about one single man and that’s Kumar Sanu. If I say that the man ruled the Hindi cinema in that decade, it wont be wrong. What he gave to the listeners in 90’s with some brilliant music by the duo Nadeem-Shravan was magical. You…
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Coming Soon! The Complete Guide To Hindi Film Music.
We’re launching! We’re launching! We’re launching! Soon that is. The beta will launch in a few weeks and the public launch will happen soon after. We’re calling it MySwar.in because in the end, it’s about your taste in music. The Coming Soon page is up so you can sign-up right away and be one of…