Ranjitha - Malare Mounama?
Film: Karna (1995)
Song: Malare Mounama
Music: Vidyasagar
Singers: S.P.Balasubramanyam and S. Janaki
Actors: Arjun and Ranjitha
Aishwarya Rai speaks Tamil at audio release
The fabulous occasion was the audio launch of the Tamil film ‘Irettaisuzhi’ produced by Shankar, and for which the music was composed by Karthik Raja. The audience had a sweet surprise for two reasons. Firstly, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made a rare appearance, because the busy actress normally do not attend music launches, and secondly, the audience was taken for an unexpected surprise as Rai spoke in flawless Tamil at the music launch.
The audio cassettes and CDs of ' Irettaisuzhi' were released by Aishwarya and accepted by acclaimed lyricist Vairamuthu. As to her proficiency in languages, Aishwarya Rai communicates in several languages including Tamil, Hindi, English, Marathi, and her mother tongue Tulu, as she is originally from Mangalore, Karnataka.
Shankar is the director of the film, 'Endhiran: The Robot', in which he is directing her opposite superstar Rajnikanth. He said it was great to have Aishwarya at the audio launch, and added that the she was not present for the launch of his 'Jeans', which was one of her first hit films.
Rai said that she was proud to be part of the Tamil film industry and from Tamil she switched over to English, “It's an honour for me to have been present at this place among legends like Balachander and Bharathiraaja and I feel proud about it. I also feel happy that a woman is treated so respectfully at a public function like this.”
Rai continued, “I can never forget the Tamil film industry and director Shankar in my life. Shankar's 'Jeans' was my first successful film. The many things I learnt during the making of the film gave me enough self-confidence that I could continue to act for a few more years… I feel even more proud to be part of Shankar's 'Endhiran' opposite superstar Rajnikanth... I watched a few songs and some sequences from 'Rettaichuzhi'... I think Karthick Raaja's music and tunes are excellent. I would surely watch the film in future.”
Rai was at her courteous best at Sathyam Cinemas on Monday evening as she greeted veteran directors K. Balachander and Bharathiraaja, who also act in the film (K. Balachander as Ramaswamy and Bharathiraja as Singaravelan) in lead roles along with Anjali, Manobala, Karunas, Ilavarasu, Jayachitra, and Malayalam film actor and screenplay writer Sreenivasan.
M M Keeravani Show in New Jersey
M. M. Keeravani (also known as M. M. Kreem, Maragatha Mani, M. M. Keeravaani), the National Award winning film music composer and singer, has made his own footprint in Telugu film industry with his compilations for the Telugu movie Annamayya (Telugu film), and has made great contributions to Bollywood (songs in Sur, Jism, Paheli, Criminal, etc.) and composed music for Hindi films (Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin, Sur, Zakhm, Saaya and Rog), Malayalam films (Nilagiri, Soorya Manasam, Devaraagam, etc.).
M M Keeravani has already composed music for 199 films in various Indian languages and continues actively composing music for several forthcoming films.
Here is a report on his US tour from the author of this photo: M M Keeravani along with his troop performed one of the most successful shows outside India so far at New Jersey on July 25th 2009. The performance was mind-blowing and enthralled the audience irrespective of their age difference. The jam-packed UCPAC (Union County Performance Arts Center) hosted one of the mega events of the recent past and all the audience thanked TOLLY 2 HOLLY & PHARMACARE, BEL AIR, MD for organizing such a blast. 1400+ audience witnessed the best ever performance by Keeravani Bubbly and vivacious anchor Udaya Bhanu, who is now termed as #1 anchor of the Telugu television screens is still looking hot with her amazing grace and she stole the hearts of all audience.
The program started with Shuklam Bharadharam sloakam sung by local kids Baby NIKHILA and AARTI of Delaware. NIKHILA, AARTI, VAMSHIKA, ANUSHKA, HARSHITA, APOORVA KARNA and BHAVYASRI KARNA garlanded all the guests TOLLY 2 HOLLY owner GANESH INDUKURI invited RAVI VARMA MUDUNURI onto stage and thanked him personally for meticulously planning such a mega event in a short time. GANESH INDUKURI also mentioned the cause of building a primary care center in AP, India as the main drive behind this event and pledged to continue such events in future for non-profit reasons.
VIJAY REDDY of PHARMACARE explained the project of PRIMARY CARE CENTER in PONNEKALLU VILLAGE, GUNTUR DT, AP. He also thanked his friend Subbaraju for agreeing readily to support the cause. Subbaraju mentioned the importance of charity and committed his full support for such causes in the future and wished the project all the best.
VIJAY REDDY of PHARMACARE, who is also the helpline Director of NATS explained audience about NATS and the service aspects of NATS.
RAVI MADALA, PRESINDENT OF NATS launched the NATS HELP LINE 888-4-TELUGU during this event and he explained how the help line offers services.
UDAYA BHANU introduced MM KEERAVANI who directed music for 199 pictures to the audience. Keeravaani is incredibly humble, modest and unassuming and spoke to music lovers in person. Despite being credited with having given a new dimension to Telugu music he is admired by all sections of the audiences; call it class, mass, family-oriented or any type of genre. Each song is different from the other, a different mood, a different tune, and a different style. From “Seetharamayya Gari manavaralu” to “Magadheera”, this ace composer continues to mesmerize Telugu music buffs, needless to mention, along the way, mesmerizing tunes of Pellisandadi, Simhadri, Gangothri, Chatrapathi, Vikramarkudu, Yamadonga, etc. and the heavenly scores of Annamayya and Sri Ramadasu whose music stays in the minds of Telugu audience forever. Audience blast the theater with whistles and shouts for the dance performance of Noel Sean ‘Bangaru Kodipetta’ number. Local Talent MADHU with her dance troop performed a medley.
Vijay Reddy, Subbaraju and Ravi Madala felicitated MM Keeravani, Uday Bhanu and Upendra Chivukula.
Several prominent Telugus who graced the event such as New Jersey Assemblyman Mr. Upendra Chivukula, Subbaraju Indukuri, NATS Chairman Dr. Ranakumar Nadella, NATS President Mr. Ravindra Madala, ATA Board of Trustee Rajeswar Reddy Gangasani, TFAS President Damu Gedala, TLCA President Venkat Mutyala, NATS Founding member Harnath Doddapaneni, UTAA President Dharma Reddy, TAGDV Joint Secretary Lalitha Setty, Dr Prasad, Satish Dasari and a prominent local businessman Dr. Desu Gangadhar all praised the organizers VIJAY REDDY, GANESH INDUKURI and RAVI MUDUNURI for conducting such a mega event.
VIJAY REDDY of PHARMACARE thanked all volunteers Kishore, Chandraraju, Suresh, Anil, Raheem, Phani, Srini, Pandu, Ravikishore, Prakash, Tirumal Reddy, Hinge Nageswara Rao, Raja Agnihotri, Srinivasa Rao, Pratap Rikka, Nagi Reddy Karna and Ramakrishnan Guruva Reddy for all their dedication for making this show a mega success. The organizers thanked Rama Seshayya garu of Abhiruchi restaurant for providing the best Andhra Food to Keeravani Troop during their stay. Keeravani Gaaru praised organizers for providing the best audio system.
VIJAY REDDY also thanked NATS, TOLLY 2 HOLLY FILMS and the media partners TV9 and NTV for all their support in sponsoring this charity event.
Pussycat Dolls perform Jai Ho
The Pussycat Dolls, the American pop girl group and dance ensemble, comprising of lead singer Nicole Scherzinger and Melody Thornton, Jessica Sutta, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt and Carmit Bachar, released their second studio album, Doll Domination, which included the song “Jai Ho!” (Genre: Bhangra, Indian pop, dance-pop). The song, a single released on February 23, 2009, was by A. R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger and written by A.R. Rahman, Nicole Scherzinger, Ron Fair and Gulzar.
The song was recorded in 2009 by the Pussycat Dolls with English lyrics and produced in collaboration with A. R. Rahman and Ron Fair, and mixed by Peter Mokran. According to Scherzinger the single is an interpretation rather than a remix. The new version is called "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)".
The music video of the new version premiered on March 13, 2009. The video recreates the last scene from Slumdog Millionaire at a Tramway Museum in Vienna, Austria, and was directed by Thomas Kloss.
In 2009, the original version of Jai Ho, from the movie Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, beating out WALL-E's Down to Earth by Peter Gabriel, and “O... Saya”, also of Slumdog Millionaire and by A. R. Rahman.
Hindi movie Jashnn - large wallpaper 4
The forthcoming Hindi movie from the Bollywood stable, ‘Jashnn’ is directed by Raksha Mistry and Hasnain S Hyderabadwala. The film has music by a new composer duo Toshi and Sharib. The movie is presented by Vishesh Films of Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt. The main cast of the movie includes Adhyayan Suman (as Akash Verma), Anjana Sukhani (as Sara), Shahana Goswami (as Nisha) and Humayun Saeed (as Aman Bajaj). The film is a musical and the singers are K K, Shreya Ghosal, Nouman Javaid, Shaan, Toshi Sabri and Sharib Sabri and the lyrics are written by Kumaar, Nouman Javaid and Nilesh Mishra and the Cassettes and CDs are from T-Series.
