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Dunki (soundtrack)
''Dunki'' is the soundtrack to the 2023 film of the same name directed by Rajkumar Hirani and stars Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal and Boman Irani amongst several others. The album featured eight songs composed by Pritam and one song by Shekhar Ravjiani. The lyricists are Swanand Kirkire, IP Singh, Javed Akhtar, Irshad Kamil, Varun Grover, Kumaar and Amitabh Bhattacharya. After four of the songs were released as singles, the album was released on 20 December 2023 through the T-Series label. Background ''Dunki'''s soundtrack is composed by Pritam in his maiden collaboration with Hirani; it is also the former's fourth collaboration with Khan after ''Billu Barber'' (2009), '' Dilwale'' (2015) and ''Jab Harry Met Sejal'' (2017). Initially Shantanu Moitra, whom had worked with Hirani's earlier films ''Lage Raho Munna Bhai'' (2006), ''3 Idiots'' (2009) and '' PK'' (2014) was considered to contribute few songs in collaboration with Pritam. Tamil film composer G. V. Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pritam
Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Award winning Indian composer, instrumentalist, music producer and singer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingle composer, sound designer & theme music composer for TV Serials, later debuted as a co-composer alongside Jeet Gannguli in the 2001 Hindi film '' Tere Liye''. He debuted as a solo composer with the 2003 film ''Stumped''. However, it was the soundtrack of ''Dhoom'' (2004), most notably the title track, which earned him his first big break in the industry and helped him win the Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year & vast acknowledgements. In a career spanning over two decades, he has composed music for more than 125 Bollywood films and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including one (1) National Film Award in 70th National Film Awards in 2022, Six (6) Filmfare Awards for Best Music Director, Three (3) Filmfare Awards fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumaar
Rakesh Kumar Pal, known mononymously as Kumaar, is an Indian lyricist who works in Hindi cinema. Some of his songs include "Rula Ke Gaya Ishq", " Tu Bhi Royega", "Dil Ki Aadat", " Baby Doll', " Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan", " Sooraj Dooba Hain", "Lovely", "Desi Look", " Nachan Farrate", "Main Hoon Hero Tera" and " Jhoome Jo Pathaan". He was nominated for the Filmfare Award for the Best Song "Sooraj Dooba Hain" from the film '' Roy''. Films * ''American Blend'' * ''Shaabash! You Can Do It'' * ''Plan'' (2004) * '' Musafir'' (2004) * '' Jawani Diwani: A Youthful Joyride'' (2006) * '' Golmaal: Fun Unlimited'' (2006) * '' Dil Dosti Etc'' (2007) * ''Om Shanti Om'' (2007) * '' Humsey Hai Jahaan'' (2008) * ''Hijack'' (2008) * '' Dostana'' (2008) * ''Bhram'' (2008) * '' Rama Rama Kya Hai Dramaa?'' (2008) * '' Toss'' (2009) * '' The Stoneman Murders'' (2009) * '' Sikandar'' (2009) * ''Life Partner'' (2009) * '' Jashnn'' (2009) * '' All The Best: Fun Begins'' (2009) * ''Raaz - The Mystery Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjay Gadhvi
Sanjay Gadhvi (22 November 1966 – 19 November 2023) was an Indian film director and writer, who was known for the first two instalments of the '' Dhoom series''. Early life Sanjay Gadhvi was born to Manubhai Gadhvi, a well-known figure in Gujarati folk literature. His father moved into Mumbai's first 14-floor skyscraper on Peddar Road before he was born. As a child he studied at Campion School and was friends with industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla. Career Gadhvi's career began by assisting Anant Balani with ''Tu Hi Bataa,'' starring Arjun Rampal and Raveena Tandon. The film was never released. He made his directorial debut with '' Tere Liye'' (2000), which performed poorly. His first film with Yash Raj Films was '' Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai'' (2002), which enjoyed moderate success. He first gained attention directing the action thriller '' Dhoom'' in 2004, followed by its sequel '' Dhoom 2''. The films starred Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra, and Rimi Sen, with Hrit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeet Gannguli
Jeet Gannguli (, born Chandrajeet Ganguly, on 24 May 1977), is an Indian playback singer and composer who works in Hindi and Bengali language, Bengali cinema. Early life and education Born in a Kulin Bengali Brahmin family, Gannguli was initiated into the world of music at the age of three. He was a student of Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School from where he completed his schooling. Later he graduated from the University of Calcutta. He is trained in Indian classical music under the guidance of his father Kali Ganguly and his pisima (father's sister) Shibani Roychowdhury. He studied western classical music, jazz and rock with jazz guitarist Carlton Kitto. Career Gannguli got his first break when Sanjay Gadhvi was signed on to direct ''Tere Liye (film), Tere Liye'' and he, in turn, signed on his friends Jeet Gannguli and Pritam as music composers. In 2002 Yash Raj Films signed Gadhvi up to direct ''Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai'', for which the Gannguli-Pritam duo c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tere Liye (film)
''Tere Liye'' is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language coming of age film directed by Sanjay Gadhvi. The film was released on 14 December 2001. Plot The teenage children of various workers at a film studio form a music band and struggle to stick together in turbulent times. Cast *Arjun Punj as Aditya Verma *Shilpa Saklani as Ritu Malhotra * Bhavna Pani as Piya Anand / Piya Bose * Hiten Paintal as Devprakash Tandon *Sonali Khare Sonali Khare (born 5 December 1978) is an Indian Marathi film and television actress. She was a part of the film '' Tere Liye'' as Tara. She also part of television such as ''Abhalmaya'', '' Pyaar Ke Do Naam: Ek Raadha, Ek Shyaam'' as Kaveri and ... as Tara * Neelu Kohli as Hero's Mother * Pankit Thakker as Raghu *Imran Ahmed Khan as Ranjeet Bose, Piya's estranged father Soundtrack References External links * 2000s Hindi-language films Films featuring songs by Pritam Films directed by Sanjay Gadhvi {{2000s-Hindi-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingle
A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. Jingles are a form of sound branding. A jingle contains one or more hooks and meanings that explicitly promote the product or service being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television commercials; they can also be used in non-advertising contexts to establish or maintain a brand image. Many jingles are also created using snippets of popular songs, in which lyrics are modified to appropriately advertise the product or service. History The first radio commercial jingle aired in December 1926, for Wheaties cereal. The Wheaties advertisement, with its lyrical hooks, was seen by its owners as extremely successful. According to one account, General Mills had seriously planned to end production of Wheaties in 1929 on the basis of poor sales. Soon after the song "Have you tried Wheaties?" aired in Minnesota, however, sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal–Shekhar
Vishal–Shekhar are an Indian music composition, production, singing, and songwriting duo consisting of Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani from Mumbai. Known predominantly for their work as music composers in Hindi cinema, Vishal–Shekhar have also recorded in Telugu, Tamil and Marathi with the likes of Akon, The Vamps, Imogen Heap and Diplo. They have been streamed over 3 billion times on YouTube, have had 72 number-one singles, and have been featured on over 350 film sound tracks. Their most popular soundtracks include '' Jhankaar Beats'' (2003), '' Dus'' (2005), '' Salaam Namaste'' (2005), '' Bluffmaster'' (2005), '' Om Shanti Om'' (2007), '' Tashan'' (2008), '' Bachna Ae Haseeno'' (2008), '' Dostana'' (2008), '' I Hate Luv Storys'' (2010), '' Anjaana Anjaani'' (2010), '' Tees Maar Khan'' (2010), '' Ra.One'' (2011), '' The Dirty Picture'' (2011), '' Student of the Year'' (2012), '' Chennai Express'' (2013), '' Gori Tere Pyaar Mein'' (2013), '' Hasee Toh Phasee'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PK (film)
''PK'' (translation: ''Drunk'') is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language science fiction comedy-drama film edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi and jointly produced by Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the production banners of Rajkumar Hirani Films and Vinod Chopra Films, respectively. A religious satire addressing superstition and pseudoprophets, the film stars an ensemble cast of Aamir Khan (as the title character), Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Dutt. After the success of ''3 Idiots'' (2009), Hirani and Joshi began scripting their next project; finding similarities with the plot of ''Inception'' (2010), they scrapped the film. It was later rewritten with a different angle and tone. During production, the film was initially titled ''Talli'' and later ''Ek Tha Talli'' before being changed to ''PK'' as the latter title was found to be too similar to ''Ek Tha Tiger'' (2012). The film's soundt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Idiots
''3 Idiots'' is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, co-written by Abhijat Joshi and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film stars Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi in the title roles, while Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Mona Singh and Omi Vaidya co-star. Narrated through two parallel timelines, one in the present and the other set ten years earlier, the story follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the intrinsic paternalism under the Indian education system. Adapted loosely from Chetan Bhagat's novel '' Five Point Someone'', It is produced by Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films, ''3 Idiots'' incorporated real Indian inventions created by Remya Jose, Mohammad Idris, Jahangir Painter and Sonam Wangchuk, the latter of whom also inspired Khan's character. Upon its release on 25 December 2009, ''3 Idiots'' received widespr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
''Lage Raho Munna Bhai'' (; translation: ''Keep Going, Munna Bhai'') is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language satirical comedy drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Abhijat Joshi, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films. A sequel to '' Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.'' (2003), the film is the second installment of the ''Munna Bhai'' series. Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi reprised their roles as the titular Munna Bhai and Circuit, respectively. New additions to the cast include Vidya Balan, Dilip Prabhavalkar and Dia Mirza, while several actors from the original, notably Jimmy Sheirgill and Boman Irani, appear in new roles. In this film, the eponymous lead character, a don in the Mumbai underworld, begins to see visions of Mahatma Gandhi. Through his interactions with Gandhi, he begins to practice what he refers to as " Gandhigiri" (a neologism for "Gandhism") to help ordinary people solve their problems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra (born 22 January 1968) is an Indian pianist, score composer and musician who has composed songs for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his scores in the films ''Parineeta (2005 film), Parineeta'' (2005), ''Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi'' (2005), ''Lage Raho Munnabhai'' (2006) and ''3 Idiots'' (2009), and private albums, ''Mann ke Manjeere'' and ''Ab ke Saawan'' sung by Shubha Mudgal. In 2014, he received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction (Background Score) for ''Na Bangaaru Talli''. Early life and education Shantanu was born in Lucknow, where his father came from a Bengali Brahmin musical family. He was very young when he moved to Delhi with his family, where initially he lived in Patel Nagar in West Delhi, and studied at Springdales School, Pusa Road. There, he was the leader and singer of a band, and in 1982, the band hosted the school's first rock show. "What was even better was receiving an award in school for my contribution to music at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jab Harry Met Sejal
''Jab Harry Met Sejal'' (), abbreviated as ''JHMS'', is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali. It stars Anushka Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan in their third collaboration after '' Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi'' (2008) and '' Jab Tak Hai Jaan'' (2012). Pre-production of the film began in April 2015 and principal photography commenced in August 2016 in Prague, Amsterdam, Vienna, Lisbon and Budapest. ''Jab Harry Met Sejal'' released on 4 August 2017 to mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and audience, with criticism for its direction, story, and screenplay, but praise for the soundtrack, cinematography, production design, costumes, and Khan and Sharma's performances. It was a box-office bomb in India. However, it was fairly successful overseas. At the 63rd Filmfare Awards, ''Jab Harry Met Sejal'' received 2 nominations – Best Music Director ( Pritam) and Best Female Playback Singer ( Nikhita Gandhi for "Ghar"). Plot Harinder "Harry" S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
