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Masala Coffee
Masala Coffee is an Indian music band founded in 2014. The band performs across various genres - Indian folk, blues, pop and rock. Although they primarily compose original music and covers in Malayalam and Tamil, the band also performs in Hindi. Masala Coffee has also made a name for itself through the music they've composed and performed for movies including ''Solo'', '' Uriyadi'' and '' Mundina Nildana''. History The band was founded by Varun Sunil in 2014. The band was named "Masala Coffee" to signify the different kind of music they play (alternate folk rock). They debuted on Kappa TV’s Music Mojo in 2014, performing their own unique versions of popular Tamil songs like “Munbe Vaa” and “Snehithane”. Videos of their performance went viral and the band soon achieved widespread fame through social media. When the members of Masala Coffee first jammed together, it was not with the intention of forming a band. However, following the enthusiastic reception their mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Pop
Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop, refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema, such as the music of Bollywood, which tends to be more popular. Indian pop is closely linked to Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood and the Asian Underground scene of the United Kingdom. The variety of South Asian music from different countries are generally known as Desi music. History Pop music originated in the South Asian region with the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song ‘'' Ko Ko Korina''’ in 1966 and has since then been adopted in India, Bangladesh, and lately Sri Lanka, and Nepal as a pioneering influence in their respective pop cultures. Following Rushdi's success, Christian bands specialising in jazz started performing at various night clubs and hotel lobbies in various Southeast Asian cities. They would usually sing either famous American jazz hits or cover Rushdi's songs. Pop music began gaining popularity across the Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Rock
Indian rock is a music genre in India that may incorporate elements of Indian music with rock music, and is often topically India-centric. While India is more often known for its ( northern and southern) classical music, filmi, Bollywood music, Indi-pop, and Bhangra, the Indian rock scene has also produced numerous bands and artists. Early history India, in the 1950s and 1960s, had a record industry in the Gramophone Company of India (an RCA/HMV/EMI subsidiary), and LPs, EPs, and 45rpm records were freely available, including those of rock and roll acts from the US and Britain, but also of contemporary pioneering Indian rock bands. The president of the firm, Bhaskar Menon (who later became the President of Capitol Records in the United States) was the leading promoter of Western pop music in India. Later in 1970, Polydor, the German Label, began an India-based branch that distributed rock music locally. Of these mid-1960s to early 70s beat groups, as they were then te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Music of Jamaica, Jamaican dance music, the term ''reggae'' more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solo (2017 Film)
''Solo'' is a 2017 Indian experimental anthology film co-written, co-produced and directed by Bejoy Nambiar with Dulquer Salmaan in the lead role. Shot simultaneously in Malayalam and Tamil, production began during November 2016. Solo tells the story of four people, each story revolving around four elements: Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, each with the facets of Lord Shiva. The film was released on 5 October 2017 in both Tamil and Malayalam worldwide. The film was dubbed in Telugu as ''Athade'', which released on 22 June 2018. It's also dubbed into Hindi as ''Tatva''. Plot The film consists of four independent stories, all of which star Dulquer Salmaan as the protagonist: Shekhar, Trilok, Siva and Rudra. World of Shekhar (Blind Love) World of Shekhar is based on the Element of Water. It is a love story of a stammering, daring but loving young man named Shekhar and Radhika who is a blind, talented dancer, with an open mind. Their story starts in college, 4 years ago. There is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uriyadi
''Uriyadi'' (Tamil: ) () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language political action thriller film written, directed and produced by newcomer Vijay Kumar under the production banner Souvenir Productions, with Nalan Kumarasamy, Sameer Bharat Ram and Satish Swaminathan presented and co-produced the film. He also starred in the lead role, along with Mime Gopi, Citizen Sivakumar, Chandru Kumar, Henna Bella, Jeyakanth Velu, and Suruli. Set in the 1990s, It revolves around the lives of four bachelors, who lead a carefree life take a turn when they are embroiled into a political fight. However, they end up finding their mutual interconnections. Vijay Kumar wrote the script when he moved to United States in early 2011, originally titled as , however, the scripting process was delayed for more than a year, due to Kumar's decision of creating a storyboard to make production easier. After a brief work on scripting, casting and pre-production, the film began principal photography in July 2013 and ended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundina Nildana
''Mundina Nildana'' is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language film written and directed by Vinay Bharadwaj, and produced by Coastal Breeze Productions. The film stars Praveen Tej, Radhika Chetan and Ananya Kashyap in lead roles. The posters are designed by the 'Rudra Hanuman' fame painter Karan Acharya. The sound design is done by award-winning Ajay Kumar PB (Badlapur, Andhadhun fame). While the movie has seven songs composed by seven different music directors, the background score is done by Jim Satya who has worked on notable movies like Barfi, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. The coloring of the film is done by colorist Siddhartha Gandhi from Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies. Dialogues are written by Abhishek Iyengar. The movie's VFX is done by Pixel Digital Studios who has worked on notable movies like Baahubali and Gully Boy. Plot Partha, Meera, and Ahana who are completely different from each other have set out on a liberating journey that is taking them to their next destination. All thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunjiramayanam
''Kunjiramayanam'' ( The story of Kunjiraman) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed by debutant Basil Joseph and scripted by Deepu Pradeep.The film features Vineeth Sreenivasan, Dhyan Sreenivasan and Aju Varghese in the lead roles. ''Kunjiramayanam'' was released on 28 August 2015. Plot Kunjiraman, the nephew of "Well-done" Vasu, plans to marry Vasu's daughter Thankamani. All plans are thwarted by Kunjiraman's dim-witted cousin brother Laalu, who places an inappropriate cassette in Kunjiraman's VCR, and later blaming it on Kunjiraman. With this incident, both families swear to have their child married before the other. To avenge this, Kunjiraman goes to the Gulf to make money, meanwhile Laalu becomes an apprentice in Kuttan's tailoring shop, where he looks up to Kuttan as his role model. On Kunjiraman's return, he plans to marry well and before Thankamani's wedding. His mother Sumathi fixes a marriage for him with Sajitha. On their engagement day, Sajitha m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Joseph
Basil Joseph (born 28 April 1990) is an Indian film director and actor who works in the Malayalam film industry. He directed three films, ''Kunjiramayanam'' (2015), ''Godha'' (2017) and ''Minnal Murali'' (2021). All three films were a huge success both commercially and critically. Besides direction, Basil is also an actor and has acted in numerous films. He started his career as an assistant director of Vineeth Sreenivasan in the 2013 film ''Thira''. His acting debut was through the 2013 film '' Up & Down: Mukalil Oralundu'' directed by T.K. Rajeev Kumar. Career Basil Joseph began his career in 2012 as an actor in the short film ''CET Life'' during his engineering days at College of Engineering, Trivandrum. He has also scripted and directed the short films, with Albert S ''Oru Thundu Padam'' and ''Priyamvadha Katharayano'' during his stint at Infosys, Trivandrum. Basil started his career in the Malayalam film industry by assisting Vineeth Sreenivasan in his third directio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Kumar (Tamil Filmmaker)
Vijay Kumar is an Indian actor, writer, director, lyricist and producer. His directorial debut, ''Uriyadi'', a political thriller set in the 1990s, was released in 2016 to high critical acclaim and was lauded as one of the best political thrillers in Tamil cinema. His second project '' Uriyadi 2'' released in April 2019. Early life Vijay was born in Chennai where he spent his schooling years. He then studied Metallurgical Engineering at the Government College of Engineering, Salem. A software engineer by profession, he quit his decade-long career in reputed companies like IBM, Infosys, Aditi Technologies, etc., to pursue his passion in cinema. Film career 2009–2013: Career beginnings He made a short film and applied to the ''Nalaya Iyakunar'' show in 2009, when it was in its first season. He was selected and subsequently screened two short films on the show. However, he had to leave it due to personal reasons. Vijay was a Project Lead in IBM when he quit his job to pursu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solo (soundtrack)
''Solo'' is the soundtrack to the 2017 Indian anthology film of the same name released in Malayalam and Tamil. Directed by Bejoy Nambiar Bejoy Nambiar (born 12 April 1979) is an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work in Bollywood. He is mostly known for his critically acclaimed short films, ''Rahu'' and '' Reflections'', starring Mohanlal. He was the winner of ..., ''Solo'' consists of four shorter films in the anthology and was shot simultaneously in Tamil and Malayalam. Composers who worked on the film are Prashant Pillai, Thaikkudam Bridge, Masala Coffee, Gaurav Godkhindi, Agam, Filter Coffee, Brodha V, TaalAtma, Abhinav Bhansal, Sooraj Kurup and Sez on the Beat. The album has 22 songs in Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi and English. The whole soundtrack lasts about an hour. Track listing World of Shekhar ;Tamil ''Solo - World of Shekhars ensemble soundtrack comprises four tracks by various artists. ;Malayalam ''Solo - World of Shekhars ensemble soundt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello Namasthe
Hello Namasthe is a 2016 Indian Malayalam comedy film directed by Jayan K. Nair and produced by Freedia Entertainment. Narrating the story of two modern-day couples as they find themselves at crossroads over a jackfruit tree that stands between their villas, ''Hello Namasthe'' was released on February 19, 2016. It stars Vinay Forrt, Bhavana, Sanju Sivram, and Miya. Plot The story starts with two young RJs (Radio Jockey) who are Madhav (Vinay Forrt) and Jerry (Sanju Sivram). They both are working as hosts for a radio show called Hello Namasthe. Jerry was invited to his ex-girlfriend Anna's ( Miya) wedding. She was going to wed a man named Pappu Joseph Thadikkaran (Aju Varghese) that day. Jerry went with Madhav and Abu (Soubin Shahir).After they see her bride groom Pappu, Jerry, Madhav and Abu don't like Pappu, and they persuade Jerry to ask Anna to go with them and Anna agrees. They drop Abu in his house and Madhav, Jerry and Anna go to Madhav's house. There they meet Madhav's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
