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Mili Nair
MILI also known as Mili Nair (born on 7 April), is singer, songwriter, composer from India. She released her debut album, Written In The Stars, which featured Vinnie Colaiuta on drums, Michael Landau on guitar, James Genus on bass, and George Whitty on piano/keys. She wrote and composed all the songs on the album. In addition to writing her own music, she has also contributed to the Indian playback film industry. MILI has recorded and sung in multiple languages with notable composers such as A.R. Rahman, Amit Trivedi, Yuvan Shankar Raja, and Pritam. She has also lent her voice to some of the biggest advertising brand campaigns like Incredible India! directed by Prakash Varma. Biography Early life Mili was born in Mumbai and studied in Pune and Bangalore. Her journey into music began at an early age and she confesses she knew right from the very start that she was destined to sing and become a musician. Album: Written in the Stars Mili released her first album ''Writt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood Music
Hindi film songs, more formally known as Hindi Geet or Filmi songs and informally known as Bollywood music, are songs featured in Hindi films. Derived from the song-and-dance routines common in Indian films, Bollywood songs, along with dance, are a characteristic motif of Hindi cinema which gives it enduring popular appeal, cultural value and context. Hindi film songs form a predominant component of Indian pop music, and derive their inspiration from both classical and modern sources. Hindi film songs are now firmly embedded in North India's popular culture and routinely encountered in North India in marketplaces, shops, during bus and train journeys and numerous other situations. Though Hindi films routinely contain many songs and some dance routines, they are not musicals in the Western theatrical sense; the music-song-dance aspect is an integral feature of the genre akin to plot, dialogue and other parameters. The first song recorded in India by Gauhar Jaan in 1902 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanakkam Chennai
''Vanakkam Chennai'' () is a 2013 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi, in her debut. Produced by her husband Udhayanidhi Stalin of Red Giant Movies, the film stars Shiva and Priya Anand, while Santhanam and Rahul Ravindran portray supporting roles. It revolves around two people who end up renting the same house due to a fraudulent real estate broker, and slowly fall in love. Filming for ''Vanakkam Chennai'' began in February 2013 and was nearly complete that July, taking place mostly in Chennai and Munnar. The music is scored by Anirudh Ravichander, cinematography was handled by Richard M. Nathan, and editing by T. S. Suresh. The film was released worldwide on 11 October 2013. Plot K. Madasamy alias Ajay, a youth from Theni, comes to Chennai to take up a job. Anjali Rajamohan, a photographer from London, is also in the city to capture South Indian culture on camera. The duo are deceived by Narayanan, a real estate brok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puli (2010 Film)
''Puli'' () is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film written and directed by S. J. Suryah, starring Pawan Kalyan in the lead role, with Nikesha Patel, Manoj Bajpayee, Saranya Ponvannan, Charan Raj, Nassar, and Ali in supporting roles. The film features a soundtrack by A. R. Rahman and cinematography by Binod Pradhan. It was produced by Singanamala Ramesh Babu, on a ₹40 crore budget and was distributed by Geetha Arts. The film was released on 10 September 2010. Initially titled ''Komaram Puli'', the film was renamed ''Puli'' on its second day of release due to objections from Komaram Sony Rao, the grandson of tribal legend Komaram Bheem, whose name had inspired the original title. The Nizam distribution rights were sold to Geetha Arts for ₹12 crore, a record-breaking sum at the time. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe
''Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe'' () is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language road film written and directed by Lakshmy Ramakrishnan. It features Shabeer Kallarakkal, Piaa Bajpai, and Sruthi Hariharan in the leading roles. The film was released on 31 October 2014. Cast * Shabeer Kallarakkal as Chandru Subramaniyam * Piaa Bajpai as Maya * Sruthi Hariharan as Maha * A. L. Azhagappan as Kaleeshwaran * Viji Chandrasekhar as Seetha * Y. Gee. Mahendra as Subramaniyam * Thambi Ramaiah as Rajagopalan * Bala Saravanan as Chokku * Sanchana Natarajan as Maya's friend * Ambika as Chandru's mother * Lakshmy Ramakrishnan as Nalini Vaidhi * Thalaivasal Vijay * A. V. Anoop * Shyam Sagar * Gautham Kurup * Prathik Devalla * Ramakrishnan as Subramaniyam's friend * Ashwin Kumar Lakshmikanthan as Maya's friend Production Lakshmy Ramakrishnan announced that her second film would be a road movie featuring a trip from Trichy to Karaikal, which would be shot on the backdrop of a petrol crisis. Piaa Bajpai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanbenda
''Nannbenda'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Jagadish and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin with himself in the lead role, Nayanthara, Santhanam and Sherin Shringar. The music was composed by Harris Jayaraj with cinematography by Balasubramaniem and edited by Vivek Harshan. The movie was released on 2 April 2015. The title of this film is derived from a dialogue uttered by Santhanam in the film Boss Engira Bhaskaran. Plot Sathya is an unemployed youth from Thanjavur who goes to Trichy every month to meet his old childhood friend Sivakozhundhu, who is a hotel manager, and spend his day with the latter's salary. One such time, he meets Ramya, a bank manager, and falls in love with her. He believes that if he sees a girl three times a day casually, she will be his lucky lady. Sathya meets Ramya twice and goes all over Trichy with Sivakozhundhu in search of her. He decides to stay there that night. Just before 12:00, he sees Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 31 August 1979), is an Indian composer and playback singer. He mainly scores music for Tamil films along with few Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi films. Considered a versatile composer, he is particularly known for his use of Western culture#Music, Western music elements and often credited with having introduced Hip hop music, hip hop to the Tamil film and music industry and started the "era of remixes" in Tamil Nadu which included mixed Electronic dance music, EDM and jazz. He is frequently referred to as the "BGM King" of Tamil film music. Yuvan has won two Filmfare Awards South, five Mirchi Music Awards South, three Vijay Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director, Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. Within a span of 25 years, Yuvan has worked on over 190 films. Being the youngest son of composer Ilaiyaraaja, he began his musical career in 1996, at the age of 16, when he composed the film score for ''Aravindhan''. He got his breakthrough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poojai
''Poojai'' () is a 2014 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Hari and produced by Vishal. The film stars Vishal, alongside Shruti Haasan, Sathyaraj, Radhika Sarathkumar, Mukesh Tiwari, Awadesh Mishra and Soori. Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the music, while cinematography and editing were handled by Priyan and V. T. Vijayan. Principal photography began on 18 April 2014. ''Poojai'' was released on 22 October 2014, on the occasion of Diwali, to mixed reviews from critics and became a box office success. The film was remade in Kannada as '' Anjani Putra'' with Puneeth Rajkumar and Rashmika Mandanna reprising the roles of Vishal and Shruti Haasan respectively. Plot Vasudevan "Vasu" is the heir of ''Kovai Group'', a cloth manufacturing company in Coimbatore. Due to a misunderstanding, Vasu gets disowned by his mother and matriarch of his joint family Rajalakshmi. Years later, Vasu is now working as a moneylender and lives a normal life with his friends Kutt ... [...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] |
Shaadi Ke Side Effects
''Shaadi Ke Side Effects'' () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Saket Chaudhary, and starring Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan. It is the sequel to the 2006 film '' Pyaar Ke Side Effects''. The film is produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Pritish Nandy Communications. The film is about a young couple who experience many comic events after their marriage. It was released on 28 February 2014. Plot Sid (Farhan Akhtar) and Trisha (Vidya Balan) are a happily married couple until Trisha gets pregnant and things start getting complicated. Sid is not ready for a baby, as he is just a struggling music composer, yet he lies to Trisha. On his friends' advice, Sid starts reading pregnancy books and following Trisha's daily routine by putting a balloon in his shirt. Finally, Trisha gives birth to a baby girl and starts devoting all her time to the baby. Trisha's mother (Rati Agnihotri) feels that Sid is a careless person and can not take on this responsibility, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coke Studio (India)
''Coke Studio'' is an Indian music series that's part of the international franchise, Coke Studio. It features live studio recordings by various artists, showcasing a diverse range of music. This includes classical genres from the Indian subcontinent like Hindustani, Carnatic, Indian folk, alongside hip hop, rock, and pop music. Launched in India in 2011 as Coke Studio @ MTV, the program enjoyed a successful run for four seasons, culminating in 2015. Currently, India boasts two active editions: Coke Studio Tamil and Coke Studio Bharat. The program's concept originated in Brazil and has subsequently expanded its reach worldwide. History The Coke Studio phenomenon emerged in Brazil in 2007. It was conceived as a studio-based adaptation of Brazil's existing live concert platform, ''Estúdio Coca-Cola''. This new format aimed to foster musical fusions by bringing together two Brazilian artists and blending their styles. The concept found international application in 2008 wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maattrraan
''Maattrraan'' () is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by K. V. Anand, who co-wrote the script with Subha, and produced by AGS Entertainment. The film stars Suriya in dual roles as a conjoined twin brothers, along with Kajal Aggarwal in the female lead. It also stars an ensemble supporting cast. The film features music composed by Harris Jayaraj, cinematography handled by Soundararajan, editing done by Anthony, respectively. V. Srinivas Mohan, handled the visual effects. The film was launched on 22 July 2011, along with the commencement of principal photography. A major portion of the film was shot in the Balkan region in countries like Croatia, Serbia, Albania and Macedonia, as well as Latvia and other parts of Europe, with rest of the scenes in India. ''Maattrraan'' was the first Indian film to use performance capture technology. Based on the conjoined twins concept, the film was released on 12 October 2012 to mixed reviews. Plot Ramachandr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
