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Oasis (festival)
{{Infobox recurring event , name = Oasis , image = Oasis Logo.jpg , image_size = 250px , caption = Oasis logo , status = Active , genre = Cultural festival , frequency = Annual (52 editions) , venue = Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani , location = Pilani, Rajasthan, India , years_active = 1971–present , organiser = Students' Council for Cultural Activities (StuCCA), BITS Pilani , attendance = over 8-10,000 attendees from 350+ colleges , website bits-oasis.org Oasis is the annual cultural festival of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani. Spanning 96 hours of uninterrupted festivities, Oasis is entirely student-organised and is widely regarded as one of India's premier college cultural festivals. It includes a rich variety of music, dance, drama, fashion, comedy, and other performing arts competitions and shows. The 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entertainment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abish Mathew
Abish Mathew is an Indian stand-up comedian and YouTuber. He is known for his work with All India Bakchod, as the creator and host of a late night show ''Son of Abish'' and ''Journey Of A Joke'', He is also referred to as GM Abish Mathew in Comedians on Board (A YouTube Tournament series by Samay Raina) and as the host of Comicstaan. Personal life Mathew got engaged to actress and YouTuber Archana Kavi in 2015. They were married on 23 January 2016 in Vallarpadam Church, Kerala The marriage function was attended by Rima Kallingal, Aashiq Abu and Abish's friends from Delhi and comedians like Kenny Sebastian, Kaneez Surka, Rohan Joshi and Kanan Gill. In 2021, the couple filed for divorce. Career He began his career as a radio jockey at Red FM, Delhi before switching to stand-up comedy. He has a YouTube channel called ''Son Of Abish'', and another called ''Journey of a Joke''. In 2018 Abish appeared in an Amazon PrimeVideo special, ''Whoop''. Controversy Abish was in ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Shaan
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music festivals), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or festivals), and turntablists (who use record players, usually turntables, to manipulate sounds on phonograph records). Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names. DJs commonly use audio equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously. This enables them to blend tracks together to create tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRSNA (rapper)
Krishna Kaul, known mononymously as Krishna, stylised now as KR$NA, (previously as Krsna; known formerly as YoungProzpekt) is an Indian rapper. He was one of the earliest rappers to emerge in the Indian hip hop scene in the mid-2000s under the stage name Prozpekt. He is widely acknowledged within the Desi hip-hop community for pioneering a lyrical revolution in the genre, infusing a new wave of poetic depth and lyrical complexity into hip-hop's narrative. He was also briefly featured in the 2019 Bollywood film Gully Boy as himself. Early life Krishna Kaul was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family in Delhi. He spent a part of his childhood in South London, where he was raised and schooled for a few years. Kaul started rapping at the age of fourteen in an effort to blend in with other children at his school in London. He did graduation from Hansraj College. Career Krishna's first shot of success came with the release of the music video for "Kaisa Mera Desh" in 2010, becoming t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seedhe Maut
Seedhe Maut is a hip hop duo from Delhi, India, consisting of Siddhant Sharma (stage name Calm) from Nainital and Abhijay Negi (stage name Encore ABJ). Formed in 2015, their name comes from a slang that the former's brother used perpetually among his friends to signify "giving their full potential to something". The rap duo has made songs on romance, politics, Indian society and the education system, and their lifestyle. In 2017, they signed to the independent music label Azadi Records. After releasing their final project ''Lunch Break'' with Azadi Records in 2023, they departed from the label and found their own independent labelDL91 in 2024. Career 2015-2017: Formation and ''2 Ka Pahada'' The two met at Spit Dope Inc., a Delhi underground battle rap league organized by MC Kode and Encore ABJ at Deer Park, Hauz Khas Village, where Calm delivered a freestyle that would capture the latter's attention. After competing in various rap battles and cyphers together, the duo would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucleya
Udyan Sagar, better known by his stage name Nucleya, is an Indian electronic music producer and DJ. Career In 1998, Udyan co-founded Bandish Projekt with Mayur Narvekar and Mehirr Nath Choppra. In 2007, Udyan left Bandish Projekt after working with Mayur for about 12 years, and rebuilt himself as "Nucleya". After leaving Bandish Projekt his career struggled quite a bit initially. He drew inspiration from South Indian film music and Indian street music, and released his first EP ''Koocha Monster'' in 2013. In 2015, Nucleya released his debut album, ''Bass Rani'', at a Ganpati visarjan on the streets of Mumbai. In the following year, he released another album ''Raja Baja''. 2019 marked the release of "Tota Myna". In 2021, he released an EP titled ''Baaraat'' in collaboration with Ritviz. The four track EP was accompanied by a series of NFT. Nucleya, in collaboration with AIB, hosted and picked the winners of Bacardi House Party Sessions in 2017. He has also been a judge on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy () is an Indian musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. They have composed music for over 50 soundtracks across five languages: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi and English. Amongst the most critically acclaimed Indian musicians, the trio have won numerous awards, including National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards, and IIFA Awards. They are often referred to as the " Amar Akbar Anthony" (AAA) of the Hindi film music industry. They are known for their compositions in ''Dil Chahta Hai'' (2001), ''Kal Ho Naa Ho'' (2003), '' Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'' (2006), '' My Name Is Khan'' (2010), ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' (2011) and '' Dil Dhadakne Do'' (2015). Members Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan, the main vocalist of the trio, was born and brought up in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai, in a Tamil family from Kerala. He learned Hindustani classical music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing the veena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucky Ali
Maqsood Mahmood Ali (born 19 September 1958), better known as Lucky Ali, is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor. He is considered an important artist to popularize pop culture and albums in Indian music and is considered one of the finest artists in India. With several popular singles and albums, he emerged as a significant figure of Indipop during the 1990s. Early life and education Ali is the second of the eight children of Bollywood actor, Mehmood Ali. His mother Mahliqa, was part Bengali and part Pashtun, and the younger sister of 1960s Indian Bollywood actress Meena Kumari. The Bollywood actress and dancer, Minoo Mumtaz, was his paternal aunt. He attended City Montessori School, Convent of Jesus and Mary, Hampton Court, Mussoorie, Manekji Cooper (Kindergarten) (Juhu), Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai, and the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore. Connection with Tagore family His mother Mahliqa's grandmother, Hem Sundari Tagore, was either the daughter or a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, live performer, and composer. He sings songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music. He was inspired by the classical musicians Kumar Gandharva, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Bhimsen Joshi, and the Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Kailash Kher received the Padma Shri award in 2017 from the Indian government. He has also received two Filmfare Awards; Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the Hindi film '' Fanaa'' (2006) and Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer – Telugu for the Telugu film '' Mirchi'' (2013), along with several other nominations. With his powerful voice and his unique style of music, Kher has established himself as one of the most popular playback singers of India. Lokmat Sur Jyotsna National Music Award 2021 for his contribution to Indian music Early life and struggle Kher was born on 7 July 1973 in Mayur Vihar, Delhi in a Kashmiri family. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian actor, filmmaker and singer who works in Hindi films. Born to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he established the production company Excel Entertainment, along with Ritesh Sidhwani, in 1999. Akhtar made his directorial debut with the coming-of-age film '' Dil Chahta Hai'' (2001), receiving critical acclaim for portraying realistic modern Indian youth, and winning the National Award for Best Hindi Film and Filmfare Awards for Best Film (Critics) and Best Screenplay. He then directed the war film '' Lakshya'' (2004), the action thriller '' Don'' (2006) and its sequel ''Don 2'' (2011). As an actor, Akhtar made his screen debut with the musical drama ''Rock On!!'' (2008), for which he won a second National Film Award for Best Hindi Film (as producer) as well as the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He starred in, wrote the dialogues for, and produced the buddy-road film ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'' (2011), whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Trivedi
Amit Trivedi (born 8 April 1979) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician who works primarily for Indian cinema. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film '' Aamir'', he gained prominence for his work in the Hindi film Music for '' Dev.D'' (2009). Early life Amit Trivedi was born in Bandra, Mumbai. Growing up, his only connect with music was devotional songs and Gujarati folk. His native city is Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Career During his early days, an electronic musical instrument fascinated Trivedi and he ultimately, in his college days, along with Amartya Bobo Rahut, Shriram Iyer and fellow members Ram and Vish started a band known as Om the Fusion Band, who performed at local gigs, small shows and live performances. They struck gold when Times Music took notice at one of their shows and offered to launch their album. The album however did not fare we ... [...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] |
