11 days ago
'Yamla Pagla Deewana 2' high on Punjabi flavour
Film: Yamla Pagla Deewana 2; Music Directors: Sharib-Toshi; Singers: Rahul Seth, Sanchita Bhattacharya, Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Mika Singh, Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Diljit Dosanjh, Sachinn Gupta, Dharmendra, and Suzzanne D'Mello; Rating: **1/2If the theme of director Sangeeth Sivan's forthcoming movie Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 has a strong Punjabi flavour, its soundtra ... read more

New Delhi | 20 days ago
President gives away 60th National Film Awards
New Delhi, May 3 - Talent from the Indian movie industry received awards from President Pranab Mukherjee at the 60th National Film Awards across various categories here Friday. Veteran actor Pran was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, but the 93-year-old couldn't make it to the event.The ceremony, hosted by actors R. Madhavan and Huma Qureshi, witnessed performances by Shankar Mahadevan, wh ... read more

Mumbai | 1 month ago
Aadesh Shrivastava to launch online singing classes
Mumbai, April 17 - After Shankar Mahadevan, composer Aadesh Shrivastava will launch an online singing classes for his fans.Good news for music lovers! Very soon I will start teaching classical and Bollywood singing classes online. Stay tuned, tweeted Mahadevan, who has provided compositions for films like Baghban, Baabul and Raajneeti.Composer-singer Shankar Mahadevan launched an online music acad ... read more

New Delhi | 4 months ago
Rakeysh Omprakash joins Save The Girl Child campaign
New Delhi, Jan 9 - Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has joined the likes of Hema Malini and Nagarjuna to lend support to the government's Save The Girl Child initiative. He has become a part of a music video to raise awareness, and calls it his baby step towards driving change.The song, called Betiyaan, is sung by Shankar Mahadevan and Sunidhi Chauhan.I became a part of this video, maybe because ... read more

New Delhi | 4 months ago
Great musicians not confined to Bollywood: Shankar Mahadevan
New Delhi, Jan 9 - Look beyond Bollywood for great musicians, says composer Shankar Mahadevan, who believes there is a huge talent pool in the country and that is yet to be fully tapped.There is so much talent in the country and not all of that necessarily is confined to Bollywood. There are some great musicians from the independent music scenario in India making some great music, Mahadevan told I ... read more

New Delhi | 4 months ago
Shankar Mahadevan, Indian Ocean set to 'storm' music!
New Delhi, Jan 5 - Shankar Mahadevan and Indian Ocean, two powerhouses of the Indian music industry, are set to collaborate for the first time for the grand finale of the second edition of Storm Music Festival.Mahadevan believes that there is more to Indian music than just Bollywood, and that is what they want to present through their joint performance.I really wanted to collaborate with them -. I ... read more

4 months ago
Taste the desi flavour with 'Matru Ki...' soundtrack
Film: Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola; Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj; Lyricist: Gulzar; Singers: Rekha Bhardwaj, Prem Dehati, Pankaj Kapur, Imran Khan, Sukhwinder Singh, Master Saleem, Vishal Bharadwaj, African Umoja, Mohit Chauhan, Shankar Mahadevan; Rating: ***1/2Vishal Bhardwaj goes desi again with Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola, set in Haryana. The music composed by him, completely in sync with the f ... read more

New Delhi | 5 months ago
Hyderabad girl, Panipat guy wins Shankar's MOBisur
New Delhi, Dec 24 - Hyderabad girl Pragya Patra and Rohit Sehgal from Panipat won MOBisur, a mobile and Internet-based singing talent hunt launched by composer-signer Shankar Mahadevan.The winners received a cash prize of Rs.5 lakh and will get an opportunity to record an album with Shankar, which will be released by T-Series and Hungama.There were six finalists and final decision was taken by the ... read more

Mumbai | 5 months ago
Shankar Mahadevan's son sings for 'Bhaag Milkha..'
Mumbai, Nov 30 - Singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan's son Siddharth has sung for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and the proud father is all praise for the director.Proud moment as a father when I hear my son Siddharth Mahadevan singing for 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'. Thank you Rakeysh Mehra for the encouragement, tweeted Shankar.Siddharth, 19, had earlier teamed up with cousin Soumil for Ma ... read more

Mumbai | 5 months ago
Shankar Mahadevan's son sings for 'Bhaag Milkha..'
Mumbai, Nov 30 - Singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan's son Siddharth has sung for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and the proud father is all praise for the director.Proud moment as a father when I hear my son Siddharth Mahadevan singing for 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'. Thank you Rakeysh Mehra for the encouragement, tweeted Shankar.Siddharth, 19, had earlier teamed up with cousin Soumil for Ma ... read more