SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT REIGNS AT THE 2012 BILLBOARD AWARDS

~ Ahead of all other music labels, Sony Music bags 22 Awards~
~ Adele (US only), Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Foster The People, Pitbull, Romeo Santos, Shakira and Whitney Houston took the top honors!~
Sony Music Entertainment, swept the maximum awards at the 2012 Billboard Awards thanks to Adele's (US Only) dominance of the evening's proceedings with the labels artist roster racking up 22 versus the others. Of Sony's final count, Sony's Adele (US only) doubled the six awards picked up by LMFAO.
It was one of the most touching moments of the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, in Las Vegas. The legendary, Whitney Houston, was honored posthumously with the Billboard Millennium Award in a tribute performance by Jordin Sparks andJohn Legend. After the tribute, Houston's sister-in-law, Pat Houston, and Bobbi Kristina joined Legend and Sparks to accept the Billboard Millennium Award in Houston's behalf. This gesture got the entire crowd in tears.
Chris Brown was a clear winner in the Top R&B artist category while the latino Shakira for the Top Latin Awards. Beyonce was applauded for her entire Album “4” along with Romeo Santos "Formula: Vol. 1" for Top Latin Album.
While in the song awards category, top radio song was won by Pitbull Feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer "Give Me Everything" and for the top rock song it wasFoster The People "Pumped Up Kicks"
Congratulations to all artists and kudos to the label!

Poet-painter gets Sohail Khan's support, gives proceeds for charity

Nature has always intrigued Dr.Nandita Desai, a painter-poet-educationist rolled into one. In her current series, the inspiration has been the greens, something that Dr.Desai worries will be extinct if we do not take steps to preserve it today. Hence, Nandita has captured all that she loves in various shadows of Green. Whether it be the vales, the flowers, the trees, the plants, the shrubs or the occasional creeper that tries to attract your attention with its curves, Nandita has used the brush as a magic wand to preserve those moments of time in frozen frames.
What happens when Desai and the benevolent Sohail Khan chance to meet? If Salman Khan chooses to paint, Sohail Khan, who confesses that "I cannot even draw a straight line" more than did his bit when he along with sufi singers Mudasir Ali and Victoria Polyakova, actor Vaishali Desai,artists Prafulla Dahanukar and Varsha Vyas, Aashish Vyas and Anusha Srinivasan Iyer of Art Buy Appointment Gallery, helped sell paintings for charity at Gallery Art Buy Appointment, and initiative to help young artists achieve their dreams.
In a simple event where Sohail managed to take out time between his shoot,the actor spent time talking to media and helping Nandita move her art for charity.
Said Nandita, "Earth,to me, is a living organism... ever changing,ever colourful and embodying the celebration of life. Nature vows me and inspires my creative spirit.Its energy leads me on an artistic journey.The idea is to look at what we see as nomal today may not be there at all tomorrow. If we need to have a tomorrow, we must protect our environment today," she reasons. The proceeds  go to  charity towards Save Earth NGO and the elderly.

Evelyn Sharma gets a VidyaBalan connect with Euphoria!

 
Even before actress Vidya Balan made it big in Bollywood,she was a known face in the industry, thanks to her association with the bandEuphoria. Now, newbie Evelyn Sharma is hoping, the same magic will rub on heras well. 
The half-German-half-Indian international supermodel, who isworking in a couple of Hindi flicks, including the Ranbir Kapoor-DeepikaPadukone-starrer Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, says, “When I was approached toperform for a Euphoria video opposite Palash Sen, I was very excited.”

 

“They've introduced many popular actresses, including VidyaBalan and Neha Dhupia. Moreover, I'm a huge fan of rock music, so I was morethan thrilled to do a slow rock song video with them,” she adds. Like mostEuphoria numbers earlier, the recently released video is also getting ravereviews. 
Meanwhile, apart from Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani underKaran Johar's banner Dharma Productions, Evelyn’s is also gearing up for ManishTiwary's Issaq opposite Prateik Babbar and veteran filmmaker PramodChakravorty's grandson Prateek Chakravorty’s debut film From Sydney With Love.

Kashmera Shah’s play goes the Hollywood way!

Many movies have shot two to three different endings andclimax sequences and decided which one to add in their projects at the lastminute. 
It’s a common practice in Hollywood to shoot two movieendings, take the opinions of focus groups and a cross section of people andretain the one more accepted. Bollywood too has caught up with a similar trendoff late. 
But what surprises us now is that Kashmera Shah’s latestplay Tere Ghar Ke Samne has adopted a similar practice, albeit with adifference. 
Over a few summer Sundays spread across weeks, Kash’s playhas been running to packed houses at various theatre outlets, whileexperimenting with not two, but three different endings. Almost every week, theviewers get to see a different climax to her play. Whoa! 
What’s more! What started as a one-off experiment is nowbecoming the norm. “Earlier we thought we’d do this for a couple of weeks andthen stick to the end the audiences find the best. But this experimenting processgets the actors and audiences alike so kicked, that we are continuing with it,”reveals Kash. 
Thanks to this, a select percentage of audiences have evenreturned for an extra round of the play, just to see how it will end in theirsecond outing. We are often amazed how you manage to begin such whacky trendsKash, but it’s cool as long as you continue to amuse and entertain. More powerto you and your wackiness girl!

Nana Patekar’s loss isPrakash Raj’s gain!

There was a strong buzz that Nana Patekar was approached toplay the main villain opposite Aazaan-fame star Sachiin Joshi for hisforthcoming film Mumbai Mirror. 
But inside sources reveal that Prakash Raj has been signedon for the pivotal role. The powerhouse performer, who happens to be theflavour of the year with Singham, is also very excited about his role in thefilm. And why not! After all the Jaykant Shikre of Singham will now get to playShetty; the most dreaded character in Mumbai Mirror. 
But instead of a righteous cop like Bajirao Singham, Shettywill clash with the raw energy of a quirky whimsical and corrupt cop played bySachiin Joshi. 
The realistic commercial potboiler mirrors the Mumbaiunderbelly and revolves around the nexus between powerful corrupt dance barlords and the Mumbai Police. Directed by Ankush Bhatt, of Bhindi Bazaar Inc.fame, the movie has some scintillating music by Anand Raj Anand. It’s expectedto release in September 2012.