Television star Sandeep Anand impresses veteran actor Satish Kaushik

Television’s popular actor comedian Sandeep Anand who is known for his outstanding comical performance in Life OK’s May I Come Madam is on cloud nine.  The talented actor who is currently sharing screen space with veteran actor Satish Kaushik, in his ongoing serial is flooded with appreciations and blessings from the latter.

The well-known legend filmmaker, actor and producer Satish Kaushik recently has entered in May I come in Madam portraying the role of Sajan’s (Sandeep Anand) Bobby chacha.  A source from the sets informed that while shooting for a sequence, Satish Kaushik was seen expressing his admiration for the versatile actor Sandeep Anand. Ever since FIR days, Satish ji was impressed by Sandeep’s acting skills and his desire to learn more. Since both the actors have a theatrical background, the two were seen bonding greatly on the sets too.

Talking about it brilliant actor Sandeep Anand said, “It is an overwhelming feeling to receive such great appreciations from such a legendary personality. Satishji is one of the fine actors of cinema and it is an honour to work with him. It feels great to know that my hardwork and talent is been observed and appreciated by him. I am looking forward to learn lot of things from him and hoping to achieve some milestone in acting like him in future.

RAVE is back, the Music is back

Pre- Launch Of "Rave Magazine" spearheaded by Rishi Shah (Publisher & CEO, Crossbones Media)

The visionary global music media mogul, philanthropist & founder of India’s most popular and respected music magazine, Rishi Shah, Publisher & CEO Crossbones Media, hosted a pre launch of the “New RAVE” over music, cocktails & dinner focused on home-grown independent music, "Karmic Magazine”, luxury with a conscience & "One Nation” for the youth, bringing the funk to India.The pre- launch of "RAVE" magazine saw the presence of Padam Prakash Gupta , Kunal Ganjawala , Komal Rampal , Hrishtaa Bhatt ,DJ Sheizwood, Shweta khanduri ,Vivek Mishra ,Imam Siddiqui, Prashant Virender sharma ,Smita Gondkar  ,Suman , Anurradha Tewari, Kubra Sait Creative consultant crossbones media Guests grooved to the tunes of Milica, Dhol For Soul, Selvaganesh, U Rajesh, Underground Authority.  Rishi Shah (Publisher & CEO, Crossbones Media) spoke lengths about the magazine "RAVE is the axis of music in India" further adds "When I left RAVE in Feb. 2009, it was because I thought I had done all that I could do to the best of my abilities in the area of music, media and for emerging artistes. After 8 years, away from music, the greatest artistes in India, the agencies and most importantly my colleagues and the media asked me to come back because as my dear friend Dr. L Subramaniam said, “Rishi, I have a new presentation of my violin but I cannot do it without RAVE. I realized that no media platform was able to fill the void left by my departure and RAVE’s departure from the Indian music landscape." Anuradha Tewari the creative consultant is glad to put her experience of Films , Cinema ,Events ,heading channels ,Direction ,Writing and be part of RAVE and Crossbones Media All of us must come to experience RAVE “because music will save the world”. RAVE is the axis that unites and binds the splintered music industry of India from north to south, from classical to pop, from hip-hop to jazz, from electronic to folk. RAVE is the place where everyone is respected for what they are. RAVE is back to showcase the diversity of the human experience in a celebration of the unity of human spirit. Welcome to the incredible world of RAVE, a magazine that has been the voice and authority for emerging music in India. Celebrating 15 years of excellence and dominance in the world of music content with a focus on unifying music fans from across the globe by providing exclusive engaging content where people can interact digitally and participate with the best in the business like Elton John, Rolling Stones, A. R Rehman, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Selvaganesh etc.

New single 'No Lie' featuring Dua Lipa, by Grammy Award winner Sean Paul

Dancehall legend, Grammy Award winner and much loved hit maker extraordinaire Sean Paul who has spent the last 8 weeks at no. 1 (including the Christmas no.1) on Clean Bandit’s “Rockabye” drops the video for his new brand new single ‘No Lie’. The video, directed by Tim Nackashi (Maroon 5, One Republic)  features fast rising chart-topper Dua Lipa who duets with Sean on the track with creative direction from long-time collaborator Tanisha Scott who has worked with Beyonce, Rihanna and memorably with Drake on the Hotline Bling video. ”No Lie” comes hot on the heels of Sean’s standout collaboration with Clean Bandit and his global smash with Sia on ‘Cheap Thrills’ which hit number 1 on the Billboard, no. 2 on the UK charts and has just been nominated for a Grammy. 

Sean Paul is without doubt one of the most instantly recognisable voices in music and he   has continued his remarkable strike rate over the last year with a string of hits including Cheap Thrills: 159 Million Streams On Spotify + over 1.4m Sales on iTunes, Cheap Thrills – No. 1 on the US Chart | No. 2 on the UK Chart (In chart for 55 weeks), Jay Sean (feat. Sean Paul) – Make My Love Go: 60 Million Streams On Spotify, Little Mix (feat. Sean Paul) – Hair: 48 Million Streams On Spotify, Matoma & Sean Paul – Paradise: 14 Million Streams on Spotify (inc. various appearances on major Dance Playlists e.g. “Massive Dance Hits” & “UK House Music”, Sak Noel & Sean Paul – Trumpets: 35 Million Streams on Spotify, Strong Social Presence with 13m YouTube Views, 361K Instagram Followers & 11m Facebook Likes.

In 2002 “Dutty Rock” (fuelled by the massive hit singles “Gimme The Light “ and “Get Busy”) went double Platinum in US & UK with worldwide sales of 3,400,000+ while 2006’s “Temperature” reached x4 Platinum in US with sales of over 4m. Over the span of his career, Sean Paul has worked with some of the world’s biggest artists including Beyonce, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Sia, Kelly Rowland, Enrique Iglesias and 2Chainz, and has also partnered with reggae and dancehall acts such as Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley, Chi Chi Ching, Mr. Vegas, Beenie Man, Ding Dong, Future Fambo, and Tami Chynn. Aside from being a top-notch performer, Sean Paul is a much sought after music producer and has created music with a number of top Jamaican artistes. 

‘No Lie’ ft. Dua Lipa is available across all digital partners Exclusively on Universal Music Group. Listen here: https://universalmusicindia.lnk.to/NoLie

About Universal Music India:

Universal Music India Pvt. Ltd. (UMIPL) is a 100% subsidiary of the Universal Music Group (UMG) and is home to record labels such as A&M Records, Blue Note Records, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophone, Emarcy, Geffen Records, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Music Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records.

UMIPL has an extremely rich Indian catalogue comprising songs from classic Hindi and Regional Films, IndiPop, Bhangra, Ghazals and Devotional. It’s enviable catalogue includes artistes such as Asha Bhosle, Anup Jalota, Bombay Vikings, Jagjit Singh, JoSh, Malkit Singh, Pankaj Udhas, Panjabi MC, Raghav, Mohit Chouhan, Euphoria, Adnan Sami, Rabbi Shergill, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan to name a few. UMIPL’s `film’ catalogue (the 2nd largest in India) spans music from blockbusters such as Sholay, Qurbani, Amar Akbar Anthony, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Devdas and Munnabhai MBBS amongst the numerous jewels which symbolize the musical journey from the 70’s to date. On the International music front, UMIPL are the clear market leaders with artistes such as Sean Paul, ABBA, Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams, Enrique Iglesias, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, The Beatles, UB40, Deep Purple, Enigma, Norah Jones, Deadmau5, The Chemical Brothers, amongst host of others, popular music icons and household names in India.

Manjhi dialogue writers hit the globe with Recession!

At a time when demonetisation has its side-effects, here is a short film on recession made by the researchers-dialogue writers of Manjhi The Mountain Man that is making waves globally. Director Varadraj Swami’s Recession, penned by Shahzad Ahmad and Varadraj Swami was lauded at the Festival Du Cinema De Paris, San Francisco Short Film Festival,Chicago Short Film Festival, and won the Special Mention in the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles.Starring Arvind Swami, Priya Jaiswal,  Dev Khubnani, Ravikant, Manoj Singh, Touras Iqbal and Yash Bharat Jain, Recession follows the recent success of their earlier film Akhbar Ka Ek Panna that won at the New York Short Film Festival and Rasika Agashe won the Best Actor Award.Set against the backdrop of an economic slowdown, Recession revolves around three different

sets of victims of this crisis living in the same city. One is a conscientious executive who goes to work even on a Sunday. The second is the auto-rickshaw driver who plies his trade all day long despite suffering from peptic ulcers. The third is an unemployed youngster determined looking at all avenues to find a job that touches the lives of others in a unique way. Says the duo, “This is our third film on the cause-effect relationship between metropolitan life and urban chaos and how we are nothing but those caught in the ever-spiralling tornado of modern day living.  This metro madness seems to find takers in Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and Los Angeles, this time. And we are glad.”

‘OK JAANU’ STARCAST SPREADS LOVE AND ROMANCE IN THE CAPITAL CITY

The 2013 hit Jodi Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor promoted their upcoming film ‘Ok Jaanu’ in Delhi. Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor who started their filmy career as the main lead in Ashiqui 2 are coming back with another romantic film of the year ‘Ok Jaanu’. Directed by Shaad Ali, Ok Jaanu is an official remake of the Tamil film ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’. The film also stars Naseeruddin Shah and Leela Samson in supporting roles. The duo expressed their excitement and love for Delhi winters and said that finally their winter clothes are being used. When asked about the change they noticed in each other after Ashiqui 2, Aditya said "Shraddha has become very busy. She has done more films than me. So, that's the only change in time that I noticed" On the other hand, Shraddha said "What I like about Aditya is his preparation of the role and the dialogues. There's not much change in him, except his hair" (Laughs) Aditya Roy Kapoor who began his acting career with side roles in ‘London Dreams’, ‘Action Replay’ and ‘Guzaarish’ considers himself to be lucky to share screen space with big Bollywood stars. An actor, singer and an amazing dancer, Shraddha Kapoor has proved her mettle in every film. When asked about her idea of live-in-relationship, she answered “I am  living with my family and I enjoy spending time with them but if I get someone in my life with whom I could think of spending my life with, then I might go for the live-in- relationship“. She will also be seen in Half Girlfriend and ‘Haseena: The Queen of Mumbai’ The music of the film is already hitting up the audiences and the chartbusters. With a new age version of the iconic song 'Humma', Shraddha said "I was very small when the original song came and at that time I used to dance on the number in front of the mirror. We cannot recreate the magic which the original song did but we tried our best to at least match with it  abit. I am really glad that people are liking the song"

The film is releasing on 13th January 2017