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Aap Jaisa Koi
"Aap Jaisa Koi" () is a song from the soundtrack of the 1980 Bollywood film '' Qurbani''. It was the debut song of Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan, and was composed by British Indian producer Biddu. The song was featured in the film as an item number, picturised on Zeenat Aman. It has been remixed and sampled by many other artists. The song was a big hit, and gained cult status in India and Pakistan. It was a filmi disco song that revolutionized Pakistani pop, Indi-pop, and Bollywood music. History Feroz Khan was a famous leading actor of Bollywood in the early 1960s. As time passed, he became a director and he acted as a leading actor in many of his films and most of his films of the 1960s and 1970s were hit in the box office. After two decades of popularity as an actor and director, Feroz made another movie, ''Qurbani''. He wanted to create a new song titled "Aap Jaisa Koi" for the film. Zeenat Aman introduced the 15-year-old Nazia Hassan, a UK-based Pakistani to Feroz. Nazia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazia Hassan
Nazia Hassan (3 April 1965 – 13 August 2000) was a Pakistani singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist. Referred to as the Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of South Asian pop, she is considered one of the most influential singers in the subcontinent. Starting in the 1980s, as part of the duo Nazia and Zoheb, she and her brother Zoheb Hassan, have sold over 65 million records worldwide. Hassan made her singing debut with the song "Aap Jaisa Koi", which appeared in the Cinema of India, Indian film ''Qurbani (film), Qurbani'' in 1980. She received praise for the single, and won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer at the age of 15 in 1981, becoming the first Pakistani to win and currently remains the youngest recipient of the award to date. Her debut album, ''Disco Deewane'', was released in 1981, and charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Music of Asia, Asian pop record up at the time. The album included the English-langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Music Industry
The Indian Music Industry (IMI) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in India. It was founded on February 28, 1936, as Indian Phonographic Industry (IPI). It is the 2nd oldest music industry organization in the world that was involved in protecting copyrights of music producers and supporting growth of music entertainment industry. In 1994, it was renamed as Indian Music Industry (IMI) and represented India at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). It is also registered with the West Bengal Societies Registration Act. All major music labels in India are part of this association. Record companies like Saregama India Ltd. (HMV), Universal Music (India), Tips Industries Limited, Sony Music Entertainment (India), Virgin Records, Magnasound, Aditya Music, Times Music, Zee Music Company and T-Series several other prominent international, national and regional labels are part of the IMI. The IMI represents over 75% of all legal music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Action Hero
''An Action Hero'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Anirudh Iyer in his directorial debut and produced by T-Series Films and Colour Yellow Productions. It stars Ayushmann Khurrana and Jaideep Ahlawat in the lead roles. In the film, an action film star goes on the run after accidentally killing the brother of a ruthless politician. ''An Action Hero'' was released on 2 December 2022 and received mostly positive reviews from critics, but underperformed at the box office. Plot Maanav is a popular actor, who is known as a leading man in action films. For his upcoming film shoot, Maanav heads to Mandothi in Haryana. Vicky Solanki, an aspiring strongman politician currently contesting the local elections, wants to meet Maanav to gain publicity. Due to busy shooting schedule Maanav does not pay heed. Just when he is about to meet Vicky, Maanav is distracted by the delivery of his new Ford Mustang and goes for a long drive. Enraged, Vicky follows and manha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaika Arora
Malaika Arora (born 23 October 1973) is an Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ and a television personality who appears in Hindi-language films. She made her debut as a film producer in 2008, with her former husband Arbaaz Khan, founding the company Arbaaz Khan Productions, which created the ''Dabangg'' film series. As an actress, she has starred as a lead in films like ''Kaante'' (2002) and ''EMI'' (2008). She also performed in the songs ''Chaiyya Chaiyya'' (1998), ''Gur Naalo Ishq Mitha'' (1998), ''Maahi Ve'' (2002), ''Kaal Dhamaal'' (2005) and ''Munni Badnaam Hui'' (2010). Early life and background Malaika Arora was named after the Swahili word ''malaika'' (derived from the Arabic plural form ''malāʾika'') meaning "angel". She was born in Thane, Maharashtra. Her parents divorced when she was 11 years old and she moved to Chembur with her mother, and sister Amrita. Her mother, Joyce Polycarp, is a Malayali and her father, Anil Arora, was a Punjabi native to Indian bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negar Khan
Negar Khan (born 18 July 1984; also credited as Nigar Khan) is an Iranian-born Norwegian actress. She is best known for her Bollywood item songs and film work. Personal life Khan is fluent in the Persian, Azeri, Norwegian, English and Urdu languages. Khan has a bachelor's degree in ''Marketing & Advertising'' and two master's degree in international business and film & television. She married Sahil Khan on September 21, 2004, but divorced in July 2005. In 2009, she had a new romance with someone from India while keeping a low profile. Career Khan gained fame when she appeared in the music video of a remix of the classic Indian Hindi movie song " Chadti Jawani Meri Chaal Mastani". She was a contestant in the Norwegian version of the ''Paradise Hotel'' reality show, where she was accused of having multiple plastic surgeries. She claimed that she has not undergone any surgery. Filmography Controversies Khan allegedly posed topless for the Norwegian men's magazine ''VI Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Choudry
Sophie Choudry (born 8 February 1982) is a British singer and actress based in India. She has been active primarily in Hindi-language films and is also a former MTV India VJ and occasional model, and television presenter. Early life Sophie Choudry was born and brought up in Manchester. Her father was a major fan of Sophia Loren and hence her birthname is "Sophia", however she now goes by the name "Sophie". She has an elder brother. Choudry studied at London School of Economics, graduating in European politics and French and is also a gold medalist from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Furthermore, she studied for nearly two years at the "Sciences Po" in Paris, France. BollySpice reports, that while still studying, Choudry became a VJ for Zee UK. She took a few classes in Indian classical dance as Bharatnatyam, which she learnt in London for four years as well as Western dances like salsa. She is also well trained in Western classical music, which she learnt fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Series (company)
Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, doing business as T-Series, is an Indian music record label and film production company founded by Gulshan Kumar on 11 July 1983. It is primarily known for Bollywood music soundtracks and Indi-pop music. As of 2014, T-Series is India's largest music record label, with up to a 35% share of the Indian music market, followed by Sony Music India and Zee Music. T-Series also owns and operates the most-viewed and the most-subscribed YouTube channel, with over 225 million subscribers and 201billion total views While best known as a music label, T-Series has also had some moderate success as a film production company. Kumar, initially a fruit juice seller in Delhi, founded T-Series to sell pirated Bollywood songs before the company eventually began producing new music. Their breakthrough came with the soundtrack for the 1988 Bollywood blockbuster ''Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak'', composed by Anand–Milind, written by Majrooh Sultanpuri, and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Desi
''American Desi'' is a 2001 American comedy film with Indian influence, notable for featuring many prominent South Asian American actors. Also featured is an a cappella version of Nazia Hassan's Urdu classic "Aap Jaisa Koi", sung by Penn Masala and originally from the movie '' Qurbani''. The term ''Desi'' in the title refers to the people and cultures of the Indian subcontinent. Plot An American son of Indian immigrants, Krishnagopal Reddy, or "Kris" as he prefers to be called (to distance himself from his heritage), does not associate with the Indian culture that his parents have pushed upon him. Upon arriving at Rutgers University, he finds out to his dismay that all of his roommates are of Indian descent, and all except one are international students from India. His roommates include Ajay (Kal Penn), who idealizes African-American culture; Jagjit, who loves art but studies engineering to please his father; and Salim, who is very traditional and conservative, feeling that Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penn Masala
Penn Masala is an American a cappella group. It is the world's first and premier South Asian a cappella group. Formed in 1996 by students at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Masala's music has been influenced by the Eastern and Western cultures that represent the group's membership. The group was featured on the soundtrack of '' American Desi'', and has released twelve full-length albums: ''Awaaz'', ''11 PM'', ''Soundcheck'', ''The Brown Album'', ''Pehchaan'', ''On Detours'', ''Panoramic'', ''Kaavish'', ''Resonance'',''Yuva'', ''Musafir'', ''Midnight Oil,'' an EP titled ''Vol. 1'' and the compilation album ''Out of Stock''. The group has performed at the White House, the Indian Filmfare Awards, and for prominent leaders including Ban Ki-moon and Mukesh Ambani. The group also had a cameo role in Pitch Perfect 2, released in May 2015. History Penn Masala, often stylized as pennmasala, was formed in 1996 by students at the University of Pennsylvania who wanted to represent thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Cappella
''A cappella'' (, also , ; ) music is a performance by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. The term ''a cappella'' was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato musical styles. In the 19th century, a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony, coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists, led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music. The term is also used, rarely, as a synonym for ''alla breve''. Early history A cappella could be as old as humanity itself. Research suggests that singing and vocables may have been what early humans used to communicate before the invention of language. The earliest piece of sheet music is thought to have originated from times as early as 2000 B.C. while the earliest that has survived in its entirety is from the first century A.D.: a piece from Greece called the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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