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Kalaiarasan's upcoming flick China is set in the streets of Burma Bazaar. The film narrates the story of a boy who struggles to make the ends meet with his store in Burma Bazaar. However, an exciting offer changes his life forever. Directed by Harshavardana, Ritu Varma plays the lead while Ved Shankar is the music director.
Ajith visits Burial site of Jayalalitha and Apollo to pay last respects for Cho
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Trisha visits Jayalalitha burial site and pays homage to the former CM
Actress Trisha and her mother Uma visited the site were the former CM was buried and paid their homage to the iconic leader. While many kollywood celebrities including Trisha's peer group heroine Nayanthara visited Rajaji Bhavan where Jayalalitha's mortal remains were kept for public homage on December 6, Trisha could not make visit on that day. Trisha has always claimed that recently departed CM J.Jayalalitha is always her inspirational personality. Both Jayalalitha and Trisha are the alumnus of Church Park convent in Chennai.
Little known facts about RD Burman
Pancham introduced the twin track effect in 'Baharon Ke Sapne', which he later used to create the mesmerizing 'Qatra Qatra Miltee Hai' [Ijaazat] and a few more songs. He also pioneered the use of electronic organ in Indian Films with the song 'O Mere Sona Re' [Teesri Manzil] RD was, as Gulzar says, as good a craftsman as a musician. In 'Chura Liya' he used the sound of a spoon hitting a glass For the 'Kitaab' song, 'Master Ji Ki Aa Gayee Chitthhi', he brought some desks from a classroom in the studio while recording and used them as a percussion In 'Abdullah' he used the sound of a bamboo whistle with a balloon tied to it for a song Once to get the sound of raindrops, he spent the whole rainy night in his house's balcony recording the sound he wanted In the song 'O Manjhi Re' from the movie 'Khushboo', RD Burman used bottles with water filled at different levels and created a hollow sound by blowing into them and this sound effect was used with the orchestra During the recording of 'Hum Dono Do Premi' [Ajnabee] the musicians were on strike. So he improvised the song with emptied-out musical interludes and just listen the song Out of his 331 released movies 292 were in Hindi, 31 in Bangla, 3 in Telugu, 2 each in Tamil & Oriya and 1 in Marathi. RD also composed for 5 TV serials in Hindi and Marathi. He also scored a large number of non-film songs in Bangla [also known as Pooja songs or modern songs], which are available in different albums. He did a song for a small documentary film called 'Maa Ki Pukar' too, in 1975. Starting independent music company in 1961 with 'Chote Nawab', he did 331 films and 4 non-film albums. Before coming onto his own, he assisted his father S.D. Burman for long. Dada Burman used Pancham's tune 'Ae meri topee palat ke aa' in 'Fantoosh'. Pancham was only 9 when he composed the tune. For Pyaasa, SD used his son's 'Sar Jo Tera Chakraye', which became a huge hit Amit Kumar, Abhijeet and Shabbir Kumar were given their first breaks by Pancham R.D. Burman made his acting debut in Mehmood's 'Bhoot Bangla'. Later in 'Pyaar Ka Mausam' toohe gave a hilarious performance as Mr. Popat Lal. R.D played the mouth organ for his friends Laxmikant Pyarelal in a song in 'Dosti' and also in a movie for Kalyanji Anandji. The mouth organ played in the song 'Hai Apna Dil To Awara' sung by Hemant Kumar in the film 'Solva Saal' is played by RD Burman himself Both Lata and Bhupinder won a National Award for the song 'Beeti Na Bitaaye Raina' from 'Parichay', and this song was composed in a hotel room in no time R.D. Burman won the Filmfare award only 3 times [Sanam Teri Kasam, Masoom, 1942-A Love Story] while being nominated 16 times for the award
Asha Bhonsle furious with Himesh over Burman comments
When Himesh Reshammiya recently announced to packed media folks prior to his concert at Surat that great R.D. Burman too sung with a nasal twang, he must have never thought about the repercussions that may come. The latest on this announcement is that Asha Bhonsle is furious over Himesh's comments for her late hubby and has announced that Burman never sung nasally. Let's see what Himesh has to answer on this now.
Bipasha Basu credits 'brilliant start' in films to Abbas-Mustan, Hussain Burmawala
Atress Bipasha Basu, who made her debut with the 2001 film 'Ajnabee', has credited filmmakers Abbas-Mustan and their brother Hussain Burmawala for her 'brilliant start' in the Hindi film industry. The 'Raaz' actress took to instagram and shared a photograph from her wedding reception held on April 30 here. In the photograph Bipasha is seen posing with her actor-husband Karan Singh Grover, Abbas-Mustan and Hussain Burmawala, who were synchronized in white. "Hussain Bhai, the reason am here today. I love them and owe my brilliant start in this business to them entirely," Bipasha captioned the image. The 'Jism' actress also mentioned that the filmmaker trio and Karan matched the theme. Bipasha and Karan's wedding reception was attended by a string of stars including Bollywood A-listers like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.