Nakash to Aakash!

If you have followed this season’s award ceremonies of Bollywood one thing was common, performances on ‘Dhating Nach’ and ‘Saree Ke fall sa’… yes, last year’s two most hit tracks; both have two thing in common Shahid Kapoor, on whom the songs were picturized and Nakash Aziz, singer of both chart toppers.

And at Mirchi Music Awards recently, when Nakash Aziz the singer himself performed these two numbers on such a big platform followed by songs of Shah Rukh Khan the audience were thrilled. Nakash’s voice gets easily connected with audience as his voice has the clarity, his vocals lip-sink with the actor performing on them and different kind of signatures vocals he give in his songs are really enjoyed by the audience. Even the RJ of FM radios praises Nakash.

At Mirchi Award show, Nakash and other singers paid tribute to Shah Rukh Khan for his golden contributions. Nakash sang ‘Aakho mein teri’ from the film OM SHANTI OM. When Shah Rukh Khan took the stage after the performance he praised Nakash, but accidently called him Aakash. Later, when he realized his mistake, then he hugged Nakash back stage and said sorry; and also said to the singer that his voice is really great. But looking at Nakash Aziz’s career graph as a singer with songs like Dhating naach (Phaata Poster Nikla Hero), Phata Phati (Barfi), Second hand jawani (Cocktail), Pungi (Agent Vinod), etc, Nakash has indeed touched the ‘aakash’ as a singer!

Holi’s significance to our Bollywood top singers

The festival of colour, Holi also signifies – Mast, Raas-rang, song-music, and lots of enjoyment. In this festival of Holi irrespective of the age everyone appear to be immersed in the fun. Some color the cheeks with simplicity dry colour and some people are totally bathed in colours.

Lets us see how our famous singer of Bollywood brigade celebrates the festival of colours.

Kailash Kher:

The ‘teri deewani’ singer explains, ‘As fas as possible I try to celebrate Holi at my place with my family. And I try to celebrate the traditional way of Holi as I remember from my childhood so that my son Kabir doesn’t have to Google about ‘why Holi is celebrated?’ At the previous night of Holi we burn Holika followed with playing of colours and next day we play Holi with family. I seek elder’s blessing and good wishes to the younger lot on the day of Holi.’

Hard Kaur:

The first Indian rapper said, ‘The best part of Holi for me is playing with colours. I love putting colours on my friends and family. But when my turn comes I hide, though, can’t get so lucky all the time sometime I do get caught but still love Holi. On the day of Holi to see the colorful faces gives me so much fun.’

Malkit Singh:

Gur Naal Ishq Mitha and tootak tutiya fame singer Malkit Singh misses his country India at occasions like this. As he know resides in Britain but he enjoys Holi there with his friends and family. And being a true Punjabi they dance and sing at the festival of Holi. The singer is spending his time in India now-a-days as the singer had launched his new music album 'Sikh Hon Da Maan'. The album contains 10 songs and it’s a fusion album with clear message that feel ‘Proud to be Sikh.’  

Shibani Kashyap:

The enchanting and winsome voice of ‘Saajana aa bhi ja’ – Shibani Kashyap enjoys Holi a lot. She said, ‘When I was young I remember enjoying Holi with my friends in Delhi and it was fun. Still I get thrilled whenever those memories come to mind. Now I don’t play Holi much but still like to visit family and friends during the festival. I love listening Holi songs and ‘Rangbarse bhige chunaar wali’ is mostly enjoying one for me.’

Nakash Aziz:

After the humungous success of ‘Saree ke fall sa’, singer of the song Nakash Aziz definitely living each day like a festival. He said, ‘On Holi we apply colours on each other, sing and dance along in our colony. Since childhood I love Holi but after I have grown up we celebrate Holi with friends and without water. We gather at a place and party on the day.’

Jazzy B:

Jazzy B is not any less than anyone when it comes to celebrating Holi. Crown Prince of Bhangra, king of beats, who always manages somehow to be in news either for his hairstyles or his peppy videos - Jazzy B said, ‘As a child I was very naughty on Holi, but now I am all grown up. Still I live the spirit of Holi with my children, family and friends. Without sweets we Indians cannot celebrate our festivals and so in my house too we have all sorts of sweets in Holi too plus lots of music and dance. Holi is a great excuse of socializing and partying. All this sounds good to me and I love this multi colored festival of Holi.’

Hard Kaur & Sunidhi Chauhan bonded at a recent event

Yes you heard it right our music world’s top two singers, Hard Kaur and Sunidhi Chauhan, enjoyed each other’s company and had a blast at a recent award ceremony in Mumbai. Their appeared to be very friendly on and at back stage. But can two singers could ever be friends? ‘Yes, Why not? Two singers can really be friends,’ Hard Kaur clarified.

‘Two actresses can never be friends,’ so goes the age-old taboo that prevailed in Bollywood. It is said that two contemporary leading ladies will never be able to get along. But, guess these two leading ladies have proved this myth wrong, or are they singers that why it’s a kind of exception; whatever the reason might be but these lovely singers have always done things out of the box and they both are famous national and international platforms. Hard Kaur and Sunidhi held high regards for each other. Hard Kaur said, ‘Sunidhi as a person is as good as her voice. We talk a lot whenever we meet and have fun.’

Sudha Desi Hard Kaur

British Indian rapper and hip hop singer; playback singer and actress in Bollywood. She is often credited as first female Indian rapper brought up in UK she has what it 
takes to mark her apart from the crowd…yes, you all guessed it right, Hard Kaur.

But when it comes to the choice of food that’s most close to her heart, the hip hop singer likes ‘desi’ food over others, she replied, ‘It is the sarso ka saag by my maasi (mother’s sister) and makki ki roti by my naani (grandmother). When I came back to India after 8 years from England it was difficult for me with the food I was having here. One day maasi brought me this meal from her home and I was all set here. I still cherish that.’

Apart from home food Indian cuisines, Hard Kaur also enjoys a lot of Jamaican food and French cuisines. 

Hard Kaur’s upcoming projects are Atul Agnihotri’s production ‘O Teri,’ sung a song in the film ‘Youngistan’, along will all this she has even rapped in one of the item song in the film ‘Desi Kattey’ in which Kailash Kher is the music director.

When asked about what new she will be doing in 2014, she replied, ‘There are lots of projects I am working on, along with that I want to give chance to new talent to work with me, just like Shankar Mahadevan gave be the chance earlier. There is a lot of unexplored talent in our country.’