‘Kailasa Chaandan Mein’ comprises of romantic, soulful and love songs

In short-span of time Kailash Kher has reached the heights of glory and success which can be termed impossible for everyone. He has gone through series of hardships and perseverance to achieve whatever he has in his career. He became famous after hit and popular number “Allah Ke Bande”. He has given his voice in 45 Bollywood films. Other than Hindi songs, he has even sung for Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films.

Kailash Kher can be termed as multi-talented artist. He has even composed music of films like, “Dasvidaniya”, “Chandni Chowk toChina”. These days Kailash Kher is grabbing the attention because of his much-talked about album “Kailasa Chaandan Mein”. Before this album, Sony Music clutched success with two albums of Kailash Kher, “Kailasa” and “Kailasa Jhoomo Re”. Wherever Kailash Kher goes audience still wants him to sing the tuneful songs from these albums. Recently, Kailash Kher was in Capital for the promotion and publicity of his new album “Kailasa Chaandan Mein”. He interacted with media in Hotel Crown Plaza. Following is the discourse which went about:

· What makes “Kailasa Chaandan Mein” different from your previous ones?

-In “Kaliasa Chaandan Mein”, we haven’t used any electronic musical instrument. We exploited all Indian traditional musical instruments like, Morchang, Kartaal, Mandolin, Saaz, Udh,Bagal Baccha, Ravan Htta, Ektara, Chimta. That’s why; I will name this album as Organic one. There is one more thing that makes this album poles apart from others, it is going to be released on International front. First time, an Album of Indian artist will be at the same level of International stars. And I dedicate this album to my father, whose is unfortunately not amongst us.

· “Kailasa Chaandan Mein” comprises of what kind of songs and music?

-The album consists of 8 songs. The theme of this album is love and romance. The music is composed by as usual Paresh and Naresh who are part of my band. Brass band ‘Kawa’ has also played a very vital role in the composition of the songs.

· Which one is your favorite track from this album?

-I love all the tracks. They are my babies, whether it is ‘Chaandan Mein’ or fast number ‘Na Batati Tu’; soulful ‘Teri Yaad Mein’ or ‘Rang Rang Ma’. All are distinctive from each other and are close to my heart. And I assure that this album is going to be well-appreciated by all. There is one track in the album; ‘Piya Ghar Aavenge’ has my own emotions embedded in it because I wrote this song after my father’s sad demise.

· You often use unique words and description in your songs. Is there any specific reason behind it?

-Since my childhood I use to listen to poems, devotional songs of Guru Nanak, Saint Kabir and Saint Raidas. I admire them. I always love to utilize such words in my songs which depict beauty of literature and Indian traditions. These words aren’t strange. It is just that today’s generation is not familiar with these words. And I always believe that songs should inbuilt values and colors of our country.

· “Chaandan Mein” (Aao ji) has exceptional video. Please brief about it.

-The video of the song has been directed at Pushkar, holy place of Rajasthan. Director Rajat Nagapal has stunningly directed the video. These days it’s been played in most of the music channels.

· You frequently pay visit and do several shows nationally and internationally. From the bunch, one moment you need to pick which still strikes you, which will be that one?

-All shows have fresh memories in my mind. But to pick one, I’ll say the one which was in Washington; there I performed for Doctor’s association. I felt that I won’t sing ‘Babam bam Lehari’ as it is dedicated to God Shiva, but I was electrified when they demanded me to sing this song and not once, again and again. And I went on singing this song and people were thriving on the song.

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Italian Bank joins hands with SBI

Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BPVI) has been in alliance and has constant correspondent banking relationships with all major Indian banks dealing in export and import trade. In order to deepen relationship with India, the bank has signed a cooperation agreement i.e. MOU with State Bank of India for closer relationship with each other for development of Indo-Italian trade. BPVI has uprooted its base in Northeast part of Italy famously known for its immense development in food, furniture sectors, gold processing, glass, garments etc. BPVI Group today is a multi-regional bank now operating all over the country through a network of over 680 branches.

On other hand, SBI is one of the largest archive in banking sector with wide-spread network of more than 50,000 branches in India and around 92 offices across the world. Mr.Pradeep Chaudary,DMD of SBI quoted that this MOU perhaps will increase the investment, trade and commercial aspects. And it will also bring about the awareness about the Italy market in India.

This year, SBI expects moderate growth by next year, when Indian companies will increase their capital then it will surely fetch more profit.

On the occasion of signing the cooperation agreement with SBI, Mr. Samuele Sorta, CEO and General Manager, mentioned that BPVI is proud about the fact that it is the first Italian Bank to go ahead with this venture with the largest commercial bank, SBI. The bank expects that this will help in capturing customers and guide them in exploring opportunities in Indian and Italian market. He stated that BPVI’s focus is on small and medium size companies in Italy to grow and expand. It will focus in local banks of India

Mr.Fausto Maritian, BPVI’s Head of International Relations and Correspondent Banking who is accompanying the CEO on this mission that the bank is happy with the progress it has achieved in India in the last three years. The bank’s business has grown manifold in this period. He aspires that after signing the cooperation agreement with SBI, BPVI will be able to assist more than Indian and Italian entrepreneurs interested in tie-ups with Italian companies.

Mr. Pradeep Khanna, Chief Representative of BPVI mentioned that BPVI has assisted many large and small companies in India with trade finance facilities. He mentioned that in the present economic scenario in Europe, a lot of Italian companies are ready to forge ties with Indian companies.

Indeed this venture will increase economic tie-ups between both of the countries and widen the scope.

-H.S.Communication

INDIA HAI MERI JAAN marks Team India’s foray

INDIA HAI MERI JAAN released by Saregama India Ltd, one of the largest music archive in India along with Young Turks Media released the music of ‘INDIA HAI MERI JAAN’ at Elevate, Centrestage Noida, UP .

The release of the album marks Team India’s foray in ICC T20 Cricket World Cup as the reigning champions. The album enthuses and cheers for national, cultural and sporting sentiments in the country. While doing so, the album has also achieved the distinction of featuring the maximum number of sportspersons and celebrities who bring laurels to the county.

The songs have been written, sung and composed by Padamjeet Sehrawat - a former national level cricketer, now a commentator and, also the first runner up of the talent hunt on ESPN ‘ Harsha Ki Khoj’ featured few years back. The album has 5 original tracks and 3 remix versions – India hai meri jaan, Aaagey badhte chalo, Mantra, Men in Blue, Mahi Ve and remix versions of Ruk jaana nahin, Hum Hindustani and, Tum bhi chalo.

India’s World Cup Winner Cricketer Kapil Dev marked the launch of the album with the other distinguished sportspersons like Maninder Singh, Sanaa Bhambri, Satish Babar, singer Shankar Sahni, among others. The national tennis player Sanaa Bhambri acted the Master of Ceremonies for the occasion. There was also live performance by the singer on some numbers from the album and other songs. Interestingly, as Virender Sehwag is in England as part of the Indian contingent, he tele-launched the album with a message for the album, singer and his fans on the occasion he could not be part of.

-H.S.Communication

Versatile persona of Anuj Saxena

Anuj Saxena started his acting career with popular and much-liked daily-soaps “Kusum” and “KumKum”. The versatility of his personality is reflected with his acting career and his venture in production. Under his production house ‘Maverick’, there are several films lined-up in the year’2009. Along-side he runs company of pharmaceutical and cosmetics and also has put up restaurant.

Multi-talented Anuj Saxena’s production house Maverick is soon going to come up with independent film project ‘Chase’ directed by Jagmohan Mundhra. Before ‘Chase’ along with Adlabs and Insight production, Maverick is co-presenting “Dulha Mil Gaya starring superstar Shahrukh Khan, Sushmita Sen and Fardeen Khan.

A breezy comedy titled “Aloo Chaat”, starring Aftab Shivdasani and Aamna Shariff was released successfully in March’09 was co-produced by Maverick along with Mirchi Movies.

Anuj Saxena launched Maverick Production House in March 2007. Maverick had even produced first International Gold Awards along with Whiteleaf Entertainment, which was held in Mauritius in September 2007 and was a massive success.

Maverick has produced more than 20 advertising films, the prominent ones being Tiger Balm white, Blistix Lip care balm, A.M. Mouth Wash and Fair One fairness cream, TV soap Kulvaddhu for Sony which was most talked about for its production values, comedy show "Gupshup Coffee Shop" featuring Navniit Nisshan on SAB TV, game show KHILADI NO. 1 on Zee Smile and various documentaries; the most acclaimed one was on child birth. Maverick had forayed into Regional channels, the most popular program being Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee Kananada and is also producing a Kannada film titled "Houseful". Maverick is also in distribution work and carried out distribution for films like ‘Om Shanti Om’, ‘Cash’ and many more. And indeed they are exploring more ways to expand their business.

-H.S.Communication

PARTY GIRLS ARE GOING TO SWING THE PARTY

The concept of Item Girls is not new in India. And after IPL T20, Cheer Girls have grown popularity amongst the people. Now, LEO One Music has come up with entirely innovative concept of Party Girls in India and Mr.Sandeep Shukla the owner of Leo One Music thinks it would be well- accepted by the party lovers. This concept has up-rooted prevalence in Western countries. Party Girls concept comprise of four girls who are professional and will perform in parties and prove to be delight for party-lovers.

LEO One Music will also launch the music album of Party Girls with the voice of melodious Richa Sharma. Richa Sharma has several hit numbers under her belt. Taal, Zubedaa, Sathiya, Kal ho na ho, Gangajal, Omkara are few of the blockbusters which has been voiced by her. And now she is whole and soul part of Party Girls album. The husky and intense voice of Richa is well-suited to this album.

If RichaSharma is the soul then these four stunning girls are body of this concept. They are going display their moves on songs sung by Richa Sharma. Tanya, Seema, Mollira and Kelly are gorgeous girls hailing from Delhi, Allahabad, Assam and Goa respectively. According to them this innovative idea will be well-appreciated by people in India because occasions and celebrations are integral part of our society. The Lyrics is given by Saajan Agarwal, who is also the director of the Video and this Video has been choreographed by the famous Bollywood choreographer Jojo Khan

LEO One Music up-coming project includes Hindi feature film starring Anupam Kher, Rushad Rana, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raj, Krishna Bhatt, Shehal Dhami and Rituparna Sengupta and Marathi film.

Undoubtedly, this album and their live performances will ensure absolute entertainment for party-animals.

-H.S.Communication

MY TARGET IAS HITS THE FLOOR OF DELHI

The film ‘My Target IAS’ is based on a contemporary issue of the society. As the initial step, the film was released in Delhi on 18^th May. And eventually will be released all over India including Mumbai. The film is directed by Ajay Sood, he is even trying his hand in acting by playing the main lead in the film. The other star-cast of the film includes, well-known standup comedian Guggi, Raza Murad, Puneet Issar and Mitali and debutant Manisha.

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As per Ajay Sood, the film is a reflection of contemporary society and attempts to present the Civil Services in a correct and positive perspective. It also attempts to impart valuable but little remembered facts relating to Indian contemporary history and the freedom movement while telling the delicate story of a young man’s struggle to get justice for a victimized woman. Manisha, the debut actress in Hindi film, she said that she was moved by the story narrated by Ajay Sood and took no time in agreeing to do the role. Guggi appears in a serious character quoted, he was greatly influenced by the story which had both a social and purposeful objective even as it entertains.

It is film which ensures to motivate and bring about awakening amongst youth to stand against the injustice and corruption.

-H.S.Communication

“Hues in Myriads”- Form and Formless

Recently, Poonampratap hosted an exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, presenting a collection of 26 renowned artists and India’s top 10 painters like Shamshad Hussain, Alka Raghuvanshi, Sudip Rop and the list continues at Habitat centre.

A reality/illusion that we perceive as a form in a time and space and portray it peppered with our own imagination or do we try to create a world that does not exist in our normal imagination or still do we use the world as it appears as a starting point to depict what is not seen/ is not visible and is felt only as an inner experience?. Do we need the cue of the familiar to arrive at the inner higher reality through art?

Platonic philosophy referred to a unique original of all the existent forms. The Greeks thus focussed more on creating the external forms and their expertise in rendering the perfect human and animal forms or even folds of cloth was marvellous. While in India and China efforts were made to capture the inner dimensions of a Being—human specially. Early Buddhist sculptures even refused to use human form of Buddha suggesting the ethereal can not be captured in a limiting human form.

The idea of limitless, going beyond the form leads one to the search for the formless infinite.

To view the form as totality of all viewing angles was the first step from form to formless. To arrive at the free float of formless not as an opposite of form but as mystical experience one requires looking at the Nirakar (the formless) in Indian philosophy.

So what is the quarrel between form based and formless or abstract art? This is what occupies svelte artist-curator Poonam Pratap Kohli. She has a cross section of artists like Shmshaad Hussain, Kanchan Chander, Vijendra Shaarma, Aradhana and many young faces. She presents artist Nilaudri Paul who floats thin languid acrylic like falling rain from soft monsoon clouds on his canvases. On his canvases appears the colourful cacophony of Meghdootam of Kalidas in which the naika is surrounded by liquid blooming colourful abstractions of space. Sudip Roy another artist who started his art journey in Delhi’s Sridharni gallery with watercolours of bottles reminded me of Italian artist Morandi, has been preoccupied with the long tradition of naika. His work is in consonance with poetics of romanticism going back to sensuousness of Gita Govinda.

Poonam has an alluring simplicity and innocence of expression in her art. She creates an underwater oasis where joy flourishes in free frolicsome gambolling of colour-textured fishes. Her use of light merging tones of crimson, blue and green enhances the softness and charm of underwater universe. Dilip has a ravishingly colourful world full of naively charming men and women while Pratap builds in relief a poetic sensuality of which I have spoken above. The bee-stung full lips, closed eyes like petals of a rose, the aquiline nose are all from the shilp shastra of yore.

Coming to the abstractionists Hem Raj, Alka and Viktor Vijay each have a very private personal expression. Hem Raj had been—right from the time he left College of Art Delhi—exploring the magic of line and thick heaped oily chromes on his vibrant canvases. The exhibition offers a cross section of form and formless expression adding to your aesthetic joy.

-H.S.Communication.

Mithun unveils the music of “Zor Lagaa Ke Haiya!”

Recently, the music launch of film “Zor Lagaa Ke Haiya!” was held at The Club in Mumbai. The moment was glorified by charismatic Mithun Chakraborty, who is the lead star of the film of Gemini Motion Pictures. The other star-cast of the movie includes Mahesh Majrekar, Riya Sen, Seema Biswas, Glushan Grover and five amazing kids who play vital role in the movie. The movie is written and directed by Girish Girja Joshi and produced by Basant Talreja and Kartikeya Talreja. The music composed by duo Bapi -Tutul.

The music launch marked the presence of Mithun Chakraborty. Mimoh entered in the initial stage of the launch and electrified people with his fresh, slim look. The director and the producers along with the music composers were present at the music launch. The liveliness of the event was static by the young guns of the film.

From the start of the event the songs of the film with visual clippings were constantly played. Mimoh interacted with media and shared his views on the film, his diet-regime and weight loss program and on his stalwart father.

And then came the most awaited moment of the event, the launch of the music. The music unveiled by Mithun along with the director and producer of the film. All shared their views, experience and cause behind doing this film. Mithun stated that, this movie has a message of saving the trees, environment and mother Earth. He narrated the brief of the story for the media by stating, “Zor Lagaa Ke Haiya! Is about how a group of children, with the help of a homeless man overcome all obstacles to save a tree from being razed by money-minded construction giant. Their quest mirrors the apathy of contemporary society to such types of environmental issues.”

He also added that this film has already won awards and rewards at prestigious international arena including ‘Silver Palm Award at Mexico International Film Festival of 2009’, ‘Silver Remi Award at Houstan Film Festival’09’, ‘Officially selected for the Competition at Big island Film Festival in Hawaii’09’ and lately it also got prominence at Las Vegas International Film Festval’09 by receiving Official Finalist Award.

-H.S.Communication

MUMBAI GIRL FEATURES IN BANGLA FILM

A Mumbai girl named Maya Suryavanshi recently grabbed a role in Bengali film produced by one of the biggest Bengali's corporate house “Channel 8”. This corporate house had thousand of Bengali serials in there Kitty and their 5 of the films are on the Floor and two films are in the phase of post-production.

Maya’s Bengali film will be directed by controversial Hindi film Director Vinod Chabra who has more than 10 films under his belt. His latest film “My husband's wife” will be going to release soon. And the executive producer of the film is Tapash Mukerjee. Maya resides in Mumbai since long period time. She is trained under the acting school of Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting School. She even has bagged series of experience by featuring in number of Print ads of companies like Reliance, ICICI, Prudential, Kalazone Sarees, Utsav calendar shoot, Mr. and Mrs. Black hair Color. She even worked in T.V Commercials like Max New York life, earlier she did few TV serial also which is Shh.phir koi hai and Jai ma durga.

The reason behind her getting casted in this film was that Director Vinod Chabra was looking for new face for his untitled Bengali film. She got recommended by P.R consultant Harish Sharma of H. S Communication and the Director selected her at once. The shooting will commence in mid-May in Malaysia.

Resul Pookutty and Mahesh Bhatt to highlight the plight of homeless children in Delhi

Recently, Slumdog Millionaire Oscar winner Resul Pookutty and Mahesh Bhatt was in the town for their continued commitment to keep the focus on the plight of homeless children in the country. Along with children, Resul Pookutty is associated with a NGO, Butterflies India, at Store 99, located in Pacific Mall, in Vashali in Ghaziabad.

Talking about his Delhi visit, Pookutty says “Much more than anything else, it’s the theme of Slumdog Millionaire, particularly its focus on the plight of children that touched everyone, and this is what keeps him committed to do everything that he can do to improve their situation”.

Considered as one of the best sound designers in the Indian film Industry, Pookutty has some outstanding films to his credit, which include Black, Musafir, Zinda, Traffic Signal, Gandhi, My Father, Saawariya, and Dus Kahaniyaan. However, the last one year has been one of remarkable successes for Pookutty – first he designed sound for the 2008 blockbuster Ghajini, starring Aamir Khan, which was followed by even bigger success when his first major international project Slumdog Millionaire won him an Academy award. He was absolutely ecstatic when he received the award and charmed one and all when he delivered his famous speech saying, “This is not just a sound award, this is history being handed over to me”.

While Mahesh Bhatt enjoyed the company of kids, laughed and chatted with them. He said, “The innocence of these kids makes you fall in for them.”

Also Javed Mohammad and Ajay Chanchan were to be seen there supporting the NGO and interacting with the kids.

Delhi-based NGO Butterflies has earned a worldwide recognition for its innovative, realistic and relevant programmes for street and working children and has been working to improve their situation since 1989. Its core belief is that every child has a right to have a full-fledged childhood, and rights of street and working children are no exception.

Store 99, one of the fastest growing retail chains in Delhi and NCR, has been constantly involved in charity works to help street children so that they can have a better tomorrow. The Group was one of the founding equity members of the INDIA EXPOMART, pioneered in extensive network of retail stores, under the brand ‘Home Store’ and Sabka-Bazar for many years. Terming Pookutty’s visit as a manifestation of their corporate social responsibility, Mr Javed Mohammad, CEO, Store 99, said “I am absolutely humbled by his gesture and his continued desire to work for improving the situation of children living in extremely difficult situation, which is our mission as well”.

-H.S.Communication