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It’s Now Legit to Hate Coldplay
The excessive hate that Coldplay gets has little to do with the band. It’s a victim of a trend – where a self-professed “discerning” listener disregards all pop music.
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Dear T-Pain, “Brown Twitter” Really? FYI, 500 Million Indians Use the Internet
T-Pain allegedly plagiarised Arijit Singh’s “Tum Hi Ho” and then lashed out at “brown Twitter” after the internet outrage. Only if the rapper knew that India has the second-largest internet population in the world. Mr T-Pain, you weren’t throwing shade at some geeks sitting on the sole computer in a hamlet.
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MC Tod Fod: Musician, Wordsmith and Eco warrior
Dharmesh Parmar was not just a singer, but also a philosopher, an environmentalist and the rarest of all, a principled artist.
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Siren Is Here, Let’s Give It A Loud Cheer!
A two-day music and comedy festival, Arré SIREN features the first-ever fully female lineup of acts. Blasphemous things will be said, unladylike jokes will be cracked, and songs of cheer will ring out loud.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People, Kumar Sanu-Style
Music from the ’90s has an uncanny ability to bring people together. From the veterans of the cool jamming in some abandoned garage in Mumbai to seasoned hippies grooving around a bonfire in the remote Himalayas, the ’90s is a theme that finds resonance in the unlikeliest of the settings and with the unlikeliest of people.
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The Grammy Awards: When You Know You’re Officially Old
Maybe it’s time to admit that millennials are no longer the sole custodians of cool. Adulting is hard, and part of it involves not being able to score hipster points by discovering a band before anyone else.
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Mohammad Aziz, More Than a First Copy of Mohammad Rafi
Mohammad Aziz wasn’t just a first-copy version of Mohammad Rafi. That would be unfair to the artist he was. Aziz was the first-copy version of all the actors he sang for: He was Govinda’s pelvic thrust, Mithun Chakraborty’s swagger, Rajesh Khanna’s ham, Amitabh Bachchan’s buffoonery. He was all that they were or wanted to be.
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Bhumi Pednekar, Pankaj Tripathi, & Gajraj Rao Are All Going to Be at India Film Project. Are You?
After hosting a series of 50-hour and 7-day filmmaking and music challenges, India Film Project, Asia’s largest content fest is inviting creators, filmmakers, and storytellers to a fun-filled festival. There are workshops, conversations with veterans, and a ton of global networking opportunities. The best part? It’s all online.
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20 Years of Taal: An Ode to the Time When Music Made the Movies
To try and find an original song in Bollywood in 2019 is as fruitless as searching for survival tips in PM Modi’s episode of Man vs Wild. But as any ‘90s kid could tell you, there was a time when music made the movies worth watching. The soundtrack of Taal elevated the film into an unforgettable experience.