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  'Really sexy' Bollywood dancers rock Buckingham Palace!

  After honouring a Bhangra singer and choosing Sikhs to be her personal bodyguards, Britain's reigning monarch has notched up another first by hosting a racy Bollywood dance in her gentle royal residence.

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  MTV drops 'music television' from logo after 28 years!

  Popular channel MTV has decided to drop the term "Music Television" from its logo and is set to explore other genres to keep in sync with the changing tastes of audiences.

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  Rap to sufi music - Rahman charms Chennai!

  From rap to fusion, carnatic to sufi double Oscar winner A.R. Rahman used every genre to keep his audience mesmerized at a live concert here.

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  Bihar-based lawyer composes 'Amitabh Chalisa'

  After "Lalu Chalisa" and "Nitish Chalisa", now there is "Amitabh Chalisa". A Bihar-based lawyer has composed a specially-structured hymn in praise of the Bollywood megastar, who turned 67 recently.

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  Bollywood takes liberty with Sufi music: Hans Raj Hans

  In the fields of Punjab where he grew up, farmers would sing Sufi songs - even his family sang. That is how popular singer Hans Raj Hans learnt his music. Today, he believes, Bollywood takes liberty with the genre.

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  Video: 'Happening' - Farah choreographs Salman - Preity - Bebo in this song!

  Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Preity Zinta and Sohail Khan had loads of fun on the sets of 'Main Aurr Mrs Khanna' while making the item song 'Happening'. Have a look!

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  Music Review: Shaabash! You Can Do It

  Shaabash! You Can Do It does see a spark or two at some points in the album but overall doesn't carry anything in it that could entice a music lover to pick it up from the stands.

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  Music Review: Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

  This is Pritam's year. Period. Delivering chartbusters by dozens all through the year, he can now look forward to another bountiful of hit songs up his sleeves with Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani. Also, Ranbir and Katrina can enjoy a hugely popular track for themselves in the form of 'Main Tera Dhadkan Teri'.

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  'Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani' music a must hear (Music Review)

  "Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani", which stars Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, is music director Pritam Chakraborty's eighth release this year and he has once again done a great job by composing music that is energetic, contemporary and pleasing

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  Music Review: Jail

  Jail won't quite go the whole distance like Fashion which actually had music as an integral part of the narrative and also boasted of more than a couple of chartbuster tracks.

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  Music Review: Aladin

  It all started six years back when the music of Jhankaar Beats was released. This was the soundtrack that brought together film maker Sujoy Ghosh with composers Vishal and Shekhar who have never looked back ever since then.

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  Lata's song is highlight of 'Jail' music (Music Review)

  After the success of "Fashion", Madhur Bhandarkar returns with "Jail", which stars Neil Nitin Mukesh and Mugdha Godse. And the filmmaker has roped in composer brothers Sharib and Toshi Sabri along with Shamir Tandon to score the music.

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  "Jermaine Jackson and I are doing two songs together" - Adnan Sami

  On Friday afternoon when the deceased legend Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine arrived to collaborate with Adnan Sami, there was a sense of disbelief in the city. Jermaine arrived with his wife Halima. They both checked into the Taj but spent the entire evening at Adnan's place discussing music, food, social concerns and Michael Jackson (MJ).

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  Now read 100 of Gulzar's favourite lyrics in English too

  Oscar award winning lyricist Gulzar has handpicked 100 of his best works that have been translated into English by scriptwriter Sunjoy Shekhar for an anthology titled "100 Lyrics". And the poet reveals that he was inspired by rocker Sting to come out with this compilation.

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  "Hollywood director M. Gracey is shooting the songs for 1-800 Love" - Abbas Tyrewala

  Abbas Tyrewala is back from London after a long 40-day schedule of 1-800 Love. But the cast and crew will once again be going back to the Queen's Land to shoot the songs with Hollywood director Michael Gracey.

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  'Manna Dey should have got Dadasabhe Phalke award earlier'

  Singing legend Manna is being honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award at the age of 90 and his close friends here feel that the highest honour in Indian cinema has come late.

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  Book Review: Lata Mangeshkar..in her own voice

  'Lata Mangeshkar...in her own voice' is an extremely heavy (reading wise) text book on the living legend and her work. A kind of book that could be a reference material for many a students, of the lady who doesn't have any parallel.

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  Dadasaheb Phalke award for music legend Manna Dey

  Ninety-year-old playback legend Manna Dey - who belted out evergreen songs like "Ae mere pyaare watan" and "Zindagi kaisi hai paheli" - is being honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, his family said Wednesday.

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  Sohail Khan revives RD Burman's classic in Main Aurr Mrs Khanna

  The R.D. Burman revival rage seems no sign of waning. In Kaminey, Vishal Bharadwaj had used two of RD-Asha Bhosle tracks 'Duniya mein logon ko' and 'Do labzon ki hai yeh dil ki kahani'.

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  I want to keep singing for the rest of my life: Lata

  Nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar says that she wants to continue singing forever, provided she is offered meaningful songs.

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  'Aladin' offers racy, foot-tapping songs (Music Review)

  The soundtrack of the much-talked about Amitabh Bachchan-starrer "Aladin", a contemporary take on the classic fairy tale, is racy and energetic. Composer duo Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani have tried to go beyond their usual tunes and beats.

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  Music Review: London Dreams

  First things first - The music of London Dreams requires not one, not two, not three but at least five odd listening before it starts growing on you. At first instance the music seems to be going all over, especially due to the fact that most of the tunes are plain unconventional and nothing that one has heard in a mainstream Bollywood film before.

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  'Kites' background score of global standard: Sulaiman Merchant

  Known for their edgy and racy background scores in "Dhoom 2", "Chak De! India" and "Krrish", music composers Salim and Sulaiman Merchant are now looking forward to their next creation "Kites", which they promise matches international standards.

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  Video: Ranbir's hot moves in Wake up Sid Video!

  Ranbir's hot moves in Wake up Sid Video!

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  Rahman set to compose for Hollywood comedy

  Oscar winning musician A.R. Rahman is set to compose music for his first full-fledged Hollywood project "Couples Retreat" and he is determined not to create anything similar to the "Slumdog Millionaire" tunes. He also stressed that while there wouldn't be any Indian sounds, there would be a touch of Indianness.