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Sound of music
And the Kela goes to...
Picks & piques
Mobile matinee
Some cricketainment!
On the move
Big fat
Not so vain!
Techno Sharp entertainment
Music from the East
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The best way we know to unwind is over a glass of wine or whisky. And, when you have the famous Patiala peg for company, who wants to compromise on the ambience? Since it is about inviting fun, relaxation and some entertainment, what better place than home? Say, your own private bar space. Call it an essential home design element or your own 'chill out zone', the city seems to be hung up on home bars.
— Photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Amidst standing ovation and much-deserved adulations as the evergreen king of melody and comedy K Deep was being bestowed with the PTC Lifetime Achievement Award-2010 at a glittering ceremony, the nostalgic memories of school days visited his intrusive mind. Known as the mouth or vocal orchestra of the school, the class teacher used to make him stand on a stool and reproduce live the musical sound of various instruments. This is his forte even today.
Six years back, at an international music fest in Norway, he surprised the crowd, including legendary Mehdi
Hasan, with his vocal orchestra and also singing a soulful Shiv Batalvi number and emulated Mehdi Hasan singing
ghazals.
Three films have crawled out of the Bollywood stable this week despite the onslaught of the IPL. Right Yaa Wrong is Sunny's comeback vehicle of sortsand Na Ghar Ka Na Ghat Ka is about a dehati from the hinterland shifting to big bad Mumbai and his experiences thereof. Not high on expectation, this lot — but not as bad as I thought it would be either. Right Yaa Wrong was the surprise packet, while Na Ghar Ka Na Ghat Ka's rustic flavour is quite likely to get the northern belt interested.
Bharti Airtel announced the launch of Airtel Talkies, an audio cinema on the move. The entertainment initiative was formally launched in the region by Bollywood superstar Sunny Deol at the Airtel Campus, IT Park, Chandigarh last evening.
An Airtel customer will now be able to transform his mobile into an audio cinema hall with Airtel Talkies, with an access to a power packed 15-minute version of a three-hour film complete with original dialogues and songs. A sutradhar will narrate the entire story of the film. 
Parking chaos, deafening noise, cheering fans, star performers - the prelude to the first IPL match in city was interesting
Hollywood star Penelope Cruz is reportedly planning a big fat Spanish wedding with actor Javier Bardem and has asked rock legend Mick Jagger’s girlfriend to design her gown.
Rhythm and percussion came into form before the musical forms in vocal or instrumental, claims Madhusudan and Gopal Barman, popularly known as Barman
Bandhus. In the city on the invitation of the Pracheen Kala Kendra for a
performance at the Bhaskar Rao Nritya and Sangeet Sammelan, they maintained that
the rhythm is the soul of any musical composition or performance.
As many as 42 children presented the play Main Aurat Hoon on Sukhna Lake on Saturday. The play written by Bhoopinder Walia is a satire on double standards of society that on one side worships goddesses
Saraswati, Durga and Lakshmi and on the other indulges in as heinous a crime as female
foeticide.
Directed by DS Gupt and assisted by Amar Jyoti took three weeks of preparation with the students of DAV Public School -39.
My next candidate in the Faces series has a very interesting vocation. He is a trainer and the Lake Club Gym, or rather its new avatar, Lake Sports Complex. He is young, clear-sighted and loves the city.
Devender Sheoran, age 24, is from Bhiwani, Haryana. He came to Chandigarh six years ago to pursue his college education and has made Chandigarh his home since then.
