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Born to dance
The story of Pradeep Gurung is one of courage and commitment. This boy, passionate about dance, ended up as the runners-up in the popular show Dance India Dance Season 3.
Step
up: Pradeep Gurung
Rock & role
There is something really interesting about music, besides working as a great stress buster, binding hearts, breaking barriers, you can actually make various combinations in music and surprisingly they all work well. Like for instance, a young boy from Delhi, Ssameer combines Punjabi folk with rock. And you bet, the results are fabulous! Rising on the music charts is his recent album Sohniye. Punjabi folk with rock, this definitely intrigues. "Like everyone else who loves music, I too make it from my heart, and the result is generally nice," shares Ssameer, who likes how Punjabi singer Amrinder Gill weaves romance with music. "I like to make songs that you can dedicate to someone, which means they should have excellent lyrics. I focus a lot on melodies that can touch the strings of the listener's heart."
Ssameer
Screen shot
For Darshan Aulakh, who has a penchant for the silver screen, especially acting, which follows his fondness for production, the taste of success comes in small packages and he relishes each one of them. Apart from serving as a line producer in Punjabi films and exploring his talent for writing, Darshan also fancies acting in Bollywood films.
Freedom of expression
They wanted to stretch the retrospection beyond just a day and continue paying obeisance to a date that gave us identity as a nation. Beyond August 15, an artistic rendition organised by Kadamb Art in collaboration with Chandigarh Literary Society, paints a sometimes promising, at times a thought-provoking picture.
Visitors admire the paintings at Beyond August 15
Back to the roots
Aukha, bhaira, goorha nehra phir bi pand makauna
Aa taliyan te rakh ke turiye yeh jo jagdey deeve…are the lines from Jagde Deeve, an anthology of ghazals penned by Iqbal Singh Dhillon. At 68, Dhillon leads an active life, physically as well as intellectually. A practicing naturopath, he spends his days growing vegetables and reading as well as writing.
punjabi scope
Jatt not right!
Movie: Putt Jattan De
Director: Simranjit Singh Hundal
Star cast: Gugu Gill, Om Puri, Aman Dhaliwal, Sippy Gill, Mukul Dev, Karamjit Anmol and Isha
Rikhi.
Rating: *
Statutory warning: Watch this movie at your own risk; it might affect your thinking and reasoning sensibilities.
Putt Jattan De, okay; with a heavy duty name like this, you definitely expect a lot. But then haven't you heard, expectations can be killing! In almost fifteen minutes flat, your brain will stop registering anything; it will go numb and you wouldn't know what happened to you. Putt Jattan De directed by Simranjit Singh Hundal has such a deep impact.
Aman Dhaliwal and Isha Rikhi in Putt Jattan De
first-day-first show
When fact meets fiction
Madras Café
Directed by Shoojit Sircar, Madras Cafe is a political espionage thriller film that features John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri and Rashi Khanna in lead roles. The film is set in the late 80s and early 1990s, during the time of Sri Lankan civil war and the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Vikram Singh (John Abraham) is an Indian Army special officer, appointed by the intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing, to conduct covert operations in Sri Lanka shortly after Indian Peace Keeping Force was forced to withdraw.
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star track
Bhansali chooses Priyanka
Finally the mystery is revealed for the special song of Ram Leela. It was rumoured earlier that Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted to have a special dance song in his movie. For that he shortlisted a number of leading heroines of Bollywood. It was rumoured that Aishwarya Rai might perform on this special number. Aishwarya has been the favourite heroine of Sanjay Leela and he has worked with her in several movies. But it is now revealed that Aishwarya is not doing this song.
 Come what May!
Hot seat
Mega money
SRK turns to yoga
Going global
Singing sensation
Anurag’s dream becomes a reality
Taapsee to shift base
A new love story
chatter box
Playing the romantic
There is some good news for Anita Hassanandani's fans as they will soon see the pretty actress enacting a sensitive love story on Bindass' new television show, Yeh
Hai Aashiqui. The show, which chronicles unusual
love stories, will see the seasoned actress play the role of a married woman and a mother in the first episode that will premiere on August 25.
Image makeover
So Tweet!
Change of heart
Fun with toys
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