Neil Nitin Mukesh is going to sing his first song

May 26, 2008 No Comments »

Neil Nitish Mukesh, the son of Nitin Mukesh and the grandson of the illustrious Mukesh is going to sing his first song for the film Freeze. Neil is supposed to sing the title track of the movie which is composed by Pritam Chakraborty. Neil has an earlier experience of singing on stage as a kid. He is a Kishore Kumar fan through and through and he has never sung his grandfather’s songs. Well, that’s sad because loving Kishore Kumar (who doesn’t?) doesn’t mean you have to ignore other singers. In fact there are great meany soulful songs that only the senior Mukesh could sing. Neil Nitin Mukesh can also play piano. I wonder what happened to that film he was appearing in.

Laxmikant-Pyarelal revisted

May 25, 2008 No Comments »

Who can forget gems like Mere mehboob kayamat hogi, Aaj mausam, bada baiman hai, and Chaahunga mai tujhe, shaam savere? The pair of Laxmikan-Pyarelal has given us more memorable songs that you can count. Here’s a nice article on Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

A. R. Rehman remixes his own songs

May 24, 2008 No Comments »

In the age of remixes (and rarely something original) for established artists it’s better to create their own remixes before someone else devastates their creations. Asha Bhonsle did it, and now A. R. Rehman is doing it too. For the new movie Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na A. R. Rehman, on the request of producer Aamir Khan, agreed to create a remix of his already created tune. Aamir said since the movie is about youth, it’s music should cater to the youth. OK, does he want to say the youth prefer only the remixed versions of great songs and not the originally created songs?