Piece of my mind!

“Music rights of `Singh is Kinng’ sold at Rs 13.5 cr” proclaims a DNA story yesterday. Amidst all the hoopla created by the Times Group since they’ve purchased the music...

Sony BMG’s latest release, the OST for the Pakistani film, Khuda Ke Liye, is perhaps the worst soundtrack I’ve seen yet from an international record label. I’m talking about the...

Daniel…who? Daniel B. George is perhaps the rightful owner of the title credits for Johnny Gaddaar’s soundtrack. Shankar Ehsaan Loy have to their credit just three tracks – not counting...

I had talked about Rahman and Bharatbala leveraging the sheer musical value of our national anthem, recently. It has now taken a ridiculous turn with a Chennai-based retired inspector filing...

I still remember August 15, 1992. I was at school, pretty annoyed at the Independence Day routine while the rest of the world was glued to the telly, watching the...

With the recent news about composing trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy getting to be music producers (for Johnny Gaddar) rather than just being music composers, I was wondering if they have...

What’s this obsession with logic in the recently-released Sivaji? Every single Tamil weekly review adds a line saying that a particular scene defies logic. Examples quoted include the hawala transaction,...

We Indians have got used to all plagiarism in Bollywood, but when you’re premiering your scene-to-scene copied film in England – while the original starred one of UK’s biggest stars,...

Quite a few people have mailed me with extreme annoyance and complete disbelief – ‘Why are you a member in both Himesh fans and Hate-Himesh groups at Orkut?’ Are we...

Mohit Suri, director of Awarapan, when asked about the film’s plot, says, “Its storyline is derived from a Korean film. I am not hiding it. There is a Korean film...