Folk Music India Blog

South Africa’s first Internet portal for fans of Tamil films will be launched tomorrow.
This follows the growing popularity of Udhayam, the recently re-launched e-zine that is sent free to subscribers via e-mail.
Although most subscribers are in South Africa, it also has subscribers in India, Canada, France, Singapore, Malaysia and the UK. Its blog page — [...]

Mumbai. Mahuaa Media Private Limited (MMPL), an associate of entertainment and media company Century Communication Group, has launched a Bhojpuri channel Mahuaa TV today. The 24-hour general entertainment channel Bhojpuri channel is the first of its kind in India.
The channel was formally unveiled on 9 August by railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, who noted it [...]

Now, Malayalam music will have its own place on the world wide web(www). In Bangalore Guruji.com launched the first Malayalam music search engine in the country.
The access is available for free at www.guruji.com/music and will offer a wide variety of Malayalam music.
Guruji.com was started by two young entrepreneurs Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra, both IIT [...]

She is sexy, beautiful and graceful. Actress Bipasha Basu has been in the spotlight recently for her role in the upcoming film Shob Charitro Kalponik (directed by Rituparno Ghosh). The theme is riveting. Says Filmfare magazine, “How much does art owe to life and vice versa? Can life truly be depicted in art? Is life [...]

In a meet-the-press programme at the Trissur Press Club on Wednesday, Tamil film director Bharathi Raja, considered the godfather of modern Tamil cinema for inspiring a generation of young artists to take up movies as a career, commented that Tamil cinema is fast losing its identity.
He said that contemporary Tamil cinema concerns itself with exploiting [...]

ULTRA,a veteran of 25 years in the entertainment industry,is a strong complete family entertainment company built,is still growing and setting up leadership in the industry. The company has one of the largest VCD/DVD catalogues listing video copyrights for more than 1500 titles,with entire genre of all Indian languages and English films. The catalogue also has [...]

NEW DELHI: Director Anjan Dutta, whose Chalo Let’s go was screened at the 10th OSIAN’s-Cinefan Festival, believes in making films that help in a re-discovery of the Bengali ethos.
Dutta believes that these ethos appear to have been lost in the metro culture.
Addressing a press meet at the recent Tenth OSIAN’s, he said that his attempt [...]