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Music Review – ALOO CHAAT

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Mar 14th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Music: Xulfi, RDB, Vipin Mishra
Lyrics: Xulfi, RDB, Syed Gulrez, Vipin Mishra
Bring out the “chutney” remixes and spicy beats for a sizzling taste of ALOO CHAAT! This Punjabi flavored album brings out RDB to lend their two cents along with the rising Xulfi. So will this soundtrack make your mouth water, or just give you heart [...]



Movie Review – CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Jan 22nd, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Roger Yuan, Ranvir Shorey
Director: Nikhil Advani
The timing of CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA couldn’t be better, it came in the midst of my side project, “Kung Fu for Dummies”. A tough assignment you say, well I too have seen KUNG FU PANDA and know it can’t be an easy task. Enter, [...]



Music Review – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Allah Rakka Rahman has surpassed any and all expectations with his recent Golden Globe win for best soundtrack. When most, including yours truly, thought his peak had already come and gone, the 43 year old composer has not only mounted his own stock but has given recognition to an entire nation housing over one billion [...]



Music Review – RAAZ: THE MYSTERY CONTINUES

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Music: Sharib-Toshi, Raju Singh, Pranay M. Rijia, Gourov Dasgupta
Lyrics: Sayeed Quadri, Kumaar
The original RAAZ was a breakthrough film for models turned actors Bipasha Basu and Dino Morea. Seven years later Mukesh Bhatt decides to reinvent the mystery thriller with RAAZ: THE MYSTERY CONTINUES with their camp’s poster boy Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Adhyayan [...]



Music Review: KHALLBALLI

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Music: Sajid-Wajid
Lyrics: Jalees Sherwani, Shabbir Ahmed
Sajid-Wajid are to Salman Khan what ‘aloo’ is to ‘chaat’. Unfortunately it’s the frozen ‘aloo chaat’ you need to microwave and rarely tastes good. Three of the four moves the brothers composed for this year have ironically starred or had traces of Salman “Angry-immature-childish” Khan. GOD TUSSI GREAT HO and [...]



Music Review: CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Music: Shanker-Eshaan-Loy, Kailash-Naresh-Paresh, Bappi and Bappa Lahri, Bohemia
Lyrics: Rajat Arora, Shaily Shailender, Kailash Kher, Bohemia
Though CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA’s main cast, director, music directors and producers are Bollywood’s very own. Publicity for the film suggests otherwise. Promos are even making their way on hulu.com! It helps when Warner Bros. is one of the leading banners. [...]



Movie Review: RAB NE BANA DI JODI

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Director: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak
Forget London, forget Prague, forget Miami and forget any other locale your travel agent can take you. Instead let’s go deep into the heart of India itself, more specifically the heart of Punjab, Amritsar. Where an “…extraordinary love story is in every jodi”. Who knows, that [...]



Music Review – GHAJINI

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Dec 6th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Music: A. R. Rahman
Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi
After the release of DIL CHAHTA HAI Aamir Khan became extremely selective in the roles he was offered. Since the 2001 release he’s only been seen in four movies! All of them creating massive curiosity at the box office and raking in a hefty amount.
GHAJINI will be no different. Promos [...]



Music Review – RAB NE BANA DI JODI

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The year thus far hasn’t provided much in terms of blockbuster music. Highly anticipated albums were worse than the next YUVVRAAJ, SINGH IS KIING and ADA (one would expect more from Rahman, not Pritam though so SING IS KIING would have been weak no matter what). Now its time for the Shah Rukh and Aditya [...]



Movie Review – DOSTANA

By Parampreet Singh Sandhu • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Bobby Deol
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
With everyone knocking around gay marriage these days, why should Indians be left out all those gay issues? It’s not as if being gay was illegal in India or anything…right? Appropriately enough Karan Johar (it’s only appropriate because he’s been responsible for other romantic comedies, [...]