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Heartfelt message by Director Mozez Singh for Shefali Shah…

Director Mozez Singh wrote a heartfelt message for Shefali Shah as she wrapped up her part in the web series HUMAN, produced by Vipul Shah & co directed by Vipul Shah & Mozez Singh.

After the last lockdown, the cast and crew of Human commenced shoot from morning to night to make up for the lost time and wrapped up Shefali’s part first, whilst following all COVID protocols to the tee.

Singh wrote to Shefali , What an absolute pleasure it has been to work with you. The layers, the complexities, the depths, the gravitas and the passion you bring to the part is the kind of treasure a director waits to explore in every artist. That you bring it to your game so effortlessly is what made being one of the directors on HUMAN an absolutely & utterly unforgettable triumph for me. Thankyou for your Brilliance , Shef. And all the laughter.

Shefali Shah responded by writing even a more Heartfelt message where she thanked not just Singh but the entire team of HUMAN in her beautiful words.

Catch Jubin Nautiyal & Tulsi Kumar’s musical synergy in 3rd Season of Bhushan Kumar’ T -Series’ MixTape Rewind, presented by Amazon Prime Music!

Celebrated artists Tulsi Kumar & Jubin Nautiyal flag off the 3rd season of Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series’ Mixtape Rewind, presented by Amazon Prime Music. The talented singers take on the iconic love songs ‘Tera Chehra’ and ‘Jaan Meri Ja Rahi Hai’, originally composed by Adnan Sami and now seamlessly combined by Abhijit Vaghani. This season is all about rewinding to the love songs of the 90’s and the early 2000’s, a season of romance and nostalgia perfect for the monsoons.

One of the most loved musical jodi, Jubin & Tulsi, have come together for the first time on Mixtape to pour their heart out in this beautiful rendition of these two old-world romantic songs. As soft, mesmerizing and heartwarming the song is, director Ahmed Khan has created an environment promises to transport you to another world with your loved one.

The new season will be available exclusively first on Amazon Prime Music for Prime members to enjoy an ad-free and hands-free voice enabled experience with Alexa.

Says Bhushan Kumar, “The first episode introduces this season’s theme of romance beautifully. Blending these two songs to create a new tune and yet maintaining the essence of the original, Abhijit has created a soulful track. Jubin & Tulsi have given soul to this tune with their soulful voices.”

Speaking about blending Tera Chehra – Jaan Meri, music composer Abhijit Vaghani says, “Revisiting these timeless melodies with a newer palate seemed the perfect way to reminisce them for the millennials. Adnan Sami is a master composer! And those newer music pieces that I gave, re-added the additional amount of soul and love in these old melodies. Tulsi has an eccentric tone with Jubin’s new age singing that made their tones match perfectly for this song.”

Excited about the collaboration says Tulsi Kumar, “Abhijit is our main music man behind the Mixtape series. With every season he brings the songs and beautifully fuses them together. This year I collaborate with Jubin Nautiyal, yet another talented, amazing human being and a dear friend. The songs that Jubin & I are coming together for are Tera Chehra and Jaan Meri, which are Deepchandi taal. They are extremely romantic and mesmerizing songs, originally composed by Adnan Sami sir. Both the songs are my personal favorites and I can’t wait for everyone to hear the amalgamation of these wonderful tracks that together sound like one extremely beautiful romantic track. Also, it’s always a pleasure to work with Ahmed Khan sir.”

Adds Jubin Nautiyal, “To amalgamate two songs and give it your personal touch is creatively very satisfying. It has been always fun collaborating with Tulsi and Abhijit has perfectly blended these two tracks which are definitely everyone’s favourites. From the composition to the blending, the instruments to the mixing, every factor of creating a whole new track as a process was beautiful. I hope everyone enjoys this mixtape.”

Catch Jubin Nautiyal and Tulsi Kumar’s soulful vocals in Tera Chehra and Jaan Meri for T-Series Mixtape Rewind now.

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Himesh Reshammiya is ready to pump out his next album ‘Himesh Ke Dil Se’

Himesh Reshammiya has surely solidified his position as the music maestro in the industry with an acclaimed list of superhits, the most recent being his album Surroor 2021 and Moods With Melodies. That’s not all, the superhit machine has now announced the launch of his 3rd album from the label, Himesh Reshammiya Melodies titled ‘Himesh Ke Dil Se’ and has his fans on the edge of their seats waiting to hear more.
Himesh Reshammiya

After launching two blockbuster albums, Surroor 2021 and Moods With Melodies, the 3rd album – Himesh Ke Dil Se will see the launch of the talented Indian Idol singer Sawai Bhatt in the albums first song. Surroor 2021’s title track surpassed the milestone of 55 million views and 11 million audio streams in a few days of its release where as Tere Bagairr crossed 12 million views almost immediately post its launch. Known to always hone upcoming talent, Himesh had launched Pawandeep & Arunita in Tere Bagairr and now with Sawai Bhatt in Himesh Ke Dil Se’s first song, he surely has set the bar high! Sawai Bhatt’s eviction from Indian Idol has created quite a buzz as the singer has immense potential and an ethnic and rustic voice which touched the hearts of millions of music lovers. Fans from across the world voiced their opinions on his eviction including Amitabh Bachchan’s grand daughter Navya Nanda posting on the same. During the show, Himesh Reshammiya has promised Sawai to give him his big break and now delivering on his promise, the rockstar machine has created a beautiful melody for Sawai to croon to.

“After the super success of Surroor 2021 and Moods With Melodies, I felt that a new album was a must. Himesh Ke Dil Se will be an album in which I have positioned a lot upcoming and promising talent like Sawai Bhatt and several others. The focus of this album is surely on the melody, voice of the singer and the overall vibe which all music lovers will fall in love with, I promise. The tunes will be rich and ‘raag’ based but yet minimal for the common man to enjoy. The reaction to my latest tracks surely shows the audience’s opinion and that the melody is back in an era of recreations and rich melodies which will be here to stay!” says Himesh Reshammiya on his 3rd album, Himesh Ke Dil Se.

The announcement of the release date will be out soon, stay tuned to hear more!

After short film Chaipatti, Kahanikaar Sudhanshu Rai unveils his first animated story ‘The Manhunter’

After carving a niche with a slew of detective, mystery and horror short stories and film, popular storyteller and filmmaker Sudhanshu Rai has achieved yet another feat with the launch of his first animated story – The Manhunter – under the banner of Kahanikaar Sudhanshu Rai. The short Hindi animated story is based in Vinam, a place synonymous with extreme and rapidly changing weather conditions, including incessant rainfalls and extreme snowfalls that compel people to move to a containment zone to escape the wrath of the preying Manhunter.

During a certain period every year, the conditions used to worsen so much so that a part of the town got transformed into a magnetic field, following which the Manhunter unleashed his terror. It was believed that whoever moved out of the containment zone was bound to get infected by the menacing Manhunter and eventually kill self. Unaware of these happenings, three researchers – Avnik, Priyam and Roohani – arrived in Vinam in a bid to explore the truth behind the extreme weather conditions.

While at first they were spooked with snow clad abandoned houses, the signboards on the road led them to the containment zone where all residents of the town were staying. Even as people advised them against making any move, the trio decided to dwell deeper and unravel the mystery behind the magnetic field and the Manhunter, only to experience the worst nightmare of their life.


The short animated story by Kahanikaar Sudhanshu Rai comes just days after the roaring success of his directorial debut Chaipatti, a horror comedy short film that was an instant hit on YouTube and OTT platforms like Disney+ Hotstar and MX Player. The short film garnered an overwhelming response owing of its gripping storyline and unique treatment of horror comedy genre.

Actor Kubbra Sait is a part of Apple TV’s sci fi magnum opus Foundation

Kubbra Sait is one actor who is known for her acting prowess and ability to create a fan following for every character she portrays. However, the girl is now going places as she is seen in the trailer of a major international show, that too on the most coveted platform of today’s time, Apple TV. Titled as Foundation, Kubbra is seen in the trailer of the show that was dropped on 28th June. The star cast comprises of Hollywood stars such as Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey,Laura Birn, Cassian Bilton,Terrence Mann and the show runner David S Goyer

Divo partners withIndo Overseas Films (IOF) for the national OTT release of the movie “Mojin: The Treasure Valley”

Mumbai/ Chennai: Divo, one of India’s leading and well-established digital media and music companies has partnered with Indo Overseas Films (IOF) for the digital release of the international, highest-grossing movie, “Mojin: The Treasure Valley” in India. The movie is the second in the Mojin series (first being Mojin: The Lost Legend – 2015) to be released and originally was called Mojin: The Worm Valley (now being released by Divo & IOF under the name Mojin – The Treasure Valley for OTT platforms).

The movie revolves around a legendary tomb explorer named Hu Bayi who is on a hunt to find the cure to an ancient curse in the Tomb of Emperor Xian featuring Hang Cai, Xuan Gu, and Heng Yu in leading roles.

This highly acclaimed movie is now available to viewers in 4 languages (English, Hindi. Tamil and Telugu) for a pay-per-view model across all leading OTT platforms such as Book My Show, Gudsho, Google Play, Shemaroo, Hungama Play, Filme, Oct Square, and Apple TV.

The movie is being released by Indo Overseas Films (IOF) in India and to ensure a smooth digital release, they have partnered with Divo and handed them the complete digital distribution of the movie on various leading OTT platforms.

Links to Trailers:

English – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1VM8ym1Fg

Tamil – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQg8mPih_uQ

Hindi – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbD9bOops5w

Telugu – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDSoSF_uNxA

Speaking on the release, Mr. Firoz Elias, CEO, Indo Overseas Films (IOF) said, “With the evolution of film distribution in India and movies only releasing online, it was imperative for us to partner with a digital distributor, who could provide a smooth process. This movie never got an opportunity to release in India due to the pandemic and considering the current situation, we decided to go ahead with an OTT release. We are glad to team up with Divo for this release, who helped us reach out to a large audience base via correct channels.”

Speaking on the association, Shahir Muneer, Founder and Director, Divo said, “With audiences not able to go out and enjoy movies like earlier, it has become important for us to offer them new and fresh content across multiple touch-points. There is a very high demand for content in international languages and it’s our constant endeavor at Divo to provide maximum reach via regional languages.”

Mojin: The Worm Valley was Released in China in Theaters in 2018, and in the USA in 2019.

Priyank Sharma recalls how he didn’t know to face the camera’ in the first season of ALTBalaji’s youth drama Puncch Beat

ALTBalaji’s youth drama Puncch Beat 2 is all set to drop on the digital screens this week. The show has been one of the highly anticipated youth dramas this year. The first session of the show was trendy and extremely successful amongst the youth. The show’s protagonist Rahat, played by actor Priyank Sharma became a crush of many. For the unversed, Priyank marked his acting debut with the show. Sharma, who had been part of several reality shows like Bigg Boss, Splitsvilla, and Roadies till then, had never faced the camera as an actor hitherto. Recently, Priyank confessed that he was naive as an actor. In his candid revelation, he also added that he was so raw that he didn’t even know how to face the camera.

While expressing his thoughts for the show, Priyank also revealed how Puncch Beat has always been special to him. He said, “Puncch Beat Season 1 was my debut as an actor, and I believe that the show is like our baby, for most of us. I have a lot of emotions attached to the project. Along with emotions, a lot of expectation is also there because season 1 worked beautifully for me as an actor.” Confessing his rawness in the first season, he added, “I was raw at that time, and I was completely naïve as an actor. I had no experience at all, like how to face the camera and such. Season 2, on the other hand, was again a lot of learning experience for me. However, this time I won’t say that I was raw. I was a lot more trained as an actor, there in front of the camera, knowing a lot of things about how this entire thing works.”

The first season of the popular youth drama Puncch Beat 2 was released in 2019, and fans of the show have been anticipating the second season. The ALTBalaji show centers around college, teen drama, paired with a murder mystery this year. The second season stars Priyank Sharma, Siddharth Sharma, Khushi Joshi, Harshita Gaur, SamyukthaHegde, KajolTyagi, Nikhil Bhambri, Samir Soni, NikiAnejaWalia, and others.

The show drops on streaming giant ALTBalaji this Sunday, 27th June 2021. Recap the first season right away on the ALTBalaji app!

Zoya Hussain receives rave reviews for her soul stirring portrayal of Amrita Singh in the trending show, Grahan

Zoya Hussain is an actor who is known for her ability to emote with the eyes. Her moving performance in Anurag Kashyap’s Mukkabaaz highlighted that she was made for the arc lights and that acting was in her blood.

The Delhi girl, Zoya came to the city of dreams Mumbai, to enter the competitive of the Hindi film industry but she has managed to Shine bright and carve a unique niche for herself as the girl who can get into the skin of every character. Such was the case with the role of IPS officer Amrita Singh, something that has brought her praises and a huge thumbs up from the critics across all platforms. The audiences and critics alike are impressed and amazed at how Zoya has morphed into Amrita Singh in a show that traverses the delicate father daughter journey across trials, triumphs, lies, deceit and more. As the protagonist of the show, Zoya is not only the central element of Grahan, but is also the riding factor, a huge feat for an actor who came to Mumbai with dreams, talent and ambition. Being paired opposite a seasoned senior actor like Pavan Malhotra who plays her father in the show was surely not easy, but the 2 make for a power packed performance as father and daughter and the same can be seen with the social media trends that are ongoing.

Some of the reviews that Zoya have received are ranging from
The fact that Grahan gives Zoya the needed background to showcase her talent, as she carries the show on her shoulders to the fact that this is the perfect platform for an actor whose talent knows no bounds and who has managed to convey even in scenes where nothing is said. Way to go Zoya!

Grahan was released on June 24 on Disney Hotstar

Karadi Tales Celebrated 25 Years Of Publishing With A Launch Of New Podcast Series

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Mumbai: Founded in 1996, Karadi Tales is celebrating 25 years of storytelling. 26th June saw the launch of a brand new podcast called The Little Book Makers.

Karadi Tales was created with the aim of creating a space for Indian culture in mainstream children’s literature. Twenty-five years later, Karadi Tales continues to pave the way for children’s literature in India, working to bring out beautiful books that celebrate Indian culture, Indian voices, Indian art and aesthetics.

On the eve of its birthday, Karadi Tales launched its latest venture – a new podcast, The Little Book Makers, featuring authors, illustrators, musicians, and celebrities. The first episode of the podcast was launched on 26th June 2021, 6PM, with Karadi Tales editors Daya Subramanian and Deepti Ganesh. It witnessed Naseeruddin Shah, the first voice of Karadi the Bear, speaking on his work with the company, the art of voice acting, and some of his favourite books for children. The episode is now LIVE and available on all podcast sites including Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts.

The podcast follows a unique format where authors interview one another about the children’s books they love, books they’ve written or worked on themselves, and, if they’ve done so, their experience working with Karadi Tales. Renowned celebrities such as Naseeruddin Shah and Usha Uthup, who have worked with Karadi Tales since its early years, will also be featured on the podcast in conversation with Publishing Director Shobha Viswanath.

New episodes of The Little Book Makers will go live every Saturday at 6PM IST. Each episode will be between 20 and 30 minutes.

Tension ko karne lift, aaya full on superhit- Coolie No.1

~ Watch &pictures premiere of Coolie No.1 on 27th June at 12 noon ~

This weekend, entertainment hoga full on and tension will be all gone as &pictures brings to your screens a complete dose of laughter and fun with its premiere of Coolie No.1 on 27th June at 12 noon. Directed by the original master of comedy, David Dhawan, this ultimate laugh riot features energetic Varun Dhawan, gorgeous Sara Ali Khan, and comedy ke kings- Paresh Rawal, Jaaved Jaaferi, Rajpal Yadav, and Johnny Lever. Along with its engaging narrative, shenanigans, and comic timing, the film’s music got everybody grooving and became instant crowd pullers like Mirchi Lagi Toh, Husnn Hai Suhana, or Teri Bhabhi.

Talking about the film, Varun Dhawan said, “The joy of sitting in front of the TV with your family and friends, watching good films, and munching on good food, is the ultimate fun-filled experience. There is nothing more satisfying than being a part of the movie that caters to such moments. It has also been great fun working alongside such brilliant and experienced actors. Each of them is an institution in themselves, there is so much to learn from them. I am sure the viewers would have as much fun watching the movie as we had while making it. Be safe at home and be a part of the full on entertainment with &pictures premieres of Coolie No.1 on 27th June at 12 noon.”

Jackky Bhagnani said, “With Coolie No.1 we intend to bring a lot of laughter in everyone’s lives. We hope &pictures premiere of Coolie No.1 on 27th June, will cheer up and entertain everyone.”

The film revolves around the hilarious roller-coaster ride of Coolie Raju who impersonates a rich prince to get the love of his life, Sarah, but everything goes for a toss when his real identity is exposed.
Thus starts a full on comedy of errors. Coolie No.1 is a total family entertainer that will keep you on the edge of your seats with its full on comic timing.
This weekend, entertainment hoga full on superhit! Watch &pictures premiere of Coolie No.1 on 27th June at 12 PM