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Pankaj Udhas Ghazals Featured Many Bollywood Stars In Music Videos

The man who revolutionized Ghazal as a musical genre is no longer with us. Pankaj Udhas breathed his last on February 26, 2024, Monday after battling a prolonged illness. His family, in an official statement, confirmed the news. The music industry has been mourning his loss. While Sonu Nigam posted a heartfelt note, Hariharan remembered his brother, whom he last met on The Kapil Sharma show.

After Naam’s Chitthi Aayee Hai, Pankaj Ji appeared on TV screens in the 90s, and cable channels were gradually dropping, and he was one of the earliest ones to tap on the music video trend.

Most of the successful actors from today have been part of music videos in the earliest times of their careers. These actors then went on to become successful TV and film actors. Pankaj Udhas Ghazals also followed the music video...

CinemaIn the docuseries The Romantics streaming on Netflix, Shah Rukh Khan spoke about working with filmmakers Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra. Shah Rukh Khan/File PhotoBollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has talked about how he perfected his stammer in the 1993 film Darr and revealed how he used to bounce off quirky ideas to nail his villainous act in the Yash Chopra blockbuster. In the docuseries The Romantics streaming on Netflix, Shah Rukh spoke about becoming friendly with filmmaker Aditya Chopra while working on the 1993 film Darr, directed and produced by his father Yash Chopra. The actor said he gave Aditya Chopra some inputs about his character Rahul Mehra. "I had a classmate who had a stammer. And then we did some little study, some BBC documentary or something where they talked about that people's minds become aware to one sound, and it's like a sharp current." "So, you can't say the word.

Speaking to Ians on the issue in a telephonic interaction, sports activist and advocate Rahul Mehra gave his take on the entire episode and how it is impacting the athletes.

He said that the Wfi is the culprit, who made the country’s wrestlers sit on protest but more than the federation it’s the sports ministry, who is responsible for the entire fiasco.

"Athletes are also humans, they are also made of the same blood and the same flesh and they also think the way we do. Just a matter of fact they are stronger than anybody else. They have goals they want to achieve and they are quite focused on that so to say that they won’t be impacted obviously is not the truth. The question is, why did matters come to such a state where they should be impacted? Why should they be sitting on protest?...

New Delhi, Feb 3 (Ians) Relaxation in the the National Sports Development Code of India 2011 is being provided so as to support National Sports Federations (Nsf) during the Covid-19 pandemic, said Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday.

The ministry in its circular sent to all NSFs and the Indian Olympic Association (Ioa) on Monday said that it has made use of the 'relaxation clause' in the Sports Code by which it shall have the power to relax any of the provisions pertaining to granting or renewal of recognition to NSFs.

"During (Covid-19) pandemic, we had given relaxations to the federation. For renewals and elections you need physical movement which was not possible. So we had extended some relaxations at the time. There are guidelines in the sports code for recognition of the sports federations," said Rijiju at the launch of the Fit India office at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here.

"But during special circumstances like Covid,...

By Navneet Singh

New Delhi, Feb 2 (Ians) The latest sports ministry circular that seeks to "dilute" the National Sports Development Code of India 2011 is "purely illegal", lawyer-turned-sports activist Rahul Mehra, who is pushing for reforms in Indian sports, has charged.

The ministry in its circular of February 1, sent to all the National Sports Federations (NSFs) and the Indian Olympic Association (Ioa), is about renewal of recognition of the NSFs under the Sports Code 2011, which has still not been fully implemented.

Mehra is trying to enforce the Code through Delhi High Court, which has, for the time being, stayed the renewal of recognition of the NSFs, while giving the federations time to comply with the Code and make necessary amendments to their constitution.

"The circular is purely illegal. The ministry in its own submission advocated for the NSFs to follow the Code for clean sports. Now it's taking a different course...

Actor Rohit Roy, who is making a comeback on the small screen with the reboot of the popular TV show "Sanjivani", says he cannot wait to share the screen with actor Mohnish Bahl, with whom he had started his career in the 1990s.

Rohit on Friday tweeted a photograph of himself along with the cast and crew of the show and captioned it: "Back on TV in the much awaited 'Sanjivani' reboot!

"Can't wait to share screen space with the guy who I started my career with... Mohnish Bahl! And of course, my darling Surbhi Chandna and the rest of the stellar cast!"

Producer Siddharth P. Malhotra tweeted: "'Sanjivani' - its old world charm and Gen-next energy featuring Mohnish, Gurdip, Rohit, Sayantani Ghosh the much awaited leads Surbhi and Namit Khanna with many more to fill your hearts and screens with love and warmth! Wish us love and luck." (see...