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  • Amrita TV announces ‘Let’s Dance’: reality show for pairs

    Amrita TV announces ‘Let’s Dance’: reality show for pairs

    MUMBAI: Amrita TV is inviting entries for its latest dance reality show for Pairs, ‘Let’s Dance’ .The unique feature of this talent hunt is that contestants can comprise pairs of male& female or husband & wife, or boys or girls in the 15-30 age group.

    While the earlier trendsetting shows of Amrita TV ‘Super Dancer’ and ‘Super Dancer Junior’ nurtured individual dancing talent, the new show would focus on encouraging pairs to showcase their skills, with professional choreographers of contestants working with each team to infuse innovation and energy to the show. The competition, which will include a wide range of different and international dance styles, will be a round-by-round elimination contest.

     

    ‘Let’s Dance’ is designed to be a dance lover’s dream show open to aspirants across India and the gulf who can meet the protocols of the show. The show would feature performances by various distinctive dancers and is expected to have a wide variety of participants. An expert panel consisting of renowned choreographers and celebrities would be the judges for the contest. 

     
    The show’s format will throw open immense opportunities to competing  pairs and enable them to showcase a  variety of Indian, cultural and international dance styles ranging across a broad spectrum of classical, contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz, Kalarippayattu, Salsa, Samba and musical theatre styles, amongst others, with many sub-genres within these categories represented.

     
    ‘Let’s Dance’ will be mounted on spectacular sets with dazzling lights , LED Walls and stunning sound systems. The Last Date for receiving Entries is 15-06-14. More info at     www.amritatv.com/ld

  • Tiya Sircar lends her voice to Walking with Dinosaurs 3D

    Tiya Sircar lends her voice to Walking with Dinosaurs 3D

    MUMBAI: America-based Indian actor Tiya Sircar, who received rave reviews for her role in “The Internship,” will now lend her voice in the 3D film “Walking with Dinosaurs.”
    In the film Sircar plays Juniper, a pretty young Pachyrhinosaurus who lived 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period in what we now call Alaska.

    The film, a BBC Earth Films and Evergreen Studios Production presented by Twentieth Century Fox and Reliance Entertainment, opens nationwide 20 December and stars John Leguizamo, Justin Long and Karl Urban and is directed by Barry Cook.

    The daughter of college professors, Sircar became involved in the performing arts at the age of three.

    She began with dance (ballet, jazz, modern and South Asian folk and classical dance) and then became equally interested in acting and musical theater. She continued to study and perform in school and community productions before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a professional acting career in Hollywood.

    In “The Internship,” Sircar played Neha Patel, a “Twilight” fan fiction-obsessed college student possessing little-to-no actual experience in romance. Talking about her role in the film, Sircar told Glamaholic, “I’ve often played the head cheerleader or the bitchy, popular girl in school. I’ve never really played a “nerd” before. It was an eye-opening experience.”

    The 31-year-old Austin native said she’s rarely cast as her actual ethnicity. “I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles. I don’t often get Indian girl roles because I’m ‘not Indian enough.”

    Her films include “Friends with Benefits” and “17 Again” opposite Zach Efron. Her television credits include voice work on Disney’s “Phineas & Ferb” and onscreen appearances on “Betas,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “The Suite Life on Deck,” “Numb3rs,” “Hannah Montana” and “House M.D.”
    According to her IMDB profile, she will be next seen in “Laggies,” a dark comedy about a young woman, played by Keira Knightley, who is stuck in perpetual adolescence who comes up with a novel plan to avoid her boyfriend’s marriage proposal.

  • Amrita TV announces a reality show for pairs

    Amrita TV announces a reality show for pairs

    MUMBAI: A dance reality show Let’s Dance is giving an opportunity to dance enthusiasts to participate in pairs. The show would soon be launched on the Malayalam TV channel, Amrita TV. The participants should be in the age group of 18-30 and can be husband-wife, sisters, brothers, brother-sister, friends, or any two people who share a good chemistry and have a knack for dancing.

     

    Each pair will have a choreographer and they will go through several elimination rounds. The show is inviting contestants from across India as well as the gulf. The judging panel will consist of known choreographers and celebrities.

     

    Previously, the channel has hosted two other dance shows – Super Dancer and Super Dancer Junior – that were quite popular with the masses. Even this time around, the channel is making sure to create the right buzz. Many different dance forms will be a part of the show including classical, contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz, kalarippayattu, salsa, samba and musical theatre styles.

     

    According to the channel sources, Let’s Dance will have good quality set with LED walls, bright lights and amazing sound systems.

     

    The auditions for the show will begin on 14 December in Kerala and the last date for submission of entries is 13 December.

  • Mahindra Comviva bets big on digital music growth around the globe

    Mahindra Comviva bets big on digital music growth around the globe

    MUMBAI: Mahindra Comviva, a mobile solutions provider is emerging its reach on digital music portfolio across video, voice and text. The company is aggregating its content across Asia and Africa‘s continent.

    Mahindra Comviva owns music rights for over 260,000 music assets, in addition to 300,000 other content assets (video, images, voice & text). It has more than 200 categories in SMS/USSD-based services with a very strong WAP catalogue, spanning multiple genres including movie classics, lifestyle tips, hip hop, inspirational, spiritual, rumba, hip life, sports, devotional, jazz, rock, reggae and retro in more than 90 languages such as English, Mandarin, Indonesian, Malay, etc.

    Mahindra Comviva digital services head Atul Madan said, “Over the last few years service providers in the Asia Pacific region have witnessed huge demand for digital music, especially in ASEAN countries. By offering content personalization options for end-users and multiple revenue models for mobile operators, Mahindra Comviva‘s range of digital services, spanning music, voice, video and text, drives service usage and ensures superior end-user experience whilst maximizing operators‘ revenue window.”

    Mahindra Comviva has also pioneered and launched “Infotainment Portal”, a mobile data-based app that allows subscribers to watch and download videos and even share, integrate content with social network websites. The mobile app allows the subscribers to access infotainment through a single app irrespective of the choice of bearer channel between mobile client, text or voice. “Infotainment Portal” is powered by its “Recommendation and Analytics Engine”, which recommends content based on the user‘s profile and his personal preferences rather than content preferred by the crowd as done in most conventional VAS services.

  • HP teams up with Universal Music & Hungama.com to launch music service

    HP teams up with Universal Music & Hungama.com to launch music service

    MUMBAI: HP has joined forces with entertainment giants Universal Music and Hungama.com to launch subscription-based music service in India called HP Connected Music.

    The service provides unlimited rental downloadable music free of charge for one year. This brand new service is available on selected HP notebooks with the imbedded Windows 8 launcher.

    With the new range of HP consumer notebooks featuring Windows 8, consumers can now enjoy music on the move – with acess to their favourite music anywhere, anytime. HP Connected Music is available in India on selected consumer notebooks.

    HP Connected Music has been introduced in India to provide HP customers exclusive content and access to Hungama.com’s and Universal Music‘s diverse catalogue which includes over 1 million songs from more than 20,000 artists from different genres inlcuding Bollywood, Devotional, Rock, Classic, Hip Hop, Jazz, Regional, R&B, Country and others.

    Consumers will have access to unique content such as previews, behind the scenes, VIP events and many more, to connect with their favourite artists, including the likes of A. R. Rehman, Sonu Nigam, Priyanka Chopra, Anoushka Shankar, Euphoria and international artists like Justin Bieber, Lady GaGa, Aerosmith, Akon among others.

    Speaking about the service, HP PPS India Head, Marketing Ranjivjit Singh said, “Our consumers have told us they want a seamless music experience, while using their device and this is exactly what HP Connected Music provides. Through its subscription service, it allows people the chance to explore a whole new world of music and exclusive content, while using their HP device.”