Tag: Kalyanji Anandji

  • Saregama, YouTube announce global licensing deal

    Saregama, YouTube announce global licensing deal

    Mumbai: Saregama has announced a global deal with YouTube for YouTube Shorts, a short-format video experience on YouTube.

    This partnership will allow users to create short videos on YouTube using Saregama’s humongous catalogue of songs. Saregama said that it is India’s oldest music label with a catalogue of over 1.40 lakh songs across many different genres, including new and old film and non-film songs, devotional music, ghazals, and Indipop in more than 25 languages like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Bhojpuri, and Gujrati, amongst others.

    Starting now, YouTube Shorts creators will be able to use music from one of the most extensive music libraries in India, which includes classics from legends like Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Gulzar, Jagjit Singh, R.D. Burman, Kalyanji Anandji, Geeta Dutt, and Laxmikant Pyarelal, and at the same time, the latest hits from Badshah, Neeti Mohan, Papon, Adnan Sami and many other contemporary artists.

    The short content format is very popular among audiences and creators as it is a very inclusive way of expressing thoughts, emotions, moods, or experiences in a more vibrant, personal, engaging, and meaningful manner.

  • Sony MAX2 to air Amitabh Bachchan’s iconic movie ‘Don’

    Sony MAX2 to air Amitabh Bachchan’s iconic movie ‘Don’

    MUMBAI: Who can forget the blockbuster songs like ‘Yeh Mera Dil’, ‘Khaike Pan Banaraswala’ and the gripping plot of crime thriller Don? It’s still one of the most loved movie of Amitabh Bachchan fans across the country. Sony MAX2, India’s iconic Hindi movie channel from Sony Pictures Networks is all set to take you back to that era as it airs the iconic movie Don on Friday, 16th February, 2018 at 7pm. 

    Written by the duo Salim-Javed and music given by Kalyanji Anandji, Don stars Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman as the lead, along with Pran. Iftekhar, Helen, Om Shivpuri and Satyen Kappu in supporting roles. Amitabh Bachchan plays a double role, as Bombay underworld boss Don and his lookalike Vijay. The film’s plot revolves around Vijay, a Bombay slum-dweller who resembles the powerful crime boss Don, being asked by law enforcement officer DSP D’Silva (Iftekhar) to masquerade as Don, in order to act as an informant for the police and track down the root of the criminal organization. Will Vijay be successful in helping police to find the master mind behind all the crime?