If you’re one of those movie buffs who went to watch the phenomenal Rajni in full form in Sivaji despite not understanding a single dialogue, its time to rejoice. For the Boss is back and he’s speaking your language.

The process of dubbing for the Hindi version of Sivaji has begun. Confirms S C Babu, CEO, AVM Productions, the studio that hold the rights of the film’s negative, ‘‘Yes, Rajni will dub for himself. AR Rahman will re-record the music, which will be mixed for the Hindi version.

Indie Hindi, socaton, skurban. You may feel like you need a dictionary the next time you go shopping for music.

The music world is getting thick with hybrids, or cryptically named blends of established styles. Indie Hindi, for example, is traditional Indian vocals tinged with edgy American-style rock. Socaton is dance music that has elements of rap, calypso and reggae. The number of genres is up more than 40% over the past four years, by one measure -- Gracenote, which maintains the music-classification system used by major sites like Yahoo and iTunes, now recognizes more than 1,800 genres. It recently added "hyphy," a jittery form of hip-hop from the San Francisco area.

Lyrics, what’s that? With songs that come with words any listener would be hard-pressed to comprehend, the only thing that keeps them top of the pops is their foot-tapping music

Time: 11:00 pm
Venue: Most popular party spot in the city
Occasion: B’day of 21-year-old Prashant
Music played: Ganpath chal daru la
Game being played: Four of them have put bets on judging the right lyrics of the song Ganpath
Result: No consensus reached, boys enjoy the song and carry on.

He's the dapper guy who doled out Krishna with conviction.

He's one half of the Colonial Cousins, who took India by storm in 1996. Leslie Lewis is composer, singer, lyricist and now messiah for several pop star-aspirants. After being in hibernation of sorts for four years, he's back on the scene, composing for Kaushik Roy's film Apna Aasman.

The album is decidedly mellow. He explains, "We weren't looking to merely sizzle pop charts. We wanted to create an everlasting number, not just a fad that quickly bites the dust. We wanted to recreate the magic of Hum honge kamyab!"

 Join us as we celebrate 60th independence day of India here on 15th of August, 2007.

"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again."

- Jawaharlal Nehru
(on Indian Independence Day, 1947)

She is discovering indeed. During last decade, she has witnessed the most fascinating growth since its independence. However, much more is yet to be done and achieved. The drive of optimism and momentum needs to be continued if it needs to lift the hopes and condition of 1 billion plus people. The recent boom being witnessed is yet to reach the masses and needs lot of work to achieve the desired impact.