Anu Malik is flying high these days. We mean - literally! If the plan sticks, he should be flying into Istanbul next month for a new project to score a Turkish-Hindi fusion song. The Turkish rock singer Petek Dincoz has invited Anu Malik to record a fusion track in Hindi and Turkish. Petek is known as Britney Spears of Turkey and is a quite a sensation with few chart busting numbers to her credit.

India's megastar Amitabh Bachchan along with his family attended an event honoring his father, Late Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan at Lincoln Center in New York yesterday. The event was organized by Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan in celebration of India's 60th Independence day as well as birth centenary of Late Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

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!"