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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Sporting layers of his glittering trade-mark chunky jewellery, pop-icon and Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri seems to have won over Hollywood bigwigs as well. Little wonder then that noted Los-Angeles based music mentors, Don Grierson, Ritch Esra and (India-born) Neli Kools, have singled out the roly-poly Lahiri to formally support them in their international ‘on-line’ portal venture (“Musicbizpro”).
Bappi-da revealed this on the eve of his birthday when he was flanked by his cheering foreign guests, “It’s a commendable gesture on the part of Don, Ritch and Neli to come all the way to India to scout for upcoming and polished musical talents and promote them mainly through ‘on-line’ portals. We are deprived of our music royalties and dues all thanks to the rampant music piracy. So with this comprehensive consultancy, I suppose it will prove to be a blessing for the music industry and a much-needed ‘Godfather’ to hundreds of struggling NRI singers all over the world. In due course they will get their share of limelight and the financial benefits as well. Which is why I am with their group and hope to make an international sureela dhamaaka in early 2010,”
Few are aware that Bappi-da had also composed and sung a special song dedicated to the Mumbai 26/11 terror-attack victims which went ‘Hum Sub Ek Hain’. The enterprising Lahiri’s current mission seems to be an anti-dote of sorts to the tag ‘Slumdogs'. (Remember ‘Slum Dog Millionaires’?) “For me the street-kids living in hutments are actually ‘slum-stars’. Which is why I have picked up a group of eight promising slum children, groomed them and made them sing for my upcoming pop-album, which I have sent to Los Angeles. Currently they are ‘mixing’ the tracks out there and they are going gaga over the ‘Slum-Stars numbers,” he claimed.
Not one to be lagging behind as far as global track tributes to the ‘late’ Michael Jackson go, the Bollywood composer has “recorded a special number ‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ with Jackson associates, which will soon be released internationally. That’s not enough. Despite being passionately involved with pop-fare, Lahiri has not jilted filmi songs, having recorded a racy dance-number for ‘Spaghetti 24x 7’ ( yes, it’s a Hindi movie) which will have Mithun Chakraborty competing on-screen with his real-life son Mimoh.
Sporting layers of his glittering trade-mark chunky jewellery, pop-icon and Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri seems to have won over Hollywood bigwigs as well. Little wonder then that noted Los-Angeles based music mentors, Don Grierson, Ritch Esra and (India-born) Neli Kools, have singled out the...
Sporting layers of his glittering trade-mark chunky jewellery, pop-icon and Bollywood composer Bappi Lahiri seems to have won over Hollywood bigwigs as well. Little wonder then that noted Los-Angeles based music mentors, Don Grierson, Ritch Esra and (India-born) Neli Kools, have singled out the roly-poly Lahiri to formally support them in their international ‘on-line’ portal venture (“Musicbizpro”).
Bappi-da revealed this on the eve of his birthday when he was flanked by his cheering foreign guests, “It’s a commendable gesture on the part of Don, Ritch and Neli to come all the way to India to scout for upcoming and polished musical talents and promote them mainly through ‘on-line’ portals. We are deprived of our music royalties and dues all thanks to the rampant music piracy. So with this comprehensive consultancy, I suppose it will prove to be a blessing for the music industry and a much-needed ‘Godfather’ to hundreds of struggling NRI singers all over the world. In due course they will get their share of limelight and the financial benefits as well. Which is why I am with their group and hope to make an international sureela dhamaaka in early 2010,”
Few are aware that Bappi-da had also composed and sung a special song dedicated to the Mumbai 26/11 terror-attack victims which went ‘Hum Sub Ek Hain’. The enterprising Lahiri’s current mission seems to be an anti-dote of sorts to the tag ‘Slumdogs'. (Remember ‘Slum Dog Millionaires’?) “For me the street-kids living in hutments are actually ‘slum-stars’. Which is why I have picked up a group of eight promising slum children, groomed them and made them sing for my upcoming pop-album, which I have sent to Los Angeles. Currently they are ‘mixing’ the tracks out there and they are going gaga over the ‘Slum-Stars numbers,” he claimed.
Not one to be lagging behind as far as global track tributes to the ‘late’ Michael Jackson go, the Bollywood composer has “recorded a special number ‘Don’t Say Goodbye’ with Jackson associates, which will soon be released internationally. That’s not enough. Despite being passionately involved with pop-fare, Lahiri has not jilted filmi songs, having recorded a racy dance-number for ‘Spaghetti 24x 7’ ( yes, it’s a Hindi movie) which will have Mithun Chakraborty competing on-screen with his real-life son Mimoh.
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