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Zindagi Tamasha out of Oscars race
The Academy of Motion Pictures has announced the shortlists for nine categories including International Feature Film
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Zindagi Tamasha is out of the Oscars 2021 race.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the shortlists for nine categories for the upcoming awards, reported
Variety. The categories and number of films include a documentary feature (15), documentary short subject (10), international feature (15), makeup and hairstyling (10), original score (15), original song (15), animated short film (10), live-action short film (10) and visual effects (10).
The shortlist voting concluded on February 5, and the remaining will move on to the official phase one voting, which will take place on March 5-9. The Oscar nominations will be announced on March 15, with the show scheduled to take place on April 25.
Dawn
One part of the Strings’ duo opens up about Velo Sound Station, facing criticism and why he wants to bring fun back into music.
“People get stuck in what they want. That’s fine up until a certain point. But if you want to go out into the mainstream and you want to present your work to a wider audience, then you have to understand what people want as well,” says Bilal Maqsood in a conversation with me earlier this month.
“For popular music, it’s very important to connect with your audience.”
We’re at his small but cosy studio in Defence, Karachi, where I’m getting the lowdown on the online music show that’s taken the industry, nay the country, by storm,
December 20, 2020
The growth of independent record labels, several EPs, music videos, singles and the resurrection of electro-pop in mainstream music via Velo Sound Station (VSS) and a dissimilar version of Coke Studio 2020…these were some of music’s defining moments in what has been a difficult year.
Meesha Shafi has made three appearances on Coke Studio, with two on Velo Sound Station and an independent single with Abdullah Siddiqui, making this a very successful year musically speaking. – Photo by Ali Shah.
“We’re beaten and blown by the wind/Trampled in dust/I’ll show you a place/High on the desert plain, yeah/Where the streets have no name.”