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Last Updated: Feb 08, 2021, 12:09 AM IST
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As many as 130 million homes pay for watching three-plus hours of TV every day, the numbers for which are growing. These trends tally with subscriptions too.
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The largest OTT app has 28 million subscribers.
In the last few years, I’ve struggled to find things to watch on TV. I have no problem watching TV by appointment, and I wake up at odd hours to watch live cricket. Breaking News and PM’s speeches also get me in front of the telly. But I don’t usually watch TV, because I can’t relate with most of what is served in the name of entertainment or news.
Musician Azaan Sami Khan is releasing his debut album
Main Tera soon and hopes it will help people get to know him.
The son of Adnan Sami Khan and Zeba Bakhtiar, Azaan has worked on music for movies such as
Parwaaz Hai Junoon and
Parey Hut Love before but this is his first independent piece of work.
Main Tera also marks Hum Records first production. It features 63 musicians from around the world, according to Azaan.
The album has nine songs title track Main Tera , Maahiya , Dholna , Jaadugari , Aashiqui , Ik Lamha , Meri Sajna Re ft Ustaad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Zama and Tu along with some acoustic and live versions of the songs.
As time passes, the relevance of title tracks seems to be on the wane.
04 Feb, 2021 - 08:15 AM IST | By Shikha Singh
MUMBAI: There was a time when the entire family used to sit in front of the TV set for their daily dose of entertainment in the form of TV soaps. Like clockwork, a show would come on during its affixed time slot and the theme music would play, alerting those who’re not yet glued to the idiot box to tune in. Viewers, both casual and hardcore, still remember the romantic, bittersweet opening theme and the accompanying visuals of a bright red dupatta flying in the wind when they think of
The people of the Subcontinent have always been interested in listening to light music, geet, ghazal, qawwali, folk songs and Sufi music. Prior to the advent of ‘talkie’ films, going to watch live theatre was a popular means of entertainment and such venues usually took on performers who could not only act, but also sing.
The first subcontinental talkie film was Alam Ara; it premiered in March 1931 and had seven songs in Urdu. Both the film and its music were hugely successful and set a trend for the next seven decades, of featuring at least seven or eight songs in every film. Nowhere else in the world was this practice in vogue.