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Music without borders
Anu Malik is scoring music for a Pakistani film, “Tere Liye”. Chitra Swaminathantalks to the music director

Beauty And Wellness

Surviving Diwali
Pankaja Srinivasan digs out some dark truths about the festival of lights

My hair looks dull and a few strands have turned grey. Suggest a remedy. Just joking

* I had to get the bitter taste out of my mouth from eating the so-called dish, so I had an ice cream.

* If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the ...

Cinema

Saawariya online
Exclusive content on “Saawariya” at MSN India

Destiny matters!
Isha Koppikar on “Nach Baliye” and more

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Diwali line-up
Will Diwali 2007 light up the Kollywood box-office? There have been only two super hits so far this year (“Pokkiri” and “Sivaji”) and the ratio of flops to hits is alarming. Of the six films releasing today, ...

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Surya’s nine avatars
Today, Surya’s new commercial for Aircel is breaking on all Tamil channels and select movie houses. There is nothing new in Surya doing yet another television commercial, but what is unique about this one-minute commercial is he is doing ...

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Bollywood bonanza
It is a war out there between Shah Rukh Khan’s “Om Shanti Om” (OSO) and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Saawariya”. Bhansali had lashed out at OSO’s director Farah Khan, for dragging his mother into a ...

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Abirami goes gold
Abirami Ramanathan has refurbished one of the screens in his 4-screen Abirami mega mall. The new screen is called Swarna Sakthi Abirami, which he claims is “India’s first five-star theatre” and it opens with “Om Shanti ...

Music

On a sound trip!
Rahul Sharma wants to introduce santoor to new genres of music

Sport

Did you know?

World No.19 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia will make his debut in the Chennai ATP Open to be held in the city from December 31, 2007 to January 6, 2008.

A sports club in Vienna built a statue of Indian hockey legend Dhyan Chand with four ...

Events

Inter-cultural dialogue
“The Forest” will layer Korean rhythms with Latin American beats to produce exhilarating patterns

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Where the quartet meets
Drums, ghatam, kanjira and guitar come together to offer a treat

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‘To perform here is a challenge’

Similar thoughts and tastes brought us together. New members are taken on after audition and internship to see if they are in sync with these ideas. The greater the rapport and effort, the more we understand each component, their differences ...

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‘It’s not an ad-hoc jam session’
Vinayakram I’ve always enjoyed playing with Trilok. With his family background in music, he plays the tabla with authentic Indian rhythms. But with jazz he becomes a jazz musician, and plays African drums like an African born. He can ...

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Fun with colour
A colouring contest for kids on November 14

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