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Fair play, fair pay: The Indian music industry and royalties

Stills from the songs ‘Jhalla Wallah’ from Ishaqzaade, ‘Kaanta Laga’ (the oiginal and the remix), ‘Naatu Naatu’, and ‘Gehraiyaan’ .jpg

As the reverberations of Bombay High Court’s April judgment, recognising musicians’ rights to their songs, are felt across the country, members of the music industry take us behind the decades-long fight for royalties

After Coachella’s success, singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh discusses playing a rural Punjabi musician in ‘Jodi’

Malayalam composer Bijibal on recreating the soundscape of ‘Bhargavi Nilayam’ in its remake ‘Neelavelicham’

‘Thiruvin Kural’ movie review: Arulnithi’s action flick is about patients in a hospital, but isn’t serious enough

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The many ‘taxi drivers’ of Hindi cinema

Singer KS Chithra at her Chennai residence

Singer KS Chithra interview: ‘Music helped me come out of troubled times’

Shows and dramas on the music business: Money does not talk, it sings

Road in Chennai named after late Tamil playback singer T.M. Soundararajan

‘I told my team that once released, this song would do wonders, and my prediction did not fail’

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Kantara copyright row: film makers appear before investigating officer in Kozhikode

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Director Suka, Dhanush, Ilaiyaraaja and Vetrimaran at the recording of a song for the film ‘Viduthalai’ Photo: Special Arrangement

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Assamese dancers perform to the beat of drums in Guwahati.

How rhythm, or the repetitiveness of beats, acts as a unifying force in life, inspiring movement and action

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Jr NTR and Ram Charan in ‘RRR’

SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’ nominated for two Golden Globe awards

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Sanjay Leela Bhansali in the poster of ‘Sukoon’

Sanjay Leela Bhansali announces first music album 'Sukoon', to release on December 7

Sidhu Moosewala’s ‘Moosetape’ was the most streamed album on Spotify in India in 2022

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Kantara premiered on Amazon Prime Video on November 24, 2022, in Kannada along with Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu language dubs and English subtitles.

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A poster of the Kannada film Kantara.

Interim injunction against ‘Kantara’ song

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