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INTERVIEW F George Brooks SOUND Sajid-Wajid REGULARS F Offbeat: Strum the Junk! Venue Watch: BOXFebruary 2011 I Volume 1 I Issue 7 I ` 150 Bflat, Bengaluru Watch Tower: Bengaluru ww Right E Clause and Here, Effect SIMCA challenges the Copyright Board Right constitution Now E Sing Along! Are we about to witness the boom of karaoke in the country? E E E Rajya Sabha MP, script writer, lyricist and now, crusader for the creative fraternity. Saptak, Javed Akhtar on why he is convinced the Baajaa Gaajaa Indian Copyright Act should be amended 2011 kicks off with interesting music fests across the country I Publisher’s Note SOUND Final Act? BOX n a few days’ time, on February 21, both Houses of the Indian parliament February 2011 I Volume 1 I Issue 7 Iwill reconvene for the Budget session. MASTHEAD It remains to be seen whether parliamentary business will be struck by the same state of paralysis that characterized the Winter session a few months back. However, indications are that the government has been goaded into a PUBLISHER Nitin Tej Ahuja more flexible and accommodative stance on the opposition’s main demand of [email protected] a JPC investigation into the telecom spectrum auction controversy. Therefore, EDITOR it is possible that we may have a normal parliamentary session. Of course, Aparna Joshi the word ‘normal’ is used here rather generously given our parliamentarians’ [email protected] propensity for drama and shenanigans. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sajid Moinuddin www.hbdesign.in From the music industry’s perspective, the million dollar question undoubtedly is whether this session will see the coming into law of the very CORRESPONDENTS Anita Iyer contentious amendments to the Copyright Act. The proposed amendments [email protected] have led to a state of virtual civil war within the music and film industries, Chiraag Sutar as Sound Box and our sister publication, Box Office India, have reported and [email protected] analysed right from the time they were announced in the form of a brief press Hari Adivarekar note in late 2009. [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS In this issue, we bring you an in-depth and exclusive interview with Mr Aiyushman Dutta Frederick Noronha Javed Akhtar who has come to be seen as the voice and face of the composers Nikhil Raghavan and lyricists’ campaign for changes to the copyright laws to address their Smriti George Harpreet Khokhar concerns and demands. Mr Akhtar, of course, needs no introduction to any Aditya Mehta group of people in our country – let alone the readership of a publication AD SALES & SUBSCRIPTIONS catering to the music industry. Amey Salvi [email protected] Mob: 91-9930908083 Co-writer of some of the most iconic scripts in Hindi cinema and one of our Anand Murugkar foremost lyricists, Javed saab straddles the film and music worlds like few [email protected] others do. In his exhaustive interview, he shares with us the genesis of his Mob: 91-9773133383 involvement in the battle over royalties and the journey that has brought the CIRCULATION proposed amendments to the brink of fruition. Vaibhav Adivarekar [email protected] Mob: 91-9769396866 One hopes that, if and when passed, the Bill will lead to a sense of closure REG: MAHENG12416/13/1/2010-TC and the reuniting of all the stakeholders in leaving aside all animosity and bitterness to do what they do best – make music. Printed and Published by Nitin Tej Ahuja on behalf of Select Publishing Company and Printed at Parksons Graphics, Off New Link Road, Andheri West, Mumbai 53 and Published at 402-403, Morya Estate, New Link Road, Andheri West, Mumbai 53. 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COVER PICTURE: CHIRAAG SUTAR SOUND March 2011 I Volume 1 I Issue 8 BOX contents F BUZZ 8 Indie News 9 Label News 10 Digital News 11 Film News 12 Regional News 14 Radio News 15 International News 16 Gadget News 17 Newsmakers F FEATURES 18 Cover Story – Kumar Taurani, Apurv Nagpal, Rajat Kakar and Hassan Kamal on proposed changes to the copyright laws 23 India brings home the 11 Grammy Katrina 30 Focus - Studio business lends her maintains low volume 34 Trends - India ready for vocals for Karaoke boom? Yash Raj 36 Watchtower – Ahmedabad 38 Net gain – the world of Films’ next music bloggers Mere Brother 42 Label Watch – NA Classical 43 Campaign Trail - Mufti Ki Dulhan clothes SQS 44 Festival Watch – Monte Music festival, Goa 45 Venue Watch – York Wineries, Nashik 62 Offbeat 43 F CAMPAIGN TRAIL INTERVIEWS Times Music has hooked up with clothing brand Mufti to promote its 24 Zakir Hussain latest band Supastars 29 My FM CEO Harrish Bhatia 40 NEZCC director Som Kamei F COLUMNS 28 Mandar Thakur 33 Tech Talk - Aditya Mehta F GUIDE 47 Events 51 Reviews 55 Charts 61 Calendar WATCHTOWER Ahmedabad shows 36 a taste for classical music INTERVIEW “There is much in terms of Indian folk art still to be discovered” 24 Ustad Zakir Hussain 38 NET GAIN Music blogging in India comes of age THE GRAMMY COMES TO INDIAN SHORES RAMAYANA REVISITED Dhruba Ghosh has won recognition for A Delhi economics professor has turned the story of Ram and Sita into a rock opera his work on Miho: Journey to the Mountain 23 62 BUZZNews I Labels I Digital I TV I Films I Radio I Regional I International I Gadgets Bowled Over India ! The Bryan hile Bryan Adams was only scheduled to do a five city tour in India (with FM network Radio One as official partner), it seems that cricket Adams tour Wlovers will also get a taste of his music as he performs for the open- ing ceremony for the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup to be held in Dhaka, Bangla- schedule desh. • Friday, 11 February 2011 The Canadian rockstar chose to extend his tour since Canada is also one of - Magarpatta, Pune 14 qualifying country’s taking part in the World Cup. Adams will remain one • Saturday, 12 February more day in Dhaka for a special acoustic 2011 - MMRDA Grounds, concert featuring songs from his current Bandra Kurla Complex, CD Bare Bones, before finishing up this leg Mumbai of the tour in Kathmandu, Nepal. Bryan Adams' opening performance • Sunday, 13 February for the 2011 Cricket World Cup will be 2011 - Palace Grounds, broadcast by ESPN to a TV audience of Bengaluru over 200 million people. Earlier, Adams was only scheduled to tour major metros • Tuesday, 15 February like Pune, Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi 2011 - NSIC, New Delhi and Hyderabad starting February 11, 2011. Well, what can we say, this is called • Wednesday, 16 February making the most of the tour! 2011 - HITEX Exhibition Center, Hyderabad FEBRUARY 2011 I SOUND BOX I 07 BUZZ I Indie News umbai-born and US-based musician But it was only after he moved to New York Ameet Kamath recently released his after some years that he began to immerse BRIDGING Mdebut album, Greasy Rails, in New York, himself in jazz and began performing the breaking new grounds in bridging the popular American songbook whenever and wherever divide of the music of the East and the West. he could — at weddings, street corners, parks, THE EAST- Says Ameet, “Greasy Rails is about coming cafes, and bars. His persistence paid off with a to terms with what matters in life. It’s about jazz-pop residency at the notorious Marion’s WEST refusing to take anything less than what you’ve Continental on Bowery, where the patrons been seeking.” He adds, “In it, I’m telling stories and fans encouraged him to set his own story AVAL AVAL H so that the listeners can understand life as I do – to song. Needing to find inspiration for his DIVIDE constantly negotiating spaces as an immigrant original material, he set off on a creative quest in the 21st century.” The language he chooses across the country that landed him in San to narrate his stories in, however, is pure global Francisco. It was there that he conceived Greasy rock. Rails; the ensuing material was written and PHOTO: NIKHILESH Ameet went to the US as a techie in 1995. composed over the next two years. Sanjeev T, Baiju Dharmajan join hands on Ente Sambath anjeev Thomas, the lead guitar- it embraces this ist in A R Rahman’s troupe, has beautiful tradi- Scollaborated with guitarist Baiju tion of love and Dharmajan (ex-Motherjane, now Wrenz) on forgiveness.” Ente Sambath (My wealth) - one of the first Ente Sambath EMI gets Chintoo Singh original Malayalam compositions. This is was originally the third song from Thomas’ solo album written by Saadhu for Urban Grooves Free Will. Kochukunju Up- Project - Punjab Thomas recalls, “This used to be a adesi back in the 19th century. song familiar to me since childhood - I “Baiju is a good friend and a wonderful MI’s series The Urban Grooves Project, which has earlier used to sing it at prayer meetings.