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India’s melody queen Shreya Ghoshal has sung several songs for Bollywood and other Indian film industries. Besides Hindi, she performs in Assamese, Bengali,Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi,and Tamil songs. Ghoshal is one of the most awarded playback singers in recent times, with four National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards to her credit.
She is a great fan of Vani Jayaram. Shreya caught the attention of film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa for a second time, this time as an adult. In 2000, he offered her the opportunity to be the voice of Paro, the lead female character of his film Devdas, who was portrayed by Aishwarya Rai. Shreya sang five songs under the musical direction of Ismail Darbar in the film. Her performance won her the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, as well as Filmfare’s RD Burman Award for New Music Talent, given to upcoming talents in music. She also won a National Film Award for the song “Bairi Piya“.
Her songs “Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai” from Jism, “Mera Dholna” from Bhool Bhulaiyaa, “Teri Ore from Singh Is King”, “Yeh Ishq Haaye” from Jab We Met and “Barso Re” from Guru are all smashing hits you can’t ever forget.
Rohit Revo interviewed Shreya Ghoshal on the eve of her tour to Australia.
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma’s name is synonymous with santoor, Indian classical music instrument. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is credited with single-handedly making the santoor a popular classical instrument. Shiv Kumar Sharma modified santoor to make it more suitable for his classical technique. He introduced the new chromatic arrangement of notes and increased the range to cover full three octaves. He also improvised a new technique of playing with which he could sustain notes and maintain sound continuity. Shiv Kumar Sharma brought Santoor at par with other classical instruments, well established it not just all over India, but also across the globe.
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia has become one of India’s most-respected classical musicians, earning several awards, including the National Award of the Sangeet Natak Academy, which he won in 1984. In 1992, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan and the Konarak Samman. In 1994, he was bestowed the Yash Bharati Sanman and in 2000, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. In the year 2000, he also received the Hafiz Ali Khan Award and the Dinanath Mangeshkar Award.He is one of the busiest and most sought-after contemporary musicians in the world today.
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia are coming to Australia to perform at the Freedom Concert 2010. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia answers questions on the eve of his Australian performance.
Australia is looking forward to having you perform at THE FREEDOM CONCERT 2010, how have your past experiences in Australia been?
I have visited Australia a number of times, and each time has been better than the previous one. I am really looking forward to perform in Australia and celebrate our Independence Day with all of you this time.
What is going to be the theme of your concert on the eve of India’s Independence Day in Sydney and also in Melbourne?
Vyalar Ravi, Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and a member of Rajya Sabha is also a very highly regarded Indian Parliamentarian. He visited Sydney recently. Editor-in-Chief, Rohit Revo interviewed Vyalar Ravi and discussed wide ranging issues.
It has been a long standing demand of people holding Indian passports especially in the Gulf to get voting rights in India. Group of ministers (GoM) has cleared a draft bill that will allow persons holding an Indian passport studying or working abroad to vote. Can you explain this a bit.
This is a long standing demand of the Gulf people. In the last UPA government, in our 4th year we introduced the bill. It has been sent to the Parliamentary standing committee. They have come up with suggestions to the bill and also sought clarification about who has voting rights. Then it had to go again to the Indian cabinet and then the Parliament. Prime Minister has appointed a Cabinet committee which consists of AK Anthony as Chairman of the Committee, P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, Veerappa Moily and myself as members. The new draft had made it clear that those who are holding the Indian passport can vote. We made a provision to the People Representation Act.
If anybody was not staying in their regular residence for more than 6 months then there name would be deleted from the list which included the names of people working in the Gulf and many students who go abroad and they are Indian passport holders. The clause of this bill is simple. By the reason of employment or studies, if anyone holding Indian passport is living abroad, their name will appear in the voters list of their village, They can vote whenever they are in India during election time.
Sanjay Suri has worked for over fifteen years as a high profile model, actor and independent producer. His films include films like “Jhankaar Beats” and National Award-winners “Pinjar” and “Filhaal.” Sanjay was born in Srinagar in India and spent 19 years in the Kashmir valley before shifting to New Delhi with his family in 1990 after his father was killed by militants.
Sanjay Suri visited Sydney recently and was one of the judges for Miss India Australia 2010. He spoke to Rohit Revo about his work in Bollywood.
Aruna Chandrala, President United India Associations, had a tough year in 2009. She is also a member of CRC working committee which has been set up by NSW Premier to address the issues effecting Indian student community and is also a member of Community Safety Precinct Committee(NSW Police). Originally from Andhra Pradesh in India, she is married to businessman Viswanath Chandrala, Director of Bocar Pty Ltd, and is also the CEO for this company. Her daughter Shalini is a chartered accountant and son Pavan is a doctor. She also works as a Telugu language interpreter.
Rohit Revo spoke to Aruna Chandrala in a free wheeling conversion.
The final for Miss Earth Australia 2009 Beauty pageant was held on 19th September at the UNSW Round House in Sydney. The event had 10 judges from different walks of life and 25 shortlisted contestants out of 50 initial participants took part in the final contest. Preity Uupala was one of the finalists for the Miss Earth Australia 2009 Beauty pageant and was given the Best Talent Award.
Sanjay Raina (www.sanjayraina.com) is the promoter and organiser of the recent Freedom Concert 2009 which featured the brilliant performance of Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan. Sanjay has big plans for the future and has already laid his claim to the brand name of FREEDOM CONCERT series. Rohit Revo posed the following questions to him.
Australia India Business Council (AIBC) is Australia’s premier organisation representing trade between India and Australia. AIBC NSW Chapter contributes over 45% of members and resources to the national chapter and works closely with NSW State and Federal Government agencies. Dipen Rughani is the President of AIBC NSW Chapter and dreams of taking AIBC NSW to moon, literally, and is working at a scorching pace to achieve this.
Rohit Revo catches up with Dipen Rughani over an interesting conversation.
As the newly appointed President of AIBC NSW the first step you took was to re-launch AIBC NSW. Why does an organisation like AIBC NSW need to be relaunched?
When Arun Jagatramka took over Gujarat NRE in 1994 it was about to be liquidated and had a bank liability of more than Rs 20 crore. Since then he has not only rescued the company but has also acquired mines in Australia by pumping over 300 million dollars. NRE Coke is also the first Indian company to own and operate coal mines in Australia.
He now has plans to emerge as one of the largest coking coal producers in Australia over the next few years when production would cross 6 million tonnes a year by 2012.
Pawan Kumar Bansal, Indian Union Minister of State for Finance talks exclusively to Rohit Revo during his visit to Sydney.
Mrs Sujatha Singh, Indian High Commissioner to Australia talks to Rohit Revo, on a wide range of topics including key issues that connect Australia and India.
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