As the vibrant festival of Holi approaches, it’s time to gear up for a colorful celebration filled with music, dance, & joy. One of the key elements of any memorable Holi party is the music, and what better way to set the mood than with the top Bollywood songs that perfectly capture the spirit of the occasion? In this article, we present to you the ultimate playlist of the top 10 Bollywood songs that will elevate your Holi festivities to new heights.
1. “Rang Barse” – Silsila (1981)
“Rang Barse” from the iconic movie Silsila is a timeless Holi classic that continues to reign over hearts even after decades. Sung by the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, this song embodies the essence of Holi with its playful lyrics and catchy melody. Adding “Rang Barse” to your DJ playlist is guaranteed to infuse your celebration with nostalgia and joy.
2. “Balam Pichkari” – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)
No Holi...
1. “Rang Barse” – Silsila (1981)
“Rang Barse” from the iconic movie Silsila is a timeless Holi classic that continues to reign over hearts even after decades. Sung by the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, this song embodies the essence of Holi with its playful lyrics and catchy melody. Adding “Rang Barse” to your DJ playlist is guaranteed to infuse your celebration with nostalgia and joy.
2. “Balam Pichkari” – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013)
No Holi...
- 3/24/2024
- by Anshu Harvansh
- ReferSMS
The first edition of India’s Cinevesture International Film Festival (Ciff) has revealed 20 projects that will participate in its accompanying market.
Comprising 17 features and three series, several of the projects are by creators who have found acclaim both internationally and in South Asia.
From Bangladeshi auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Busan title “Something Like an Autobiography”) comes Hindi and English-language unconventional romance “To Hell With Love.” Alankrita Srivasttava (Tokyo winner “Lipstick Under My Burkha”) has English and Hindi-language drama “Girls of Orlem,” an adaptation of Lindsay Pereira’s bestselling novel “Gods and Ends.” Gurvinder Singh is prepping Hindi, Punjabi and English-language historical thriller series “The Trial.”
“#Jack” is a thriller film from Bhaskar Hazarika (Tribeca selection “Aamis”), while “Chhaal” (“The Skin”) by Don Palathara (Rotterdam title “Family”) is a folk thriller adapted from a story by Vijayan Detha. “Encounter” by Anurag Singh (the Jatt and Juliet franchise) is a drama-thriller in...
Comprising 17 features and three series, several of the projects are by creators who have found acclaim both internationally and in South Asia.
From Bangladeshi auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Busan title “Something Like an Autobiography”) comes Hindi and English-language unconventional romance “To Hell With Love.” Alankrita Srivasttava (Tokyo winner “Lipstick Under My Burkha”) has English and Hindi-language drama “Girls of Orlem,” an adaptation of Lindsay Pereira’s bestselling novel “Gods and Ends.” Gurvinder Singh is prepping Hindi, Punjabi and English-language historical thriller series “The Trial.”
“#Jack” is a thriller film from Bhaskar Hazarika (Tribeca selection “Aamis”), while “Chhaal” (“The Skin”) by Don Palathara (Rotterdam title “Family”) is a folk thriller adapted from a story by Vijayan Detha. “Encounter” by Anurag Singh (the Jatt and Juliet franchise) is a drama-thriller in...
- 3/18/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Debut filmmaker Dibakar Das Roy’s feature ‘Dilli Dark’ to make its World Premiere at Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival 2023 in the South Asia Competition Section. The festival will be held from October 27 – November 5, 2023. The film produced by Reeligion Films will have its International Premiere at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival as part of the ‘First Features Competition Section’. The festival will take place from the 3rd until the 19th of November, 2023.
The 100-minute dark comedy film in Hindi, English, Yoruba and Pidgin language is about a Nigerian boy living in New Delhi who wants to get his Mba and settle in India but his part-time job gives him a dubious double life in a city notoriously difficult for outsiders.
‘Dilli Dark’ stars Samuel Abiola Robinson as a lead and features Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Shantanu Anam and Stutee Ghosh in prominent roles. Samuel Abiola Robinson made his screen...
The 100-minute dark comedy film in Hindi, English, Yoruba and Pidgin language is about a Nigerian boy living in New Delhi who wants to get his Mba and settle in India but his part-time job gives him a dubious double life in a city notoriously difficult for outsiders.
‘Dilli Dark’ stars Samuel Abiola Robinson as a lead and features Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Shantanu Anam and Stutee Ghosh in prominent roles. Samuel Abiola Robinson made his screen...
- 10/9/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
Debut filmmaker Dibakar Das Roy’s feature ‘Dilli Dark’ to make its World Premiere at Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival 2023 in the South Asia Competition Section. The festival will be held from October 27 – November 5, 2023. The film produced by Reeligion Films will have its International Premiere at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival as part of the ‘First Features Competition Section’. The festival will take place from the 3rd until the 19th of November, 2023.
The 100-minute dark comedy film in Hindi, English, Yoruba and Pidgin language is about a Nigerian boy living in New Delhi who wants to get his Mba and settle in India but his part-time job gives him a dubious double life in a city notoriously difficult for outsiders.
‘Dilli Dark’ stars Samuel Abiola Robinson as a lead and features Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Shantanu Anam and Stutee Ghosh in prominent roles. Samuel Abiola Robinson made his screen...
The 100-minute dark comedy film in Hindi, English, Yoruba and Pidgin language is about a Nigerian boy living in New Delhi who wants to get his Mba and settle in India but his part-time job gives him a dubious double life in a city notoriously difficult for outsiders.
‘Dilli Dark’ stars Samuel Abiola Robinson as a lead and features Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Shantanu Anam and Stutee Ghosh in prominent roles. Samuel Abiola Robinson made his screen...
- 10/9/2023
- by Editorial Desk
Another absolute highlight of the program of this year’s Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) is “Aise Hee” by Kislay. With his first feature film the Indian director tells the touching story of an elderly woman. The co-writer of Ivan Ayr acclaimed feature “Soni”, developed here on his own a truly mesmerizing drama.
Mrs. Sharma just lost her husband to whom she was married for over 50 years. Finally she is able to decide for herself, she thinks, and she politely refuses the offer of her daughter to move in with her. There is nothing against it, that the still vital and independent woman keeps living in her own house. But this is not the opinion of her son who lives next door to her. As a radio speaker he doesn’t earn very much. He struggles more and more to make ends meet and speculates on renting out...
Mrs. Sharma just lost her husband to whom she was married for over 50 years. Finally she is able to decide for herself, she thinks, and she politely refuses the offer of her daughter to move in with her. There is nothing against it, that the still vital and independent woman keeps living in her own house. But this is not the opinion of her son who lives next door to her. As a radio speaker he doesn’t earn very much. He struggles more and more to make ends meet and speculates on renting out...
- 5/21/2021
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
After grabbing attention for its interesting award nominations and winners’ list last year, Critics’Choice Film Awards are back again with even more intriguing nominations spread across eight Indian languages.
While the first edition of Critics’ Choice Film Awards witnessed Best Film category for varied languages, for the second season the makers have upped the ante by introducing Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film as well as Best Writing across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada.
Offering a surprising twist to the usual nomination lists as usual, this year there are surprises with Best Actor nominations including names like Manoj Bajpayee for SonChiriya and Gulshan Devaiah for Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan for Soni, and Hamid bagging a nomination for Best Writing. Critics’ Choice Film Awards holds its ground to honour cinematic brilliance irrespective of the mass appeal of the films.
Film...
While the first edition of Critics’ Choice Film Awards witnessed Best Film category for varied languages, for the second season the makers have upped the ante by introducing Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film as well as Best Writing across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada.
Offering a surprising twist to the usual nomination lists as usual, this year there are surprises with Best Actor nominations including names like Manoj Bajpayee for SonChiriya and Gulshan Devaiah for Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan for Soni, and Hamid bagging a nomination for Best Writing. Critics’ Choice Film Awards holds its ground to honour cinematic brilliance irrespective of the mass appeal of the films.
Film...
- 3/2/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Kislay was born in 1988. An independent director, he studied at Film and Television Institute of India where he graduated in editing. Before moving to films, Kislay was an active member of the Delhi theatre community and directed five plays between 2006 and 2010. He has made three independent shorts and co-wrote Yvan Ayr’s “Soni“. “Just Like That” is his debut feature.
On the occasion of his movie “Just Like That” being screened at 26th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas – where it earned the Grand Jury Award and an Inalco Special Mention – we talked to Kislay about his theatrical upbringing, women becoming invisible after a certain age, violence in Hindu society and much more
You worked in theatre before you moved to cinema. How did that help you as a director?
Yes, I think it helped because I wrote my own plays to allow them to play to an Indian...
On the occasion of his movie “Just Like That” being screened at 26th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas – where it earned the Grand Jury Award and an Inalco Special Mention – we talked to Kislay about his theatrical upbringing, women becoming invisible after a certain age, violence in Hindu society and much more
You worked in theatre before you moved to cinema. How did that help you as a director?
Yes, I think it helped because I wrote my own plays to allow them to play to an Indian...
- 3/1/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Pingyao International Film Festival on Wednesday crowned “The Fever” by Maya Da-Rin as best film in its international category and “Wet Season” by Anthony Chen as the top title in its Chinese-language section.
The Roberto Rossellini Awards at the festival go to the top international directorial debuts or second features. Taking to the stage at the awards ceremony, Brazil’s Da-Rin said the prize was “a great honor.”
“This film has been made through seven years of a lot of work of a lot of people — people who give their lives to cinema and believe that through cinema we can think about our world,” she said. “The Fever” also won Best Actor and the Fipresci prize at Locarno this year.
Two other Roberto Rossellini Awards were handed out: the jury award to Chinese helmer Liang Ming for his debut, “Wisdom Tooth,” and the prize for best director to the...
The Roberto Rossellini Awards at the festival go to the top international directorial debuts or second features. Taking to the stage at the awards ceremony, Brazil’s Da-Rin said the prize was “a great honor.”
“This film has been made through seven years of a lot of work of a lot of people — people who give their lives to cinema and believe that through cinema we can think about our world,” she said. “The Fever” also won Best Actor and the Fipresci prize at Locarno this year.
Two other Roberto Rossellini Awards were handed out: the jury award to Chinese helmer Liang Ming for his debut, “Wisdom Tooth,” and the prize for best director to the...
- 10/16/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Delhi Crime (Netflix series)
Starring Shefali Shah, Rasika Duggal
Directed by Ritchie Mehta
It isn’t easy being on the right side of the law when all you get for your efforts is brickbats and insults from fencesitters.
To say that this disturbing but finally redundant real-life crime drama whitewashes the khaki uniform would be frivolous and irresponsible to the extreme. What it does do is to humanize the police force by showing a cluster of fiercely committed police persons (the two main Khaki persona in the story are women) driving themselves over the edge to nab the perpetrators of the crime.
Did the cops on the case really show this level of commitment? Does it matter? Heroism on a level where it heals society is unquestionable.
Recreating in vivid vicious colours the events before during and after the life-changing ‘Nirbhaya’ gangrape in Delhi, this 7-part series spares us the...
Starring Shefali Shah, Rasika Duggal
Directed by Ritchie Mehta
It isn’t easy being on the right side of the law when all you get for your efforts is brickbats and insults from fencesitters.
To say that this disturbing but finally redundant real-life crime drama whitewashes the khaki uniform would be frivolous and irresponsible to the extreme. What it does do is to humanize the police force by showing a cluster of fiercely committed police persons (the two main Khaki persona in the story are women) driving themselves over the edge to nab the perpetrators of the crime.
Did the cops on the case really show this level of commitment? Does it matter? Heroism on a level where it heals society is unquestionable.
Recreating in vivid vicious colours the events before during and after the life-changing ‘Nirbhaya’ gangrape in Delhi, this 7-part series spares us the...
- 3/24/2019
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Indian film “Soni,” directed by Ivan Iyer, was named as the best film at the second edition of the Pingyao International Film Festival. It wins a prize of $20,000, with half going to development of the director’s next project, and half provided to the film’s distributor in China.
Other Roberto Rossellini prizes went to Ognjen Glavonic as best director, for “The Load” (aka “Teret”) worth $10,000, and to Singaporean-Chinese film “A Land Imagined,” which collected the jury prize. The jury included China’s Dai Jinhua, and Wang Xiaoshuai, American actor Mason C. Lee, Iran’s Amir Naderi, and Georgia’s Ana Urushadze.
A separate prize series, the Fei Mu Awards was presented to Chinese-language films which are directorial debuts or second features and which showed in the festival’s New Generation China, Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons, or Best of Fest sections. “The Crossing” by Bai Xue was named best film...
Other Roberto Rossellini prizes went to Ognjen Glavonic as best director, for “The Load” (aka “Teret”) worth $10,000, and to Singaporean-Chinese film “A Land Imagined,” which collected the jury prize. The jury included China’s Dai Jinhua, and Wang Xiaoshuai, American actor Mason C. Lee, Iran’s Amir Naderi, and Georgia’s Ana Urushadze.
A separate prize series, the Fei Mu Awards was presented to Chinese-language films which are directorial debuts or second features and which showed in the festival’s New Generation China, Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons, or Best of Fest sections. “The Crossing” by Bai Xue was named best film...
- 10/17/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Ivan Ayr’s indie feature debut “Soni” is a gentle but assertive work of social realism and a character exploration on the background of women problematic day-to-day life in India. After being well accepted at the Venice Film Festival for the “Orizzonti” section, “Soni” is having a god run in some of the major festivals and it competes in the First Feature Section at the BFI London Film Festival.
Soni is screening at BFI London Film Festival
The first scene immediately sets the mood of the movie. A woman at night cycles home, passing through the dark back-alleys of a suburban area of New Delhi. Another cyclist – a man – starts the catcalling routine and when harassment goes from verbal to physical, the woman teaches him a lesson and beats him quite viciously. At the arrival of the police we soon discover that the victim is the undercover police sub-inspector Soni...
Soni is screening at BFI London Film Festival
The first scene immediately sets the mood of the movie. A woman at night cycles home, passing through the dark back-alleys of a suburban area of New Delhi. Another cyclist – a man – starts the catcalling routine and when harassment goes from verbal to physical, the woman teaches him a lesson and beats him quite viciously. At the arrival of the police we soon discover that the victim is the undercover police sub-inspector Soni...
- 10/13/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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