Mumbai: The night of IDEA BIG BANGLA MUSIC AWARDS 2010 was the most awaited night of the month as the entire Bangla Music fraternity stepped into Science City Auditorium, Kolkata to celebrate Bangla Music and honour its torchbearers on Friday, 13th August.

Mumbai: Close on heels to announcing its exclusive national music awards property with the Indian Music Academy – The BIG IMA Awards, and its local music awards through the BIG Bengali Music Awards and BIG Kannada Music Awards for the Bengali and Kannada industry respectively, Reliance Broadcast Network’s radio arm 92.7 BIG FM announces the ‘BIG MARATHI MUSIC AWARDS 2010’, an exclusive platform to recognize and celebrate outstanding talent in Marathi Music.

Mumbai: We have seen him in several avtars - Actor, Producer, Director, Script-Writer, Lyricist and Singer. The maddening energy of his characters and eccentric charm of his voice light up a dull day and kicks the mood to defy the daily strain. His unique style of singing curves every lip to relieve the tired brain. He is a man whose works have made him immortal and unforgettable. He is the magnificent Kishore Kumar.

Mumbai: After the success of a series of Osho Talks on DVDs in English, Shemaroo launches brand new series of 3 OSHO Talks in Hindi language, namely “Hasta Hua Bhavishya”,“ Dhyan” and “Chinta aur Tanav Kyon?”.

Kalpathi Brothers are the new movie mughals of Tamil Film Industry with the launch of several new films with leading artists. The Entertainment venture of Kalpathi Brothers is the only producer apart from mighty SUN Pictures and production houses of Tamil Nadu's top political family are able to release their movies directly in theatres.

Gurgaon - Close on the heels of Indiatimes' recent strides in the Mobile music arena comes a significant content acquisition alliance with Aananda Audio Video (AAV), the largest music label in Karnataka. With this move, Indiatimes (58888), a division of Times Internet Limited (TIL), has increased its market share to more than 60% of the Kannada mobile music downloads.

Pune - As a part of the YES- Youth Employability Support initiative, in providing employability assessment support to the youth of Pune, a series of events were organized for the punekars like a Fashion Show, a Karaoke Night and the much awaited live Rock Band Performance. The aim of these events was to gather young crowd for a common purpose.

New Delhi - Shri Balaji Entertainment Inc. presents "Inspiration Rock On Live in concert". This is an upcoming tour of industry's top most music composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy along with talented singers like Mahalaxmi Iyer and Richa Sharma. Recently at a press conference held at Sun-n-Sand Hotel in Juhu, Mumbai "The Awesome Trio" spoke to the media about their upcoming world tour. Shri Balaji Entertainment's Founder "Rockey" was also present.

Pune - Koshish - a musical crossover conceptualised and composed by Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan. Indian classical music indulged in an action-packed jugalbandhi with jazz.

In keeping its commitment to promote art, culture and music, Ishanya Art and Culture Club will present yet another musical extravaganza for Punekars. The maestro, Shubha Mudgal along with her husband Aneesh Pradhan and her team of musicians under the banner 'Koshish' will present a fusion lineup, featuring some popular and some unreleased songs. The event shall be held at the Ishanya Amphitheatre on 7th May, 2010 from 8 pm onwards.

'Koshish'- is a soul-stirring fusion of Indian Classical, North Indian Music, Western art music, Jazz and Sufi Poetry. Each of the performers will bring something unique to the stage - from Pratap Rath, percussionists, a veteran of the world of film music to jazz drummer Benoni Soans. Artists to perform also include Joquim Dais on the Bass guitar, Sudhir Nayak on the harmonium, Murad Ali on the Sarangi and Cuthbert Dsilva on Bass player.

Ishanya's open-air Amphitheatre with its state- of- the art sound, water and laser equipment will provide the perfect ambience to bring together different schools and styles in musical dialogue with each other. The backdrop of light, colour and water promises to give music lovers in Pune an unforgettable experience.

Commenting on the event, Shubha Mudgal said, 'Performing at Ishanya feels like coming home. Having conducted Baajaa Gaajaa for two consecutive years at Ishanya, Pune is one of my favourite performing destinations. The reason I enjoy performing here is because the audience is very diverse and it caters to all kinds of tastes. There's Sufi, Indian classical, bhangra, experimental work and much more. I am looking forward to present Koshish here. It shall have a perfect Indo-western blend of music which should be well appreciated by audience of all ages".

Prior to this, Shubha Mudgal has conducted the very successful musical event, Baajaa Gaajaa at Ishanya, for two consecutive years. Baajaa Gaajaa, a 3-day event-expo dedicated to Indian music, featured performances, workshops, exhibitions, tradeshows, seminars and film screenings on different aspects of Indian music. It shall be an annual feature at Ishanya.

Speaking about the event, Mrs. Parul Mehta, Director, Deepak Fertilisers contemporary yet rooted in Indian tradition The Ishanya Amphitheatre will reverberate indeed with the harmony of several disparate instruments in her performance."

New Delhi - Spice Digital, one of the leading VAS players in India, announced its partnership with the Sangam Kala Group (SKG) to sponsor SKG's annual National Talent Hunt, Spice Surtarang. The Sangam Kala Group (SKG) is an NGO that is well respected for it's contribution to the music industry by unearthing grass root talent through its National Singing Talent hunt programs.

Varanasi - PDR Mall, Varanasi's latest up market destination for shopping and entertainment, will be staging a live performance by Hariharan to celebrate their new PDR Mall. The event will be an exclusive invite only musical nite. Hariharan's performance will be followed by another live performance by a talented Bangalore based band of Mayukh Mazumder.

Mumbai - The event was attended by Mani Ratnam, A R Rahman, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vikram and Reliance Big Pictures senior management.