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Big boys don’t want to spend

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Nicole Faria
* Our local hottie has now become one helluva an international one too. Nicole Faria was in Perth to host an exclusive event at Mazzucchelli’s store. This Miss Earth has already been doing so much for the forgotten lakes of Bengaluru and is quite the activist.

Now Faria is travelling the world, as the global brand ambassador for Frederique Constant Geneve and was seen pretty busy rubbing shoulders with Perth’s celebrities and the who’s who of Ozzie land. And she looked beautiful, if we say so ourselves. Kudos to Nicole and should we see a Hollywood venture in the offing too? Let’s hope so.

* This popular coffee and quick snack hangout for youngsters on the busy Church Street, Java City allegedly shut shop a few days ago, owing to bad business. Singer and actor Sunil Raoh was often spotted at Java City most evenings with his gang of friends from the Sandalwood industry. Just next door to Java City is a small but always buzzing wine shop that is thronged by many after work every evening and that is doing brisk business. Just opposite is another eatery, Empire Restaurant that continues to rake in the moolah. Does that say something about our city’s changing preferences?

*February was one lucky month for Sandalwood actress Harshika Poonacha. She took part in two game shows and was crowned the winner in both. The people competing against her were Kavitha Lankesh, actor Suriya’s mother and another actress from their upcoming release Crazy Loka. At the other game show, her competitors were the same as the first, except Suriya’s mother was replaced by Nam Anna Don actress Sana. The tasks were simple but the prizes were extravagant. Harshika won lots of goodies, cash prizes and gift vouchers.

*The three city youngsters who were selected to play lead roles in Malayalam film Cinema Company are on cloud nine. The shooting is done and post-production is underway. But the actors Basil, Shruti and Sanjeev are aggressively promoting their film. They are not going big on promotions. Word of mouth publicity, SMSes and social networking sites are the latest promotion tools for this team of youngsters. The May release will be a first of its kind film in Mollywood where the lead actors were chosen through a reality show format.

Who, what,when, where, why

Who is slowly becoming the personal AD guy of the season? From the “Bold Look of Kohli” to the cartoon of a sad Malinga doing the rounds with a larger than life “Melan-KOHLI”, written across, the Royal Challengers Bangalore lad Virat Kohli is the one everyone relies on for excitement and admiration… on and off the field. These recent ads and cartoons doing the rounds on social networking sites are all about the Kohli quotient!

What can Arundhati Nag’s fans look forward to? Her much-awaited film Chaurahen — Crossroads is finally releasing on March 16. The movie which was shelved for nine years has since travelled to 11 film festivals before releasing in India.

When will we see a new nightclub in the sky? Soon… as the newest mall in the City MG Road One is touted to have one helluva party place on its terrace… but we’ll wait till it opens to decide on that!

Where was Nidhi Subbaiah spotted prancing with her boyfriend, actor Sudhanshu Pandey? In Mumbai, where she is shooting for an upcoming Kannada movie. She was seen spending all her free time with him there.

Why is danseause Madhu Natraj a happy lady? She will be receiving the ‘Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar’ from the Sangeet Natak Akademi? Madhu has been chosen for her contribution to the field of creative dance. The award will be conferred on March 7 in New Delhi.

source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com / TABLOID / Home> Tabloid> Talk of the Town / DC, Bengaluru / March 02nd, 2012

Things have changed … And remained the same

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg

Nikhil Chinapa returns to radio after 15 years to find technology has made a huge difference. However, the MTV host and DJ tells Mini Anthikad-Chhibber there is a sense of homecoming when recording for In the Mix

PLAY ON Nikhil Chinappa Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
This interview has been a long time in the making, and sitting at his parents’ lovely house at Langford Road on a Sunday morning, there was a sense of disbelief when Nikhil Chinapa breezed in with a cup of coffee.

“I started my career in Mount Carmel College doing music for the carnival,” Nikhil begins, with an engaging grin. “In ’92 when the first event company was set up, I emceed a personality contest. My first salary was Rs 150. We pretty much made the rules as we went along.”

Nikhil dabbled in theatre, doing four plays with Arjun Sajnani and graduating from tap dancer to sound man. From theatre he moved to radio. “Those were the days of medium wave. When I went to the recording studio, it was love at first sight. I carried the principles of radio to TV. So, it was not ‘all you people out there’, but rather just you and me. I was talking directly to the listener/viewer.”

When Nikhil interviewed Rahul Khanna, who was a veejay for MTV, he thought this could be an interesting job.

“But I am a lazy person, so I didn’t do anything about it. In ’97 MTV announced the first veejay hunt. If you remember then, veejays were already celebrities, people you would look up to. At that time, MTV was looking to changing the profile from aspirational to the boy next door and I fitted the bill.”

Fifteen years, super-successful shows, films and Submerge later, Nikhil returns to radio with “In the Mix” on Radio One on Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. “Twitter has exploded,” he says, happily scrolling down the comments.

“Radio is so much more intimate. Of course technology has made a difference. Now I have messages on Twitter, while then I had people writing seven-page letters to me. They did that because they felt connected to me. I have kept all the letters. And those days we would physically play the CDs, while now there is something called radio control software where I feed everything into the computer and the show is done!”

The aim of the show, Nikhil says, is to educate and entertain. “There are different sections, such as ‘Sample Example’, ‘A Decade Ago’, ‘Bringing It Back’, ‘Round the World’… When 3,000 songs are created a day in dance music, six months is old. In the ‘Decade Ago’ section, we look at a song that was big a decade ago.”

Nikhil was always fond of dancing. “My friends and I would go out to dance here. It wasn’t about the beer (we couldn’t afford it anyway), it was just about music. I would say dance music chose me. I remember when the DJ played Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ for the first time. It was really tough to mix and when the DJ mixed it after two tries, there was silence on the floor for the 15 seconds and then everyone was grooving.”

Talking about the club scene in Mumbai, Nikhil says, “Film music started creeping in. The first song was ‘Kaliyon ka Chaman.’ I became a DJ out of frustration. I am not against Bollywood music, I choose not to play Hindi film songs. There is some amazing work being done in film music, it is just that when a ‘Munni Badnaam Hui’ plays in the middle of a set, it turns the groove. You go ewwww…”

It was the desire to play their kind of music that resulted in Submerge.

“No one goes clubbing in Mumbai on Thursdays. In 2002, we thought of an event, Submerge, on Thursdays where the DJ could play the music he wanted to. There were a few ground rules. The first was requests were not allowed. The DJ was an artist and just like you would not tell MF Husain what to paint, you couldn’t tell the DJ what to play. If you didn’t like the music you could always go to another club. The second rule was we encouraged the DJ not to use the mike and rather let the music do the talking.”

Ten years down the line, Submerge is internationally recognised. “The reputation grew and DJs wanted to play at Submerge. If you got to play at Submerge, you had arrived.”

Far from being the rock capital of India, Bangalore, Nikhil says, “is the cradle of all kinds of music. It is a young city and young people are willing to take risks. You know hip hop was popular in Bangalore much before it became fashionable elsewhere.”

Nikhil feels strongly about piracy. “By downloading music, you are depriving musicians of their bread and butter. If a musician doesn’t get paid, he goes back to being an accountant or whatever he is doing and the quality of music goes down. Also with downloading, music has become less precious. If you were buying a tape or a CD, you would deliberate till kingdom come before deciding on which CD to buy. Now you download 300 songs and don’t listen to any of them!”

He hosts the MTV reality show “Splitsville”. “It is part of the world we live in today. Yes, the emotions are all out there. You need to apply my coffee and tea philosophy to the phenomenon. There are those that like coffee and others that like tea. It does not mean one is right and the other is wrong.”

He grins disarmingly. “So can I now offer you a cup of coffee?”

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Arts> Radio & TV / by Mini Anthikad-Chhibber / Bangalore, March 01st, 2012

Prajwal Poovaiah another Coorgi Comes!!

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Uncategorized

Kannada cinema and Coorg are inseparable. Coorg is such a rich place for Kannada film makers and the exotic mist filled shots and hilly region, lush greenery is always available here for film makers.

The land known for warriors, hockey is also famous for giving good talent to Kannada cinema. We have Daisy Boppana, Nidhi Subbaiah, Harshika Poonachcha and new addition is Prajwal Poovaiah.

Although Prajwal Poovaiah was seen at ‘Cotton Pete’ muhurut she was selected

by top director N Omprakash Rao for ‘Bheema Thiradalli’. Prajwal Poovaiah attended 40 days of shoot for her debut film.

Before coming to cinema Prajwal Poovaiah studied in Whistling Woods International Acting School of Subhas Ghai in Mumbai.

Prajwal Poovaiah plays the village belle in ‘Bhima Thiradalli’ while the mod role goes to Pranitha in that film. Vijay is the hero of this film.

Offers came pouring in for Prajwal Poovaiah when she was shooting for her debut film. Producer K Manju, Yogish Hunsur and two Tamil film offers came to her.

After completing ‘Bhima Thiradalli’ a big budget cinema of producer Anaji Nagaraj actress Prajwal Poovaiah picked Tamil films – Otthe Naneyum, Vipareethan and Viludu Maleyudum are the films she has signed as of now.

I want to act under all major director films is the ambition of Prajwal Poovaiah.

source: http://www.m.zimbio.com / from Cinejwala.com / February 22nd, 2012

Army man wins his wings

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Sports

New Delhi:
When SV Sunil suffered a knee injury that required surgery in early 2010 and kept him out of action the whole year, few would have expected that two years on, he would become one of the keystones that Indian hockey’s Olympic dreams would be built around. Putting both personal and physical pain behind, Sunil has emerged as the most recognised face at the ongoing Olympic qualifiers. The fact that he isn’t flamboyant or outgoing like some of his teammates makes his recognition all the more special.
In every game so far, the 24-year-old Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) with the Indian Army has left the opposition stranded with his speed, stamina and skills. His attacks have been so relentless that sometimes the rest of the Indian team has problems keeping pace. “I know,” smiles Sunil — he hardly ever laughs out loud — “and I have been advised to hang on for just that extra second inside the striking circle to allow others to come up as support. But I have a good understanding with Shivendra Singh and Gurvinder Singh Chandi and they understand that this is my strength. We just try and make sure that I don’t get stranded up front,” he adds.

The Sunil one saw before his comeback in 2011 — he was called up for the preparatory camp in New Delhi, ahead of the Sultan Azlan Shah tournament – was vastly different. “It was a confidence issue,” he admits. “Earlier, I was hesitant to go all out. I always had the speed but thought of being without support upfront, and was not too sure of being able to dodge past the opposition defenders in case I got stuck because of their physical superiority. But now I have been told to just play my natural game.

“The coach has told me not to worry about the opposition or think of getting stuck. Most importantly, he hates back passes, so we are always encouraged to go and attack. That has given me more confidence,” he adds.

Though the Coorgi player admits he was below par against Canada in India’s last game, he is no longer affected by the odd poor performance on field, unlike earlier when he used to think too much of his game.

Having lost his father, a furniture carver, during the 2009 Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia – where India won gold after 12 years – Sunil is now the sole bread-earner of his family that includes his stepmother and three younger siblings. And he admits he has changed in his approach to both the game and life since then.

“Responsibility ke saath maturity aa jati hai, bachpana khatm ho gaya hai (with responsibility comes maturity, the childishness is gone),” he smiles. “ Earlier I used to play hockey because I liked it and it helped me get a job. There was a time (in 2010) when I thought my career was over. It was very bad year – I had missed three big competitions — the World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games — two of them at home. But then I realised that my family survives on my performance. So now it’s a much more serious thing,” he adds.

With so much responsibility on and off the field, it helps that he has an easygoing roommate in Kannadiga VR Raghunath. “He puts on music that we both enjoy. It helps me relax. I also talk to my family at least once a day to know that they are fine. It keeps me grounded,” he says. The polite smile finally gives way to a gentle laugh when asked about his marriage plans. “Not before my sister. She is in her first year of graduation, a few years from marriage. Only after that,” he says. Till then, he will be happy running circles around the opposition defence.

Friday’s matches:

(Men) Canada vs France

Singapore vs Italy

(Women) South Africa vs Canada

Ukraine vs Poland

Live on Ten Sports:

India vs Italy (Women) 5.50 PM

India vs Poland (Men) 7.50 PM
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Indians in comfort zone

While India have booked their place for Sunday’s final, the opponent they play on Sunday will be decided by the results of the games on Friday. Depending upon the result of the Canada-France match earlier in the day; India’s win, loss, or draw against Poland will throw up a different finalist. “We don’t mind any team in the final,” insisted coach Michael Nobbs after a hectic training session on eve of the game against the team on second position on the table. The focus of the workout was on the goalkeepers. “They haven’t been tested so far in the competition so this was needed,” Nobbs explained. ENS

source: http://www.expressindia.com / Story / by Uthra G. Chaturvedi / posted February 24th, 2012

Thimayya home gets due honours

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It will be turned into a museum; transport dept, current occupant of the Madikeri mansion, has been told to vacate

The state government has finally realised it needs to give a fitting tribute to its war hero, former General of Indian Army, Kodandera Subbayya Thimayya. It has decided to convert his mansion in Madikeri, now housing the transport department, into a museum.

The Kannada and culture department, which has decided to take possession of the house, called ‘Sunny Side’, has given the transport department three months’ time to vacate the premises.

A decision to the effect was taken at a high level meeting of the Kannada and culture department a week ago.

The transport department has been given three months’ time to vacate the mansion
Grant sanctioned
According to sources in the department, the government had decided to declare the mansion as a memorial in 2005 following a letter written by former chief minister Veerappa Moily. The next year, the then finance minister had sanctioned a grant of Rs 1 crore for the purpose.

B Basavaraju, secretary, Kannada and culture department, told Bangalore Mirror, “It’s time we took over the building. Recently, a team of officials from our department visited the house and submitted a report.”

The regional transport office (RTO) will be shifted to a new premises. “Once the RTO shifts out, we will take up restoration work of the house,” he said. The department plans to have a museum displaying articles used by Gen Thimayya and a library comprising war literature aimed at motivating youngsters.

The mansion in Madikeri, spread across 2.6 acres, is the birthplace of the general, who was affectionately called ‘Timmy’ by his Army colleagues.
Sources said the transport department had bought the mansion way back in 1972 for Rs 2 lakh. Though the government housed the Gen Thimayya Memorial Bhavan in the same building a few years ago, it was in poor shape.

Repeated pleas by the people of Kodagu to convert the house into a memorial had gone in vain. “Except for a statue and a road named after him, there’s nothing in Kodagu to remember the great soldier,” said Sachin Bopanna, a resident of Madikeri.

Meanwhile, after a decade, the Army’s Southern Command has chosen Bangalore as the venue for its investiture ceremony, while the armed forces is all geared up for its 64th Army Day celebrations on Sunday.


Driving force
When K S Thimayya was the commander of the 19th infantry division in Jammu & Kashmir, he drew the Pakistani army out of Kashmir valley by personally leading the attack in the forward-most tank.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru with then Lt Gen. K S Thimayya, G.O.C-in-C, Southern Command, at the officers’ mess in Pune in 1956.
Thimayya, who was the fourth general of independent India, was born on March 30, 1906 in Madikeri. He studied at Coonoor and Bangalore’s Bishop Cotton Boys School before joining the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun. He served the Indian Army between 1957 and 1961.

After his retirement, he was appointed the Commander of UN forces in Cyprus, where he breathed his last.

CNC seeks Jnanpith for Appacha Kavi posthumously

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Madikeri, Feb. 10:
The Codava National Council (CNC) has urged the Centre to present the Jnanpith award posthumously to renowned litterateur of Kodagu Haradasa Appacha Kavi, hailing from the Appaneravanda family.

CNC President N.U. Nachappa, who put forth this demand at a press conference held here yesterday, said that at a time when Kodava culture was edging towards digression due to cultural invasion, it was Appacha Kavi who through his unique literature, gave a new lease of life to Kodava dialect. The stories, drama, folk songs and poetry penned by him are gaining credence in the modern day and has been the inspiration for many more Kodava writers.

Nachappa said that he had submitted a memorandum in this regard to the Kodagu district administration, to be forwarded to the Central Government and the Kendra Sahitya Academy.

CNC members Jammada Mohan, Kaliyanda Prakash, Mookonda Dileep, Pullera Kalappa, Shwathi Kalappa and Ajjettira Rani were present at the press conference.

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / General News / February 10th, 2012

Into a world of tiaras and glamour

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg

Ever since she was a six-year-old, Rochelle Rao has been smitten by the modelling industry. And taking one firm step at a time, this young sassy babe is ensuring that she fulfills her dream of becoming a successful model.

Rochelle Rao

Today, Rochelle is amongst the 20 most beautiful women in the country, and is all set to impress the judges in the final rounds of the Miss India pageant.

Rochelle, who has been undergoing rigorous training sessions with Ajith Sigamani, says, “I got a taste of what the pageant will be like when I participated in the Miss India South contest. So I was mentally prepared.”

From giving up all her favourite food to working out several hours in a day, Rochelle has taken it upon herself to sport a fab bod. “I am a foodie by nature,” she says. “But since December, I’ve had to give up all the food I really love. Though when someone looks at me and compliments me, I feel all this training is really worth it!”

Rochelle is no stranger to the profession. Be it TV shows or ramp walks, she’s a familiar face. “I’ve been in this profession for many years, but it was only in the first few rounds that I realised there were so many things I didn’t know. Unlike in Mumbai or Delhi, for models in Chennai the exposure is not up to the mark. I had to unlearn so many things. Prasad Bidappa and Marc Robinson were both extremely helpful in training me!”

She adds, “Be it physically or even in the way I think, I can feel the development in myself. And I am loving this change!”

Considering all the challenges that she has faced in the profession, Rochelle has managed to learn from them and survive, despite all odds. “I am a Christian and being in this profession was looked down upon! But I knew that this was what I was born to do and I love my profession. I also realised that if people pass negative comments, it probably means they’re jealous and the best thing to do is to just ignore them!”

Rochelle explains that it is so easy to be carried away by all the glitz and attention — she’s had to mend several errors that she’d committed because of that.

“I used to be cocky. I had an attitude problem. But I soon realised that once you’re off the stage, you have to respect society. There are people who have seen it all and you owe them the credit.

Even if it’s a tea boy on the sets of a show, you must give him the respect he deserves. I’ve always had to go back to the people I misbehaved with and apologise. Being humble is one of the biggest lessons this profession has taught me!”

The pretty model is readying for the next round, which is likely to be in March. She says, “Rehane is already working on some of my clothes.

And I am lucky that some of the best in this profession including Sidney Sladen, Chaitanya Rao and Sunil Menon are helping me throughout!”

source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com / Home> TABLOID> Glam Sham / by Srinidhi Rajagopal / DC/ Chennai / February 14th, 2012

They’re old enough

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg

It is not my intention to cause a sudden dip in morale in the Indian armed forces, a dip so vertiginous that when the Chinese are amassed at the Mehrauli crossing, our soldiers will be able to do nothing. But the crisis that reached its climax last week involving the date of birth of India’s army chief strikes me as being incredibly banal. How many angels can dance on a pin head being replaced by how many candles should be there on our army chief’s birthday cake on May 10?

Don’t get me wrong. The fact that the spat between the ministry of defence and the army chief — which in institutional terms means the hand-to-hand combat between the Government of India and the Indian Army — was played out in public must have been disconcerting for patriots on both sides of the civilian-military border. On following the spat in the Indian media, the aforementioned Chinese must have plied themselves with endless mai tais and gleefully quoted from Du Fu’s ‘Ballad of the Ancient Cypress’, lines that only Vikram Seth would be able to faithfully translate as “If a great hall should teeter, wanting rafters and beams,/ Ten thousand oxen would turn their heads towards its mountain’s weight.” That a quarrel had broken out between the army and the civilian government was serious. But what surely can’t be is the reason for this dangerous eyeballing: whether the army chief was bluffing about his age.

Here’s the source of the fracas in a nutshell: General VK Singh insisted that his date of birth is May 10, 1951 — and not May 10, 1950, as according to the service records that Singh had himself provided when he had applied for the National Defence Academy (NDA) when he was 14 (which means that he must have been then 13). I’ve conducted similar age-propping strategies when I was 14 (but was actually 15) to cover up the fact that I had lost a year when getting into school for the first time. I hope to dear god that by constantly repeating my real age for the last decade or so to people, especially to ladies who profess a fondness for older men, I have made amends.

So at best, Singh was guilty of some minor age-shuffling so that he could get into the NDA a year early. Today, that has come to bite him in his rear formation. This, to me, could have been easily sorted out by some clerical whiz in the government, if the civvies in the defence ministry wanted. Instead, it became an infructuous contest which even the Supreme Court labelled as being “a vital matter for the entire nation”. A vital matter for the entire nation. Really?

I’m told it’s about ‘honour’. In August 31, 1959, army chief General KS Thimayya offered to resign after a spat with defence minister VK Krishna Menon over, among other things, the latter’s refusal to consider the chief of army staff’s plans for preparing for a looming India-China conflict — which Menon thought was only gathering force in the brain of a restless military man. Nehru did manage to convince Thimayya to stay on as army chief till the latter retired in 1961 — even as the PM backed the wrong horse Menon into the winter of ’62.

Nehru had told Parliament in September 1959, the House agitated over a army chief-defence minister quarrel, that the issues involved in Thimayya’s attempted resignation were “rather trivial and of no consequence”, and that they arose “from temperamental differences and did not include promotions”. I can bet my 21st battalion that the spat didn’t arise because of promotions etc but because of the matter of Menon shrugging his shoulders each time Thimayya uttered the word ‘China’.

Now that was a spat I can understand where honour must have crept in. What loss of honour was General Singh worried about? That he’s been branded a liar by AK Antony and his para-militaries? But according to his own logic, he must have lied at least once — either when he was 13 or 14, or now when he’s 60 or 61. He told the court that he would resign in 48 hours the moment the government accepted he was 60. The problem for the court was trusting a man’s sense of hours when he’s mixed up 365 days. But, most incredibly, the court said that it was “not concerned with determining his age” and went on to utter something four days before Valentine’s Day about understanding the “pain in your heart of having your date of birth not being corrected”.

I think I just heard a gaggle of tipsy but sure-about-their-ages Chinese generals roll with laughter on the red carpeted floor while quoting one of Sun Tzu’s five dangerous faults that may affect a general — which Vikram Seth would faithfully translate as “A delicacy of honour that is sensitive to shame.”

Plea for photos of Fd, ML. Cariappa and Gen. Thimayya in Sainik Welfare office

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Leaders

Mysore, Feb.2:

The newly-floated Ex-servicemen`s Consultancy Services (ECS), Narayan Shastry Road, has urged the Deputy Director, Dept. of Sainik Welfare and Resettlement, Mysore, to display the photographs of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and General K.S. Thimmaya at the Sainik Welfare Office in view of their remarkable achievements.

S. Somashekara, Chief Consultant of ECS, has stated in a press release that these two were the only two Kanndigas who had made it to the top in the Indian Army with Field Marshal Cariappa becoming the first Commander-in-Chief of Indian Armed Forces and General Thimmaya occupying the post of Chief of Army Staff.

Stating that Field Marshal Cariappa`s bust had been installed at the entrance of Sainik Welfare Head Quarters in Bangalore and his life size photogr-aph was displayed at the Sainik Welfare Director`s Office in Banga-lore, Somashekara has urged the officers concerned at the Sainik Welfare Office in Mysore to follow the precedent set by the Director of the Department.

He has also suggested the Dy. Director to display the photographs of valiant war heroes who are either born in Mysore District or studied and settled down in Mysore after being decorated with gallantry awards such as Veer Chakra, Param Veer Chakra and Maha Veer Chakra.

source: http://www.Mysoretrendz.com / via source: www.StarofMysore.com / February 02nd, 2012

Jalebee Cartel, Nikhil, Pearl to perform at Future Music Festival Asia

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Uncategorized

Mumbai:

Jalebee Cartel, Nikhil Chinappa and Pearl will represent India at the Future Music Festival to preimere in Asia this year. The fest is one of Australias largest dance music festivals, featuring renowned DJs world over.

The 12 hour music fest with over 40 acts is scheduled to take place on 17 March at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

Speaking on the fest with Radioandmusic.com, Jalebee Cartel’s bass player – Gforce Arjun said, “Future Music Festival is a fantastic festival, It feels great to be a part of the line-up which boasts the like of ‘The Chemical Brothers’ and others. All of us are huge fans of the Chems… and have been fans for such a long time.”

The multi award winning festival will be headlined by the club music superstar ‘The Chemical Brothers’. Other international artistes to feature in the concert include American rap legend and DJ Grandmaster Flash, Chase & Status, The Wombats, Pendulum, Grand Master Flash, Sneaky Sound System, Cosmic Gate, John 00 Flemming, Super 8 & Tab, Zane Lowe, Alex Metric, The Potbelleez, Kid Sister, The Stafford Brothers, Ruby Rose, Andy Murphy, Shinic Osawa, Blink, Goldfish and more.

source: http://www.RadioandMusic.com / Home> Editorial> News / RnM Team / February 03rd, 2012