Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

Gaibona by Sumon and Anila

Saturday, February 16th, 2008 3,507 views

In an old post I said that Bangladesh music videos improved, yet most Bangla songs, with few exceptions, aren't appealing to listen to. However, Sumon and Anila's duet is one of those exceptions. Anila's natural voice brings a soothing atmosphere to her songs. When I select Bangla ...

Music Give Away - Batch 1

Friday, February 15th, 2008 251 views

Another day and another post. Most of the time I talk about politics and history but here is something entertaining; download the several selected Bangla songs that I think stands out from the rest. DownloadPreview Tomar Lakhaan by Laal Miah (Sylheti Rap) Tomar Jonno by Balam Shudu Tomar Jonno by Balam Janala Khule by ...

Sa Re Ga Ma’s Raja Singing in Bengali

Saturday, February 9th, 2008 205 views

I've always been surprised to see famous Hindi singers of Bollywood singing Bangla songs. I never thought they would sing a song of local language which is not of their own. Such examples include Sonu Nigam singing such songs as Akash Kade Batash Kade, Mayabi Rater Ey, and ...

Rahmanur Rahim by Nazeel Azami

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 322 views

Nazeel Azami, a Bangladeshi born, has risen to be a famous nasheed singer, based in the UK. His mom influenced him to resonate his voice in a soothing manner from childhood as he was taught to recite Bengali songs and Bengali poems. Nazeel is the first Bangladeshi to ...

Durotto by Tahsan and Mithila

Monday, January 14th, 2008 450 views

Tahsan, who is a member of Black, and Mithila, who is a model, who both are also a married couple, sang this nice song in an Eid program on nTV. A small handful of critics accuse them of being worthless singers but I think they are a great duo ...

O Dule Dule (Assamese)

Sunday, January 13th, 2008 386 views

I have strong love for Assamese songs and I found this nice video from one of the movies. As mentioned in previous posts, Assamya (the language) can be understood by most Bangla speakers. The video will show how similar Assamese entertainment is to Bangla entertainment. Bengali directors ...

Tomar Jonno - Balam

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 1,159 views

Bangladesh's music industry, unlike West Bengal's music industry, isn't influenced by the Bollywood atmosphere. I love Bollywood songs, don't get me wrong, and I also love West Bengali songs, but West Bengalis singers always seem to imitate the Hindi song style. Few small timer Bangladeshi singers imitate and sing ...

Bangladeshi Music Videos Have Improved

Friday, November 30th, 2007 214 views

West Bengali music videos always follow the Bollywood style, while Bangladeshis create low quality boring music videos. However, over the yers the Bangladeshi directors have learned and slowly they are improving their quality of their music videos. I found this nice music video on YouTube by the band ...

Incredible Movie Sets On the Rise in Bollywood

Monday, November 19th, 2007 192 views

Saawariya may have gotten bad ratings by critics but the movie set is incredible. The set shows beauty by mixing Islamic style architecture with soothing blue lights all around giving a nice glow to the sorroundings. The atmosphere truly shows to be majestic in the movie with addition ...

Let’s Get Lost in “Bhool Bhulaiyaa”

Saturday, November 17th, 2007 179 views

Bollywood is getting more interesting every year. As you can see from the image above it looks as if the new movie "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" to be a scary movie type, but it's really not. It's another love story, the regular expected Bollywood love story, but with a twist. ...