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DABANGG breaks Box Office records !!!

"DABANGG" - a SUPER HIT of Salman Khan's... His Swan Song of 2010

List: Complete Movies (Bollywood, Tollywood-Bangla Films, Audio Full Song OST Soundtrack Album Release available Online (Part 8)

This is the eighth installment of our fabulous list of DVD and Blu-Ray releases available on-line. Not only movies, but also full audio song and music soundtrack OST albums are also part of this list. Check out the fabulous prices in Indian Rupees from our affiliate online store, and decide for yourself why you should buy Bengali movie DVDs in US dollars from US retailers like Amazon, Netflix, Best-Buy etc. when you can buy the same movies at unbelievable discounts from our links below. For example, at the trime of writing (9/14/2010 22:12 EDT), Arin Pal's acclaimed film DOSHTA DOSH aka 10:10 is available on DVD for Rs.299 / US$7.12 and Manoj Michigan's groundbreaking film Hello Kolkata for a stunning Rs.40 or US$1.33 !

Check out the complete list.

Movie Review: For Real

Movie Review: For Real

Starring
: Sarita Choudhury, Adil Hussain, Zoya S Hassan, Sriharsh Sharma Churai, Sameer Dharamadhikari
Written & Directed by
: Sona Jain

Rating: ***

Indian Ocean - Leaving Home The Life & Music Of Indian Ocean - Online DVD Release review promo preview and trailer

Cover of Leaving Home Indian Ocean DVDLeaving Home is a historic feature film on Indias greatest music band Indian Ocean. The four band-members stirring 20-year old story is told with the same energy and lightness-of-touch that their timeless music is imbued with. The theme of how they kept their creative fires burning without compromising their essential vision is important and telling in todays times.

Indian Ocean is unarguably India’s most significant band. The film has been made to celebrate this once-in-a-couple-of-generations musical phenomenon. The idea is not merely to document but to provoke, enrich and, above all, entertain. That is why the film has been made for the big screen.

Buy the DVD release online, and check out the fabulous sale on other Indian Ocean music albums.

97 WEST - A pioneering Kolkata global free jazz band experimenting with the "Morph" sound

Four talented, young musicians from Kolkata have come together to create a form of music that was never heard before. They call it Morph.

97 WEST Kolkata Band

Experimental music or avant-garde, in its truest form, has never been a part of Indian  Jazz scenario. 97WEST is possibly the first Indian band that is truly Avant-Garde/Experimental in genre.

"97 West is a Morph Music band. Morph is a musical form that seamlessly morphs from one cultural sound to another" says Sharthok Chakraborty, the young bass player, a disciple of Amyt Dutta , who named the Genre. Sharthok adds, "We were always interested in the day to day sounds which are often 'neglected' as music .This was the common string that gave birth to the form of music when we came together."

Listen to their music and watch music videos on this exclusive feature at Washington Bangla Radio USA.


Online Bengali Book Store | Picture Imperfect and Other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteries | Saradindu Bandyopadhyay

Online Bengali Books | Store | WashingtonBanglaRadio.com affiliateRead more details and buy Picture Imperfect and Other Bomkesh Bakshi Mysteries by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay from our Online Bengali Magazine & Book Store ...

The Monkberries Live at Princeton Club Sep 17, 2010

The talented Kolkata Band The Monkberries will perform live at PRINCETON on 17th September 2010 : 9 pm onwards. The show is free.

Calcutta Band Monkberries Live Concert


Roop Kumar Rathod turns music director in LIFE EXPRESS (2010) Hindi Film | Exclusive Press Meet Photos

Kolkata, India (Washington Bangla Radio) Life Express is a new film on surrogate motherhood and is probably the first of it’s kind from Bollywood. It helps us to understand motherhood in a way which has never been shown before.

Life Express tells us about an urban couple Tanvi and Nikhil who do not have time for anything other than their careers but have to turn to a couple from rural India Mohon and Gauri who stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city life.


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