Amazon Prime Music presents the first episode of Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2

 T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 gets off to an energetic start with Neeti Mohan and Sukh E’s electrifying performance. Presented by Amazon Prime Music and produced by T-Series Chairman and Managing Director Bhushan Kumar, the two-month musical extravaganza will put on display 24 artists who will add a unique twist to the mix of two hugely popular Punjabi songs.

In the first episode, Neeti with her feminine grace and Sukh E with his ‘Punjab da puttar’ attitude will blow you away with their powerful, high voltage rendition of Nikle Currant and Wah Wai Wahh. The livewire performers have left no stone unturned to ensure that they do justice to the inaugural episode of  T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2, available first on Amazon Prime Music

The first episode serves as an embodiment of the razzmatazz that you are going to witness in the next 10 episodes. Radhika and Vinay Sapru, the series directors offer, “This episode captures what we had set out to do with T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2. It truly depicts the energy, the play of sound and light and the complete extravaganza with the artists. You can see the crowd enjoying the whole rendition and whatever the artists expresses. It truly comes out in the first episode.”

Says Neeti, “I have been part of MixTape for the last two seasons but that was in Hindi. This time I wanted to be an integral part of T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2. I am singing and performing in Punjabi for the first time for MixTape and I am so excited about it. I loved performing both the tracks and singing them with Sukh E was such a memorable experience.  I think Punjabi music is becoming my favourite genre already.”

Sukh E informs, “Nikle Currant, although sung by Jassie Gill, was a song I was associated with as a music producer. Wah Wai Wahh was a song that I had sung with Neha Kakkar a few months ago. So when I got this opportunity to be part of these two songs for T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2, I was determined ‘yeh to mujhe karna hi karna hai’. I was getting to show my skills as a live performer and I was very excited to be part of it.”

Laughing at the memory, Sukh E adds, “After, the first take, they found it difficult to see me jumping around and dancing so much. I was asked to go easy on the dancing bit. So, I had to control myself and I have never controlled myself while performing but, for a change, it was nice.”

Neeti and Sukh E’s high-energy, juxtaposition of the two songs will instinctively set you grooving. Adds,  Radhika and Vinay, “Each and every instrument whether it be the tumbi, guitar, dhol or the synth comes out so clear and correct in this episode that it truly is a great beginning to a great season that we are looking forward to and hoping that we hit it big at the word go.”

Link of the song: http://bit.ly/WahWaiWahh-NikleCurrant

Amazon Prime Music presents Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2

~The light and sound musical extravaganza promises 24 artists, each adding a unique twist to the song starting Nov 4^th~

~ Listen to all MixTape Punjabi Season 2 songs, first on Amazon Prime Music, ad-free~

After its stupendous run in previous seasons of MixTape Hindi and Punjabi, amounting to 1.2 billion views, music lovers are in for a treat as T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 is all set to premiere with its first episode on YouTube on November 4^th. Presented by Amazon Prime Music, the music property which showcases a unique mix of two songs has been lavishly produced by T-Series Chairman and Managing Director Bhushan Kumar.

Ace director duo, Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, who have in the past 20 years helmed more than 200 songs and music videos, have directed the 11-episode musical spectacle. All tracks of T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 will be available first on Amazon Prime Music for Prime members to enjoy, giving listeners an ad-free, voice enabled listening experience.

The T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 promises to bring to you some of the most renowned, accomplished Punjabi singers of today when the season 2 of musical web series launches on November 4^th on YouTube. Each episode promises the highest entertainment quotient for viewers and listeners, juxtaposing two songs in a unique manner. Keeping its essence of taking two songs and amalgamating the sound and lyrics in an unimaginable way, the listener is bound to be pleasantly surprised with the emerging harmony `achieved by the merging of the two songs. A lot of thought and care has been put in by the creative team of Raj Chanana, Sonal Chawla and Shivam Chanana under the guidance of Abhijit Vaghani who has re-modelled the music of all the earlier seasons of MixTape as well the music of T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 presented by Amazon Prime Music.

Chairman and Managing Director of T-Series Bhushan Kumar says, “In T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2, we have upped the entertainment factor. We have given a different twist while shooting MixTape Punjabi Season 2 to make it appealing for a younger audience. The look and feel of the new season is a lot more international and extremely fresh. Oh, yes and it’s going to be a lot groovier. I am very excited to present this new seasonto the audience.”     

Sahas Malhotra, Director, Amazon Prime Music, said, “After our successful collaboration with T-Series for MixTape Hindi Season 2 early this year, we are very excited to work together again and present MixTape Punjabi Season 2 for our Prime members. All songs will be exclusively first on Amazon Prime Music for Prime members to enjoy this superstar, superhit season of creatively recreated Punjabi hits ad-free with unlimited offline downloads.”

Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao, the directors of the musical series informs,“T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 is going to be a light and sound extravaganza, which brings out the lyrical content of the song and the mood of the song through every instrument that is played in the song. Most importantly, it will bring out the personality of every singer. Every person who will watch T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 will feel every moment that the singer and the musician felt while rendering the song. They will feel every emotion that he or she shared with the co-singer or the co-artist.”

AbhijitVaghani, the music director of the series adds,“We have a lot more upbeat tracks coming up this time, featuring new artists and tracks from the Punjabi music industry. We have experimented a lot with music arrangements to give our audience a new listening experience. This time, the new directors along with the dedicated team of T-Series have given a new concept and colour to the series.”

The series will showcase performances by Guru Randhawa, Tulsi Kumar, Sukh E, Neeti Mohan, Millind Gaba, Dhvani Bhanushali, Hans Raj Hans, Navraj Hans, Yuvraaj Hans, Ranjit Bawa, Harshdeep Kaur, Akhil Sachdeva, Kaur B, Meet Bros, Jonita Gandhi, Kanika Kapoor, Ninja, Inder Chahal, Asees Kaur, Jordan Sandhu and Palak Muchhal.   

T-Series MixTape Punjabi Season 2 will kick off on November 4^th on the T-series YouTube Channel and the audio will be available first on Amazon Prime Music.

Amazon Prime Video’s new Original series

Amazon Prime Video’s new Original series The Family Man brings together some of India’s most talented actors together

The trailer of Amazon Original series ‘The Family Man’ - an edgy drama-thriller series dropped recently amidst much anticipation. Marking the digital debut of creators - Raj and DK (Go Goa Gone, Shor in the City, Stree), the show is a drama-thriller series with a touch of wry humor, drawing from real-life incidents. The series features some finest actors from the entertainment industry along with the National Award winner and Padma Shri honouree, Manoj Bajpayee and National Award recipient, Priyamani.

The series showcases the life of an ordinary man living his middle-class life, while working for the National Intelligence Agency as an analyst. Simply put, the series is about’ a middle-class guy, a world-class spy’ and will definitely keep audiences intrigued.

Here’s looking at some of the talented actors who will be seen in the show:

·         Manoj Bajpayee - Manoj Bajpayee plays the character of Srikant Tiwari. A father of 2 kids, he is a typical middle-class working man with great aspirations for seemingly impossible things like owning an apartment in Mumbai. Srikant works as a Senior Analyst for TASC, NIA’s anti-terror surveillance unit.

·         Priyamani - A prominent name in South Indian cinema, Priyamani has worked across film industries - ranging from Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. A National and Filmfare Award recipient, Priyamani makes her digital debut with this series. Her character Suchitra Tiwari is married to Srikant Tiwari and works as a lecturer, teaching psychology.

·         Gul Panag - She will be seen in a fascinating role alongside Manoj Bajpayee. Gul plays the fierce and unstoppable Saloni - the NIA station chief officer in Srinagar.

·         Sharad Kelkar - The actor is all set to enthrall the audiences with his performance in this series. Marking his digital debut, Sharad plays Arvind and who is a fellow lecturer and Suchitra’s close friend.

·         Sharin Hashmi – A super talented and a versatile actor, Sharin Hashmi will be seen playing JK Talpade, Srikant’s colleague and partner.  

The series’ the cast also includes Neeraj Madhav, Sunny Hinduja, Shreya Dhanwantary, Sundeep Kishan, Darshan Kumaar, Dalip Tahil, Sanyukta Timsina, Pawan Chopra and Kanupriya Pandit in pivotal roles.

Created by Raj and DK (Go Goa Gone, Shor in the City, Stree), Amazon Original Series The Family Man will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on the 20^th of September, 2019 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, for customers in India and in German, Japanese, French Italian, Portuguese, Spanish for Prime customers across 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Amazon Prime Video’s new Original series

Amazon Prime Video’s new Original series The Family Man brings together some of India’s most talented actors together

 The trailer of Amazon Original series ‘The Family Man’ - an edgy drama-thriller series dropped recently amidst much anticipation. Marking the digital debut of creators - Raj and DK (Go Goa Gone, Shor in the City, Stree), the show is a drama-thriller series with a touch of wry humor, drawing from real-life incidents. The series features some finest actors from the entertainment industry along with the National Award winner and Padma Shri honouree, Manoj Bajpayee and National Award recipient, Priyamani.

The series showcases the life of an ordinary man living his middle-class life, while working for the National Intelligence Agency as an analyst. Simply put, the series is about’ a middle-class guy, a world-class spy’ and will definitely keep audiences intrigued.

Here’s looking at some of the talented actors who will be seen in the show:

·         Manoj Bajpayee - Manoj Bajpayee plays the character of Srikant Tiwari. A father of 2 kids, he is a typical middle-class working man with great aspirations for seemingly impossible things like owning an apartment in Mumbai. Srikant works as a Senior Analyst for TASC, NIA’s anti-terror surveillance unit.

·         Priyamani - A prominent name in South Indian cinema, Priyamani has worked across film industries - ranging from Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. A National and Filmfare Award recipient, Priyamani makes her digital debut with this series. Her character Suchitra Tiwari is married to Srikant Tiwari and works as a lecturer, teaching psychology.

·         Gul Panag - She will be seen in a fascinating role alongside Manoj Bajpayee. Gul plays the fierce and unstoppable Saloni - the NIA station chief officer in Srinagar.

·         Sharad Kelkar - The actor is all set to enthrall the audiences with his performance in this series. Marking his digital debut, Sharad plays Arvind and who is a fellow lecturer and Suchitra’s close friend.

·         Sharin Hashmi – A super talented and a versatile actor, Sharin Hashmi will be seen playing JK Talpade, Srikant’s colleague and partner.  

The series’ the cast also includes Neeraj Madhav, Sunny Hinduja, Shreya Dhanwantary, Sundeep Kishan, Darshan Kumaar, Dalip Tahil, Sanyukta Timsina, Pawan Chopra and Kanupriya Pandit in pivotal roles.

Created by Raj and DK (Go Goa Gone, Shor in the City, Stree), Amazon Original Series The Family Man will stream exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on the 20^th of September, 2019 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, for customers in India and in German, Japanese, French Italian, Portuguese, Spanish for Prime customers across 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Here’s presenting five Indian traditions

Here’s presenting five Indian traditions that still holdsa place of pride in Indianweddings

Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming original series, ‘Made in Heaven’ premieres on March 8

 Amazon Prime Video’s neworiginal series, ‘Made in Heaven’, promises a sneak peek at what transpires behind-the-scenesin Big Fat Indian Weddings!Prime Original Series ‘Made in Heaven’ revolves around the lives of two wedding planners, Tara and Karan, whose lives intersect against the backdrop of big-fat-Indian weddings, uncovering not only their personal turmoil but also the deep-rooted social nuances and prejudices still etched in Indian society.

While the series arriving this March,promises to be a thought-provoking treat, with the backdrop of the on-going wedding season in India,we take a quick look at a few lighthearted traditions that are the main-stay of many Indian weddings!

1.         Celebrated across Gujarat, ‘Ponkhana’ is a ritual where the mother-in-law playfully pulls the groom’s nose signifying that he should always be kind and compassionate to his new life-partner [GIF 1]

2.         Performed by the female relatives from the bride’s side, the art of hiding the groom’s footwear formonetary gains is one of a kind, and remains extremely popular and the high-point in almost all Hindu weddings[GIF 2]

3.         Next on our list is the hunt for the ring, where the bride and the groom dip their hands in a bowl full of milk and rose petals, to find the elusive ring. The one to find it four times, is expected to wear the pants in the family. [GIF 3]

4.         A beautiful ritual, ‘ArshiMushaf’ is a prominent part of Muslim weddings where the bride and groom look into a mirror to take their first glimpse of each other as life-partners. [GIF 4]

5.         A long-loved tradition, a Christian bride after her wedding, takes her bouquet and flings it over at all the single ladies present, the one to catchit increases her chance of getting hitched in the near future. [GIF 5]

Fordecades, these rich traditions and rituals have been an intrinsic part of Indian history. Can we hope to catch some of these in Prime Original SeriesMade in Heaven? We can’t wait to find out. The series is scheduled to premiere on March 8 exclusively on Prime Video