Archive for July 6th, 2007
Can’t find a date? Having girl trouble? Serious love issues?
Salman Khan [Images] has the solution to all your heartache. At least that’s what David Dhawan’s new film, Partner, presses us to believe.
The romantic comedy also features Dhawan’s longtime favourite Govinda [Images] playing the love guru’s lovelorn disciple.
Meanwhile, Lara Dutta [Images] and Katrina Kaif [Images] play the object of their respective affections.
Sounds a lot like Will Smith’s [Images] hit flick, Hitch, don’t it? The music by Sajid-Wajid, however, isn’t anything like the Men in Black star’s ‘jiggy’ shakes.
The soundtrack kickstarts with the rhythmic Do you wanna partner. A whole bunch of vocal artists –Wajid, Shaan, Shaan, Udit Narayan, Suzi Q and Clington do their bit in this bizarre cocktail of Mambo meets qawaali. Its flamboyant premise aims to highlight Salman and Govinda’s easygoing camaraderie and is more visual than sound.
If the following succeeds in catching your fancy, then you might be game for its pumped up remix of the same as well.
What happens when hip hop marries Hindi film music? A techno-savvy, zippy ditty –You’re in love — is born. The song wears a breezy and perky appearance courtesy the animated beats and vivacious performances from Shaan and Shweta Pandit. You’re my love has a racy remixed version too. We still prefer the original, thank you.
Dupatta tera nau rang da, a fast-paced Punjabi pop mix with its east-meets-west tenacity, is reminiscent of Just Chill (Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya) in texture and resonance. A harmless dance track, Dupatta may not exactly elevate your senses but doesn’t jar them either.
Brace yourself for another Punjabi punch with an electronic twist and retro appeal in Soni de nakhre. A seriously enjoyable number, crooned effectively by Labh Janjuwa — the man who earlier dished the catchy Tauba mein pyaar karke pachtaya in Pyaar Ke Side Effects).
Sonu Nigam [Images] tries to do a Ricky Martin [Images] with Maria Maria, an incredibly insipid tribute to the Latino sensation’s chartbuster of the same name. Maria’s cackling chorus and screeching arrangement makes for one noisy hearing that is best left skipped.
Entertaining in parts and average in others, the music of Partner is like a run-of-the-mill party: fun while it lasts, forgotten when over.
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iPhone to be deconstructed
Hundreds of developers to gather Sunday to dissect must-have device and create new programs for it.
Exactly one week after the debut of the iPhone, hundreds of developers and enthusiasts plan to huddle this weekend to work on and play with their new favorite toy.
From sundown today to Sunday at iPhoneDevCamp, or the iPhone Developers Camp, some 200 to 300 engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and iPhone owners will dissect, discuss and dream up new programs for the iPhone, Apple Inc.’s all-in-one cell phone, iPod and Internet tool.
The iPhone, Apple’s first step into the cell phone market, has been lauded as the gadget that will raise the bar for the industry, forcing rivals to produce better mobile phones and encouraging people to do more with their phones, from sending e-mails to watching movies.
Developers are hoping to tap into that potential this weekend.
“It’s a great example of a spontaneous community forming around really compelling technologies,” said Danese Cooper, Intel Corp.’s director of open-source strategies and a former Apple executive.
“People who say it is just a phone do not get it.”
Fueled by Red Bull, Kettle Chips and other donated, geek-appropriate nourishment, they will gather into the night at Adobe Systems Inc.’s San Francisco office with a loose schedule that includes discussions on the do’s and don’ts for creating mobile phone applications and a live autopsy of the iPhone.
Developers will also join in a Hack-a-Thon to produce new iPhone programs, which will be shared and judged — with prizes — by the end of the camp.
“Who knows what’s going to happen?” said William Hurley, one of the event’s organizers and the chief architect of open-source strategy at BMC Software Inc. “We’ll have the largest group of iPhone developers, enthusiasts and users in one room.”
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