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The famous writer Abhilash has died at the age of 74. Actually Abhilash was suffering from stomach related disease. He also underwent a stomach operation a few months ...
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28 Sep 2020
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BY MCAI The famous writer Abhilash has died at the age of 74. Actually Abhilash was suffering from stomach related disease. He also underwent a stomach operation a few months ...
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25 Sep 2020
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BY MCAI The legendary singer, who was hospitalised in August after testing positive for COVID-19, died on Friday afternoon at a private...
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12 Sep 2020
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BY MCAI disturbing with number of deaths that has been happening owing to the ongoing crisis or other reasons. There are many popular celebs who also passed away in the last f...
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07 Sep 2020
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BY MCAI Music composer S. Mohinder passed away today (6th September) in Bombay. He was 95 years old. His full name was Mohinder Singh Sarna Bakshi. When he escaped from Pakist...
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24 Aug 2020
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BY MCAI I & B minister Prakash Javadekar has released guiding principles and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to contain spread of COVID-19 during shootings. The docum...
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17 Aug 2020
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BY MCAI Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj has passed away at the age of 90. Pandit Jasraj breathed his last in New Jersey, the United States. The news of In...
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15 Aug 2020
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BY MCAI On the occasion of the 74th Independence Day, The Music Composers Association of India (MCAI) is set to gift the nation a new rendition of the Indian national song Van...
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11 Aug 2020
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BY MCAI Indore: Noted Urdu poet Rahat Indori, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, died due to the viral infection in Madhya Prades...
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08 Aug 2020
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BY MCAI Ram Sampath, who has given music for films like Fukrey (2013) and Delhi Belly (2011), opens up about favouritism in the industry and how only a select few have the fin...
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29 Jul 2020
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BY MCAI Universal Pictures, in a deal with AMC theatres, will release the titles they want on Premium Video on Demand (PVoD) after just 17 days of a movie being in theatres. ...
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25 Jul 2020
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BY MCAI In my last column, I briefly mentioned how Indian independent music promoters’ attempts to monetise livestreamed concerts had been made more diffi...
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22 Jul 2020
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BY MCAI Netflix today (16th July) announced a line-up of six new films across genres, and two new series. The new films which will premiere on Netflix in the coming weeks are&...
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22 Jul 2020
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BY MCAI ShemarooMe announced the launch of ‘ShemarooMe Box Office’, a platform that will stream films. ShemarooMe Box Office has been designed to create an ecosyst...
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20 Jul 2020
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BY MCAI The Indian Performing Rights Society Limited announced today that they have reached an agreement with Facebook to license its music repertoire for video and other soci...
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03 Jul 2020
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BY MCAI Saroj Khan, the National Award winning choreographer, passed away in Mumbai today. Saroj’s daughter Sukaina Khan confirmed the news to indianexpress.comSaroj Kha...
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30 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Composer and Singer Sangeeta Pant's festive song 'Holi Aayi Re' has got selected in the ‘Outdoor Video Song’ Category in the London Music Festival....
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25 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Sushant Singh Rajput’s untimely death by suicide has shaken up B...
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18 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI https://youtu.be/6quaeSLCfV4 ...
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16 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found hanging in his Bandra residence on Sunday, sending shockwaves through the Hindi film industry and the country. His fans are asking...
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18 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Javed Akhtar recently won the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award 2020 for critical thinking, holding religious dogma upto scrutiny, advancing human progr...
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04 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Veteran film director Basu Chatterjee passed away today (4th June) in Bombay due to age-related issues. He was 90. Basu-da, as he was respectful...
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04 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Bhojpuri film industry lost one of its popular music directors today as ...
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03 Jun 2020
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BY MCAI Veteran lyricist Anwar Sagar passed away on Wednesday. Anwar wrote many popular songs in the 80s and 90s. He wrote the lyrics of the song “Waada Raha San...
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29 May 2020
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BY MCAI Veteran lyricist Yogesh Gaur, known as Yogesh in the film industry, passed away on Friday. He was 77. Yogesh wrote the lyrics of hit songs “Kahin duur ja...
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29 May 2020
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BY MCAI The Producers’ Guild of India on 25th May issued a set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the resumption of shootings in Maharashtra. Thi...
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29 May 2020
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BY MCAI The Bombay high court on 26th May refrained two FM radio channels, Radio Mirchi and Ishq 104.8 FM, from broadcasting songs owned by Tips ...
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29 May 2020
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BY MCAI The Karnataka government is all set to reopen malls and cinemas after 31st May when lockdown 4 ends, provided it gets the green signal from the Centre. Cinemas all ove...
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01 May 2020
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BY MCAI Kulmeet Makkar, CEO, Producers Guild of India (PGI), died on Friday morning. He was 60. Makkar suffered a massive heart attack and passed away in Dharamsala, P...
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01 Jan 1970
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BY MCAI Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor died at 67, a day after another veteran, Irrfan Khan, died New Delhi: Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor's death a day after another Bollywo...
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20 Apr 2020
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BY MCAI Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar on Tuesday paid tributes to Dr BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary. The 90-year-old singer took to Twitter to extend her gree...
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21 Apr 2020
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BY MCAI Music composer and singer Jasleen Royal points at the fact that there are few female composers in the Indian music industry. "I want to see more women in key r...
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23 May 2020
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BY MCAI The Pandit Corona Show-2. 24th May, 2020, 7:15 pm-IST https://www.show4me.com/campaign/the_pandit_corona_show_2_1589894785 Greetings dear...
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19 Apr 2020
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BY MCAI The coronavirus outbreak has brought the global entertainment industry to a standstill, but veteran singer Asha Bhosle says she is hopeful that once normalcy returns s...
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12 Apr 2020
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BY MCAI Popular lyricist Sameer Anjaan is miffed with the trend of recreations as the original writers and composers are never duly credited in the new versions, an act, he sa...
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31 Mar 2020
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BY MCAI Facebook is a well-known social media platform where people can upload their photos, videos and share their status with other Facebook us...
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31 Mar 2020
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BY MCAI Kanika Kapoor has tested positive for Covid-19 after a fifth test was conducted at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIM...
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20 Feb 2020
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BY MCAI The star-studded musical night which is also India’s biggest musical extravaganza, the ...
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31 Mar 2020
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BY MCAI Music director A R Rahman on Monday welcomed the changes made to the draft National Education Policy saying the alteration will enable students to choo...
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16 Feb 2020
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BY MCAI GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR ANOTHER LAST MINUTE STAKEHOLDER MEETING TO DISCUSS ISSUES PERTAINING TO COPYRIGHT By Anushree Rauta -February 16, 20200153 ...
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09 Feb 2020
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BY MCAI The Filmfare awards are held every year to honour and celebrate the finest talents of Bollywood. This year, the 65th Filmfare Awards were held at Guwahati, Assam on th...
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14 Feb 2020
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BY MCAI Adnan Sami is overjoyed about receiving the Padma Shri award by the Indian government this Republic Day, despite the criticism surrounding his win....
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12 Feb 2020
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BY MCAI The Icelandic composer has now secured three-quarters of an EGOT in less than five months. Hildur Guðnadóttir...
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30 Jan 2020
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BY MCAI Love them or hate them, the current trend of remixing classic Bollywood hits has music lovers divided. According to Himesh Reshammiya, he believes the ...
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30 Jan 2020
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BY MCAI Yash Raj Films Pvt Ltd (YRF) has moved the Bombay High Court against IPRS in relation to the royalties dispute. YRF has sought to quash a criminal case of breach of tr...
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25 Jan 2020
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BY MCAI MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS PRESS NOTE North Block, New Delhi-1 Dated the 25th January, 2020 Padma Awards - one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferr...
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20 Jan 2020
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BY MCAI Currently in its 60th year, the Screenwriters Association (SWA) aims to help members decode the confusing legalese that constitutes the first contract they are made to...
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20 Jan 2020
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BY MCAI The National Commission for Women (NCW) has closed the case of sexual harassment filed against Anu Malik. Several women including singers Sona Mohapatra, Shweta Pandit...
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02 Jan 2020
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BY MCAI The last week of 2019 saw some action from the Government’s end on an otherwise neglected sector. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry through Departmen...
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25 Dec 2019
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BY MCAI Amit Khanna’s book – Words, Sounds, Images – was released amidst fanfare on 20th December at Mehboob Studios in Bom...
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26 Dec 2019
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BY MCAI Whistling Woods International this week signed MoUs with 18 universities of India after the Human Resource Development minister, Dr. Ramesh Pokhrial, introduced media ...
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30 Dec 2019
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BY MCAI Vice president M. Venkaiah Naidu presented the National Film Awards to all the winners on 23rd December at a function in New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, he said t...
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31 Dec 2019
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BY MCAI The Bombay high court has restrained over 600 hotels, restaurants and pubs from playing songs that have a copyright, during New Year eve celebrations, without obtainin...
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31 Dec 2019
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BY MCAI Watching the same film over and over again or listening to the same song repeatedly could help people suffering from dementia, according to an NHS director. Prof. Alis...
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19 Oct 2019
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BY MCAI The International Film Festival of India this year will celebrate completion of 50 years. To be held in Goa from November 20 to 28, it is being planned on a massive sc...
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19 Oct 2019
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BY MCAI The Mumbai Film Festival (MAMI) was inaugurated on 17th October in Bombay at Rangmandir at the hands of Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis....
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20 Oct 2019
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BY MCAI Winners Source: Iifa.com Complete Story & Pics https://www.iifa...
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27 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI She is all of 22 and singer-songwriter and soul pop sensation from Switzerland, ...
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19 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI After discovering that veteran music composer Vanraj Bhatia suffering from health issues and claiming to be penniless, the Indian Performing Right Socie...
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17 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI Friends, admirers start raising funds for Vanraj Bhatia’s medical care. Alone and penniless, top composer, 92, lives isolated and bed...
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04 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI Why should urban audiences have all the fun? That seems to be the thought behind EPIQ, India’s largest screen, which was launched at Sullurpet on ...
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03 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI Bollywood music fraternity is still reeling from the shock after hearing the sad news that ace cine-musician guitarist-arranger Ramesh Iyer ‘passed away&rs...
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03 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI “For us to get to the top ten, we’ve got to double our revenues, we’re at $150 million, we’ve got to get to $300 million,”...
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04 Sep 2019
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BY MCAI It was an evening to cherish. New singers Ishaan Khan, Abhishek, Satwinder and Jatin regaled a select media gathering on 25th August at a cosy villa at Santacruz in Bo...
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26 Aug 2019
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BY MCAI Mumbai: Leading singers, writers and musicians from the Hindi film industry gathered to celebrate the memory of composer Khayyam at Model Town, Andheri Friday. The 92-...
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20 Aug 2019
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BY MCAI Legendary music director-composer Khayyam famed for his compositions in films like Kabhie Kabhie and Umrao Jaan breathed his last at the age of 92 on Monday at a hospi...
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12 Aug 2019
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BY MCAI 6th National Awards took place in New Delhi on Friday. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movie Padmaavat, which went through a lot of controversies before its release,...
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29 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI Over the last few years, artists have become more aware about their right to royalties. In our earlier article we explained about how the ...
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24 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI Music publishing has been largely unexplored in India. Artists and music labels turned a blind eye to this critical aspect of the music business for a l...
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24 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI Sameer Anjaan takes us by surprise when he reveals that in his almost four-decade-long career, the closest that he came to penning a patriotic song was with Suno Gaur ...
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23 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI Kaala chashma, Humma humma and Tamma Tamma Loge have two things in common -- they have all been recreated and Badshah has played an integral part in the new versions o...
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17 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI The music industry has changed quite a bit over the last couple of decades, all thanks to new technology. With the rise of affordable mobile internet, audio streaming ...
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17 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI Mumbai: The first day of Music Inc, a music conference organised by Loudest.in, saw many artists, music composers, sound designers and recordists...
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18 Jul 2019
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BY MCAI Sonu Nigam has always been one of Bollywood much loved singers. However, he isn’t heard so much in today’s times. He has finally opened up ...
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05 Jun 2019
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BY MCAI Ilaiyaraaja wins copyright battle For scores of fans of the much-celebrated ...
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03 Jun 2019
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BY MCAI One of India’s leading pop-rock bands, Sanam, known for their Bollywood covers, has launched their very own anthem – Way O, Wa...
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03 Jun 2019
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BY MCAI Anil Ambani's Reliance Broadcast Network has sold Big 92.7 FM Radio to Jagran Prakashan-owned Music Broadcast Ltd (MBL) for an estimated value of Rs 1,200 crore, an of...
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31 May 2019
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BY MCAI The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS), India’s only registered copyright society for authors (lyricists), music composers and music publishers was declared ...
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23 Mar 2019
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BY MCAI WINNERS OF THE FILMFARE AWARDS 2019 Winners of the 64th Filmfare Awards were announced at Jio Garden, BKC, Mumbai on 23rd March 2019. Here's the comple...
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08 Mar 2019
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BY MCAI Veteran lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar has been conferred with an honorary doctorate by the Jamia Hamdard University. His wife and actress Shabana Azmi tweeted...
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07 Mar 2019
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BY MCAI When Richard Clayderman and ...
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06 Mar 2019
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BY MCAI Upset over the remixed version of his 1978 song 'Mungda', ...
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19 Feb 2019
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BY MCAI The 11th Mirchi Music Awards, presented by the Radio Mirchi, h...
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22 Feb 2019
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BY MCAI Veteran film producer Raj Kumar Barjatya of Rajshri Films has died in Mumbai, on Feb 21st, 2019 morning. Father of filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya and son of founder R...
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12 Feb 2019
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BY MCAI Music maestro late Bhupen Hazarika, former President Pranab Mukherjee and Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader late Nanaji Deshmukh were on Friday conferred the country’s...
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01 Feb 2019
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BY MCAI Dear All of us who are IPRS members, pls send a mail to IPRS data team. Mail ID: ...
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20 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI Surender Sodhi (often credited as Surendra Sodhi) is one of the finest Indian film score composers who has composed background scores for notable Hindi films like Deew...
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18 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI The Star Screen Awards 2018, which was held in Mumbai on Sunday, 16th Dec 2018, saw a host of Bollywood A-listers in attendance. Salman Khan, Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh...
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17 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI IPRS chairman Javed Akhtar spoke to G.C. Shekhar over Ilaiyaraaja's recent remarks that the he needed to be paid royalties for public performance of his songs. "It...
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11 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI Composer Lalit Pandit has brought together multiple singers, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ wife Amruta Fadnavis, for his new song Hum h...
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12 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI Whether it’s the groovy and thumping beats of Hard Hard or the intense Har Har Gange sung by Arijit Singh, Batti Gul Meter Chalu’s music ...
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11 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI The Asia-Pacific Music Alliance, a continental alliance of CIAM, held its second General Assembly on November 14th. Taking place during the CISAC and organised Cr...
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03 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI The distribution of Rs 13 cr as synchronisation royalty dues by Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) was a big breakthrough for Bollywood. Talking to BT, chairperso...
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10 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI THE INDIAN PERFORMING RIGHT SOCIETY LIMITED (IPRS ) INVITATION TO MEMBERS TO NOMINATE CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION OF DIRECTORS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF In view...
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03 Dec 2018
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BY MCAI NEW DELHI: A group representing composers, lyricists and music publishers has initiated the process of seeking royalties from Indian telecom companies and platforms su...
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10 Oct 2018
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BY MCAI Welcome to the website of the Music Composers Association of India. We are a group of composers and supportive organisations, whose aim is to represent India’s c...
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10 Oct 2018
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BY MCAI We have a lot of plans in the pipeline such as a legal cell, periodicals, workshops, medical aid, insurance and much more. Our aim is to provide the best possi...
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11 Oct 2018
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BY MCAI The MCAI is an organisation that comprises of a wide gamut of music composers, with stalwarts and legends of the music industry on one s...
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29 Aug 2018
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BY MCAI In the last decade or so, we have been fortunate enough to witness a steady rise in the number of aspiring indie musicians, especially because of the wide range of soc...
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20 Sep 2018
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BY MCAI MCAI is proud to associate yet again with All About Music, which conducted the second edition of its trademark event. The 2-day affair was held in Mum...
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