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Reshammiya rocks New Jersey
31st July 2006 18.00 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau

Bollywood music composer, singer Himesh Reshammiya is currently touring the United States.

In the first leg of the tour, Reshammiya performed at a three-hour concert show, called ‘Aapka Suroor Live’, in New Jersey on Saturday. The Sovereign Bank Arena was filled with thousands of NRIs, and some Americans, who had gathered to hear the maverick composer belt out some of his favourite songs from Bollywood movies and his private album ‘Suroor’.

The concert featured Reshammiya along with other Bollywood singers including Alisha Chinai , Abhijeet Sawant, Himani Kapoor and Vinit Singh. Actress Udita Goswami danced to the songs along with a small troupe of performers.

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Reshammiya concert has New Jersey crowd enthralled
Sunday, July 30th, 2006

New Jersey – Indian composer-singer Himesh Reshammiya held a crowd of a few thousand spellbound, belting out some of his popular numbers including the qawwali ‘Aapka suroor’, during a show in New Jersey.

Reshammiya, with trademark baseball cap in place, filled the Sovereign Bank Arena with his sonorous voice on a sultry, hot summer Saturday evening in the southern New Jersey town on the first leg of his US concert.

The three-hour concert show, called ‘Aapka Suroor Live’, featured other well known Bollywood singers Alisha Chinai, Abhijeet Sawant, Himani Kapoor, Vinit Singh and actress Udita Goswami.

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Q: What do you think of Himesh Reshammiya’s music?
A: He fills a lacuna in Hindi film music, just like Nadeem earlier on. He’s trying to mix a lot of genres. People like his music. It’s good. There’re audiences for large genres of films. And he’s doing a good job.

Q: Himesh says he won’t sing for any outside composer except you.
A: I’m flattered.

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Here’s another accomplishment for the musical rage Himesh Reshammiya, who is storming Indian Territory with his music and rendition. Now he spreads his wings to make a flight towards west too. He goes on his first world tour covering18 cities. Recently he had been to Dubai for a concert but a world tour is happening to him not until now.

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Though he recently held a rousing concert in Dubai, for all practical purposes, Himesh left on the night of July 25 for his first world tour.

“We’ll be covering 18 cities in approximately 45 days. It’s taken me and my troupe six months of preparations. All I can promise at this stage is a spectacular concert in all the US and Canadian cities where we’ll perform.”

This latest Bollywood concert-tour abroad is expected to dispel the notion that the best times for Mumbai’s entertainers out West are over.

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Himesh Goes West
Faridoon Shahryar, IndiaGlitz [Thursday, July 27, 2006]

The Man-with-the-cap is off to USA for a forty five day tour of USA and Canada. The tour is called ‘Aap Ka Suroor’ (His private album is named the same) and this concert tour is said to be the most expensive endeavour any music director or singer has ever undertaken. Maestro A R Rahman is also touring USA around the same time and Reshammiya is reportedly getting the same price as the genius from down south.

The singer-composer riding on an amazing high will be having the likes of Alisha Chinai, Abhijeet Sawant, the Sa Re Ga Ma protégé Vineet, Himani (Another Sa Re Ga Ma contestant), Udita Goswami and others.

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Dino rubbishes rumours of rift with Reshammiya
Subhash K. Jha [Thursday, July 27, 2006]

Mumbai, July 28 (IANS) The music world is abuzz with rumours that composer Himesh Reshammiya has decided to “boycott” Dino Morea, but the actor denies it and says they are good friends.

“How can a music director boycott an actor? People have fertile imaginations. Me? I’d rather be fertile in more productive ways. I have no patience with such rubbish. Himesh has denied it. Himesh and I are friends,” Dino told IANS.

“Even before this super-successful phase started in his career, he gave super-yummy music in ‘Ishq Hai Tumse’ for Bipasha and me. Himesh is doing music in three of my forthcoming films — one to be directed by Pavan Kaul and two by Ananth Mahadevan,” said Dino.

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It’s raining Reshammiya this August!
By MIO Team
Jul 26, 2006, 01:41

Himesh Reshammiya is once again doing something record breaking! In this month of August itself he is gearing for five releases in a row. Can you imagine that? After rendering one hit after another album every now and then, he is all set to own the month of August to his name. But critics feel that it’s time that Himesh takes it slow. He has been working round the clock completing the ventures one after another and the tiredness is getting reflected through his work. That’s the reason his work is having lesser impact than it had 2-3 months back.

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Life comes back full circle for the makers of ‘Aashiq Banaya Aapne’ as the same team returns with ‘Dil Diya Hai’. Producer Balabhai Patel, director Aaditya Dutt, actor Emraan Hashmi, lyricist Sameer and above all composer Himesh Reshammiya, who held the mike for the first time in ABA and since then neither he nor the music company has looked back. The film stars new find Geeta Basra as the sole heroine along with Ashmit Patel and Mithun Chakravorty. In company of lyricist Sameer and DJ Akbar Sami, Himesh Reshammiya promises to churn out yet another string of hit tunes, that come in a rather standardized format of six tracks and remixes for each of them!

The question on everyone’s lips is – “Will the magic of ‘Aashiq Banaya Aapne’ be repeated with ‘Dil Diya Hai’”? Well, after hearing the album one feels that it doesn’t really happen in it’s entirety but still there are certain songs that would keep the listener interested in the album!

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Besides acting, Akshaye Khanna does seem to have a talent for singing.

Reports have it that Akshaye has lent his vocal chords for movie Aap Ki Khatir . The film is a romantic comedy in which Akshaye is paired opposite Priyanka Chopra .

Akshaye recently recorded a ‘Nazm’ which happens to be the title track of the movie. The couplet sung by Akshaye has been composed by Himesh Reshammiya and written by Sameer.

The ‘Nazm’ in the song bears resemblance to the yesteryear romantic hit ‘Kabhi Kabhi’ rendered by Amitabh Bachchan .

Reshammiya is quoted in a report: “Sameerji’s poetry in the song is phenomenal. And Akshaye has got this quality in his voice, which is deep and soothing. Instinctively, I felt that we could use his voice. It’s sure to touch a chord with his female fans and it will be a surefire hit among the girls”.

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