Claim: Abida Parveen released a new song ‘O Mere Maula’ in collaboration with the Indian duo Salim and Sulaiman
Fact: ‘O Mere Maula’ is a new rendition of Abida Parveen’s 2016 song called ‘Noor e Elahi’
Legendary Sufi singer, Abida Parveen’s song, “O Mere Maula in the collaboration with Indian musician/singer brother duo Salim-Sulaiman has gone viral across the border. It was uploaded on April 9 and gained over 300,000 views on YouTube. It is currently trending on YouTube.
Bollywood actor, Pankaj Tripathi is also featured in the Music Video. He is known for popular roles in films, Mimi, Mirzapur, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Stree, Gangs of Wasseypur,andSacred Games.
The video is shot in three world cities of Mumbai, Toronto, and Islamabad. However, this song was actually released on Jul 5, 2016, with the song titled, Noor E Ilahi which is an earlier upload of the same music video, surpassing 19,000,000 views till now.
Netflix India has announced that it would release 41 shows and films in India this year, calling the move its “next big leap” in the world’s second-most populous nation India, where video streaming services have become more popular.
According to details, Netflix’s new roster includes 41 titles featuring Bollywood actors, stand-up comedy shows and original series. Most shows will be in the Hindi language.
The upcoming content will feature top Bollywood actors including Madhuri Dixit, Kartik Aryan, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, Manoj Bajpayee, R. Madhavan, and Raveena Tandon.
“We are taking our next big leap in India,” said Netflix while announcing the news, adding that the upcoming lineup “features more variety and diversity than we have seen before”.
India, whose Bollywood film industry makes more productions each year than Hollywood, remains a challenging market for the streaming services.
Amazon’s Prime Video has become embroiled in legal cases and police complaints over a political drama Tandav deemed offensive to Hindu religious sentiments. The streaming platform apologised to viewers over some scenes.
Earlier this year, Netflix announcedthat it will release more than 70 movies this year across comedy, drama, family and other genres, a lineup that underscores the streaming service’s growing prominence in the film business. It added that it plans to release a new movie every week for the entire year of 2021.
The much-awaited second season of Netflix’s Sacred Games was
dropped on Indian Independence Day, and if you want us to save you some time…
we’re disappointed.
It isn’t easy to be divided between watching Ganesh Gaitonde
(Nawazuddin Siddiqui) back in action and sticking to the idea of shunning Indian
productions at a time when Pakistan and India aren’t the best of friends.
However, having watched the eight-episode series, we can
guarantee that you won’t miss out on anything as great as the first season, in
case you’re planning not to watch it.
Expanding beyond the novel by Vikram Chandra, the second season has left us disillusioned of Anurag Kashyap and co.’s ability to do wonders.
To quickly recap the first season, because Netflix won’t, Sacred Games is one drawn-out game of cat-and-mouse between notorious Mumbai gangster Gaitonde and his chosen police mark, Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan), trying to figure out the former’s dastardly (and as-yet-unknown) plans set in motion.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
The second picks up halfway through the 25 days left to save
Mumbai from uncertain calamity. Singh dives back into the investigation,
following a trail that points to nuclear weapons, terrorism and Gaitonde’s link
to Khanna Guruji (Pankaj Tripathi).
Gaitonde, still narrating to Singh but actually to us, calls Guruji his third father, to whom he and so many others are drawn like moths to a flame.
But, as one could’ve imagined (keeping in view flashbacks and
those mysterious mandalas from the first season), the ashram is actually a cult
and its leaders the liaisons between Gaitonde’s drug trade and the weapons
Singh suspects will be used to attack Mumbai over a decade later.
Just after the new twists are registered – and half the season is gone – one starts waiting for things to get as interesting as promised by cast members time and again. You start looking forward to something big enough for the season to beat its predecessor… and in all honesty, to make sense.
It isn’t later you realise that Sacred Games has successfully
pulled a Game of Thrones and disappointed you more than Gaitonde was upon realising
how Guruji deceived him as a pawn, for his own plans to create a “new world”.
All this remains the tip of a story lost somewhere between
juggling too many balls – crowing Singh as the hero, unnecessary exaggeration,
Pakistan being portrayed as the villain, gang wars, Soviet-Afghan War, 9/11 and
26/11 attacks and so much more.
Without spoiling the not-so-much a cliffhanger finale, it’s safe to say that both Gaitonde and the show might have lost the legacy which followers strived to honour after the first season (and we don’t really mind).
