Arjun Sapkota releases new Teej song
Singer Arjun Sapkota has released a new song titled ‘K Janmiye Khai?’ The song, launched on Thursday evening to mark the Teej festival, is a lighthearted track performed in Sapkota’s solo vocals. He has also acted and danced in the music video alongside Shibu Pandey, Kabita Neupane, Dipa Simkhada, Juna Bishwakarma, Dipa Shahi, and Rekisha Khatri.
It has gained over 230k views to date.
The lyrics were penned by Sapkota and Hari Giri Bimarshi, with music composed by Sapkota himself and arranged by HBN Kismat. The video was directed by Mausam Himali, shot by Dinesh Parajuli and team, and edited by Milan Bishwakarma.
This is Sapkota’s first official release in nine months, following his previous song ‘Dukha Satmala’.
KPop Demon Hunters goes Golden on Billboard with chart-topping hit
Golden, the breakout song from animated film KPop Demon Hunters, has clinched the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 - bagging yet another record for the Netflix summer flick, BBC reported.
The film, about K-pop girl band Huntr/x who uses music to protect humans from demons, has become Netflix's most-watched animated film since its release in June.
It is the ninth song associated with K-pop to take the top spot on the Hot 100 - and the first by female singers.
The upbeat hit clocked nearly 32 million official streams in the first week of August, according to Billboard, according to BBC.
Filming of ‘Parivartan’ completed
The principal shooting of the Nepali movie Parivartan has been completed in 56 days, according to producer Deepak Siwakoti. Except for two songs—a patriotic number and a folk song—filming of all other scenes concluded on Monday. The movie has been filmed in various locations across Jhapa district, including Buddhashanti Rural Municipality, Kachankawal Rural Municipality, Bhadrapur Municipality, Arjundhara Municipality, Kankai Municipality, Birtamod, and Mechinagar Municipality, as well as in the eastern city of Biratnagar.
Directed by Bijay Kerung, the film features actor Sushil Shrestha and actress Anjana Baraili in lead roles. The cast also includes Gautam Tiwari Suryavanshi, Buddhi Tamang, Karishma Manandhar, Asha Paudel, Subash Meche, Pukar Bhattarai, Hemant Budhathoki, Ayesha Karki, Sagar Kharel, Raju Kharel, Krishna Koirala, Subash Kharel, Kalpana Khatiwada, Shankar Shrestha, Rohan Century, and Yamnath Kharel, among others.
Produced under the banner of Divyasi Films Pvt Ltd, Parivartan is said to center around themes of border security, corruption, and the struggles of underprivileged and marginalized communities in Nepal.
Producer Siwakoti has also written the story, while the screenplay and dialogues have been penned by Shivam Adhikari. Other members of the production team include Arun Regmi (Production Head), Shiva Dhakal (Director of Photography), Bande Prasad (Editor), Shri Shrestha (Action Director), Sajan Bastakoti (Assistant Producer), Navaraj Sharma (Chief Assistant Director), Bishwo Jung Shahi and Nishan Subba (Assistant Directors), and Royal Bhimsen and Trident Concept (Poster and Promotional Design).
A former Rolling Stone says the Met has his stolen guitar. The museum disputes it
It’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s messy.
A guitar once played by two members of the Rolling Stones is at the center of a dispute between the band’s former guitarist Mick Taylor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The 1959 Gibson Les Paul was donated to the Met as part of what the New York museum calls “a landmark gift of more than 500 of the finest guitars from the golden age of American guitar making.” The donor is Dirk Ziff, a billionaire investor and guitar collector, Associated Press reported.
When the Met announced the gift in May, Taylor thought he recognized the guitar, with its distinctive “starburst” finish, as an instrument he last saw in 1971, when the Stones were recording the album “Exile on Main St.” at Keith Richards’ rented villa in the south of France.
In the haze of drugs and rock ‘n’ roll that pervaded the sessions, a number of instruments went missing, believed stolen, according to Associated Press.