Peony Hirwani

Barring a few flaws, the new docu-series on the Punjabi star tracks his rise and gives fans a rare look at his creativity
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“AP! AP! AP! AP!” the crowd yells as AP Dhillon appears on the screen. “So I had two options, one is give up and listen to their advice,” he says. “The second is to just do what my heart tells me to do.”
For artists who are sequestered and have a certain kind of enigma the way AP Dhillon, real name Amritpal Singh Dhillon, does, a behind-the-scenes docu-series is alway...

India’s live music industry is thriving, and it’s about time. After years of being snubbed by western pop acts, the country is experiencing a pivotal, post-pandemic boom, with fans flocking in their droves to witness international acts make their India debuts.
In the last two years alone, visits from Post Malone, Imagine Dragons, Rema and even the Backstreet Boys have energised India’s live music scene, with Indian promoters scrambling to stay on top of this sudden increase in demand.
And aft...

An Indian adaptation of a Spanish drama series exploring societal hierarchy in the intersection of caste, class and privilege among students in a fictional school set in the heart of capital Delhi has kicked up a buzz on social media.
Netflix India’s Cla$$, the Hindi adaptation of the hit Spanish series Elite, follows the lives of three working-class students – Neeraj, Sabha, and Balli – who win scholarships to attend one of New Delhi’s most prestigious schools.

The Indian edition of Lollapalooza took place over the weekend, with Imagine Dragons and The Strokes headlining the event.
The two-day music festival consisted of a lineup of many local and international acts, including AP Dhillon, Cigarettes After Sex, Divine, the F16s, Jackson Wang, Imanbek, Greta Van Fleet, The Wombats, and Diplo.

“I feel fucking inspired,” a man screamed in my face during Divine’s performance at the sold-out Mumbai leg of his 2021 Punya Paap tour. “This guy is a fucking king. He has changed the face of the Indian music industry.” Honestly, that man wasn’t wrong. One name that everyone in Mumbai knows is Vivian Wilson Fernandes, aka Divine, the rapper who spent most of his childhood dealing with trauma from living in the poorest parts of Mumbai, who is now “one of the best” rappers in the country.

In 100RBH’s home, a music career was not on the table. Growing up in a traditional Indian household, the aspiring rapper was instructed by his father to find a “respectable” job that would earn him a daily wage. But the 24-year-old, born Saurabh Abhyankar, had other ideas.

Indian Matchmaking star Nadia Jagessar has been named and shamed as a “heart breaker” and deemed “selfish” on social media ever since season two of the hit Netflix show aired on 10 August.

But now Nadia, who was searching for a life partner, wants to clear the air in a freewheeling conversation with The Independent and delve into how the show’s production team had a role in making it look like she was drawn into a love triangle.

This story contains some spoilers for Netflix’s Darlings.
Alia Bhatt’s new Bollywood film Darlings has sparked a debate on domestic violence in India.

It all started with a bar in Leeds. The perfect setting for any great love story, this is where Olympic gold-medalist Nicola Adams met her girlfriend Ella Baig for the first time. Baig had just been to a wedding, and Adams was celebrating a birthday. When they saw each other, Baig had no idea who Adams was. “It was awesome,” the boxer tells The Independent. “I knew Ella liked me for me and not because of who I was.”
Four years after that fateful meeting, and the couple are now expecting a bab...

When Jimmy Fallon played Yung Raja’s airhorn-blasting single “Mami” on his show, not everyone was happy. Clips from the 2021 episode show the late-night host bouncing up and down to the sizzling trap song, while the Singaporean-Tamil rapper repeats the hook: “Mami, mami, mami, mami, mami, mami...” Fans accused Fallon of trying to make Raja look like a “lazy songwriter” by deliberately omitting the intricate and playful lyrics in each verse, which serve as nods to his culture. “She the type to...

Hannah Foster has always had a flair for musical theatre. As a full-time primary school teacher, she loves to choreograph dance routines and facilitate arts and craft activities for kids at special events. However, with the Queen’s platinum jubilee on the horizon, the Middlesex-based teacher finally saw a chance to utilise her talents in other ways.

Sri Lankan rapper Sahan Isuranga, widely known as DrBSKing, has not been able to run his studio in the past two months and his earnings have taken a hit. The rapper is among hundreds from Sri Lanka’s vibrant community of creative artsists driven to despair as the country remains mired in deep economic and political crisis.

A new Bollywood film that attempts to chronicle the harsh yet empowering, real-life journey of a sex worker who emerged as the undisputed madame of India’s second-largest red-light area, falls short in its portrayal of sex workers, say experts.

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The nation’s forty-four million citizens were confronted with tanks, airstrikes, and the fear of Russian forces closing in on their communities. As world leaders condemned Putin, he placed Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces on high alert, causing major trepidation throughout the world.

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