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So there will be a few bright sparks in the fiasco for posterity. Just when everybody heard The Mall go blub blub blub, it comes up with a flash in the pan in the form of the Seagram's Mega Music concert featuring some of today's most well known names in indi-pop.
Take Kishore Kumar and Rafi and lace up their dancin' shoes, and you'll get Neeraj Sreedhar of Bombay Vikings in tow with his box of beats as he remixes old classics and churns out hits in the form of Kya Surat Hai, Mona Re etc. Indian-born, Stockholm-raised Neeraj had the crowd in a frenzy as he belted out tunes from his two mega selling albums. He started off with some okay numbers for which the crowd had a comme ci comme ca response, but when he screeched out Woh Chali, it was a different story altogether.
Keeping up the tempo for about an hour, he gave way to up and coming (and almost going down) star Mika. About him, the lesser said the better. With credentials that read "autowallah attitude, Daler Mehndi's brother", a nasal voice which can hardly be described soulful, and a couple of songs best suited to some dhuadaar dhaba on the Jalander-Timbuktoo highway, he actually had the crowds quite thrilled. But I'm the snoot here. With stuff from his latest album 'Gabru' (don't ask me
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