The Doscos cover Goldspot’s ‘Friday,’ and Sid Khosla calls it his favorite cover yet. They split the voice parts with admirable efficiency: a posh kid sings the English, one in kurta-pajama has better Hindi, the little one covers tenor. And yet Goldspot collapses all those distinctions. Rajiv Gandhi was a Doon alumnus, but every preppie [...]

Photos from the South Asian Int’l Film Fest last week in Manhattan. Siddhartha Khosla of Goldspot did the soundtrack for Anuvab Pal’s film:

An early cut of my friend Anuvab Pal’s (Loins of Punjab) mockumentary The President is Coming is showing next week at SAIFF in Manhattan. Konkona Sen Sharma, Shernaz Patel (Black) and Ira Dubey, Lilette’s daughter, co-star. Most of the stage actors, who are uniformly hilarious, found roles in the film.
And guess who did the soundtrack? [...]

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He has Shah Rukh Khan’s title, Tamilian superstar Gemini Ganesan’s hair, Kannad cine and YouTube legend Rajkumar’s moustache. All hail King Khan, who with The Shrines (an eleven-piece [...]