Fahmim Ferdous

During a recent trip to Xi'an (in Shaanxi province) on invitation from China Daily, the country's leading English newspaper – I came

Ayub Bachchu, one of the most prominent guitarists of the country, has been an avid practitioner of blues music for a long time. A few years ago, he started his project AB Blues Club on the sidelines of his band LRB. At this year's Jazz & Blues Festival – to be held from November 5-7 at the Army Museum field – AB Blues Club is the biggest name from Bangladesh. The veteran spoke to The Daily Star on the festival yesterday.

“Hello, is it me you're looking for?” It was Lionel Ritchie who sort of trademarked that song title, with his 1984 single that became an all-time ...

Tonmoy Tansen's second directorial venture, “Runout”, has been in the making for a while now, with the film's soundtrack album released over a ...

A day after Salman Khan shared the first teaser of his upcoming movie “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo” (“PRDP”), the grandiose first trailer for the film was released yesterday on YouTube.

At Unilever's launch of new shampoo brand TRESemmé, after the audience had been applauding rather absent-mindedly through some lovely musical

It’s not too often that tickets for a theatre play run out six days before the staging in Bangladesh, but for the penultimate day’s showing of the Ganga Jamuna Theatre and Cultural Festival at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Friday, it was the least of surprises.

Srijit Mukherji has made a big name for himself in a rather short time, with films like “Autograph”, “Baishe Srabon”, “Hemlock Society”,

The trailer for the historical drama Rajkahini set against the backdrop of the Partition looks power-packed and quite edge-of-the-seat.

There aren't too many occasions in a year when almost the entire nation goes on a three-day vacation at once. The two Eids are, therefore, the time for many to connect with family to lay back and enjoy.

As a child I was amazed by my father's ability to juggle two careers — acting and civil engineering. Abbu (Abul Hayat) would take me to his workplaces; engineering sites, rehearsal rooms, recordings and shootings.

“I have tried many things in my life, and failed in most of them. Art gallery, film, a restaurant … but it was with the musicians of Bangladesh when I first felt I could do this,”

From all the way across continents, Concerts Norway -- an organisation that started on its own to promote live music in their country

“I have been in the music industry for 30 years now, and in that time, I have practically seen the industry be born, grow, and then go

As I sat at the International Convention City Bashundhara amid building anticipation and flashy lights, the man next to kept pulling out a suspicious-looking white paper bag from his pocket, and

Tagore first crossed the 'kalapani' (the ocean, crossing which was considered inauspicious by Hindus) in 1878 for higher studies to London via Paris, and stayed there for a year and a half (September 1878-February 1880).

If Satyajit Ray were still alive, he would be 94 this Saturday. He would very likely still be writing, if not directing and composing. A new

Vin Diesel has been known to get attached to his projects.

Pahela Baishakh, since the nineties, has had a boom – in terms of participation, grandeur, outreach and possibly 'urbanisation' of the festival.

Rock music is often dismissed by the more serious practitioners of music in our country as noisy, purposeless music alienated from our culture and society.