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99-447: Shivaay is a 2016 Indian Hindi -language action thriller film directed and produced by Ajay Devgn under his banner Ajay Devgn Films from a story written by Sandeep Shrivastava. The film stars Ajay Devgn in the title role along with debutante actresses Sayyeshaa , Abigail Eames and Erika Kaar in lead roles. Mithoon composed the film's score and soundtrack. British band The Vamps and composer Jasleen Royal also contributed to
198-529: A Bulgarian tourist, from an avalanche , and they eventually fall in love. Olga becomes pregnant but does not want the child. Shivaay begs her to give him the child, after which he says he will not stop her. Nine years later, Shivaay leads a happy life with his mute daughter Gaura until she discovers that Olga is still alive and in Bulgaria. Gaura insists Shivaay take her to Bulgaria. Despite his old sorrows, Shivaay finally agrees to take her to Bulgaria, where he saves
297-530: A Punjabi Sikh father and Aditi Singh, a Bengali Hindu mother. His paternal family came from Lahore during the Partition . He began his music training at a very young age at home. His maternal aunt trained in Indian classical music , and his maternal grandmother used to sing. His maternal uncle played the tabla , and his mother also sang and played the tabla. He studied at Raja Bijay Singh High School and later at
396-411: A music producer and began composing music and singing pieces for advertisements, news channels and radio stations. Singh spent a part of his early musical career as a music programmer and music producer for music directors such as Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy , Vishal–Shekhar , Mithoon , Monty Sharma and Pritam . While working with other composers he supervised the vocals, and the chorus sections, but it
495-650: A blissful romantic track along with Chinmayi in May 2016, for the Tamil film 24 , featuring Suriya and Samantha . He sang " Naina " from Dangal at the end of 2016. In its review, Zee News wrote Arijit Singh's "Naina song from Dangal will touch your heart", and the Indian actor Varun Dhawan praised the song. In 2017, he sang for Shah Rukh Khan and performed a romantic duet with Harshdeep Kaur called " Zaalima ", composed by Pritam's JAM8 and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya from
594-573: A core vocabulary of native Prakrit and Sanskrit-derived words. However, Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and contains more direct tatsama Sanskrit -derived words than Urdu, whereas Urdu is written in the Perso-Arabic script and uses more Arabic and Persian loanwords compared to Hindi. Because of this, as well as the fact that the two registers share an identical grammar, a consensus of linguists consider them to be two standardised forms of
693-726: A duet with Antara Mitra , composed by Pritam Chakraborty and written by Manoj Yadav. Singh was the key vocalist on the Raaz Reboot soundtrack and sang "Lo Maan Liya" composed by Jeet Ganguly written by Kausar Munir from it. He also sang the haunting melody "Raaz Aakhein Teri" and "Yaad Hain Na" from the same film. He sang the duet " Dharkhaast " from the film, Shivaay with Sunidhi Chauhan , composed by Mithoon and lyrics penned by Sayeed Quadri . Daily News and Analysis in their review of song "Dharkhaast" commended Singh and Sunidhi's singing. As
792-570: A larger amount are still used in Urdu poetry written in the Devanagari script. Many words borrowed from Persian in turn were loanwords from Arabic (e.g. muśkil "difficult", havā "air", x(a)yāl "thought", kitāb "book"). Hindi also makes extensive use of loan translation ( calqueing ) and occasionally phono-semantic matching of English . Many Hindustani words were derived from Portuguese due to interaction with colonists and missionaries: Arijit Singh Arijit Singh (born 25 April 1987)
891-529: A literary language in the 19th century. Earliest examples could be found as Prēm Sāgar by Lallu Lal , Batiyāl Pachīsī of Sadal Misra, and Rānī Kētakī Kī Kahānī of Insha Allah Khan which were published in Devanagari script during the early 19th century. John Gilchrist was principally known for his study of the Hindustani language , which was adopted as the lingua franca of northern India (including what
990-523: A medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages. It
1089-410: A part of the process of Sanskritisation , new words are coined using Sanskrit components to be used as replacements for supposedly foreign vocabulary. Usually these neologisms are calques of English words already adopted into spoken Hindi. Some terms such as dūrbhāṣ "telephone", literally "far-speech" and dūrdarśan "television", literally "far-sight" have even gained some currency in formal Hindi in
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#17328840132901188-454: A reprise version of Sonu Nigam 's 1999 song "Deewana Tera" for Ek Paheli Leela . The year marked the first collaboration between Singh and Himesh Reshammiya , on the song "Baaton Ko Teri" from All Is Well . He voiced Bhardwaj in "Shaam Ke Saaye" and "Kya Pataa" for Talvar and Drishyam respectively, and he also performed "Saware" from Phantom . Besides recording soundtracks, Singh released his second promotional single during
1287-544: A second language. A Hindi proponent, Indian-born Paramananda Jha , was elected vice-president of Nepal. He took his oath of office in Hindi in July 2008. This created protests in the streets for 5 days; students burnt his effigies, and there was a general strike in 22 districts. Nepal Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that his oath in Hindi was invalid and he was kept "inactive" as vice-president. An "angry" Jha said, "I cannot be compelled to take
1386-610: A song for Yaariyan and Sharib - Toshi 's " Samjhawan " for Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania . He rendered his voice for " Mast Magan " from 2 States , "Jiya" from Gunday , as well as Arko Pravo Mukherjee 's "Aaj Phir" from Hate Story 2 . Singh worked with Vishal Bhardwaj , recording two songs from Haider and with Sachin–Jigar on "Jaise Mera Tu" in Happy Ending . The year marked his collaboration with many other music directors including Tony Kakkar on " Sawan Aaya Hai " and Palak Muchhal on "Tu Hi Hai Aashiqui". During
1485-569: A standardised form of Hindustani separate from Urdu took form. In 1881, Bihar accepted Hindi as its sole official language, replacing Urdu, and thus became the first state of India to adopt Hindi. However, in 2014, Urdu was accorded second official language status in the state. After independence, the Government of India instituted the following conventions: On 14 September 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted Hindi written in
1584-403: A wisp of a story". Anna MM Vetticad of Firstpost described it as a heavy-handed, over-stretched film. Ananya Bhattacharya of India Today gave 1.5/5 stars and praised the cinematography but criticized the writing. Raja Sen of Rediff gave the film 1/5, calling it an "absolute catastrophe". Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 1/5 stars and wrote "The only thing your eye can rest on
1683-512: A young child from child traffickers . Shivaay seeks the Indian Embassy 's help in tracing Olga and is assigned to Anushka. Led by crime baron Ustinov and his right-hand man, Changez, the traffickers kidnap Gaura. Shivaay chases the van, destroying various cars, but loses the van and is arrested by the Bulgarian police, charged with murder and trafficking. While in the police van, Shivaay imagines
1782-458: Is mutually intelligible with standard Urdu , another recognised register of Hindustani, as both Hindi and Urdu share a core vocabulary base derived from Prakrit (a descendant of Sanskrit). Hindi is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in other parts of India (usually in a simplified or pidginised variety such as Bazaar Hindustani or Haflong Hindi ). Outside India, several other languages are recognised officially as "Hindi" but do not refer to
1881-513: Is a Bengali feature film compiled with seven short films. Co-written by Singh, a work-in-progress version of the film has been sent to some film festivals abroad. In early 2016, Singh sang "Yeh Fitoor Mera" written by Swanand Kirkire and composed by Amit Trivedi . Firstpost in its review spoke positively of the song, calling it a trademark song from the Fitoor album. Firstpost also commended Singh's singing. Singh made his Gujarati debut with
1980-497: Is a perfect emotional thriller that scores high on the account of its breathtaking visuals, amazing action and a high octane performance". Dainik Jagran rated 3.5/5 stars and describes it as "full of emotion and action". Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote "Overall, Ajay is unstoppable in Shivaay but you wish he wasn’t! Laced with visual excellence, you applaud his film’s larger than life canvas but despite
2079-642: Is a standard register of the Hindustani language; additionally, Indian media are widely viewed in Pakistan. A sizeable population in Afghanistan , especially in Kabul , can also speak and understand Hindi-Urdu due to the popularity and influence of Bollywood films, songs and actors in the region. Hindi is also spoken by a large population of Madheshis (people having roots in north-India but having migrated to Nepal over hundreds of years) of Nepal . Apart from this, Hindi
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#17328840132902178-409: Is also considered as one of the best singers of his generation. Singh began his career when he participated in the contemporary reality show Fame Gurukul in 2005. Singh made his Hindi cinema debut in 2011 with the song "Phir Mohabbat" along with Saim Bhatt and Mohammed Irfan composed by Mithoon for the film Murder 2 , although the song was recorded in 2009. He received recognition with
2277-417: Is an Indian playback singer and music composer . The recipient of several accolades including two National Film Awards and seven Filmfare Awards , he has recorded songs in several Indian languages , predominantly Hindi and Bengali . He is noted for his ability of performing songs in diverse music genres and is acclaimed for his significant contributions to the contemporary Bollywood Music . Singh
2376-409: Is an official language of Gujarat , along with Gujarati . It acts as an additional official language of West Bengal in blocks and sub-divisions with more than 10% of the population speaking Hindi. Similarly, Hindi is accorded the status of official language in the following Union Territories : Delhi , Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu . Although there
2475-542: Is based on the language that was spoken in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab ( Delhi , Meerut and Saharanpur ) called Khariboli ; the vernacular of Delhi and the surrounding region came to replace earlier prestige languages such as Awadhi and Braj . Standard Hindi was developed by supplanting foreign loanwords from the Hindustani language and replacing them with Sanskrit words, though Standard Hindi does continue to possess several Persian loanwords. Modern Hindi became
2574-623: Is borrowed from Sanskrit as tatsam borrowings, especially in technical and academic fields. The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi. Excessive use of tatsam words sometimes creates problems for native speakers. They may have Sanskrit consonant clusters which do not exist in Hindustani, causing difficulties in pronunciation. As
2673-455: Is commonly used to specifically refer the modern literary Hindi language, as opposed to colloquial and regional varieties that are also referred to as Hindi in a wider sense . Like other Indo-Aryan languages, Hindi is a direct descendant of an early form of Vedic Sanskrit , through Shauraseni Prakrit and Śauraseni Apabhraṃśa (from Sanskrit apabhraṃśa "corrupt"), which emerged in the 7th century CE. The sound changes that characterised
2772-547: Is considered a Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language , which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas. It is an official language in nine states and three union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India . Apart from the script and formal vocabulary, standard Hindi
2871-575: Is mirror to a hand with bangles, What is Persian to a literate. The emergence of Modern Standard Hindi in the 19th century went along with the Sanskritisation of its vocabulary, leading to a marginalisation of Persian vocabulary in Hindi, which continued after Partition when the Indian government co-opted the policy of Sanskritisation. However, many Persian words (e.g. bas "enough", khud "self") have remained entrenched in Standard Hindi, and
2970-597: Is no specification of a national language in the constitution, it is a widely held belief that Hindi is the national language of India. This is often a source of friction and contentious debate. In 2010, the Gujarat High Court clarified that Hindi is not the national language of India because the constitution does not mention it as such. Outside Asia , the Awadhi language (an Eastern Hindi dialect) with influence from Bhojpuri , Bihari languages , Fijian and English
3069-513: Is now present-day Pakistan ) by British colonists and indigenous people. He compiled and authored An English-Hindustani Dictionary , A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language , The Oriental Linguist , and many more. His lexicon of Hindustani was published in the Perso-Arabic script , Nāgarī script , and in Roman transliteration .In the late 19th century, a movement to further develop Hindi as
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3168-713: Is spoken by the large Indian diaspora which hails from, or has its origin from the "Hindi Belt" of India. A substantially large North Indian diaspora lives in countries like the United States of America , the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates , Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, South Africa, Fiji and Mauritius , where it is natively spoken at home and among their own Hindustani-speaking communities. Outside India, Hindi speakers are 8 million in Nepal ; 863,077 in
3267-523: Is spoken in Fiji. It is an official language in Fiji as per the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, where it referred to it as "Hindustani"; however, in the 2013 Constitution of Fiji , it is simply called " Fiji Hindi " as the official language. It is spoken by 380,000 people in Fiji. Hindi is spoken as a first language by about 77,569 people in Nepal according to the 2011 Nepal census , and further by 1,225,950 people as
3366-854: Is the dominant form of Hindi online. In an analysis of YouTube comments, Palakodety et al., identified that 52% of comments were in Romanised Hindi, 46% in English, and 1% in Devanagari Hindi. Traditionally, Hindi words are divided into five principal categories according to their etymology: Hindi has naturally inherited a large portion of its vocabulary from Shauraseni Prakrit , in the form of tadbhava words. This process usually involves compensatory lengthening of vowels preceding consonant clusters in Prakrit, e.g. Sanskrit tīkṣṇa > Prakrit tikkha > Hindi tīkhā . Much of Standard Hindi's vocabulary
3465-814: Is the spectacular scenery. The rest is a bloated star vehicle" The four-week worldwide grossing of film was between ₹ 1.24 billion (US$ 15 million) and ₹ 1.46 billion (US$ 17 million). Shivaay was released alongside Ranbir Kapoor's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and collected ₹ 102.4 million from India on its opening day, which was less than Ae Dil Hai Mushkil ' s ₹ 13.30 crore domestic first day. Shivaay grossed more than ₹ 1.39 billion. The film collected ₹ 47.4 million (US$ 570,000) from North America ( US and Canada ), ₹ 7.8 million (US$ 93,000) from UK , ₹ 9.5 million (US$ 110,000) from Australia , ₹ 4.4 million (US$ 53,000) from New Zealand and ₹ 300,000 (US$ 3,600) from Malaysia . Shivaay: The Official Game , an official game based on this film,
3564-686: Is written by Kumaar and composed by Sourav Roy. Singh was the lead singer of the Jagga Jasoos Soundtrack singing the dance song "Ullu ka Pattha", a fun song titled "Galti Se Mistake", "Jhumri Talaiyya" and also " Phir Wahi ". All songs have been composed by Pritam and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya He sang for Shah Rukh Khan and performed the dance song "Beech Beech Main" from the film Jab Harry Met Sejal with additional vocals provided by Shefali Alvares and Shalmali Kholgade , as well as "Hawayein", composed by Pritam and written by Irshad Kamil. Indian media wrote that Singh's vocals in
3663-566: Is written in the Devanagari script, an abugida . Devanagari consists of 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is written from left to right. Unlike Sanskrit, Devanagari is not entirely phonetic for Hindi, especially failing to mark schwa deletion in spoken Standard Hindi. The Government of India uses Hunterian transliteration as its official system of writing Hindi in the Latin script. Various other systems also exist, such as IAST , ITRANS and ISO 15919 . Romanised Hindi , also called Hinglish ,
3762-483: The 2011 census of India . The term Hindī originally was used to refer to inhabitants of the Indo-Gangetic Plain . It was borrowed from Classical Persian هندی Hindī ( Iranian Persian pronunciation: Hendi ), meaning ' of or belonging to Hind (India) ' (hence, ' Indian ' ). Another name Hindavī ( हिन्दवी ) or Hinduī ( हिन्दुई ) (from Persian هندوی 'of or belonging to
3861-575: The Hindi Belt ), as well as an official language of the Government of India, along with English. In Northeast India a pidgin known as Haflong Hindi has developed as a lingua franca for the people living in Haflong , Assam who speak other languages natively. In Arunachal Pradesh , Hindi emerged as a lingua franca among locals who speak over 50 dialects natively. Hindi is quite easy to understand for many Pakistanis , who speak Urdu, which, like Hindi,
3960-511: The Mithoon composition, "Phir Mohabbat" from Murder 2 , which though he recorded in 2009 was released in 2011. The same year, when he was programming for the song " Raabta " from Agent Vinod (2012), Pritam asked him to sing as well. The part was retained in all four versions of the song, and he was made to sing the entire composition in one of the versions. Apart from Agent Vinod , Singh dubbed for Pritam in three other films released during
4059-491: The Sripat Singh College , a University of Kalyani affiliate. According to him he "was a decent student, but cared more about music" and his parents decided to train him professionally. He was taught Indian classical music by Rajendra Prasad Hazari and trained in tabla by Dhirendra Prasad Hazari. Birendra Prasad Hazari taught him Rabindra Sangeet (songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore ) and pop music. At
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4158-814: The United States of America ; 450,170 in Mauritius; 380,000 in Fiji; 250,292 in South Africa; 150,000 in Suriname; 100,000 in Uganda ; 45,800 in the United Kingdom; 20,000 in New Zealand ; 20,000 in Germany ; 26,000 in Trinidad and Tobago; 3,000 in Singapore . Linguistically , Hindi and Urdu are two registers of the same language and are mutually intelligible. Both Hindi and Urdu share
4257-589: The flesh trade . Shivaay chases after the transport van carrying his daughter off to Romania . A prolonged and vicious fight ensues as Changez, now revealed to be Captain Nikolai of the Bulgarian Police, attacks Shivaay, but gets killed by the latter in the snow-covered mountains. Gaura is reunited with Olga, who is now married to a wealthy Bulgarian, whom Shivaay thinks can provide Gaura with every comfort. He does not want to lose Gaura, but he heavy-heartedly leaves for
4356-612: The 50th birthday of Beohar Rajendra Simha on 14 September 1949, the efforts came to fruition following the adoption of Hindi as the official language. Now, it is celebrated as Hindi Day . Part XVII of the Indian Constitution deals with the official language of the Indian Union. Under Article 343, the official languages of the Union have been prescribed, which includes Hindi in Devanagari script and English: (1) The official language of
4455-526: The Dance song " Sooraj Dooba Hain " from Roy , which was composed by Amaal Mallik and written by Kumaar . It was promoted as the "Party Anthem of the Year". During the year he sang a duet "Agar Tum Saath Ho" with Alka Yagnik , from the movie Tamasha which is composed by A. R. Rahman and written by Irshad Kamil . He worked again with Amaal Mallik on the song "Khwaishein" from Calendar Girls . Apart from dubbing
4554-623: The Devanagari script as the official language of the Republic of India replacing the previous usage of Hindustani in the Perso-Arabic script in the British Indian Empire . To this end, several stalwarts rallied and lobbied pan-India in favour of Hindi, most notably Beohar Rajendra Simha along with Hazari Prasad Dwivedi , Kaka Kalelkar , Maithili Sharan Gupt and Seth Govind Das who even debated in Parliament on this issue. As such, on
4653-402: The Hindi heartland. Persian borrowings reached a heyday in the 17th century, pervading all aspects of life. Even grammatical constructs, namely the izafat , were assimilated into Hindi. The status of Persian language then and thus its influence, is also visible in Hindi proverbs : हाथ कंगन को आरसी क्या, पढ़े लिखे को फ़ारसी क्या। Hāth kaṅgan ko ārsī kyā, Paṛhe likhe ko Fārsī kyā. What
4752-717: The Hindi version of the song " Pookkalae Sattru Oyivedungal " from Rahman's I , along with Shreya Ghoshal , Singh teamed up with Gannguli and Bobby–Imran for Khamoshiyan , where he performed the film's title song. He sang " Baatein Ye Kabhi Na " for Gannguli and "Tu Har Lamha" for Bobby-Imran. He collaborated with Gannguli on two other projects; "Teri Khushboo" for Mr. X and the title track for Hamari Adhuri Kahani . Besides working with Chirantan Bhatt on "Teri Meri Kahaani" and Sachin–Jigar on "Chunar", he worked with some new composers like Bann Chakraborty, Khamosh Shah, Jatinder Shah and Manj Musik . Moreover, Singh recorded
4851-563: The Hindu/Indian people') was often used in the past, for example by Amir Khusrau in his poetry. The terms Hindi and Hindu trace back to Old Persian which derived these names from the Sanskrit name Sindhu ( सिन्धु ), referring to the Indus River . The Greek cognates of the same terms are Indus (for the river) and India (for the land of the river). The term Modern Standard Hindi
4950-530: The Official Languages Act of 1963, which provided for the continued use of English indefinitely for all official purposes, although the constitutional directive for the Union Government to encourage the spread of Hindi was retained and has strongly influenced its policies. Article 344 (2b) stipulates that the official language commission shall be constituted every ten years to recommend steps for
5049-494: The President may, during the said period, by order authorise the use of the Hindi language in addition to the English language and of the Devanagari form of numerals in addition to the international form of Indian numerals for any of the official purposes of the Union. Article 351 of the Indian constitution states: It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as
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#17328840132905148-480: The Standard Hindi language described here and instead descend from other nearby languages, such as Awadhi and Bhojpuri . Such languages include Fiji Hindi , which has an official status in Fiji , and Caribbean Hindustani , which is spoken in Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , and Guyana . Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English. If counted together with
5247-460: The Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals. (2) Notwithstanding anything in clause (1), for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Constitution, the English language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the Union for which it was being used immediately before such commencement: Provided that
5346-606: The age of three, he started training under the Hazari brothers, and at the age of nine, he got a scholarship from the government for training in vocals in Indian classical music. Growing up, he listened to Mozart , Beethoven and Bengali classical music . He idolized musicians like Bade Ghulam Ali Khan , Ustad Rashid Khan , Zakir Hussain and Anand Chatterjee, and enjoyed listening to Kishore Kumar , Hemant Kumar , and Manna Dey . Singh's musical career began when his guru Rajendra Prasad Hazari, who felt that " Indian classical music
5445-519: The airport thinking his daughter is best happy with her new father. However, Gaura later arrives at the airport, and hits Shivaay in extreme anger for leaving her behind and thinking she wants to stay there. Shivaay apologises, and Gaura ends up crying in his arms. The shooting of the film started in November 2014, with the majority shot in Mussoorie , Bulgaria and Hyderabad . Shivaay ' s soundtrack
5544-462: The chance to work with two of his favourite music directors, Sajid–Wajid and A. R. Rahman . He performed two tracks from Main Tera Hero and the song " Raat Bhar " from Heropanti for Sajid-Wajid. He also dubbed the Hindi version of the song " Medhuvaagathaan " from Kochadaiiyaan titled "Dil Chaspiya" for A. R. Rahman. He rendered three re-mixed songs: Amit Trivedi 's "Hungama Ho Gaya",
5643-492: The duet version of " Har Kisi Ko " from Boss along with Neeti Mohan , the year marked his collaboration with Sharib – Toshi on the song " Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse " from Jackpot and with Sanjay Leela Bhansali on the semi-classical number , " Laal Ishq " from Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela . Later, in an interview Singh picked "Kabhi Jo Baadal Barse" as one of his favorite songs and chose "Tose Naina" from Mickey Virus as "closest to his heart". In 2014, Singh got
5742-512: The efforts, his second directorial venture fails to engage you emotionally". Mumbai Mirror also rated the film 3/5 stars and states that the film "scores fairly on most accounts". Bollywood Life rated 3/5 stars and wrote "Ajay Devgn's directorial is all about its stunning visuals and breath taking action scenes". BookMyShow called the film a "perfect Diwali gift you can give yourself and your family this (Diwali) weekend". Rajeev Masand for News18 gave 2/5 stars and wrote, "What Ajay Devgan
5841-528: The encore version of "Kabira", he was the music producer of the track " Balam Pichkari " from the same film. Singh sang " Main Rang Sharbaton Ka " composed by Pritam from Phata Poster Nikhla Hero as well as "Dhoka Dhadi" for R... Rajkumar . He sang for Shah Rukh Khan in the song " Kashmir Main Tu Kanyakumari " from Chennai Express which was composed by Vishal–Shekhar. Apart from rendering
5940-670: The film Badrinath Ki Dulhania , and the chorus song "Namami Brahmaputra" (English: I Bow to the Brahmaputra) composed by Papon and dedicated to the river Brahmaputra which flows in Assam and has high cultural, economic and social importance for the northeast Indian and Assamese people. He sang "Haareya" from the movie Meri Pyaari Bindu . and the song "Murshida" from the movie Begum Jaan written by Rahat Indori and composed by Anu Malik . Singh sang " Phir Bhi Tumko Chaahunga ", composed by Mithoon, with lyrics by Manoj Muntashir from
6039-452: The film Love Aaj Kal : "Shayad", "Haan Tum Ho" and "Haan Main Galat", which are composed by Pritam ; Title Track of Chhapaak along with "Khulne Do" and "Sab Jhulas Gaya" composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy written by Gulzar ; "Dua Karo" from the film Street Dancer 3D is sang along with Bohemia ; "Chal Ghar Chalen" is a song from the movie Malang composed by Mithoon ; He has sung
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#17328840132906138-539: The film was not released in Pakistan. The film's runtime was later reduced by 19 minutes, and the new trimmed version was released in cinemas. On 27 October 2016, The Indian Express published that self-proclaimed film critic Kamaal R Khan had uploaded the opening sequence of the film on Twitter, which he shot in a theater in Dubai . Devgn, the producer, was quoted saying that he would take legal action against Khan. Bollywood Hungama gave 3.5/5 stars and wrote " Shivaay
6237-450: The key vocalist on the film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil , Singh sang the popular the title track " Ae Dil Hai Mushkil " composed by Pritam Chakraborty and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya. He also sang " Channa Mereya ", which garnered over 110 million views. He rendered another chartbuster hit " Nashe Si Chadh Gayi " from Befikre . The promotional video for the song garnered over 330 million views on YouTube. He also sang "Naan Un Azhaginilae",
6336-531: The last 125 years, there are no academic studies of any of them – of their use in South Africa, their evolution and current decline. Hindi is adopted as the third official court language in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi . As a result of this status, the Indian workforce in UAE can file their complaints to the labour courts in the country in their own mother-tongue. Hindi is the lingua franca of northern India (which contains
6435-523: The most nominations for the year, while he received two Filmfare nominations for " Suno Na Sangemarmar " and the Sufi song "Mast Magan". Singh picked "Gulon Mein Rang Bhare"—originally sung by Mehdi Hassan and re-written for Haider by Vishal Bhardwaj—as his favorite track of the year. Singh made his Tamil debut in 2015 with the song "Neeye Vaazhkai Enbena" from the film Pugazh . He also provided vocals for
6534-724: The movie Kedarnath , he sang "Jaan Nissar" and a duet song "Qaafirana" with Nikhita Gandhi , both the songs composed by Amit Trivedi and lyrics penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya . He also sang for the films Dil Juunglee , 3 Storeys , Hichki , Raazi , Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran , Veere Di Wedding , 102 Not Out , Baazaar and Karwaan . In 2019, Singh sang "Ruan Ruan" from film Sonchiriya composed by Vishal Bhardwaj and penned by Varun Grover , followed by "Mere Pyare Prime Minister" from Mere Pyare Prime Minister on composition of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and lyrics of Gulzar . In March, his song "Ve Maahi" with Asees Kaur from film Kesari composed by Tanishk Bagchi
6633-531: The movie Raees . Khan shared multiple teasers of the song before its full release. He provided vocals for Salim–Sulaiman 's compositions "Kuch Parbat Hilayein" and "Babul Mora" written by Amitabh Bhattacharya from the inspirational movie Poorna . He rendered "Alvida" from the film Rangoon , which the Deccan Chronicle praised in its review of the movie. He also sang the song "Roke Na Ruke Naina", composed by Amaal Mallik and written by Kumaar from
6732-481: The music. Shivaay was released on 28 October 2016 on the Diwali weekend. It ran for more than 50 days at the box office. It won the 64th National Film Award for Best Special Effects in 2017. The film was screened at the 2017 Shanghai International Film Festival on 17 June 2017. Shivaay is a skilled mountaineer who makes a living by providing treks and climbing expeditions to tourists. One day, Shivaay saves Olga,
6831-400: The mutually intelligible Urdu, it is the third most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin and English. According to reports of Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition) Hindi is the third most-spoken language in the world including first and second language speakers. Hindi is the fastest growing language of India , followed by Kashmiri , Meitei , Gujarati and Bengali according to
6930-641: The oath now in Nepali. I might rather take it in English." Hindi is a protected language in South Africa . According to the Constitution of South Africa , the Pan South African Language Board must promote and ensure respect for Hindi along with other languages. According to a doctoral dissertation by Rajend Mesthrie in 1985, although Hindi and other Indian languages have existed in South Africa for
7029-401: The officers in the van to be the same masked traffickers, and he attacks them, throwing out every single officer. The van accidentally falls off a dam, and the police think that Shivaay is dead, but Shivaay escapes by jumping from the van due to his skills and survives. Anushka tries to talk Shivaay into surrendering, but he refuses and instead escapes when the police arrive. Shivaay brings one of
7128-569: The official language of the imperial court during the reign of Shah Jahan . It is recorded that Emperor Aurangzeb spoke in Hindvi . The Hindustani vernacular became an expression of Indian national unity during the Indian Independence movement , and continues to be spoken as the common language of the people of the northern Indian subcontinent, which is reflected in the Hindustani vocabulary of Bollywood films and songs. Standard Hindi
7227-483: The place of the English borrowings (ṭeli)fon and ṭīvī . Hindi also features significant Persian influence, standardised from spoken Hindustani . Early borrowings, beginning in the mid-12th century, were specific to Islam (e.g. Muhammad , Islām ) and so Persian was simply an intermediary for Arabic. Later, under the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire , Persian became the primary administrative language in
7326-522: The progressive use of Hindi language and impose restrictions on the use of the English language by the union government. In practice, the official language commissions are constantly endeavouring to promote Hindi but not imposing restrictions on English in official use by the union government. At the state level, Hindi is the official language of the following Indian states: Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Haryana , Himachal Pradesh , Jharkhand , Madhya Pradesh , Rajasthan , Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand . Hindi
7425-513: The release of successful tracks " Tum Hi Ho " and "Chahun Main Ya Naa" from Aashiqui 2 in 2013. He was declared the most-streamed Indian artist of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 by Spotify . As of September 2024, he is the most-followed artist globally on Spotify, with over 129 million followers. Arijit Singh was born on 25 April 1987 in Jiaganj , Murshidabad , West Bengal to Kakkar Singh,
7524-543: The same language, Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu. Hindi is the most commonly used scheduled language in India and is one of the two official languages of the union , the other being English. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan and is one of 22 scheduled languages of India , also having official status in Uttar Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir , Delhi , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh and Bihar . Hindi
7623-506: The saved prostitutes from a brothel to Anushka's home to help her out. Anushka, who misunderstood Shivaay earlier, agrees to help him. Having seen the television coverage of Shivaay, Olga joins him, where they seek Wahab's help to recover the CCTV footage of Shivaay's various chases. Ustinov's henchman, Ivanovich, arrives there and is beaten up badly, where he reveals Ustinov's location. Shivaay discovers that Gaura has been taken away to be sold into
7722-530: The song "Lambiyaan si Judaiyaan" composed by JAM8 and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, also on the film's soundtrack. He sang "Tera Hoke Rahoon" song composed by (Kaushik, Akash, Guddu) of JAM8, with lyrics by Bipin Das in the movie Behen Hogi Teri . He sang "O Saathi", with the music composed and lyrics written by Mithoon from the Hindi film Shab , and the dance song " Main Tera Boyfriend " with Neha Kakkar . It
7821-402: The song "Satrangi Re" from the film Wrong Side Raju . Some of his noteworthy Hindi songs of 2016 included " Soch Na Sake " which is a duet with Tulsi Kumar from the movie Airlift , composed by Amaal Mallik written by Kumaar, " Sanam Re " - the title track of the movie Sanam Re , composed and written by Mithoon , " Bolna " from the movie Kapoor and Sons , and "Itni Si Baat Hain",
7920-491: The song garnered favorable reviews from the Indian media. In 2018, Singh sang "Aaj Se Teri" for the film Pad Man , composed by Amit Trivedi and written by Kausar Munir. He sang "Binte Dil" for the film Padmaavat written by A. M. Turaz and composed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He also sang another chartbuster titled "Subah Subah" for the film Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety with Prakriti Kakar , composed by Amaal Mallik and written by Kumaar as well as "Tera Yaar Hoon Main". From
8019-542: The song were "mesmerizing". Singh sang "Bairagi" for the film Bareilly Ki Barfi . He also sang " Jaana Ve " and " Aaj Zid " for Aksar 2 . The music was composed by Mithoon and written by Sayeed Quadri. He also sang "Main Hoon Saath Tere" from Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana , and besides singing he made an appearance in the music video of the song "Pal", featured in the film Monsoon Shootout . Singh's voice texture in
8118-509: The songs "Azaadi Ke Liye" and "Mere Watan" from the Amazon Originals The Forgotten Army . He has also sung a song in a Bengali film, Love Aaj Kal Porshu . On 18 July 2020, Singh announced his upcoming venture in making non-film music under the banner "Oriyon Music". He made an appearance in a music video from Sunny M.R. 's new single "Lifafe" on 31 July 2020. In August 2020, Singh's song "Dil Ko Maine Di Kasam"
8217-499: The soundtrack of Half Girlfriend . Zee Music Company released it before their planned date due to public demand. He also sang "Pal Bhar" which is a reprise and extended version of song from Phir Bhi Tumko Chahunga . "Pal Bhar" is written by Muntashir and composed by Mithoon. He was the lead vocalist on the film Raabta singing "Ik Vaari Aa", composed by Pritam, lyrics are penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya . Singh lent his vocals and played acoustic guitar with Roland Fernandes for
8316-544: The star deserved, was a sharper director and a better script. In the end, there's little else to Shivaay than the eye-watering locations (both in the Himalayas and in Bulgaria), and occasionally poignant moments between Devgan and the little girl who plays his daughter. Everything else is noise. Way too much noise". Namrata Joshi of The Hindu commented that the movie moves too slow, and "turns out almost three hours long with just
8415-471: The transition from Middle Indo-Aryan to Hindi are: During the period of Delhi Sultanate in medieval India , which covered most of today's north India, eastern Pakistan, southern Nepal and Bangladesh and which resulted in the contact of Hindu and Muslim cultures , the Sanskrit and Prakrit base of Old Hindi became enriched with loanwords from Persian , evolving into the present form of Hindustani. Hindi achieved prominence in India after it became
8514-526: The year : Players , Cocktail and, Barfi! . He also sang the song " Uska Hi Banana " for Chirantan Bhatt in 1920: Evil Returns . Glamsham in its review of the song "Uska Hi Banana" wrote that Singh had sung the song intensely, emotionally and passionately and at a very high pitch . He sang on Vishal–Shekhar 's composition " Duaa " in the film Shanghai . It won him the Mirchi Music Award for Upcoming Male Playback Singer award . He
8613-439: The year, he provided vocals for Mithoon on "Humdard" for Ek Villain and "Hai Dil Ye Mera" for Hate Story 2 . He worked with Vishal–Shekhar on " Manwa Laage " for Happy New Year and with Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy on "Sajde" for Kill Dil . He sang two songs on Sharib-Toshi's Zid and on three tracks for Pritam Chakraborty's Holiday which was arranged by Singh himself. Jeet Gannguli 's song Muskurane garnered him
8712-473: The year. Titled "Chal Waha Jaate Hain", the song is composed by Mallik and features Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon . Singh also made his Marathi debut with the song "Yaar Illahi – Qawwali" from the film Katyar Kaljat Ghusali . In 2015, Singh recorded a romantic duet titled "Sooiyan", written by Irshad Kamil and Amit Trivedi, with Chinmayi Sripaada for the Bollywood film Guddu Rangeela . Arijit
8811-403: Was a dying tradition", insisted him to leave his hometown and participate in the reality show Fame Gurukul (2005) at the age of 18. He was eliminated by audience polling, finishing in sixth place. During the show, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali recognized his talent and had him sing "Yun Shabnami" a song scheduled to be used in his upcoming film Saawariya . During production, the script
8910-602: Was changed and Singh's version was removed. It was never released. After the Fame Gurukul , Kumar Taurani, the head of Tips , signed him for an album which was never released. He participated in another reality show 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil and won. He chose to move to Mumbai in 2006 to freelance, staying in a rented room in the Lokhandwala area of the city. He invested the prize money of ₹ 1 million from 10 ke 10 Le Gaye Dil to build his recording studio. He became
9009-744: Was composed by Mithoon with a guest vocal appearance by the British pop-rock band The Vamps . The lyrics were penned by Sayeed Quadri and Sandeep Shrivastava. On 11 September 2016 the title track, "Bolo Har Har Har", was released, sung by Mithoon, Mohit Chauhan , Sukhwinder Singh , Badshah , Megha Sriram Dalton, and Anugrah. The second song, "Darkhaast", was released on 22 September 2016, and featured vocals by Arijit Singh and Sunidhi Chauhan . All music rights of Shivaay were acquired by T-Series . Shivaay released on 28 October 2016. It released internationally in 60 countries including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, and Chile. However,
9108-555: Was envisioned that Hindi would become the sole working language of the Union Government by 1965 (per directives in Article 344 (2) and Article 351), with state governments being free to function in the language of their own choice. However, widespread resistance to the imposition of Hindi on non-native speakers, especially in South India (such as those in Tamil Nadu ) led to the passage of
9207-639: Was nominated in the same category for "Phir Le Aya Dil" from Barfi! . Singh's breakthrough came in Aashiqui 2 where he was a lead and key vocalist and came to prominence with the release of the song " Tum Hi Ho " from the movie. The song won him several awards and nominations including Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer . In the same year his 3 songs from Telugu movie Swamy Ra Ra were also gained popularity. Singh continued to work with Pritam, singing " Dilliwaali Girlfriend ", " Kabira " and " Ilahi " for Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani . Other than singing
9306-411: Was released by Zapak Mobile Games Pvt. Ltd. , for Android mobile phone users. Hindi Modern Standard Hindi ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी , Ādhunik Mānak Hindī ), commonly referred to as Hindi , is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script . It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India . Hindi
9405-461: Was released from blockbuster film Kabir Singh in 2019. In October his song " Ghungroo " with Shilpa Rao was released from the movie, War . Lyrics are written by Kumaar and music is given by Vishal–Shekhar . In Late December 2019, he sang "Dariyaganj" with Dhvani Bhanushali in the film Jai Mummy Di , composed by Amartya Bobo Rahut and written by Siddhant Kaushal. In January 2020, 10 of his songs were released. Three songs released from
9504-485: Was released, composed by Amaal Malik featuring actors Asim Riaz and Himanshi Khurana . Singh released his first single "Rihaa" under his banner Oriyon Music on 4 October 2020; along with the Bengali version "Mukto Kore Dao" on 10 October 2020; with the Hindi lyrics written by Shloke Lal and the Bengali lyrics written by Singh himself. Singh also sang the songs "Aabaad Barbaad" and "Hardum Humdum" from Ludo . The film
9603-479: Was released. The song garnered 200 million views on YouTube by July 2019. Then came "First Class" with Neeti Mohan and title song "Kalank" from film Kalank composed by Pritam Chakraborty and penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya . He rendered "Khairiyat" from the film Chhichhore composed by Pritam and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya . It was released in September 2019. His song " Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage "
9702-414: Was the lead vocalist on the soundtrack of the 2015 film Dilwale singing "Janam Janam" with Antara Mitra, " Gerua " with Antara Mitra and the dance number "Tukur Tukur". All composed by Pritam and written by Amitabh Bhattacharya , the music videos featuring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, received a good response. Arijit completed shooting for his directorial debut in 2015. Titled Bhalobasar Rojnamcha , it
9801-470: Was while working with Pritam , that he began to produce and program music by himself. In 2010, Singh started working with Pritam on three films— Golmaal 3 , Crook and Action Replayy . He started with singing scratches in the Telugu Film Industry with the 2010 film Kedi with the song "Neeve Na Neeve Na" composed by Sandeep Chowta . In 2011, Singh made his Bollywood musical debut with
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