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blooms Hemant Kumar, who began life as a stand-in singer, sings four out of five songs in Shaapa, directed by American-trained Ashok Patil and just selected for an award More How Rasiya turned lascivious Cassette Culture takes a definitive, sharp look at the changes cassettes have wrought on the north Indian music scene. Peter Manuel's style is thorough, lively and totally jargon-free More Second prize, maybe Yaadein has some predictable music, and makes a far less flamboyant statement for Anu Malik than Aks More Hamilton at his best Hamilton's saxophone, soft, smooth and persuasive, puts his own signature on Jazz Signatures, a tribute to the elders of jazz More The Punjabification of Usha Uthup Shai Ra Re comes from Jawahar Wattal, who made some of Daler Mehndi's early tunes, and the only consolation is that Usha Uthup's voice is still 24-carat gold More A gurukulam in digital times T N Seshagopalan has embarked on a project that's so special it could well be the only one of its kind in the new millennium More  A stranger
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