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If you love Hindi Music, you shouldn't miss these five songs from 2018! Here's Why?

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By no means, I brand myself as someone with a great taste in music! But growing up on Hindi songs is inevitable if you live in India. And the Bollywood freak that I am, it is impossible to separate the songs from the films. 2018 was a great year not just for Hindi films but also with the kind of songs they had. Therefore, without giving much about my incompetency to review music, I have a list of five of my favourite Hindi Film Songs from 2018. 1. Daryaa- Manmarziyaan  I would eternally be grateful to Amit Trivedi for giving Bollywood what most people have labelled as the "album of the year". My list of songs could potentially be listing the entire soundtrack of this genius of a film. Keeping my personal bias aside, I would just stick to my most favourite song. I have lost count of the number of times I've played this on loop and still continue to. THIS IS NOT JUST A SONG, IT IS AN EMOTION IN ITSELF. 2. Naina da Kya Kasoor- Andhadhun Not only Srira

The ban on Kedarnath in Uttarakhand: Can we stop communalising cinema?

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We’ve often had political leaders, cabinet ministers assume multiple roles in the exercise of their functions. Never did I wish to witness the day where, within the traditional discharge of their duties, they also performed the tedious task of reviewing films, a job most suited for the prolific film critics our country boasts of. If the Central Board of Film Certification transgressing its boundaries towards censoring films wasn’t enough, we have new kids on the block. According to Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj-  “The  movie (Kedarnath)is not according to our culture and the film can instigate people” On one hand as the High Courts of Gujarat and Uttarakhand vehemently denied policing the display of movies in a democracy stating  If you don’t like the movie, don’t watch it in response to  PIL’s claiming that the film promotes Love Jihad. But o n the other hand, raging a sharp attack on democracy Maharaj said. “My personal objection is also over the name Ke