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Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Amaal Mallik was 15 when his ‘defeated' father told him to start earning for family: ‘Iske aage gaadi nahi chalegi meri'
Music composer Amaal Mallik is known for his unfiltered opinions on the way the music industry works today. He's had beef with the likes of T-Series top honcho Bhushan Kumar. But his father, Daboo Malik, also a composer, feels Amaal's forthright streak stems from the fact that he's a self-made man who has also been the family's sole breadwinner for the longest time. 'He's the first elder son to whom the father comes and says, 'Beta, main haar gaya (Son, I've lost)'. Which father does that to his 15-year-old innocent child? Daboo Malik comes home, hugs Amaal, and says, 'Iske aage gaadi chalegi nahi meri. Tu kuchh karega kya? (I can't work beyond this. Will you do something)?' revealed Daboo. In the interview with Vickey Lalwani, he continued, 'He's seen his father fall and lose from when he was 10 to 15 years old. There was a strong emotional upheaval. But nobody sees that. Everybody sees his outburst and critical ways, but that's his character now. He's taken that decision.' Amaal started working at the age of 16, immediately after completing his class 10. 'It's miraculous how Amaal did 2,000 to 3,000 jingles, worked with such big people as a programmer and arranger, he saw exponential technical growth. Armaan (Malik, singer and Amaal's younger brother) was just 10 then,' said Daboo, adding that Amaal helped drastically improve the deteriorating financial situation at home. 'A son like that, who feels he's earned everything with his blood and sweat, suddenly realizes he's getting sidelined and isn't the hero of this household anymore. That his younger brother was becoming the hero instead would have a mental impact on Amaal every day. I think that's a small mistake on part of the parents. But no one was doing it intentionally. We've to be very careful parents,' added Daboo. Amaal started learning music at the age of eight. He learnt piano at the Trinity College of Music, London, specializing in Western Classical, Jazz & Rock. He also learnt Indian classical music informally from his grandfather Sardar Malik. He began working as an assistant composer and background scorer in the Hindi film industry and the advertisement industry. He made his debut as the lead composer in Sohail Khan's 2014 action film Jai Ho. Also Read — Sexual assault allegations against Anu Malik 'shattered our family', says brother Daboo: 'We saw to it that he got back to work' Amaal's younger brother Armaan Malik started singing at the age of four. He started singing in films in 2006 with songs like Bum Bum Bhole from Aamir Khan's 2007 directorial debut Taare Zameen Par. He broke through in 2014, the same year as his brother did, with the song Naina in Shashanka Ghosh's 2014 romantic comedy Khoobsurat, which was composed by Amaal. Meanwhile, their father Daboo Malik, the younger brother of composer Anu Malik, started as an actor in 1988. He switched to composing music in 2000s, but hung up his boots by 2014, when his sons gained recognition for their work. The Malik family has been in the news lately for differences with each other. Armaan distanced himself from his family, while Amaal lent him support.
Wales Online
13-07-2025
- General
- Wales Online
Life at the very heart of one of Wales' toughest communities touched by more than its share of tragedy
Life at the very heart of one of Wales' toughest communities touched by more than its share of tragedy Reverend Jan Gould has been a pillar of the community in Ely, Cardiff, for two decades as it has faced down numerous tragedies and challenges Reverend Jan Gould is retiring as vicar of Ely in Cardiff after 19 years (Image: John Myers ) From riots and hit and runs to births and national celebrations Reverend Jan Gould has been at the heart of life in the Cardiff suburb of Ely for the last 19 years. As she prepares to retire from the Cardiff parish in one of the largest council estates in the UK she says it's been a "privilege" to serve there and she'll miss it. She describes Ely as the strongest and most supportive community she's worked in and is quick to discard the tag it sometimes gets as "deprived". On the contrary – she says while people may not be as rich as in some areas their wealth is in their shared history and mutual support. While Ely may hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons Rev Gould says that's only part of the story and there have been more highs than lows in her nearly two decades there. "Ely is a really strong community where people care about each other. This is the strongest community I have ever worked in. People in Ely stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a crisis. It has some difficult characters but every community does. Ely has wonderful, generous, and supportive people." Never miss a Cardiff story by signing up to our daily newsletter here . Rev Gould in the Church of the Resurrection on Grand Avenue (Image: John Myers ) Rev Gould knows herself how people need to prove their worth before being accepted in Ely. She knew she had to get to know the community quickly when she arrived. Article continues below When she became vicar of Ely at the Church of the Resurrection in September 2006 Rev Gould, who was ordained in England in 1995 but had been in Cardiff 10 years, admits she knew little about the area. She knew she had to work hard to fill the shoes of the last vicar who'd been there 36 years. "All I knew really was that Ely was a very big council estate. I knew it was a place where people didn't have a lot of money. I had always felt a calling to work in this sort of area so I applied for the job. For the first few months I lived in the shadow of Rev Morgan, father of First Minister Eluned Morgan, because he had been here 36 years," she recalls. "One day I was walking my dogs in Llandaff fields wearing my dog collar and woman asked me whether I worked at the cathedral. When I told her I was the vicar of Ely she said: 'You poor thing.' I thought: 'What a snob.' I didn't think 'poor thing' at all." Before Ely she was a vicar in Peterborough, Fleet in Hampshire, and briefly in another parish in Cardiff. She "followed her calling" to train as an Anglican priest after her music career was cut short by illness. Rev Gould, who studied at London's Trinity College of Music, was a professional viola player until the age of 24 when surgery for a tumour made it impossible to carry on and she went into the church. Rev Gould says it's in Ely that she has had her calling fulfilled. In her time here she has shared the community's collective struggles and joys and helped people, parishioners or not, in good times and bad. Covid was one of those worst times. In the first 12 weeks of the pandemic she said there were 18 suicides in her parish: "All young men in mental health crisis." She put chairs outside at a social distance for people to speak and a steady stream of people came until lockdowns ended. As a non-shielding cleric Rev Gould was called to do many graveside, socially-distanced funerals and had to learn fast the tech involved in live-streaming services. She was glad when lockdowns ended but numbers coming to the church, know locally as "The Res", on a regular basis have fallen. There is now a core of around 150 who come regularly to church but it is seen as a community focus even for those who don't come. It's fair to say that the Church of the Resurrection in Ely's Grand Avenue is a focal point and a place that has been at the heart of Ely through its ups and downs. Throughout her time here Rev Gould has lived right next to the church in the vicarage beside it with her husband Peter Sedgewick who is the retired principal of St Michael's College, the Church in Wales seminary in Llandaff. It's important for a local vicar to be visible and accessible but after a number of break-ins and thefts they had to halt unannounced visits, although Rev Gould says they've always felt safe in the area. A year after she came to Ely Rev Mark Thomas, a vicar in Penarth, was stabbed in the churchyard of St David's in 2007. The Church in Wales tightened security for all its vicars after that wherever they lived . Beyond the church Rev Gould has been a well-known face in the area running groups, being involved as a governor for three local schools, and setting up the charity Making Music Changing Lives to bring free music lessons and instruments to children who wanted them. In March 2012 came perhaps one of the biggest challenges of her time here. As children walked home from school 32 year-old mother-of-three Karina Menzies was killed when a van driver deliberately drove into adults and children. Karina's daughters Sophie, 12, Ellie, nine, and Tiana, four, were left without a mother and 17 others were injured when Matthew Tvrdon, 32, who had paranoid schizophrenia, went on the rampage in his van. Tvrdon later admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was detained under the Mental Health Act. He also admitted seven counts of attempted murder and other charges including three counts of grievous bodily harm with intent. Rev Gould was walking her dog when she got a call from her husband that something "awful" had happened in the parish and on their street. Mother-of-three Karina Menzies was killed in a hit and run in Ely (Image: WALES NEWS SERVICE ) "I drove up and it was like a scene from Casualty with tape and medical crews working on people. I opened the church and we offered bereavement support. "Over that weekend 2,000 candles were lit in the church. The church was hugely important – it was a safe space where people could come and on the Sunday night we had a service with the church full and people outside. There must have been a couple of thousand people there. "Having to prepare that service – well, there is nothing written to help for that. For three months I didn't have a day off. It was relentless. We set up a trust fund for the injured and worked with affected families and worked with Karina's family and held her funeral. "How do you find the right word when something like that happens? I take myself to the church and through praying and meditation the words come. I told myself: 'I am not doing this for myself – I am a channel for God's love'." She is still in touch with Karina's sister Samantha, who raised her sibling's daughters, and she believes all are doing well. She thinks of them and that night still. A decade later there was huge collective trauma again when the deaths of two young boys sparked the Ely riots in May 2023. Once again the area hit national and international headlines bringing media to Ely and Rev Gould's door as well as people from outside the community meaning no good. The violence, including cars being torched, broke out following the deaths of two teenagers. Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and 15-year-old Harvey Evans died on May 22, 2023, when their E-bike crashed in Ely. The boys' deaths sparked hours of violence and vandalism with around 150 people attending a riot which saw missiles thrown at police. Footage later emerged of a police van following the two teenagers moments before the crash. The funeral at the Church of the Resurrection on Grand Avenue for Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15 (Image: WALES NEWS SERVICE ) A total of 42 people were eventually charged for their alleged involvement with the riots and appeared in various courts. At the time all Rev Gould could do was try to offer support and help bring calm. Again the church became a focal point and she found herself at the centre of the community trauma and family bereavement. "I always take the line that there are people who like the police and people who don't and police tread a fine line. I was here for the riots but it was late so the next morning I walked up to the road where it had happened and spoke to people. "I listened to distraught residents. Most of the rioters were not from the community – they were from north Wales, Manchester, Bristol, and Birmingham. Something had been posted on TikTok and it fired people up. There were people from Ely too but most were not. "I did the joint funeral of the two boys. It's always difficult to do a young person's funeral and this was two. It never gets easier to do. It's a tragic waste of life. "It was a huge funeral with thousands and the church full and people in the street." In both cases, the hit and run and the riots, the trauma went on as court cases were held and funerals and memorials conducted and Rev Gould was part of the community processing that. She remembers how music helped two young girls left distraught after witnessing the hit and runs. The girls, in the early years of high school, had come to the vicarage for the free flute lessons with Making Music Changing Lives a few weeks after the tragedy. Seeing they were too upset to discuss what they had seen or have a lesson the vicar suggested they went away and "blew" their feelings away through their flutes. A car burns near Snowden Road in Ely during riots following the deaths of two boys in 2023 (Image: Matthew Horwood ) "One of them said to me later: 'Reverend Gould – it's a miracle. I feel so much better'," she recalls. In happier times she has been there to conduct services for thousands including the 75th anniversary of the NHS service attended by medical staff in their scrubs as well as politicians. She has also conducted weddings and christenings and knows a few families with 10 children. She was also involved in the 2024 community development plan for the area and won a Point of Light, Community Foundation of Wales Philanthropy Award for Making Music Changing Lives. In the last two decades her parish has become more multicultural and for a couple of years the Indian Orthodox congregation have used the church for worship. Last year for the church's 90th birthday there was a joint Welsh/Indian cultural evening with Welsh and Indian food, Bollywood dancing, and a Twmpath with music provided by the Church of the Resurrection band and Rev Gould playing the fiddle. At the nativity last Christmas the church had a real live tiny baby girl playing Jesus with her mother playing Mary while the congregation dressed as various nativity characters and the choir as angels. It is these types of community events that bring people together that Rev Gould will remember too. "Aside from the big community events it has been the day-by-day pastoral care of people in the community that has really touched my heart. "Celebrating with families when their children are baptised, conducting weddings and blessings – a real joy for me was when the church finally agreed to allow same-sex blessings – and, of course, so many funerals over 19 years here, being with families at their deepest times of sadness to help them through it." Occasionally a funeral will be complicated. One she recalls involved a bereaved relative being brought in handcuffs from prison with an armed guard and police helicopter overhead. "I just treat them like any other mourners and always make a point of introducing myself," the vicar says. Rev Gould has lived in the vicarage in the heart of the community with her husband Peter (Image: John Myers ) Aside from her duties in Ely Rev Gould, over the last 30 years, has taken many hundreds of young people on pilgrimage to Taizé, a monastic community in France which draws young people from across the world together. She was made a Canon of Landaff Cathedral in 2019, has trained several curates, and sits on the governing body of the Church in Wales and its electoral college – the body which elects new bishops and archbishops. For her last three days in post, from July 29 to 31, Rev Gould will be with the archiepiscopal electors to elect a new archbishop following the resignation of Andy John, Archbishop of Wales and Bishop of Bangor Cathedral. As she ties up the loose ends of nearly two decades in Ely Rev Gould says she is sad to be retiring aged 61. The ongoing effects of surgery to her jaw have continued to a point she needs to retire on medical grounds. The hours as a vicar are long and she can often be called out in the middle of the night to help in crises or to deliver the last rites for those who are parishioners and those who are not. Looking around the vicarage with daisies in bloom outside on a perfect summer's day Rev Gould, who is moving to another part of Cardiff, agrees the scene in Ely can be idyllic. "It's just a remarkable community é you see that with things like funerals when people come to support families and they all come together. Ely is a really special place. "It's a tribal community and people don't tend to move away. Everyone knows everyone and there's a shared history. I shall be sad to leave. "I am looking forward to retiring é I haven't had a free evening for years. But I shall miss the people here and the vibrancy and edginess of Ely." She has also left behind a small bit of graffiti for those in future to remember her by. In true Ely style during the refurbishment of the church Rev Gould went all the way to the top of the dome and wrote her initials there. Article continues below A retiring service for Rev Gould will be held at the Church of the Resurrection at 4pm on July 27 followed by a party afterwards before she leaves on July 31. Canon Andrew Sully is taking pastoral oversight of the Church of the Resurrection when Rev Gould leaves.
Pink Villa
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
What is Anirudh Ravichander's net worth? Everything you need to know about popular musician
Anirudh Ravichander recently made the headlines after he was rumored to tie the wedding knot with Kavya Maran. However, the music composer broke the silence on the rumors and made it clear that he is not marrying anyone. Anirudh Ravichander's net worth While the rumors have been shut down by the composer, let's take a look at his net worth. According to a report by Filmibeat, the musician is said to have assets worth Rs 50 crores to his name. Interestingly, Anirudh is reportedly said to charge Rs 8 - 10 crores for each film he crafts musical tracks and scores for. Anirudh Ravichander education and career Anirudh Ravichander was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, where he completed his graduation at Loyola College. Moreover, the musician learned to play piano from Trinity College of Music in London and holds a diploma in sound engineering. The music composer made his debut in Tamil cinema with Dhanush starrer 3, which was helmed by Anirudh's cousin sister Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth. The song Why This Kolaveri Di from his maiden venture was a massive sensation, especially with its quirky Tanglish (Tamil+English) lyrics. With his initial popularity, the musician went on to work on multiple projects, which include hit ventures like Kaththi starring Thalapathy Vijay, Dhanush's Velaiilla Pattadhari, Kaaki Sattai, and many more. Owing to his successful films, the musician has worked with superstars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Shah Rukh Khan, Ajith Kumar, Suriya, Pawan Kalyan, Nani, and many more. Anirudh was last seen in the movie Vidaamuyarchi with Ajith Kumar and Trisha in leading roles. Moreover, the composer's upcoming projects include Coolie, Sivakarthikeyan's Madharasi, Thalapathy Vijay starrer Jana Nayagan, King with Shah Rukh Khan, and more. Anirudh Ravichander family Anirudh Ravichander is the son of actor Ravi Raghavendra and classical dancer Lakshmi. His father, being the brother-in-law of Rajinikanth, makes the composer the latter's nephew as well. Recently, the musician has been reported to be in a relationship with IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad's CEO, Kavya Maran. The duo was apparently seen together at various events, which led to the rumors. While Anirudh did not deny any claims made on his relationship status, the composer highlighted how he is not getting married for now.
Scoop
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
QEII Winner Announced
Eleven-year-old Felix Huang is this year's winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Music Award One of the youngest recipients of the award, Felix was nominated by his music teacher, Linda Lloyd, for his amazing skills on piano and violin. At yesterday's ceremony at Council Chambers, Mayor Nadine Taylor said Felix's achievements at such a young age were quite extraordinary and it was clear he had a musical future ahead. 'You are obviously really talented but also work very very hard to achieve excellent results,' she said. Mayor Taylor listed Felix's recent successes which include passing his Grade 8 in violin (ABRSM) and piano through the Trinity College of Music. He achieved distinction in both instruments in the last three months of 2024. He also completed his Grade 7 theory at the same time. 'To put it simply you nailed it,' she said. The violin examiner noted his confident and well-projected performance and said technical challenges were consistently well-handled. Felix was a dedicated and talented student who was diligent at practising and enthusiastic about his craft Mayor Taylor said. He participated in local music groups, was a member of the Marlborough Civic Orchestra, the Upbeat Orchestra and String Talk as well as performing regularly at TEMPO on both piano and violin. The QEII award is a regional one for musicians aged 18 or under living in the Kaikōura and Marlborough districts. It provides financial help for recipients to continue their musical training. The award was established in 1963 following a visit to New Zealand by Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. It was set up with contributions from local bodies throughout the region and today is administered by the Kaikōura and Marlborough District Councils.
