Posts Tagged ‘Akon’

It’s been a while since Jay Sean has graced our page, but we miss him and are eagerly awaiting his newest album! Jay’s most recent album, ‘All or Nothing’, was his first with Cash-Money Records, and proved to be fairly successful. Jay has had his fair share of controversy, but nevertheless he can be satisfied in the amount of success he has achieved.

Today the Jay sent out a small apology to his loyal followers on Twitter explaining that his absence is due to working on a great album,  ”Wasssssup peeeps!!! Just a kwik msg to say I love u all and sorry for my lack of tweets bin focusing so I can give u the sickest album ever!”

And what would a Jay Sean album be if it didn’t feature some other incredible talents?? Lil’ Wayne, Mary J. Blige, and Pitbull are just a few that have already been named to collaborate with the artist. There are also others that are still being mentioned, but not confirmed such as Akon, Drake, and the lovely Rihanna. Seems like Jay will be up to all of his same tricks!

Shah Rukh Khan Throws a Huge Bash for R & B Singer Akon

Shah Rukh Khan played host for the popular American singer and songwriter Akon at Mumbai’s JW Marriot Hotel. The duo met in Los Angeles when Shah Rukh brilliantly decided that he wanted to incorporate Akon into his next film Ra 1. Akon will not only be heard in this multi-starrer film, he’s also going to be a part of the cast.

So to celebrate yet another collaboration of Hollywood and Bollywood, Shah Rukh invited Akon out to Mumbai as his personal guest.  And Akon was more then happy to accept the Khan’s invitation as he says “I am a big fan of Shah Rukh’s. I’m very familiar with Shah Rukh’s work”. Akon also mentioned that Indian audiences will definitely be seeing a lot more of him as he is planning a portion of his world tour in India and plans to work closely with a lot more Indian directors.

He feels that Indian and African culture have quite a few similarities. “You know the tradition in Africa is not different from India. There is the same type of entertainment going on, the difference is only in language. I always wanted to expand my horizon, explore and enjoy,” said Akon. Oh and we’re sure he’s enjoying, after he met the gorgeous Kareena Kapoor, whose playing the lead heroine in the film, Akon dedicated two lines of his hit single “Beautiful” to her. Well we really hope that these two huge entertainment industries continue to come together and create magic.

It seems like the Bollywood and Hollywood collaborations are heating up. Award winning producer Akon has been roped into SRK‘s new film RA 1 which will begin filming later this month in Miami.

Directed by Anubhav Sinha (Tum Bin), science-fiction superhero hi-tech film Ra.1 is written by David Benullo (Shadow Man), cinematography by Ueli Steiger (The Maiden Heist), and music by Vishal-Shekhar. Besides Shahrukh, it also reportedly stars Filmfare winners Kareena Kapoor (Jab We Met) and Vivek Oberoi (Company).

Shahrukh reportedly plays a Miami software engineer Shekhar in the film, who as a video-game hero takes on his self-created techno-monster Ra.1. Shooting locations include Miami (Florida, USA) and Shahrukh’s wife Gauri Khan (Billu) is the producer.

It is rumored that film has a production value of one hundred crores.