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Here is the countdown to the Best Bollywood film songs of 2008. You have listened to them, admired them and now it is the time to take stock if they are worth being in the top 10 Hindi film songs of 2008.

Top 10 best Bollywood songs of 2008:

10. Bakhuda Tumhi Ho(Kismat Konnection): Singers: Atif Aslam and Alka Yagnik, Music: Pritam

09. Khuda Jaane(Bachna Ae Haseenon): Singer: K.K and Shilpa Rao, Music by Vishal Shekhar

08. Mar Jaava(Fashion): Singer: Shruti Gupta, Music by Salim-Sulaiman

07. Kahin Toh(Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na): Singers: Rashid Ali, Vasundhara Das. Music by A.R.Rahman

06. Pehli Nazar(Race): Singer: Atif Aslam, music by Pritam

05.Zara sa Dil mein(Jannat): singer: K.K, Music by Pritam

04. Tum Ho Toh(Rock On): Singer: Farhan Akhtar, Music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy

03. Tu Hi Meri Dost Hai(Yuvvraaj): Singers:A.R.Rahman and Shreya Goshal, Music by .A.R.Rahman

02. Kabhi Kabhi Aditi(Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na): Singer: Rashid Ali, Music by A.R.Rahman

01. Kaise Mujhe (Ghajini): Benny Dayal & Shreya Ghoshal, Music by A.R.Rahman. Listen to Kaise Mujhe

Pritam gave three beautiful albums this year in the form of Race, Jannat and Kismet Konnection. But the year 2008 clearly belongs to the music whizkid, A.R.Rahman who has given some of his career best numbers in 2008. Jodhaa Akbar, Yuvvraaj, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Ghajini are full of fantastic tracks. A.R.Rahman dominates the top 3 positions of the best Hindi film songs of 2008. It goes without saying that he features prominently in the top 10 best dance tracks of Bollywood 2008.
Clearly a golden period for A.R.Rahman. We believe the best is yet to come!!

Bollywood gave some of the disappointing worst movies this year, 2008. The dusky beauty Priyanka Chopra is responsible in giving four of the biggest flops of 2008. Thank God, Fashion proved to be a saving grace.
Here is the list of Bollywood flop movies 2008:

1. Tashan: Director Sanjay Gadhvi showed that Dhoom series was a fluke as he completely made mincemeat of the movie Tashan. The movie was one big size zero, nothing in the movie impressed. Everyone in the movie looked like having an attitude problem and Anil Kapoor was difficult to understand than a Mission Impossible plot. Read review of Tashan

2. Love story 2050: Love Story 2050 released as a contender to Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na on July 4, 2008. While Jaane Tu skyrocketed, Love Story 2050 went down to pits. Perhaps no movie in Bollywood has such a hackneyed and foolish second half as Love Story 2050. Come to think of it, something was definitely wrong in her pretty head, when Priyanka Chopra said it was a great movie. We certainly hated her as a red haired moll. Her man…sorry Harman Baweja looked like a boy lost in the woods.

3. Drona: Another crap flop movie featuring Priyanka Chopra. Drona was touted as the next big superhero movie starring Abhishek Bachchan. Almost every movie critic thrashed the movie Drona left, right and center. With Abhishek Bachchan looking like a junior artiste, this superzero film made everyone rush out of the cinema. Read review of Drona

4. Kidnap: Sanjay Gadhvi has proved that Tashan’s flop status was not a fluke. The movie lost focus on the story and trained its lens only on Minissha cleavage. So much to the extent that the candy floss lover Imran Khan was also shown ogling at Minissha’s cleavage. What about the story? Forget it, the audience was held at ransom. Read Kidnap review.

5. Mission Istanbul: Mission Istanbul looked like a B-grade movie with Istanbul as a backdrop. Pathetic direction, lousy performances, irritating screenplay, nothing went right for Mission Istanbul. At no point could the audience relate to what was going on. Read review of Mission Istanbul.

6. Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic: Since the time Aditya Chopra decided to put bikinis and scantily clad women as the centrifugal force in his films, his movies have only succeeded at the groin level. Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic will go down as one of the worst children’s movie. In fact, it is an insult to call it a children’s movie when we have the very developed in the right places Amisha Patel strutting her stuff in a yellow bikini and enjoying some lazy lamhe on the side. And have you seen a sardarni angel? That’s Rani for you. Read review of Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic

7. God Tussi Great Ho: Another Priyanka Chopra flop, this time she shares the honor with Salman Khan. The movie a very poor rip off of “Bruce Almighty”(even though the maker lied by telling it wasn’t) certainly left a bad taste in the mouth. Total bore and a waste of time, everything in it was second hand as Priyanka Chopra’s old nose ring.

8. Chamku: Priyanka Chopra’s one more meaningless contribution to the box office. I am sure the lady will blush while reading this, she certainly has to differentiate between a good script and bad script. At least, she can choose a director with a better track record if she cannot judge a script. Anyway Chamku had Bobby Deol playing the wrong character 252nd time. Of course, what do you expect the audience to do?

9. Money Hai toh Honey Hai: Money Hai toh Honey Hai was rubbished by critics and audiences alike. It looked like the director Ganesh Acharya tried making something to fill in between the song videos.

10. Krazzy4: The producer Rakesh Roshan became poorer by 4 crores before the movie could even release, thanks to the music copyright infringement case filed by Ram Shankar. Krazzy 4 had three item numbers by Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Rakhi Sawant which were the only saving grace in the film. Among the above list of top 10 flops in Bollywood 2008, this is the only one which was marginally passable to watch.

Some call it Web 2.0, and others call it social media. Whatever the name is, it’s technology that’s helping to shape and drive the growth of the Bollywood Entertainment industry. So what exactly is social media, and how does it help to drive the growth of Bollywood? For the sake of convenience, we’ll just call it social media from here on.

Social media is the natural evolution of the Internet. It means building communities that are able to interact and share with one another on the Internet. For example, if you’re on a social media website, you may be able to see what your friends are doing online. If they’re listening to some cool MP3 music, you may be able to do the same. If they’re visiting some cool Bollywood MP3 websites, you’ll be able to see those sites as well (ever heard of social bookmarking?).

This makes it very convenient for people to share stuff with others. Bookmarks, digital files such as MP3 audio files, videos, PDF reports and so on. So if there’s anything that’s worth sharing on the Internet, you can be sure that in this day and age, it’s going to go viral. Viral simply means that people are willing to tell others about the cool stuff that they’ve come across willingly.

And since we see a lot of entertaining, unique and cool Hindi videos online, it’s no wonder that people all over the world are paying attention to Bollywood. In India, the culture is unique and many find Hindi movies and music to be a breath of fresh air.

With the widespread adoption of blogging (another form of social media), fans can now create new unofficial fan sites in a matter of minutes and get all their friends to the sites and share some great music or videos. Their friends can in turn leave comments about their favorite Hindi stars on the blogs. Who is their favorite lead actor or actresses? Who is in and who is out? On the Internet, it’s all very revealing. Plus, it’s a great load of fun and a great experience to talk about Hindi movies on some friend’s blog.

Since Bollywood is reputed to be one of the most productive movie production studio in the world, it’s really no surprise to see the sheer number of videos and music clips that find their way on to the Internet and spread like wild fire.

The role of these social websites is an important one and cannot be underestimated. They not only capture the hearts of existing fans, they also help capture the attention of new fans. And they allow these fans to further fuel their love for their favorite Bollywood movies or music by giving them numerous channels to communicate and share with one another.

As the Internet continues to grow at a phenomena pace, we can expect the role of social media in the Bollywood entertainment industry to grow in tandem as well.

A movie has been for long a source of entertainment for human beings. Hence people used to love watching silent movies which only had moving pictures and no sound in an equal degree as they love watching the movies which are being made today. India has made its own identity when it comes to making cinemas. The Indian film industry otherwise known as bollywood is now a worldwide presence with many things and events taking place worldwide and hence the world now knows bollywood movies when they see them. There have been many movies which have gained an international respect and some of them have even become icons in terms of excellence of Indian cinemas as well as movies of worldwide origin. The actors and the actresses who act in these movies are known all over the world with many a person spending fortunes just to see them in person out of the cinema screen, in real life. Bollywood movies are hence now global with many of its actors having gained international status. In fact the pinnacle of world cinema, Hollywood now faces a stiff competitor in terms of Bollywood with Indian movies being viewed in a greater number by people living all over the world. Hollywood Movies and in fact some of the latest Hollywood movies are now contending for box office revenues not only on foreign shores but also in their own soil with Americans liking and hence watching Bollywood movies in large numbers. The Indian viewer has always changed his preference for the type of cinema that they normally prefer to see. The trends have kept on changing and hence genres such as action, drama and arts have all seen their share of limelight. The recent trend is comedy and therefore Bollywood has seen lots of comedy movies getting released and becoming hits. They have also led to the change in the perception about actors and hence some of the actors who in the past have had the tag of being an action hero, have become equally famous in comic roles as well. These comedy movies have gained lots of popularity and hence have seen cinema halls getting jam packed to the maximum of their capacity. Movie lovers have gone to watch these movies without the fear of replacement of these movies in cinema halls by new ones. This is because comedy movies of the recent times have been so successful that they have run for months. Bollywood movies of this genre hence are now the latest hits creating records revenues.