We spotlight BONEY M this month. They had numerous disco & funk hits in the 70s and 80s. Some of the songs you may know include Rasputin, Daddy Cool, Sunny, Ma Baker, and more. Get your friends ...

THIS WEEK sees the original lead singer of Boney M., Liz Mitchell, taking to the stage at Regent Street Cinema for an exclusive event on the 50th anniversary year of Boney M. As the unmistakable voice ...

It is not uncommon for Bollywood movies to ‘borrow’ tunes and words from other music industries for remakes and adaptations. In fact, one particular music composer, Pritam, has earned a reputation for ...

In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser. By Sophie Pinkham Sophie Pinkham is the author of “The Oak and the Larch: A Forest ...

The song came from the streets of Ottoman Istanbul. Katibim is an 18th or 19th-century Istanbul urban folk song known as Uskudara Gider Iken The melody spread across Balkans, Middle East, and South ...

In 1999, Antony Beevor published Stalingrad, his account of the nihilistic battle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that was a pivotal event in the second World War. The story combined ...

Rasputin's assassins bound him in chains and threw him into the icy waters of the Neva River. (Image: www.historyextra.com) New Delhi: During the climax scene of the movie Dhurandhar Part 2, a ...

In ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, director Aditya Dhar delivers not only a political thriller but a carefully engineered soundscape. One musical cue in particular, ‘Rasputin’ by Boney M, has sparked ...

This is not the first time Bollywood has used the Rasputin track. Dhurandhar 2 uses Boney M's Rasputin during the climax for thematic impact Rasputin was a mystic whose assassination was surrounded by ...

For a virtually illiterate peasant born in the depths of Siberia in January 1869, Grigori Rasputin had the most extraordinary impact on history. In fact, muses Sir Antony Beevor, the Russian mystic ...

Why was Rasputin used in Dhurandhar 2? After killing Major Iqbal, Hamza is captured by Omar (Aditya Uppal), the new SP who succeeds SP Chaudhary Aslam (Sanjay Dutt). Hamza (Ranveer Singh) is subjected ...

Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic and faith healer who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra in the last days of the Russian empire, is a figure shrouded in intrigue. Russian writer ...