Fiesta
Fiesta, Spanish for "festival" and for "party", may refer to:
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Fiesta (R. Kelly song)
"Fiesta (Remix)" is a number-one R&B single by singer R. Kelly and featuring rappers Jay-Z & Boo & Gotti. The hit song spent five weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number six on the US pop chart. R. Kelly and Jay-Z have worked several times together. In 2002, they released album "The Best of Both Worlds" which sold 285,000 copies in its first week. The single is ranked by Billboard as the best selling and most played R&B/Hip Hop song of 2001.
Background
“Fiesta (Remix)” follows the previous singles and music videos, “I Wish” and “I Wish (Remix)”. In 2001, this song spent five weeks at #1 on the US R&B chart and also reached #6 on the US pop chart. The original fiesta track is one of nineteen tracks on the TP-2.com album by R. Kelly.
Music video
The music video for the single is created by R. Kelly and Little X.
Personnel
Fiesta (Denise Rosenthal album)
Fiesta is the debut solo album by Chilean singer-songwriter Denise Rosenthal. It was available for physical release in Chile on November 6, 2013 via FeriaMix Santiago. On November 8, 2013, the album was available to purchase digitally in iTunes in the United States, Chile, and the rest of Latin America. Rosenthal released the album under the stage name, "D-Niss".
Production
Rosenthal began recording songs for the album as early as 2011. The album is Rosenthal's first release as a solo artist. Her previous discography included albums from telenovelas where she portrayed a character. The album includes 11 Spanglish songs all written or co-written by Rosenthal. It is a fusion of pop, urban and R & B influences. Rosenthal worked on the album in Santiago for eight months with help from producer Bastián Herrera. Rosenthal rerecorded her vocals from the single, Just Better Alone for the album.
Promotion
The album's first official single, "I Wanna Give My Heart" was released to Chilean radio stations in November 2011.It was released on iTunes in Chile on November 21, 2012. A music video was shot in Santiago and Pirque, Chile and released on YouTube on November 30, 2011. The lyrics were written by Rosenthal and composed by Neven Ilic.
Masala
A masala is any of the many spice mixes used in Indian cuisine. The name comes from the Hindi word for spice.
Masala may also refer to:
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Masala (2012 film)
Masala (Marathi: मसाला) is a 2012 Marathi film directed by Sandesh Kulkarni and written by Girish Kulkarni. It is Kulkarni's directorial debut. The film is loosely based on the life story of Hukmichand Chordia of Pravin Masalewale fame.
Synopsis
A couple is forced to repeatedly move in search of sustainable business ventures. They live in constant fear of meeting their creditors, whose money they spent in unfruitful investments. When the couple meets another couple, things start changing for the better by following the wise counsel of their new acquaintances. The latter part of the movie showcases these changes.
Reception
The movie was well received by the audience and appreciated by critics.
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Masala film
Masala films of Indian cinema are those that mix genres in one work. Typically these films freely mix action, comedy, romance, and drama or melodrama. They tend to be musicals that include songs filmed in picturesque locations. The genre is named after the masala, a mixture of spices in Indian cuisine. According to The Hindu, masala is the most popular genre of Indian cinema.
History
The origin of this genre is generally credited to the filmmaker Manmohan Desai and screenwriter duo Salim-Javed who very successfully exploited the genre in the 1970s and 1980s. It helped establish many leading actors as superstars such as Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakrabarty, Rajnikanth, Chiranjeevi, Vishnuvardhan, Ambareesh. Actress Sridevi received stardom in her early Bollywood career with Masala movies. More recently, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Mahesh Babu, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun, Ajith Kumar, Joseph Vijay, Darshan, Dev and Jeet have all tasted success in this format.
This style is used very often in Hindi and South Indian films as it helps make them appeal to a broad variety of viewers. Famous masala filmmakers include David Dhawan, Anees Bazmee, Prabhu Deva and Farah Khan in Hindi cinema; Raja Chanda,Raj Chakraborty,Rabi Kinagi in Bengali cinema;S.S. Rajamouli, Puri Jagannath and Srinu Vaitla in Telugu cinema; S. Shankar, Hari, AR Murugadoss and K. S. Ravikumar in Tamil cinema and in Kannada cinema it was V. Somashekhar and K. S. R. Das in 70's; K.V.Raju, A. T. Raghu and Joe Simon in the 80's; Om Prakash Rao and Shivamani in the 90's and Mahesh Babu, K.Madesha and A.Harsha in the 2000s . The "Curry Western" trend that began with Sholay (1975) also falls under the masala genre. Curry Western is a play on the term Spaghetti Western.
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