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Nagra is the trademark referring to any of the series of mostly battery-operated portable professional audio recorders produced by Kudelski SA, based in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland.
The machines were initially designed by Polish inventor Stefan Kudelski, and his company won numerous technical awards for their precision and reliability.
Nagra means "will record" in Polish, the mother tongue of Kudelski.
Nagra-brand tape recorders were the de facto standard sound recording systems for motion picture and single-camera television production from the 1960s until the 1990s. Their physical appearance, with the single transport selector and large reel-to-reel tape deck are still the stereotypical image most people have of a professional tape recorder. A Nagra IV-S recorder prominently appears in the 1981 movie Diva, which features an opera fan making bootleg recordings of his favorite opera singer; another Nagra (a Nagra III) features prominently in the 1981 John Travolta film Blow Out about a freelance sound effects engineer. Another Nagra III may be seen in the Beatles' movie Help!. In the film The Informant! the FBI installs a Nagra in Matt Damon's character's briefcase to covertly record conversations related to ADM price fixing. A Nagra SN is featured in the 1974 psychological thriller The Conversation.
Joshua Paul "Josh" Davis (born June 29, 1972) better known as DJ Shadow is an American music producer, DJ and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing....., which was the first album to be recorded using only sampled sounds. He has an exceptionally large personal record collection, with over 60,000 records. He is the cousin of singer and guitarist Richie Kotzen.
DJ Shadow was experimenting with a four-track recorder while in high school in Davis, California, and began his music career as a disc jockey for the University of California, Davis campus radio station KDVS. During this period he was significant in developing the experimental hip hop style associated with the London-based Mo' Wax record label. His early singles, including "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", were genre-bending works of art merging elements of funk, rock, hip hop, ambient, jazz, soul, and used-bin found records. Andy Pemberton, a music journalist writing for Mixmag, coined the term "trip hop" in June 1994 to describe Shadow's "In/Flux" single and similar tracks being spun in London clubs at the time. Though his music is hard to categorize, his early contributions were certainly important for alternative hip hop. He cited groups such as Kurtis Mantronik, Steinski, and Prince Paul as influences on his sample-based sound, further claiming that "lyrics (...) were confining, too specific". His music rarely features more than short clips of voices or vocal work.
Actors: Javed Sheikh (actor), Nadeem Baig (actor), Saima (actress), Shafqat Cheema (actor), Moammar Rana (actor), Meera (actress), Noor (actress), Nayyar Ejaz (actor), M. Arshad (composer), Babrak Shah (actor), Syed Faisal Bukhari (director), Shamoon Abbasi (actor), Pervaiz Kaleem (writer), Adeel Pk (editor), Sajid Hussain Chakko (composer),
Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: John Shrapnel (actor), Dominique Pinon (actor), Michael Nyman (composer), Ken McMullen (director), Adam Finch (editor), Justinian Buckley (actor), Justinian Buckley (miscellaneous crew), Gabriella Wright (actress), Lex Shrapnel (actor), Julia Faure (actress), David Fairman (producer), Anders Palm (producer), Eddie Kane (miscellaneous crew), Sam McMullen (actor), Mark Westaway (producer),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Govind Namdeo (actor), Kiran Kumar (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Ravi (composer), Lalit Tiwari (actor), Dilip (composer), Pushpa Verma (actress), Pinky Chinoy (actress), Pinky Chinoy (actress), Veena Kapoor (actress), Pooja Dadwal (actress), Shoib Khan (actor), Shoib Khan (actor), Shyam Sonie (writer), Shyam Sonie (director),
Plot: Ram lives with his mom, businessman father, Girdharilal, and an unmarried sister. He is in love with Pooja, the daughter of Jaspal Singh, who works as a Supervisor in Girdharilal's firm. When Girdharilal comes to know that his son would like to get married to Jaspal's daughter, he fires Jaspal, and makes him an equal partner with his firm. This does not auger well with K.K. the existing partner and he kills both Girdharilal and Jaspal; frames Ram for the killing with the help of a corrupt police inspector. However, Ram's friend, Salim Khan, the son of Home Minister, Nawab Khan, pulls some strings to set Ram free. Ram is obsesses with vengeance and will not rest until K.K. is killed. A terrified K.K. seeks protection with underworld Don, Nagra, who eventually ends up killing K.K. in order to escape from the wrath of Ram, who is now knows as Ramabhai. That done, Ram decides to marry Pooja and they settle down in a far-off place. Soon Pooja gets pregnant, much to their joy. But then the past comes to re-visit them in the shape and form of CBI Inspector Rajpal Singh, Jaspal brother, and Pooja's paternal uncle, who has been assigned the task of apprehending Nagra. It is here that Ram finds out that K.K. is still alive, and his death was a scam. Enraged, Ram anger knows no bounds and he must again embark on a killing spree - this time to kill both Nagra and K.K. - knowing fully well that Rajpal Singh is hot on his trail as well.
Genres: Crime,Actors: Krzysztof Kieslowski (actor), Aleksi Bardy (writer), Tapio Liinoja (actor), Vesa Vierikko (actor), Kimmo Kohtamäki (editor), Kimmo Kohtamäki (writer), Matti Kuortti (actor), Jarkko Hentula (writer), Lenka Hellstedt (actress), Juha Antti-Poika (actor), Maarit Lalli (writer), Maarit Lalli (director), Hanna Maylett (miscellaneous crew), Hanna Maylett (writer), Kepa Lehtinen (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Short,