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Connecting Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Akon
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* {{flagu|Sri Lanka}}: Various Sri Lankan leaders paid rich tribute to the three-time PM, hailing him as a "friend of Sri Lanka". In a tweet President Maithripala Sirisena said: "Today, we have lost a great humanist and a true friend of Sri Lanka.
Maithripala Sirisena
Sri Lankan politician (born 1951)
In 2015, Maithripala Sirisena criticised and called for the organisers of an Enrique Iglesias concert in Colombo to be whipped, after the behaviour of some female fans.
Enrique Iglesias
The album features collaborations with Akon, Usher, Nicole Scherzinger, Sunidhi Chauhan, Ludacris, DJ Frank E, Pitbull, Juan Luis Guerra, and his third song together with Wisin & Yandel.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* '' Meri Ikyaavan Kavitaen'' (1995) Some of these poems were set to music by Jagjit Singh for his album ''Samvedna''.
Jagjit Singh
Indian Ghazal singer
Although Jagjit continued to work and to have success after Chitra withdrew from public life he, too, was affected by the death of Vivek. '' The Guardian'' notes that he "suffered from deep depression and his anguish was often evident in his live performances." Aside from occupying himself with solo projects, which he performed in several languages, he collaborated with Lata Mangeshkar on an album titled ''Sajda'', an Urdu word meaning "prostration".
Lata Mangeshkar
During the 1990s, Mangeshkar recorded with music directors including Anand–Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin–Lalit, Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen, Uttam Singh, Anu Malik, Aadesh Shrivastava and A. R. Rahman.
Aadesh Shrivastava
On the international front, Shrivastava has collaborated with artists such as Akon, Julia Fordham and Wyclef Jean.
Together with Akon, he has launched an India-wide talent search on the website hitlab.com which uses music analysis technology to predict the hit potential of new songs.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Vajpayee's government lasted 13 months until mid-1999 when the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) under J. Jayalalithaa withdrew its support.
The AIADMK had continually threatened to withdraw from the coalition and national leaders repeatedly flew down from Delhi to Chennai to pacify the AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa.
J. Jayalalithaa
Indian actress, politician and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1948–2016)
On 14 December 2019, Another biopic named Queen has been released as a web-series by Gautham Vasudev Menon became the fourth such announcement of a related project in August 2018.
Gautham Vasudev Menon
Following Suriya's withdrawal from ''Dhruva Natchathiram'', Menon moved on to begin a romantic thriller film with Silambarasan and Pallavi Subhash in the lead role from November 2013.
Silambarasan
Indian actor, director, writer, composer, dancer, lyricist and playback singer
After releasing a promotional version of "The Love Anthem" song in 2011, Silambarasan announced that a final version would be released thereafter and announced his desire to bring in international artists Akon and Rihanna for the venture.
Rajendar noted that the sound editor Ramji Soma and a Canadian entrepreneur Talvinder Bathh had charged Rs 12 million ($200,000) from his company and failed to return it despite promises made to sign on Akon, David Guetta and either Rihanna or Nicole Scherzinger for the project.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
* {{flagu|Russia}}: Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the demise of Vajpayee.
Vladimir Putin
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
During his first term in office, Putin opposed some of the Yeltsin-era business oligarchs, as well as his political opponents, resulting in the exile or imprisonment of such people as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky; other oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich and Arkady Rotenberg are friends and allies with Putin.
Under Putin, the HasidicFederation of Jewish Communities of Russia became increasingly influential within the Jewish community, partly due to the influence of Federation-supporting businessmen mediated through their alliances with Putin, notably Lev Leviev and Roman Abramovich.
Roman Abramovich
Other partners include several well-known people from the music industry, among them David Guetta, Nicki Minaj, Tiësto, Avicii, will.i.am, Benny Andersson, Dave Holmes (manager of Coldplay) and others.
