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For the music of the films of 2014, the composers brought in classic voices, new vocal sounds and vibes and even an actress or two to bring their songs to life. Usually we limit our list to the 5 Best Female Singers but this year we had to expand to 10 in order to highlight their fabulous performances.

10. Shraddha Kapoor

For the first time an actress makes it to our Best Female Singers countdown. Shraddha not only shined in two completely different roles in Ek Villain and Haider, the young actress also showed off her lovely voice with two completely different tunes. With ‘Galliyan’ from Ek Villain, she impressed with her melodious tones. In ‘Do Jahaan’ from Haider she sang a Kashmiri folk song, about which director and composer Vishal Bhardwaj said, “After listening to the song they (Kashmiris) would want to keep you with themselves.” Perhaps one day in the future she...

Bubble Gum is a fun, frothy and warm coming of an age story of a fourteen year old boy Vedant. He has just stepped out of childhood and is not yet into adulthood. It is while going through turbulent phase of life in his academically critical year – first love or rather infatuation happens to him and sends his world upside down finally leading him to discover the meaning of love, life and relationship in a positive way!

The Cast

Teenagers:

Vidur: Sohail Lakhani from Mumbai

Vedant: Delzad Hiravali from Pune

Jenny: Apoorva Arora from Delhi

Ratan: Suraj Singh from Patna

Supporting Kids:

Partho: Harshvardhan from Kolkata

Ravi: Nischal from Luckhnow

Vineeta: Azeen from Jamshedpur

Mala: Sheetal from Luckhnow

The Parents: Sachin Kheddekar & Tanvi Azmi, Ganesh Yadav & Sita Singh, Ravi Khanvilkar

Adult Cameos: Masud Akhtar, Kamini Khanna, Mukesh Bhatt, Ashima Bhatt

The Crew

Producer: Sushma Kaul

Executive Producer: Sumit Kumar

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Eartha Kitt, who used her seductive purr and sultry style to charm audiences as an actress, singer and cabaret star, died Thursday of colon cancer. She was 81.

The cancer was detected about two years ago and treated, but it recurred after a period of remission. Kitt recently had been treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.

"She came back strongly; she had been performing until two months ago," said Andrew Freedman, a longtime friend and publicist. "We had dates booked through 2009."

Among Kitt's hits was the Christmas tune "Santa Baby," lending poignancy to her Christmas Day death. The song went gold this year, and she received the gold record before she died, Freedman said.

Slinky and catlike, Kitt described herself as a "sex kitten": She followed Julie Newmar in the role of Catwoman on the TV series "Batman" during the 1960s.

But the seductress also could be a political provocateur.