Saavn, a joint venture between Hungama Digital Media and 212 Media appears to have replaced Phulki, a little known but much liked Bollywood music search engine. Phulki users tweeted (this and this) a few days ago mentioned the change in name, and Pluggd.in followed up with a post on the change. We've written to 212Media MD Paramdeep Singh, as well as Hungama for details on what has transpired. Phulki indexes Hindi and Tamil songs, allows creation of playlists, and discovery of featured playlists (an excellent feature), search by album, movie, singer, director, year and actor. Remember that Hungama is the exclusive licensee of content from music company T-Series, and the latter had filed a police complaint against search engine Guruji.com for copyright violation (Guruji search allowed users access to pirated music hosted on multiple websites), following which senior Guruji executes…
