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How Much Moolah did MNIK really Rake In? Shahrukh Khan’s most ambitious film ‘My Name Is Khan’ was expected to beat Aamir Khan’s super hit  film ‘Three Idiots’ and it happened also in the opening of the film also that it opened very well and showed very good results. But, now as per the review or analysis of the trade reports it is been suggested that Shahrukh Khan’s ‘My Name Is Khan’ is falling way behind the Aamir Khan’s super hit ‘3-Idiot’s which is directed by the most talented and famous director  Raj Kumar Hirani flick in the moolah race. Actually, some of the people believe that Shahrukh Khan has taken credit of his dispute with Shiv Sena for the non-screening of the film MNIK in Mumbai, in fact in whole Maharashtra even. It helped Shahrukh Khan to generate the business in all over the world and getting good marketing and promotion benefits through the Shiv Sena issues. Through the same the film got 100 percent opening all over the world and generated approximately Rs.150 crore businesses from India and worldwide markets in its first 10 days of release. But, as per the trade reports, although the opening of ‘My Name Is Khan’ was very [More]

Youngsters should be preserved: Indian selectors haves eyes for future and want to preserve the talented players. Selectors have a challenge of selecting a good squad for upcoming world cup which can make team win the cup for the country. In past too Indian selection committee chairman had preserved with a youth policy for which they were criticized at that time and team had also many series but selectors were looking for the future. Vijay Merchant had given chance to countless young players during the 1969-70 season and did not step back even after the failure of team against Australia and virtually lost the series to New Zealand as well but he did not leave his hopes from those talented players. He also continued trying the talented players in next season too and as a result the team under Ajit Wadekar notched up historic triumphs in West Indies and England in 1971. He did not care about the early losing by teams but at end he made a strong team by investing in young talents of the country. Now Indian selection committee is headed by Dilip Vengsarkar and Kris Srikkanth and they want to make a powerful squad for the world cup not [More]

Aishwarya back in public eye: Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made an appearance in public in an award ceremony on last Friday. There were some rumors that she is having ill health and by giving appearance she gave rest to all the rumors made about her health. She was present in pink sari in the function with her mother Vrinda Rai. She was having high fever and throat infection due to which she had returned back from the shooting of movie “Action Replayy”. She was ill due to which whole Bachchan family was worried about her and caring for her. Abhishek Bachchan left the shooting of movie “Crooked” in between because of bad health of his wife and came back to home. There were rumors about Aishwarya Rai Bachchan that she has got tuberculosis in her stomach due to which she can’t give birth at present to child. Due to such printed news by media Bachchan family had also boycotted the film fare award ceremony in which Aishwarya Rai to perform as well but because of such slanderous news about her made her back out and decided to be with her family. Aishwarya recovered very speedily but she was [More]

Sachin Tendulkar supports hockey team: Indian master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is supporting the Indian hockey team in the world cup and said that he is fan of hockey team captain Rajpal Singh and all of his men. He said that he is not expert of hockey but he is fan of his countries hockey team as everyone else in the country. Sachin Tendulkar wished team good luck for the rest of the tournament saying that he is in their support whether they perform well or they fail to live up to their  expectations. He was talking to media after Indian hockey team win over Pakistan team by 4-1 in the opening match and said that he has hope that team will also continue their same performance for the rest of the tournament. He said that he is talking the behalf of billion plus population of country that we will always be with you as your performance may be fluctuating but our support for the team will always be consistent. Sachin told that the there may be sometimes hard time for the hockey team but their support for the team will be increasing and they will be standing with the team in every conditions. Whole country [More]

Shivendra Singh’s ban reduced to two matches: Shivendra Singh is Indian centre forward player of hockey team and was banned for next three consecutive matches by tournament director Ken Read which is reduced to ban of two matches by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). It was during the opening match of team which Indian team won by 4-1. Indian team management had made appeal and the three members Appeal Jury ruled on Tuesday that Shivendra Singh’s action in raising the stick was reckless but that he did not deliberately intend to cause any kind of injury to the Pakistani player Fareed Ahmed. Antonio von Ondarza, president, FIH Appeal Jury said that they found that it constitutes physical assault as referenced in the FIH Code of Conduct Guidelines of Offences and Penalties and Jury concluded that the offence was Level 2 under Article 15 of the tournament regulations and the act was reckless but it was not intentional act by the player therefore a minimum plenty of suspension of two matches. After two match suspension he can play against England but can’t play next two consecutive matches against Australia and Spain. Indian team manager and national coach Harendra Singh said that Shivendra had pleaded [More]

Holi songs in bollywood in past: Audience has enjoyed watching Holi songs in Hindi movies filmed on many stars. Actors have entertained the audience not just by the acting but they also have entertained by songs which people still love to listen at various occasions. Some of popular Holi songs in bollywood are Rang Barse from movie Silsila, Hori Khele Raghuveera from movie Baghban, Dekho Aayi Holi from movie Mangal Pandey, Holi Ke Din from movie Sholay, Mohe Chedo Na from movie Lamhe, Ang se ang lagana sajan from movie Darr, Mal de gulal mohe, aaye holi aaye re in movie Kaamchor, Apne rang mein rang de mujko from movie Aakhir Kyon, Aayee re aayee re holi from movie Zakhmee, Phagun aayo re from movie Phagun, Arre ja re hat natkha from movie Navrang, Aaj na chodenge bas humjoli khelenge hum holi from movie Kati Patang, Holi aaye re kanhayee from movie Mother India, Tan rang lo ji aaj mann rang lo from movie Kohinoor, O dekho holi aayi in movie Mashaal, Rang di preet ne rang di from movie Dhanwan, Koi bheega hai rang se in movie Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost and many more to enlist. Now it is turn for [More]

Hrithik gets Hollywood offers: Bollywoood actor Hrithik Roshan is getting offers from various Hollywood directors after working with Hollywood actress Barbara Mori. He is working for movie “Kites” with Barbara Mori who is a Mexican actress and Hrithik has stimulated with major Hollywood interest after his polite acting and exciting chemistry with Barbara Mori in his upcoming movie. Sources said that trailers and promos of the movie “Kites” have made interest of Hollywood directors in Indian actors and they want to sign Hrithik in near future for their movies. Rakesh Roshan was not interested to spread the news about it saying that it is too early to make any comment on it. His official spokesperson confirmed that Hrithik is getting many offers from big Hollywood directors. Many big Hollywood directors are willing to work with him after looking at his on screen chemistry with Barbara Mori in trailers of movie “Kites”.
About the movie, Kites: Kites is among most awaited bollywood movie which is written and directed by Anurag Basu and produced by well known Rakesh Roshan. Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, Kabir Bedi and Luce Rains will be seen in lead role in the movie and music for the movie is given Rajesh Roshan. [More]

Bowling not settled yet: Indian cricket team is worried about the fast bowlers in the team for the world cup. As other than Zaheer Khan there is no bowler on whom team can rely in the match. In the series against South Africa team made many experiments with young talented fast bowlers and some were given chances against Bangladesh but team has still failed to find someone who can take the command of team in fast bowling sphere. Team needs some good fast bowlers for the world cup squad who can bowl consistently for the team at a speed of about 140 kmph. Team had witnessed how Indian bowlers failed against South Africa in final match and no doubt team can’t dream to win world cup with such fast bowlers who gives away so many runs and not have ability to take break through for the team whenever team needs. Team has many fast bowlers but not any consistent bowler which can take permanent place in the team as last season team had many fast bowlers like Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, RP Singh, Sudeep Tyagi, S Sreesanth, L Balaji, Ashoke Dinda and Abhimanyu Mithun who were going through some matches but [More]

His name is Khan: Bollywood star actor Shah Rukh Khan has faced many difficulties in his life and facing all he is at the stage where people know him the king Khan of Bollywood. At the time of release of his movie ‘My Name is Khan’ he faced controversies from Shiv Sena as he had made comment that Pakistani players should have also given chance in IPL while Shiv Sena protested against his by deciding protest against release of his movie in Mumbai. Shiv Sena asked Shah Rukh Khan to apologize for his words but he refused saying that he has not said anything wrong so why he to apologize for it. Even after the protests movie was released in the city and shown in various theaters and proved to be a blockbuster. He did not bend over them because he was not wrong and sitting in New York he was in contact of his fans expressing his apologizes to his fans for the problems which some disturbing elements were causing in the movie and he wrote that you all are real hero. By acting in the movie My Name Is Khan as character he has proved that nothing is impossible for him [More]

Time to savour each inning of Sachin: Sachin Tendulkar is playing international cricket from decade and with increasing age he will have to take retirement one day from cricket. He is the man who makes the difference in almost every match and every team has fear of Sachin Tendulkar. As he will retire it will affect Indian cricket to a large extent which other players retirement did not affect so much. It is time we savour his every inning he plays for the team and enjoy every moment of his game whether it is score from his bat or his catches during the fielding. He wants his team to win world cup 2011 as this will be his last world cup match before his retirement. He had almost did it about seven years back in South Africa but team failed to lift the cup in that world cup and now in year 2011 team has got chance to win the cup for the country. World cup 2011 will be after one year and he has still many matches to play before that and he is improving with every game he plays. He has still stamina to stand on the ground for the team for complete [More]

Anil Ambani hosts party: Anil Ambani, business tycoon and his wife Tina organized a party in Mumbai at Grand Hyatt for celebrating the success of his Reliance Big Pictures. Party was attended by big stars of bollywood like Amitabh Bachhan, Rhithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan, Dev Anand, Rekha and many popular personalities. It was grand party by the business tycoon and Shah Rukh Khan said expressing his happiness that industrialists like Anil Ambani has entered into the film industry and they have well structured way of making the film from the aspects of production. Reliance Big Pictures is doing well and SRK was surprised to see that how they are doing so many things which he was not aware of before. He was thinking that they are just doing the distribution and producing work but they are doing a lot of back end work and lot of international stuff which is required for the movie. He said it is admirable work done by them which they can have a well structured way of making the movie from top to end and from the various aspects of the production.

Bachchan’s at party: Family of Amitabh Bachchan was present at the party including his son Abhishek Bachchan [More]

India beats Pakistan in opening match: It was third match of the world cup started at 20:35 according to Indian Standard Time between the teams of pool B India and four time world cup winner Pakistan at Dhyan Chand National Stadium. Indian team got a clear victory against Pakistan in their opening match with final goal score of 4-1. Indian team started their campaign of goals with first goal by Shivendra Singh in the 27th minute of the match and Sandeep Singh further continued the campaign and extended the lead of the team by scoring another goal in 35th minute, just before the half time break. India was leading in the game by two goals at the end of first half of the game because of excellent performance of the Indian hockey team and they did not let score any goal to Pakistani team before first half. Just after two minutes after end of half time break Prabhjot Singh scored goal for the team and further extended the lead of the team by 3-0. Pakistan team was looking helpless in scoring any goal and Indian team was extending their lead over them and later Sandeep Singh scored his second goal of the game and [More]

IPL 2010 from March 12: Third season of Indian Premier League will be starting from March 12, 2010 and will last till April 25. There will be total 60 matches. IPL is a T20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi. First season was ended with victory of Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai while in year 2009 it was organized in South Africa because of date coinciding with election due to which proper security management was not possible. Second season was ended with win of Deccan Chargers. IPL currently has eight teams which are owned by some popular bollywood personalities or some business tycoons. This year IPL will be held in India and will last for 45 days and for this year four venues are added to 2008 year venues for IPL. New added venues are Nagpur, Vishakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala. IPL has also signed agreement with You Tube for the live streaming of all 60 IPL matches for 2 years. These matches will be shown little late in countries where broadcast rights are also [More]

Last match of series: South Africa beaten in last match by 90 runs of the three one day match series. It was day night match played at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahemdabad. India was leading in the series by 2-0 and team had given rest to senior players in the match as team had already won the series. Team management had given the chance to the new players and some other player who were less experienced but they failed to make team win the match and lost the final match. South African skipper won the coin toss and elected to bat first inviting Indian team to field first. South African team scored 365 runs losing 2 wickets in 50 over game and in return Indian team lost all wickets at a total of 275 runs in 44.3 over. From South African team two players hit centuries while bowlers also shown their game which made them win the last match at least as they had already lost the first two matches. AB de Villiers was awarded with man of the match award for his excellent performance in match while Sachin Tendulkar got man of the series award for his double century in second one day international.

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Kangana’s fee: Bollwood actress Kangana Ranaut don’t want to be low paid actress and has upped her fee to Rs 5 crore. Actor Anuj Saxena’s production house Maverick is launching Chirag Paswan, son of Ram Vilas Paswan, Union minister of chemicals, fertilizers and steel with this film. Movie has been signed by director Tanveer Khan while name is still not decided. Kangana Ranuat has asked for fee of Rs 5 crore for acting in this romantic film. Movie will be produced by Anuj Saxena and the film is being touted as a “different love story” with three heroines in the cast. There are many bollywood actress who are already taking more fee as Priyanka Chopra got Rs 6 crore for movie “Pyaar Impossible”, Kareena Kapoor charged fee of Rs 7 crore for movie “Golmaal 3” while Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is charging fee of Rs 10 crore for her next ventures. Kangana also decided to charge as huge fee for her role as other actresses are charging and she is also a national award winner so deserves more.

About Kangana Ranaut: Kangana Ranaut is 22 year old bollywood actress and model who started her career in bollywood with movie “Gangster” in year 2006 and she won Filmfare [More]