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Monthly Archives: July 2009
It’ll be an honour to play Kishore-da: Shreyas Talpade
The young actor says it would be be an ‘honour’ to step into the singer’s shoes for the movie."Nagesh had asked me a year-and-a-half back about doing Kishore-da’s part and I had immediately said yes, but nothing is official as of now… personally speaking I’m really looking forward to it," Shreyas told IANS over telephone from Mumbai."I haven’t been able to speak with Nagesh about it yet, but I’d love to portray Kishore-da without any doubt… I’m a big fan of his and as an actor it’ll be a huge honour for me as well as a challenge to enact him in a film," he added.Apparently Kukunoor, who had launched the actor in Bollywood with his critically-acclaimed 2005 movie ‘Iqbal’, wants to cast him in the biopic for two reasons – first, a Kishore Kumar bio-pic cannot be attempted with a star who has a strong image and, secondly, Shreyas is a huge Kishore Kumar fan himself.If Kukunoor signs Shreyas for the film, it will be his fifth project with the director after ‘Aashayein’, ‘Bombay to Bangkok’ (2008), ‘Dor’ (2006) and ‘Iqbal’ (2005).Asked if he would be crooning the hitmaker’s numbers if roped in, Shreyas said: "You wouldn’t like to mess around with Kishore-da’s voice. I keep humming his songs, but you can’t really call me a singer. His voice has been god’s gift and I’ll try (to sing in his voice), but if I cannot then we’ll pick a singer who can do justice to his songs."But as far as the performance part is concerned, it is totally under my control and I’ll make sure that I pull that perfectly… I wont leave any room for any finger to find anything missing," he added.Kukunoor’s narrative in the film would be propelled forward on the strength of Kishore Kumar’s songs and he is also in the process of acquiring the rights to the original numbers.The filmmaker has spent hours with Kishore Kumar’s son Amit Kumar and wife Leena Chandravarkar – they gave Kukunoor enough anecdotes to make the biopic authentic.Interestingly, two more directors – Sudhir Mishra and Shoojit Sircar – are also set to wield the megaphone on the life and songs of the multi-faceted Kishore Kumar.While Mishra is looking forward to casting Kishore Kumar’s younger son Sumit provided he can act, Sircar’s film, which is being penned by Rensil D’Silva, is currently on hold. Continue reading
New Zealand A to play in Buchi Babu
New Zealand A will participate in the Buchi Babu All-India invitation tournament to be held in Chennai from August 16 to 29 Continue reading
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Nielsen study: Recommendations and editorials crucial to trust a brand
The annual global study among Internet consumers across the globe throws up some interesting findings Continue reading
Radio stations face small town problems
The larger radio networks corner a lion’s share of the advertising pie that goes to radio while the smaller or standalone radio operators have to wage the battle of perception and unfamiliarity with media planners when it comes to getting advertisers on board Continue reading
Best solution will be worked out – BCCI chief
The Indian board will work with the ICC to come up with a mutually acceptable solution on the issue of adopting new anti-doping norms, Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president, has said Continue reading
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WO: Age of Reckoning for Mac Coming Soon
Mythic is developing WarHammer Online for Mac platform
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Ogilvy’s business head on Motorola to head Unitech Telenor at Burnett
Loveleen Raina to join Leo Burnett to head the business on the newly won Unitech Wireless account Continue reading
Revival of the third: Ogilvy resurrects David
After Ogilvy and Meridian, David becomes the third offering under the Ogilvy umbrella, and the one to make a comeback after two years of its merger with Bates Enterprise Continue reading
Week That Was: Bing On the Rise, Twitter Revamped
Did you miss some important tech news last week? Worry not!
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Guest Column Newsmanic: Newspapers and the importance of underwear – Part II
In this second part of his two-part series veteran journalist BV Rao continues with his analysis of what ails print media today. Just like underwear, print will survive. But the waist that wears the underwear will shrink dramatically, so print will have to recast and resize, he concludes. Continue reading
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Microsoft-Yahoo! will be an alternative for advertisers, say media planners
After months of speculations on whether the two would get together or not, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo! Inc on July 29 signed a 10-year Web search deal to better compete against market leader Google Inc. exchange4media spoke to some media planners on the India impact of this deal and whether advertisers now have an alternative to Google. Continue reading
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Water Consulting helps to Light a Billion Lives
Mudra Group’s design arm, Water Consulting’s campaign for Lighting a Billion Lives has been unveiled Continue reading
TERI and Tetra Pak: In SEARCH of raising awareness on recycling
The two companies have jointly launched a programme to educate school children on recycling initiatives Continue reading
‘There is an explosion waiting to happen in Indian E&M Industry’
There is an explosion waiting to happen in the Indian entertainment and media, but first certain issues, including regulatory issues, need to be sorted out. Better content, long term plans and constant innovation will also aid to the growth of the Indian entertainment and media industry. A PwC panel discussion held in Mumbai highlighted several interesting aspects of this industry. Continue reading
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TV Today Q1 net profit grows 81 pc; topline grows 11 pc
TV Today Network Ltd has reported a topline of Rs 71.04 crore in the quarter ended June 2009, a growth of 11 per cent over the corresponding quarter last year. The quarterly net profit after tax has jumped 81 per cent at Rs 16.64 crore, as against Rs 9.17 crore last year. Other income, too, has increased 103 per cent to Rs 9.15 crore in the first quarter. Continue reading
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Oil jumps 5 pc on US recovery hopes
Oil jumped more than 5% to near $67 a barrel on Thursday as economic data sparked fresh optimism that the recession may be bottoming out. Continue reading
Kolkata has highest mobile, PC penetration among students
Kolkata has emerged as the metropolitan city with the highest number of students using the internet for information access, as well as the highest mobile and personal computer penetration among students, according to a survey conducted by Indias largest IT solutions provider, Tata Consultancy Services. Continue reading
US banks reward stars with huge bonuses
US banks reward stars with huge bonusesIf current patterns hold, the biggest banks will pay their workers $156 bn in 2009, compared to the $143 bn paid in 2006. Financial crisis I Ghosts of 1929 Continue reading
RCom Q1 net profit rises 8%
Reliance Communications (Rcom), the integrated telecom company, has had an 8.3 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 1,637 crore for the quarter ended June 30, beating market expectations. For the comparative quarter of the previous financial year, the companys net profit stood at Rs 1,512 crore. Analysts were expecting the company to earn around Rs 1,200 crore in the reporting quarter. Continue reading
IT firms beat downturn
Exports up 24 per cent at Rs 72,000 cr in FY09.??During the yet-to-be resolved recession in the West when the news of job cuts and curtailing of expenses would have been expected to translate into lower software exports from Karnataka, the experience has been the opposite going by the figures of software exports from the state in fiscal 2008-09.??Though the STPI, Karnataka, which usually keeps tabs on software exports figures is yet to make an official announcement regarding the Continue reading
BOLLYWOOD MOURNS GAYATRI DEVI
Movie Talk: Bollywood’s greats have mourned the demise of Jaipur’s Maharani…
‘KAMINEY’ GETS ADULT STATUS
Movie Talk: Heavy violence, abusive language, explicit content in numerous scenes …
Movie Review: Love Aaj Kal
Movie Review: After a very long time, Bollywood has presented an amazingly …
PREITY DENIES REBOUND FLING
Movie Talk: Preity Zinta has denied reports that she is on a rebound fling with cricketer…
Devangshu Datta: Search for market share
Internet Business is no longer an oxymoron, but the descriptor still causes rational dissonance. The logic of cash flow and market share is often obscured by over-emphasis on eyeballs. This is a pity. Deals like Microsoft-Yahoo and its ramifications are complicated enough without misdirection. Continue reading