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| Amitabh transfers land in UP for college named after Aishwarya | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Nearly two years after Amitabh Bachchan laid the foundation of a girls college named after his daughter-in-law and actress Aishwarya Rai in Barabanki district, legal formalities have been completed to transfer the land to the organisation building it. |
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| Ring-ring bling | 16-OCT-09 |
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| These phones and laptops will make you look like a million bucks. |
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| The Rs 700-cr brand | 05-OCT-09 |
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| French Director Francois Truffaut called him a one-man industry in the late-seventies, when eight of his films – released almost simultaneously – had an unprecedented success at the box office. |
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| 'Big B' gets ready for TV comeback | 05-SEP-09 |
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| After nearly four years off the small screen, Bollywood’s biggest icon, Amitabh Bachchan, is ready to return, this time as anchor for the third edition of Hindi general entertainment channel Colors’ reality show, Bigg Boss. |
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| Big B brand ambassador for Max Vijay | 31-AUG-09 |
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| Insurance firm Max New York Life has appointed cine star Amitabh Bachchan as brand ambassador for its product, Max Vijay, which is targeted at providing financial inclusion to the underprivileged. |
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| Payday celebrations | 30-JUN-09 |
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| The new Cadbury Dairy Milk commercial targets smaller markets where the company hopes to replace traditional sweets with the chocolate brand. |
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| Flip the bird, fling a shoe | 09-MAY-09 |
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| Transparency and the honest expression of views are central to any democracy, so it was with a sense of national pride that I read this mail forward: “Don’t these elections rock? The common man is throwing footwear at politicians and the politicians are responding by giving us the finger. Mutual disrespect all around. None of that fake politeness and genuflecting we see so much of in public life. |
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| Bachchan advertises love for M'rashtra, MNS elated | 02-MAY-09 |
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| Actor Amitabh Bachchan, who was under attack from MNS chief Raj Thackeray for "preferring Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra", has professed his love for the coastal state in a novel way -- by publishing a newspaper advertisement. |
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| Such a 'filmi' journey | 23-MAR-09 |
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| 'Set jetting', the concept of organising tour packages around famous movies and TV shows, is fast catching up in India. |
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| A globalising saga | 20-MAR-09 |
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| There’s a lovely story about a group of AR Rahman fans who spent many sleepless nights coding software so as to be able to create a montage of thumbnail images of all his album covers, which formed the contours of his face. Acknowledging their perseverance, Rahman and his team decided to collaborate with them to organise concerts worldwide, evolve new ways to distribute music and tackle piracy. It’s anecdotes like this and trivial bits of information on the film industry in Bombay that make this anthology an interesting read. |
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