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| No man is an island | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Airtel’s new ad attempts to block its consumers’ mind space in a market cluttered with aggressive plans. |
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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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| Value warrior | 01-SEP-09 |
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| Will Dish TV’s tie-ups with shaadi.com, yatra.com and monster. |
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| "One way to cut risks is to pre-sell some rights" | 28-AUG-09 |
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| Fox Star Studios (FSS) has been in the limelight because it acquired the worldwide rights for the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, ‘My name is Khan’ for a reported Rs 100 crore. FSS’ second release, Quick Gun Murugan, hits the theatres today after Slumdog Millionaire made over Rs 40 crore at the box office last year. Vijay Singh, CEO, FSS tells Shobhana Subramanian that in its new avatar, the joint venture between Twentieth Century Fox and Star will co-produce half a dozen films a year. |
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| Salman Khan interested in buying an IPL franchise | 27-AUG-09 |
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| Salman Khan could become the latest Bollywood superstar to join the Indian Premier League (IPL) bandwagon, with the actor today expressing his interest in bidding for a franchise for the 2011 edition of the cash-rich event. |
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| Govindraj Ethiraj: The idea of injustice | 18-AUG-09 |
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| Actor Shah Rukh Khan gets held up at New Jersey Airport for two hours (one hour, six minutes if you were to believe US Immigration). The nation is seething in anger because a) he is a Muslim and it could be racial profiling and b) he is a superstar. Lots of Khan and non-Khan Indians must be getting held up. But they are not superstars. And they don’t know Hillary Clinton. |
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| SRK detained at US airport, released after diplomatic intervention | 16-AUG-09 |
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| Early Saturday morning, as India woke up to celebrate its 63nd Independence Day, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was detained at Newark Airport in the US and questioned for over two hours. Later, the Indian Mission intervened and secured the release of the 43-year-old actor. |
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| Shahrukh held in US airport, let off after probe | 15-AUG-09 |
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| Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan was detained this morning at the Newark Airport in the United States and was questioned for about two hours before the Indian mission intervened and secured his release. |
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| Fox bags rights for My Name Is Khan in Rs 100 crore deal | 28-JUL-09 |
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| Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer My Name is Khan, directed by Karan Johar, is set to create a record ahead of its release early next year with Fox Star Studios reportedly buying its marketing and distribution rights for around Rs 100 crore. |
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| Bollywood slips in the UK | 20-JUL-09 |
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| Box office collections from Indian films in the UK and Republic of Ireland have witnessed a minor slip in 2008 accounting for 1.4 per cent of the total collections in this region in 2008, from a 1.6 per cent market share in 2007. Collections from Indian films in the UK had peaked in 2006, when its overall collection accounted for 1.8 per cent, according to the UK Film Council Statistical Year Book 2009, released this past weekend. |
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| Videocon goes for a brand makeover | 03-JUL-09 |
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| Looking at an aggressive multi-fold growth with an emphasis on technology, quality, innovation, value and services penetration, Videocon Group has unveiled its new eco-friendly green brand identity and tagline: ‘Experience Change’. |
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| Michael Jackson was my guru: Farah Khan | 26-JUN-09 |
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| As an era in pop music comes to an end with the sudden death of Michael Jackson, one of the Bollywood best choreographers Farah Khan remembers the 'King of Pop' as her guru. |
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| Soft makeover for ICICI | 25-MAY-09 |
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| ICICI Bank’s market cap, growing at breakneck speed until last year, hit a speed breaker on October 10, 2008, when its share plunged 20 per cent in a single day. The fall, which the bank executives attributed to “malicious rumour-mongering” in their complaint to the police two days later, has become a precursor to a series of image makeovers for the bank in the last few months. |
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