KHELEIN HUM JEE JAAN SEY

Ashutosh Gowarikar seems to be smitten by periodic films after the success of Jodha Akbar. His upcoming movie ‘KHELEIN HUM JEE JAAN SEY’ is a period movie based on the Chittagong Uprising of 1930. The story is inspired from the book of Manini Chatterjee called ‘DO AND DIE’. The movie has Abhishek Bachan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles. The music of the movie is by sohail Sen of What’s Your Rashee fame.

Cadillac, a tribute to a French adventurer

The American brand is named after a French adventurer Antoine Laumet. Sent by Louis XIV in the Americas, he arrived in Acadia in 1683 and took the title Laumet Sieur de Lamothe Cadillac. In 1701, he founded Fort Pontchartrain, Detroit today, the capital of the U.S. auto industry.
In 1902, in gratitude, the builder Henry Leland and William H. Murphy - the shareholder of Henry Ford - founded the Cadillac brand. In 1909, they sell to Billy Durant (founder of GM and Chevrolet).

IPL 3 Trivia

-KXIP unveiled their two new mascots - Rocky and Ranjit. The mascots in animation form would be aired on multitude of digital channels.

-Kannada superstar Puneet Raj Kumar is the new brand ambassador for the Bangalore Royal Challengers cricket team, he replaces Upendra.

-As per the Nielsen's survey, blogs and message boards are the top two social media platforms for IPL-related discussions. Also, Twitter.com, is the third most popular platform for IPL-related discussions.

-First 4 was hit by Pujara on the bowling of RP Singh and the first 6 was by Hodge on the bowling of Jaskaran Singh..hmm not a "SINGH IS A KING"...first match of the IPL 3

-Mumbai Indians are the first team to play less than four overseas players in any IPL. (on 13-03-2010, against RR)In the match 4 ex-ICL player played ( 2 a side). In that match Yusuf went from 15 off 14 balls to 69 off 25 against Mumbai by hitting 11 consecutive balls for 6,6,6,6,4,4,6,4,4,4 and 4.

-Gilly is the first batsman in the IPL to reach 1000 runs. Also he is the first one to score more 50 sixes in IPL.

-During 2008 KKR started high by beating Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers, but Super Kings stopped their winning run and then they ended up last in table, result remain same in 2010 also.
-During the match between KKR vs. CSK (on 16-03-2010), KKR team was the first IPL team to feature 11 players who have played international cricket. In the same match 3 Murali were playing.

-The blue on the Mumbai Indian jersey has been shaded to a darker tone . The inspiration behind the new design was the state-of-the-art Bandra-Worli sea-link, which connects the northern suburbs to south of Mumbai. The idea was to create a design that would not only be new, but also resemble the enterprise and growth of Mumbai - the golden stripes across the bust of the shirt depicts the two pillars of the sea-link and the blue is the shade of the Arabian sea.

-As part of their corporate social responsibility, KXIP pledged their support towards the UNAIDS commitments towards PLHIV (People living with HIV in India). In addition to the existing merchandise, KXIP launched the red bands. The proceeds of the sale would be dedicated for the cause of UNAIDS.

-Two interesting stats about the IPL 2010 finalists. Mumbai hit most fours (261) whileChennai conceded most fours (224).

-70 ducks in IPL 2010 with 31first-ball ducks.

-Spinners opened the bowling 25 times, with Yusuf Pathan (7) and R Ashwin (5) doing so on most occasions

-Right-handed openers averaged 32.80 (22.28 in '08), while left-handed openers averaged 25.83 (36.36 in '08).

-The most productive over for the chasing side was in fact over # 4 that produced 9.35 runs per over.



IPL 1 Trivia
IPL 2 Trivia

Kareena Kapoor is the New brand ambassador of Sony Ericsson

Actress Kareena Kapoor seems to be on an endorsement spree these days. After bagging the Sony Vaio endorsement, Kapoor has now been signed on as the brand ambassador of Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

She has endorsed a range of products like Vivel of ITC soaps, Globus, Anne French, Emami, ICI Paints, Head & Shoulders, Boro Plus , Citizen Watches and Airtel among others.

The ad film for Sony Ericsson was shot at Mehboob Studios and has been directed by director Anuj Alia and produced by Arpan Fernandes of Cut 2 Cut Films. Cut 2 Cut Films is a new production house and this is their maiden production. Saatchi & Saatchi is the creative agency for the Sony Ericsson account.

Wash away your sins by saving electricity - Havells new TVC

Preity : UNAIDS :: Virat : Fastrack

Preity Zinta became the Indian ambassador for the joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS).

Virat Kohli has been signed as the brand ambassador for watchmaker Fastrack.

AMUL's moppet man passed away

Eustace Fernandes, creator of the Amul moppet famously known as "Amul Girl" has passed away. This post is a tribute to him for giving us all, an adorable character. For reader's knowledge, he not only created the 'Amul moppet' but also the famous 'Limca waves' giving one a feeling of freshness.

 One of the first Amul hoardings

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Mongoose Cricket Bat

Hey folks, now there will be a mass destruction weapon in the hands of Batsman, hopefully it can be seen in IPL 3. The Mongoose cricket bat specifically designed by Mr Marcus Codrington Fernandez to meet the new distilled demands of Twenty20, was unveiled first at Lord’s.

The Mongoose bat with a handle as long as the blade, MCC has given its approval to this bat’s design as well as ICC. It will be a nightmare for bowlers & fielders too,  means even if the balls hit on the tip of the bat too it can easily cross the ropes. The first person to use this bat was former Australian batsman Stuart Law during a county Twenty20 match.

Chennai Super Kings' Matthew Hayden is signed as a Brand Ambassador for it. 

Read & See More @ here, here and here also.

IPL 3 trophy unveiled & News Bytes

Along-with Rohit Sharma, Lalit Modi has unveiled IPL 3 winner's trophy.

NEWS Bytes:-

• HDFC Standard Life has announced its second year of association with Rajasthan Royals.
• Gaming Company Indiagames got the official gaming license for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2010.

The state of Paranoia

After hearing above line from someone I would have straightway tracked my mind towards “Only the Paranoid Survive“and the toward “Andrew S. Grove”, but recently someone connected this to an urdu ghazal……..
This person is a Kind-of-expert in urdu language, esp. Awadhi (the sweetest form of hindi, as we nawabi people says)
He quoted me a very interesting classic ghazal from some Siraj Aurangabadi…
Khabar-e-tahayyur-e-ishq sunn, na junoon raha na pari rahi
Na toh tu raha na mein raha, jo rahi toh bas ye be-khabari rahi
Crux of this is: The only thing which is left now is the state of self-unconsciousness: where neither you exist nor I.
On further discussion he explained me that the state of “be-khabari ” or “Self-consciousness” is also a state of paranoia. This term paranoia was derived from the Greek term Paranous, which roughly meant "beyond the mind" (para = outside; nous = mind).