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Haider Has Decent First Week
Friday 10 October 2014 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Haider grossed a decent 35 crore nett in its extended eight day first week and held up fairly well over the eight days but the problem for the film is its very niche and the collections are coming mainly from the premium multiplexes so there is a limit to where the film can go.
The film has done its best business in the Delhi NCR belt with the Delhi/UP and East Punjab circuits recording decent figures, Mysore was also fair while West Bengal was helped by holidays for Puja. Mumbai circuit was the disappointment as Mumbai city and Pune should have done better. The mass circuits were dull.
Haider will have a decent hold in week two and should have lifetime business of around 50 crore nett which is an average result..
Bang Bang Has Good First Week But Trend Not Good
Friday 10 October 2014 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Bang Bang (Hindi) had a good extended eight day first week of around 115 crore nett but considering the amount of holidays that were there the collections were not as good as they should be. Also on the weekdays its decent hold was due to holidays but when there are holidays the hold should not be decent but good. At centres where there was no holiday from Tuesday onwards the film did show noticeable drops in collections.
The trend does not look good for week two as it will not get support of holidays. The best case scenario for the film looks around 150 crore nett for lifetime business. It is possible it may fall short of that mark and much will depend on the business in the second weekend.
The film has collected well in multiplexes of big centres but it was the business of multiplexes and single screens in B and C centres which let the film down. The collections across the Hindi belt were not up to the mark. Only Bihar was good but that had holidays for Puja. Gujarat, CP Berar, CI, Rajasthan and UP all had average to above average figures which is not good for a film of this scale.
Not particularly pleasing numbers for BB. Even taking the producer figures which are around 135 crore (note also an 8 day figure not 7) compared to Kicks 165 crore, Dhoom 3 189 crore, CE 157 crore, ETT 156 crore it is way behind. In fact it will probably not even have the legs to get to D3’s first week total itself, BOI or producer or whatever sources.
yes poor numbers by any stretch. if anything BOI continue to be far too kind in terms of their commentary. Hrithik has had two clear under performers/failures in two big films (Krrish, Bang Bang). This isn’t even like Agneepath where at least the week 1 numbers were very high. But as usual some of the fans who start off with the highest predictions come around for brownie points later. Sooner or later someone will also pop up saying ‘hey even his flop made so much’!
not bad i feel – if this weekend collects 30+ cr – it can do 150+ lifetime – shd have done more but that means the product is not that good – i want this to happen to HNY
Top Domestic Opening Weeks All Time Bang Bang 7th
Friday 10 October 2014 11.00 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Bang Bang had the seventh highest first week collections ever as it grossed a little less than 110 crore nett. The collections were less than Hrithik Roshan’s last film Krrish 3 despite it having a more favourable release date.
The first week number of Bang Bang of around 110 crore is a good number but with just a good release date with maximum holidays it should have got a higher number. The first week is well short of the top grossers despite the first week being a holiday or part holiday practically very day.
The first week figures of Bang Bang are the third best of the year after Kick and Singham Returns. Below are the top opening weeks of All Time.
As I had said, it will probably wrap up af around the Singham Returns range.
For Katrina, it’s not going to be a major set-back because she always seems to have other commercial potboilers lined up. In Hrithik’s case, it is a set back because when you look at his line-up, he has nothing coming up until Mohenjodaro in 2016. By that time the Khans and Ranbir and Akshay and Devgan will have lined up several releases amongst themsleves and the 300cr barrier will probably be overcome. And even Mohenjodaro looks far from being the safest bet in that respect.
Hrithik certainly needs to line up more releases. One set back does him more harm because it will now take him at least a couple of years to return back to the top bracket.
Don’t understand the significance of this? Are you weighing it with his support of AAP candidate?
Don’t wish to become political here, but this chiwala thing is pure propoganda because Modi ran away from home when in his teens. He didn’t become PM from chaiwala but from a RSS wala. Everyone knows that. The above comment seems to repeat what was being propogated to get his point across.
Stupid Madhu Kishwar already thinks the award is because of affiliation with these foreign donors. She wants an investigation into the money received and actually how many children rehabilitated.
His NGO was being targeted, not particularly but included as in ALL NGOs which were stopped from taking help from abroad. It would have been better to have ignored than ban help without which functioning would be difficult.
“I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age,” he said today.
“I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured,” he said. Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for but never won the Nobel Peace Prize.
New Releases Dull – Bang Bang And Haider Lead But Fall
Friday 10 October 2014 14.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
The new releases opened to very dull collections with Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami having the best collections of the lot at multiplexes but the occupancies were just 5%. Tamanchey has the widest release of all the releases but it makes no difference as its screen average is a disaster
The releases were Ekkees Tooppon Ki Salaami, Jigariya, Spark, Tamanchey amongst a couple of very low budget films. None of the films have much of a chance as the opening is low and the sort of pick up the need does not really happen.
It will be Bang Bang and Haider which will continue to lead at the box office but they have also dropped significantly from their respective collections from last Friday which was the second day for both films.
Lol! And now they realize the folly of giving the Peace Prize to a novice US President. All the supposed potential based on a bunch of hot air which he blew in the midst of an election season. No prior experience, no nothing. Dont worry Nobel Peace Committee. The entire US population thinks and feels just like you, the distinct feeling one gets when buying a Lemon or Damaged Goods. Welcome to the club.
LOL, the US population has thought this about a number of US presidents who’ve then been ranked very differently by historians! By the way I do agree on the pre-mature nature of the Prize and this was always true. On the rest I am more or less in agreement with Krugman though I’d cavil with things here and there.
It is oxymoronic to award the Nobel Peace Prize to any US President, given that every one of them in the past century has had to authorize some war somewhere on the planet. What were they thinking anyway? That they had landed a Koombaya US President who would nary lift a finger when push came to shove?
When I heard Putin was also in the reckoning for NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, I then realized the brilliant logic of the committee and withdrew my objection to Obama being given the peace prize. It was literally a begging movement from the committee asking these guys to NOT start new wars; not for their historical record! That’s what the prize is: an euphemism not to stop existing wars, but to NOT adventure into newer wars..
I think it was the RELIEF that one got with Bush away that they gave the award to Obama, and Putin because the unthinkable happened! USSR ws no more and Putin rose from the ashes of communism as a ‘new’ world messiah and so perhaps was thought to be well deserving. Thank goodness he didn’t get it. Obama looks better.
Bang Bang box-office: Film crosses Rs 250 crore mark, aims for Rs 300 crore now
TNN | Oct 10, 2014, 02.21 PM IST
Bang Bang
Ruling the box-office since one week of its release, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif-starrer Bang Bang seems unstoppable.
The film has already made it to the list of top five films with the highest openings and top 10 highest earning films of 2014. According to Koimoi.com, Bang Bang has now earned Rs 135 crore in India and Rs 57.25 crore worldwide, making a total of Rs 250.75 crore on the box office.
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While it released with Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider on October 2, Bang Bang raced ahead full steam and is now vying to enter the much coveted Rs 300 crore club.
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Directed by Siddharth Anand, Bang Bang is the remake of hit Hollywood film Knight And Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
“According to Koimoi.com, Bang Bang has now earned Rs 135 crore in India and Rs 57.25 crore worldwide, making a total of Rs 250.75 crore on the box office.”
This must be from the Rakesh Roshan International School of Mathematics algorithm.
have you heard of the Japanese soldier on the island.. here I must given it to Salman fans. They didn’t keep debating Jai Ho! Many of Aamir fans found the ultimate D3 gross disappointing. You seem to be aligned with SRK fans though who were declaring the success of Ra One and a lot of other films. Between Krrish 3 and Bang Bang two big budget disappointments for Hrithik except for those who consume Rakesh Roshan’s numbers! If anything BOI are still incredibly kind on the film in their commentary.
one sign that a movies’ box-office status is a disappointment…when you have to spin the numbers in your favor.
bottom line is that this movie should’ve done a lot more. This was Hrithiks terrain, had katrina (coming hot off her D3 success). Hrithik has lost touch with a certain demographic whereas I think Ranbir, Ranveer have gained that audience from him. I’m beginning to think only SRK, Sallu and Aamir belong in the top tier now.
and this is where a person can’t take you seriously as far as credibility goes. you’re going to ‘defend’ this films ‘success’ to no end even though the writing is on the wall…but you down played D3 huge opening and success by having the most ridiculous standards ever for a film. either you are truly senseless…or just a troll. sometimes i think the latter.
Krish3 and BB are disappointments? Really? On which planet? Oh! may be on the same planet where Bachchan’s movies take 10% opening ,struggle to reach 20 cr lifetime and are declared hits here.
Krishh-3 and BB was not meant to be in range of 175 and 130 Crore respectively .. based on their budget, K3 just managed to recover and BB will suffer loss. If this is not underperformance then what is ?
ask your master satyam to remove moderation first–then i will answer u aptly !!!
anyhow
Katrina beats Deepika, Priyanka in the race to Madame Tussauds
October 5, 2014 bhavdeepnama 9898 reads 130 comments
Katrina Kaif will be the fourth Bollywood actress to have a wax statue at Madame Tussauds. It is said that her statue will be unveiled in 2015.
The team at the wax museum started a contest a few months ago asking the people to vote for the next Bollywood superstar to appear at Madame Tussauds London and the options were Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif. It is said that Katrina has won the spot with maximum votes, beating Deepika and Priyanka.
In a recent interview when quizzed about her wax statue at Madame Tussauds, Katrina said, “There is no official announcement on that yet, there is a process which is happening.”
The actress has reportedly done fittings for the statue but her look is still not decided. It will be either from “Chikni chameli” in “Agneepath”, “Sheila ki jawani” in “Tees Maar Khan”, or something from “Dhoom:3”.
Katrina will join the list of Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Kareena Kapoor Khan, to have a wax replica at the museum.
Big B was the first Bollywood celebrity to enter Madame Tussauds. He is also the first living Asian to have a wax statue there. Aishwarya was the first B’Town diva to get a wax replica at Madame Tussauds.
Now, we can only wait to see which look Katrina chooses.
PS—actually i know somebody involved in this —apparently bang bang and its success SEALED it in favour of Katrina ahead of Deepika and Priyanka (both of whom underperfomrmed in Fanny and Mary kom–especially the “fanny-gate”)
ps2–what do people feel–what “look’ should katrimas wax statue take? (yeah b4 u say that–” nude” look is not possible)–family crowds & all that…
We are waiting for your two weeks of Haider + bb is more than dhoom 3 update … The equation you only solicited…a few weeks back. In any case you would find a way to defend any number so it’s pointless debating with such a small person.
Person(s) who hide behind unfair moderation are talking about “smallness”? hahaha
two weeks deal will come to play after two weeks//
the fact that u constantly have to go to the FANCHISED dhoom3 (with all its privileges and unfair advantages) to try to bring down the much DELAYED & NON-SOLO RELEASE (GETTING 1200 LESS SCREENS) bang bang shows what bang bang has still achived INSPITE of that
I USUALLY SUFFER FROM LACK OF TIME AND ATTENTION SPAN HERE NOWADAYS
BUT
IF U DARE–REMOVE MODERATION FIRST
ALL OF U CRONIES WILL BE COLLECTIVELY DEALT WITH & APTLY “PROCESSED” 🙂
remove moderation first
all your answers will be given and more
its like I AM UNFAIRLY WITHOUT ANY OF MY GUNS AND AMMUNITION AND WITH ARMS TIED
STILL SATYAM AND CRONIES NEED THE CRUTCH AND BODY ARMOUR WITH ME
THIS “FEAR” IN THE MINDS OF SATYAM AND HIS CRONIES IS THE ANSWER 🙂
Apex, these sorts of comments are the very reason why unfortunately everything from you has to be moderated. If you were a little more serious and made these points a little more seriously (as you once used to though you might not remember that self of yours) there would be no need for any of this. And others in any case have nothing to do with this moderation so it’s useless to take cheap shots at them.
@apex
Katrina being a Londonite should certainly be considered first for a Madame Tussaud statue.
She’ll also look more authentic with a long lasting expression on her face. hahaha.
oops.
actually satyam makes some reasonable points and he DOES HAVE a difficult task to moderate me, agreed..
BUT
“And others in any case have nothing to do with this moderation ”
these ‘others’ are like those ‘innocent creatures’ or deer who sometimes feel ’emboldened’ and erroneoulsy feel like ‘taking a chance’ from time to time 🙂
they forget that theres a REASON a TIGERS DEN needs to be cordoned off–for their safety …
i hope satyam u get the guts some day to remove this moderation
as for these ‘offers’—
‘Bang Bang’ Box Office Collection: Hrithik-Starrer Grosses ₹250 Crore in 1st Week;
By Ankita Mehta October 10, 2014 11:57 IST
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Hrithik Roshan’s action film “Bang Bang” has grossed over ₹250.75 crore in its first week at the worldwide box office.
Delhi High Court: Hrithik-Katrina Starrer ‘Bang Bang’ to be Blocked for Illegal Hosting on 72 Websites Fox Star Hindi/ Twitter
“Bang Bang”, which is a remake of Hollywood film “Knight and Day”, has become the second highest grosser of the year. The film has also replaced Shah Rukh Khan’s movie “Jab Tak Hai Jaan” at 10th spot in the worldwide highest grossing Bollywood film list.
“Jab Tak Hai Jaan” released in 2012 had received mixed response at the domestic box office, but fared well in international arena. In its four-week run, the Yash Chopra’s directorial minted approximately ₹241 crore gross income from worldwide box office.
The film starring Katrina Kaif in the female lead role minted ₹135 crore nett and ₹193.5 crore gross amount from domestic box office. And from overseas market it fetched in ₹57.25 crore.
“#BangBangMovie ends Wk 1 @ ₹135 cr nett (₹193.5 cr gross) & ₹57.25 cr internationally.Worldwide total : ₹250.75 cr gross.Thnx fr the luv ppl,” Fox Star, the production house, tweeted on Friday.
Trade experts believe that Hrithik-Katrina’s magic has worked for the film. Their sizzling chemistry is one of the reasons why the film is going strong at the box office.
“The business has been phenomenal. The jodi of Hrithik and Katrina has worked its magicagain. Bang Bang is holding supremely well. It is a full family-entertainer and a total masala movie. The audience has loved the film and the figures reflect this,” Vajir Singh, Editor of Box Office India magazine, told The Times of India.
“Bang bang was expected to bang the box-office charts. And yes it did and how! Being a complete mass entertainer, the film has been liked by one and all,” Nikita Wagh, editor of leading trade site KoiMoi.com, told TOI.
Meanwhile, here is the list of top 10 highest grosser Bollywood films ever:
Girish Johar @girishjohar · 13h 13 hours ago
1st 8 Days of #Haider closes at 35.35crs aprox !!
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Girish Johar @girishjohar · 13h 13 hours ago
8 Days Total #BangBang Hindi closes with 115.5 crs aprox Tamil 1.20crs aprox Telugu 2.75crs aprox… All langs 119.45crs aprox
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The underperformance of BB makes this the 8th year in a row where the Khans movies will be the the top 2 biggest hits of the year. This year should be PK and Kick or PK and HNY. Actually given their line up, I don’t think any other actor can break into the top 2 until 2016/2017. And yes I am grouping the 3 Khans together and at this moment it is completely justified as no Khan is significantly lower than the other 2 currently unlike the last 25 years.
This is not a knock on Aamir and or Hirani, but so far the PK roll out has been a disaster. The naked Aamir was an atrocity. Then the follow up turned into a fancy costume farce. Now they appear to direct the effort with the focus on Anushka.
This is not to say the movie itself will also be a disaster. Clearly Hirani has an excellent track record. Moreover Aamir is one of the more smarter Bollywood stars.
Like the rest of the Bollywood fans, I too am eagerly waiting for a turn around. After suffering a naked Aamir, the public wants substance, the public demands substance, it will not be baffled by bull crap. Without the naked Aamir disaster, any mediocre song & dance would have been acceptable, BUT NOW the spot light is on, and the microscope is out. Aamir got naked and the public will examine every crease and crevice of PK.
IMHO, Bang Bang isn’t a disappointing watch. Has its good action, funny moments, HRs dances, great visuals et al. Perhaps the chemistry cudve been a bit tighter, somehow they cud not recreate ZNMD. HR needs to loosen up a bit, at times he is taking himself too seriously. And he is indeed weak at dialogs, he tends to eat up words or does not give the right inflection at the right moment. Eg, I literally cud not understand his rapid English, and figured out from the English subtitles. Also, Danny did not impress as much in this outing, I was expecting more ‘dhamaka’ out of him.
But I wager that had this starred the 3Khans, it wud surely have been zooming towars 200crs. Perhaps HRs starpower is a bit lower now.
Rajdeep sardesai exposed, he infatuated and then went physically in madisson square. Later, media indiatoday, ndtv and ibnlive projected him aas victim with edited video and images. HE is shame on journalism and slut of congress.
You mean in the same way as the majority of the other journos are sluts of BJP/Modi? Almost the entire media and complete Network18 group?
The proof lies in the shameless building up of Modi image day in and day out. Especially their tamasha seen during his US visit.
Not supporting RS action, but one has to see the rabid attack online by similar gundas on not only him and other leaders/journos not supporting a bjp/modi view and being critical, but ordinary people like me too.
LOL. You take them seriously? Or did the Indian media in it’s building up of Modi image fool you into believeing this underlines the greatness of the man in question?
‘Anthony Gonsalves’ is someone any Indian born in post independence India would easily know. It was a character Bachchan played in 1977 cult hit Amar Akbar Anthony. Along with Lata Mangeshkar, there’s one name that comes to mind when you think entertainment – Amitabh Bachchan.
It must take something God-given to be loved by such a spectrum of people. I vaguely recall college-going cousins keeping day-long fasts and praying for Amitabh Bachchan when death came knocking at his doorsteps after the unfortunate accident during the shooting of Coolie. I recall my uncle’s driver Liaqaat telling me as a 10-year old how his favourite Amitabh was Iqbal from Coolie and how his much-loved song was the one Iqbal sings as pilgrims leave for Hajj in the film. I recall how daddy, bhai and myself would all break into UP bhaiyya style jig, with various degrees of grotesqueness, as Bombay Doordashan’s Hindi music programme Chhaya Geet would run ‘Mere Anganey Mein Tumhara Kya Kaam Hai’ from Laawaris.
It is in these little moments that an abiding image of the man, his craft, his staying power and finally his legend emerges. For most parts, Amitabh Bachchan is famous for belittling his greatness, much to the disgust, actually revulsion, of an avid fan like yours truly. Big B remains one of the most powerful images of modern India.
If pre-independent India lived with the romance of a Gandhi, Nehru and many other stalwarts of the freedom movement, post 1947 India owes much to its popular culture (cricket and Bollywood) for being the emblems of Indianness, however flawed.
– See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/the-anthony-gonsalves-generation-what-bachchan-means-to-a-70s-kid/article1-1274163.aspx#sthash.xNqxv79M.dpuf
Bang bangs ‘underperfromance’ is only RELATIVE to the excessive expectations from naives and agendaic folks.
in my assessment, it is totally on expected lines and infact v good
if anybody can dish out any link where i predicted bigger numbers than these–u can’t !
there are certain obvious factors at play here outlined beofee the release here
to add-
unlike most of us here –some people and families cant afford two big movies within three four weeks. This begin the PRE DIWALI LULL period and other buggy coming uo with all the circus and fanfare in HNY–many have decided to go for that ( & cant do both)
for purposes of comparison to SOLO releases like CE, ETT, 3I–the DEFINITIVE link is
bang bang has already grossed 325 cr + and nearing 200 cores net domestic already in about a week or so which is commendable.
hrithik poised to followup his 242 CR Net domestic krrsih3 with another 200 cr + net flick —well done!
Bang Bang Has Big Drop On Second Friday
Saturday 11 October 2014 11.00 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Bang Bang (Hindi) dropped badly on its second Friday as it collected around 3-3.25 crore nett. the drop is a huge 85% from last Friday which was the second day of the film. The drop is huge despite no competition from the new releases.
The film will struggle to put up a strong second week total and the film is unlikely to hit the 150 crore nett. The cracks were there in the collections earlier but holidays in various parts of the country made the all India daily collections reasonable. The second weekend of the film is liely to be around the 13 crore nett mark.
The second Friday collections are less than Kick, Holiday – A Solidier IS Never Off Duty, 2 States, Singham Returns and Jai Ho. It is the ninth day for Bang Bang as compared to eight for the other films but a 3 crore second Friday is low for a like Bang Bang which is much bigger budget than the films above. The second Friday is nearly 50% less than what Hrithik Roshan’s last film Krrish 3 grossed on its second Friday.
As early as Day 1 end of day I had said that this movie is going the Ra-1 way….If anything this has gone worse than Ra-1. Ra-1 did 200 crores worldwide on a 100 crore budget. This will struggle to reach 250 crores on a 140 crore budget…Bad result for Hritik and the future is not too rosy as he doesnt have any strength genre movies coming up…
On HNY i am sticking to my 40 cr day 1 estimate. Nothing in the promos that I have seen makes me feel it is going to gross anything less. If the product is half decent, expect 300 crores to fall by Week 2…
Haider Collections Down On Its Second Friday
Saturday 11 October 2014 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
The collections of Haider came down a lot on its second Friday as it collected in the 1.35-1.45 crore nett region. The fall is around 80% from its first Friday which was the second day of release for the film..
Haider had held up well in the first seven days of release but the drop came on day eight and a further drop on day nine. This is mainly as it only has an audience at premium multiplexes and the audience at other places has not appreciated it. The premium multiplexes of Delhi NCR have held pretty well and now are collecting more than Bang Bang when day one had started at 70% lower than Bang Bang.
Haider should collect around 6-6.50 crore nett in its second weekend and lifetime business will find it hard to reach 50 Crore nett, probably falling a crore or two short.
the thing is Haider has no room for error. It was stable at the lower end and certainly with this director’s movies you can never expect a big one. Kaminey because of the music and the relatively more mainstream urban setting got off to a strong start (again relative to the director’s other work) but still came down later. Now I’d expect Haider to be a bit better over the weekend. A lot of movies these days fall on the second Fri but again it has no room for error.
yes 50 isn’t bad at all for this sort of thing. Because films in a certain format let alone edgy political films (whether you agree with the politics or not) are never going to get to 100 or whatever. Which has been my point all along. When ‘different’ films are celebrated for reach a 100 or whatever that is the surest sign that they’re not radically different or anything (though they still get credit for doing this). Meanwhile the edgier stuff even with major stars always underperforms (of course not everything that underperforms with a star is edgy!).
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Box Office: ‘Bang Bang’ inching towards Rs 150 crores, ‘Haider’ towards Rs 50 crores in domestic market
Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif starrer ‘Bang Bang’ is going rock steady at the box office while Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Haider’ is also picking up with good word of mouth, even after a week of the film’s release.
According to a report in Koimoi.com, Bang Bang raked in approximately Rs 4 crores on its second Friday. The film has certainly made its way to the top as the total domestic BO collection stands at Rs 139.45 crores. While this is touted as a big release, the report further adds that the film is soon set to cross the Rs 150 crore mark in the domestic market
There are all sorts of articles on this movie box office and like Krish-3 murmurs have begun again & HR credibility taking a bigger hit. Here is one such piece –
HR is overdoing these things with all sorts of projections and should just accept people’s verdict on his film and try to better them. But for that to happen one needs maturity which seems lacking with this type of a yoyo. If you go by pinkvilla articles and the comments there under by few his self obsession /narcissism may now be one of the reason Suzzane may have called it quits. Living-in with this type of Qtiyapa on a 24/7 bss can be taxing and she may have opted out after giving him enough time to mature.
Though previously done unsuccessfully after KNPH, he must once again give it a chance to do some real movies for a change. Incidentally if I remember correctly Vishal B. wanted him for Haider and he could have mixed things and explored himself as an actor with this kind of project. If not box-office at least Shahid is now being taken seriously as an actor. He should also think of doing something which is more relatable for a change to mix things up. There is no harm to try an aamir of munna in Rangeela and do dus ka tees tapori to breakaway and surprise everyone. But it seems he is too much of funko / scared and has dropped couple of projects just to go back to krish 4 with his dad going by his latest interviews.
As I suggested BB kind of movie would have been more a 90-110 cr lifetime deal if it was a fri /mon thing but for these 6/8 straight holidays/festivities acknowledged by all media expert, added with Katrina’s super-stardom will give it some kind of passable result. Its time a younger star consider breaking the monopoly and prevent a Kick kind of results/totals for trashy movies.
BTW, for people who were frustrated with the one-sided viewpoint of Haider, just go watch Bang Bang for another one-sided viewpoint: The villain is named Omar Zafar. His second in command is Hamid Gul! And the rest of them are named after members of the Pakistani Cricket Team!
Now I know why they underperformed. Haider lost the Hindu RIght, BB lost the ones on the Left.
For anyone interested there is a Pakistani film called as “Waar” (which released last year) which is almost a revenge on those Anil Sharma-Sunny Deol films. The film’s plot has Pakistani being rattled by terrorists from outside the border…India is not specifically “named” as the country instigating these terror attacks in Pak, but not much is left to imagination when the villain is clearly shown to be slipping into Pakistan from across the Indian border of Kashmir. Also there is mention of RAW which is shown linked to the attacks in the country. It’s not a good film by any means, but it’s pretty slick for an action thriller and has some nicely staged action scenes.
NyKavi: The whole focus of the movie is that Omar Zafar and Hamid Gul are Indian terrorist and they talk about signing treaty to take him back to India(from UK) and thats why he want to find an Indian thief who could steal Kohinoor for Omar Zafar. So, clearly, it wasn’t talking about Pakistan in any way.
Fantastic piece by Pragya Tiwari on the sort of “teachings” some Right Wing fundamentalists are providing. Incidentally the minute she wrote this piece, she has been getting rape and murder threats on twitter etc-
In praise of Hemu: Medieval king reveals true intent of Hindutva history-
“A couple of days ago Satish Mittal, former professor at Kurukshetra University and author of “40 books and 400 articles”, had helpfully explained the purpose of this event to me.
“Our history has been distorted by Western, Muslim, Communist and Secularist historians. The Western historians wanted to spread Christianity and help England to rule over us, the Muslims wanted to spread Islam, the Communists wanted Mao to come to India and turn us into atheists.” He did not say what the Secularists wanted but did add that all of the above were mercenaries, writing falsehoods in exchange for power, property and money.
“The story of Hemu, or Hemchandra Vikramaditya, is summed up as follows – He had humble beginnings but worked his way up, becoming indispensible to a string of Afghan rulers until he finally established himself on the throne of Delhi on the 5th of October, 1556 and set up a Hindu Rashtra after hundreds of years.
We are told that he proved to be a stellar administrator in his 29 day rule. Also that his first Ghoshana Patra (decree) banned cow slaughter and declared that anyone practicing it would be beheaded. Further, he issued a list of corrupt officials and took action against them, altered policy to make his kingdom more business friendly and made new appointments.
At this point Hemu’s life story is beginning to sound suspiciously like the ‘Myth of Narendra Modi set in Medieval Times’. Every medieval era historian I speak with outside of ABISY tells me that very little is known about Hemu.
None of them has come across any evidence or study that refers to the establishment of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ or Ghoshana Patras. “If they have these decrees let them put it out. It will change the way we understand medieval Indian history,” says Sunil Kumar, Professor of Medieval History at Delhi University, calling the claim “astonishing” because “medieval documents were not called ghoshana patras”.
“No king in that period would have put out a plan for intrusive governance so soon after taking control. Consolidation was always a slow process,” he adds.
The Ghoshana Patras are not shown at the symposium but the organizers do screen a “documentary” to prop up their claims. Curiously it largely consists of scenes from Ashutosh Gowariker’s 2008 Hindi film, Jodhaa Akbar. A film that was initially either banned or not released in some Indian states after sections of the Rajput community alleged that it intends to distort history.”..
This martyrdom of Hemu is what entrenches his credentials as a desh-bhakt for ABISY. “The Hindu king led from the front in the Second Battle of Panipat and was close to defeating the foreign army of Bairam Khan, regent to a very young Muslim ruler Akbar, when an arrow hit him, changing the course of India’s history forever. He was captured and killed and his head was taken to Kabul and exhibited,” says Mittal.
When I ask him why Akbar cannot qualify as an ‘Indian’, Mittal gives me two reasons.
One, that he always kept “dreaming of Central Asia where his forefathers had come from” and two, that he was an “illiterate man” who “mixed alcohol and opium and consumed copious amounts of this cocktail”.
When I remind him of Akbar’s state policy of Sulh-i-kuI (religious tolerance) and equal patronage to all faiths that made him unpopular with the Ulama of his time, Mittal summarily says, “his secularism was a political maneuver, not his conviction.” I am not entirely sure what his sources are ,but this conversation is beginning to sound more like the BJP and its supporters’ slander campaign against political opponents – be they Rahul Gandhi’s holidays abroad or Priyanka Gandhi “drinking too much alcohol”- than anything we know about Akbar.
“This martyrdom of Hemu is what entrenches his credentials as a desh-bhakt for ABISY. “The Hindu king led from the front in the Second Battle of Panipat and was close to defeating the foreign army of Bairam Khan, regent to a very young Muslim ruler Akbar, when an arrow hit him, changing the course of India’s history forever. He was captured and killed and his head was taken to Kabul and exhibited,” says Mittal.
“To call Hemu a patriot would be to suggest that the idea of India as a political state existed in 1556. “There were mentions of Hindustan in that period but it meant different things to different people,” explains Farhat Hasan, Professor of Medieval History at Delhi University. “Identities were extremely parochial- limited to caste, kin and village.” Which is also what makes the idea of Akbar as a foreigner less than credible. “For most people anyone outside their village would have been a foreigner,” says Hasan.
More problematic is the attempt to frame this as a story of Hindu-Muslim conflict. “Merging of different religious, cultural and social identities into one homogenous identity of ‘Muslim’ is a later development,” says Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, Professor of Ancient History at Delhi University. “There was a lot of borrowing- not conscious but liminal – from each other’s cultural and sacred traditions so it is anachronistic to talk of Hindus and Muslims as well-entrenched or uniform religious identities,” explains Hasan.”
“Hemu’s own final battle is more accurately a chapter in the extended strife between Afghans and Mughals in India.
“It was common for ‘Hindu’ chieftains to collaborate with ‘Muslim’ Sultans against common enemies. The Sharqi Sultans of Jaunpur and the Lodis of Delhi both had Rajput confederates in their armies as they battled with each other,” says Kumar.
So Hemu who worked closely with Sher Shah Suri and Adil Shah actually represented the Afghan forces in battles. His army in the battle of Panipat is likely to have consisted of large numbers of Afghan soldiers.
But despite these complexities, the symposium on Hemu seems determined to reduce his life to that of a Hindutvavadi nationalist.
Subramanian Swamy in his nakedly communal speech says it was due to the struggle of people like Hemu that Muslims and Christians failed to convert “80 percent of Hindus. That is the reason ISIS wants to come back to India. To finish the unfinished task.”
“Equally blatant are the political motives behind this effort. “In the elections this year when just over 30 percent of this 80 percent got together see what they could accomplish. Next time more Hindus will unite and vote,” says Swamy.
Mittal reminds us that Hemu banned cow slaughter as soon as he came to power, but cow slaughter has not been banned in independent India. “This is all because of Nehru.”
Nehru, who according to Swamy “listened to no one but Edwina Mountbatten” and was determined to keep India “a junior partner of the British commonwealth.” Jibes against Sonia Gandhi being from Italy are thrown in with even lesser pretext.
The communalization of this chapter goes well beyond Hemu’s life. The symposium expresses outrage over the alleged encroachment of Hemu’s memorial in Panipat. “It is a Muslim dominated area and they have built a dargah there. It is shameful,” says Vinayak Deshpande. The natural leap from this is Babri Masjid (named, according to a sniggering Swamy, after a young boy Babur was having an illicit affair with) and the Mathura temple. Swamy pledges to “resolve” both matters. “Muslims should cooperate otherwise we have other ways,” he says.”
“In the final speech of the afternoon Bal Mukund Pandey compares Hindus to the tiger who killed a young boy in the Delhi Zoo recently.
“They might not have hunted for many years but that does not mean they have forgotten how to hunt,” he says. The deceased was a “mentally challenged Muslim boy. When he was about to be eaten he did not say Allah but folded his hands in front of the tiger,” he adds smugly. If this is how they spin the voluble present imagine what liberties they might take with the silent past.
>Incidentally the minute she wrote this piece, she has been getting rape and murder threats on twitter etc-
Yes, this is what I have been saying about the kind of threats journos, leaders and common people going against the views get. It’s shocking.
RS had been tweeting about this long before the NY fiasco.
I request Saturn to kindly delete the above link by a certified brown noser as it has no relevance here, just as he routinely deletes di and Bliss, links…. Thanks in advance.
omrocky786: LOL. Satyam is free to delete the link, I have no issues with it at all (I hardly ever post any political link here at all. The only reason I put this up was because I couldn’t, for the life of me, understand why this lady- Pragya Tiwari- deserved to be getting rape threats). On the rest, it might come as a surprise to you (not that I need to explain anything to you! I avoid you anyway), but before Modi took over the party’s reigns I was a BJP supporter (of course the BJP I recognise was the one which was lead by Atal )..infact I still am to an extent. However sadly I can’t ever board this Hindutva bandwagon. I am however glad that you have only called me a brown noser, not a desh-drohi or “anti-Hindu” 🙂 . Anyway this is my last bit on the issue, you are free to take potshots.
Note well..still no answer on the Azad maidan incident, javed akhtars intolerance of an artistic expression, ,
But the glee in the thought of americans throwing all hindus out was mind boggling
Not sure what this has got to do with Cilema Snob?! I am neither a fan of the guy (usually find him quite insufferable on Twitter), nor do I know him (in any sense). On the other hand, I do like the writings and views of Pragya Tiwari (not just her writings on politics, but also on films), that was one of the major reasons why I posted this piece because irrespective of what one’s ideologies are, this piece is worth reading. On the rest, I am not sure why do I have to quote examples from the “other side” everytime I say something (funnily enough I hardly ever participate in a political discussion here at all. And who are you in the first place to question me on anything). Man, I understand that you dislike me immensely, you have made that amply clear on more than one occasion. Now I couldn’t care less of what you think of me and that’s why it is best for both of us to continue avoiding each other…I hope we can do that.
And it seems I have unintentionally exposed a raw nerve somewhere by posting that article. So if it helps satiate your ego, Satyam (or anyone else) can remove that link and the comment.
This again begs the question, why have you not posted any linjs about the commie intolerance, ???
Ananya vajpayee letter, threats to rupa subramanya…
Oh, samjha…comrades set wahi wahi jo leni hai…
I happily voted for Vajpaye-BJP in 1999. Don’t mind Advani either. Bit the trolling bullying fundamentalists of this newer version — God save my country and its pluralist ethos, its free thinking citizens. S Swamy and his foul talking brigade will be the death of this country.
u think an FIR should be filed against rajdeep and he should have been arrested on the evidence of this video. He was gathering symapthy by spreading lies by his english media sources. Here we can see who started abusing and then who heckled whom.
fantastic tailpiece, incidentally the goons will spin this to-
Telling people “You have money but have no class… Did Modi teach you this?… You American-Indians have no values” is nothing short of racist behaviour by Rajdeep. And these are the bimbos to teach us freedom of press and democracy?
Fantastic piece by Mediacrooks on Bengal, Incidentally the commie goons support TMCs goons…….
On the evening of October 6, Monday, the man in the pic, Derek O’Brien (DOB) was asked to respond to the incident of an accidental blast at the Burdwan centre of TMC which killed two men who were assembling IEDs. Instead of answering the questions DOB stated barking at the BJP and Social Media as “hate-mongering” with their Hindu agenda against the TMC. http://www.mediacrooks.com/2014/10/bengals-terror-machine.html
Fantastic Tweet by Sunanda..Incidentally the trolls goons have chosen to ignore this one !! Sigh !!
Sunanda Vashisht
@sunandavashisht Meanwhile confirmation of Mrs. Tharoor’s unnatural death evokes silent sighs and no outrage.. When alive she thought she had many friends..
Fantastic Piece by Deepak on the Politics of Haider..Incidentally- read it !!
Although he appears to condemn the path of violence opted by the separatists in Kashmir, he also tacitly justifies it (through the character arc of Haider) as a natural reaction to the Indian Army’s alleged excesses in the Valley under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Despite the charitable references to the Army’s yeoman work during the recent floods at the fag end of the film (by which time the damage is already done), Haider has the cumulative effect of painting the Army and the Indian State with a manipulative and diabolical brush
Not to question the director’s freedom and prerogative, but if “realism” is truly Bhardwaj’s obsession, surely the natural and human reaction of an Indian soldier who finds himself in an extremely hostile and treacherous environment is worth alluding to, in howsoever fleeting a manner.
But then that wouldn’t have won Bhardwaj the raving approval and endorsement of the left-liberal cabal in and outside Bollywood, nor would addressing the elephant in the room–the role of radical Islamists in Kashmir’s politics and its consequences for non-Muslims in Kashmir. That Bhardwaj’s take on Kashmir is superficial, clichéd and populist is borne from his effort to draw tacit parallels between Gaza and Kashmir through his Chomsky-esque reference to Kashmir as a prison. This must have really warmed the cockles of Kashmiri separatists who have left no stone unturned in internationalizing the dispute with the able support of the left and in drawing contrived symmetries between the Palestinians and Kashmiris. http://blogs.swarajyamag.com/2014/10/10/the-politically-correct-realism-of-haider/
You see, every community, except the Hindus, is entitled to “react naturally” to alleged excesses and perceived victimization. “Natural reaction” is only human and never communal when it comes from non-Hindus, more so when it is directed at Hindus.
Also, as required by the only acceptable definition of “secularism” and “syncretic tradition” in this great land of ours, every movie on Kashmir must necessarily accept and perpetuate the myth that Kashmir has always been a Muslim majority region, and its Hindu roots and remnants (if any) are but a vestige of the past best forgotten and stamped out to give way to a more “secular” present.
For instance, in the movie, when an Army officer asks the character Haider his native place, Shahid Kapoor’s Haider answers “Islamabad” with righteous defiance just to irk the officer. We are then told that Anantnag (where Basharat Peer hails from) is locally referred to as “Islamabad”, bringing to memory the recent controversy surrounding the re-naming of the Shankaracharya Temple in Srinagar to Takht-e-Sulaiman. Conveniently again, Bhardwaj does not dwell on the issue further because we wouldn’t want to hurt “secular” sentiments, would we?
In the interest of preserving secular clichés and harmony, we must let remnants of Hindu culture such as temples serve as props for a shoot, or more frequently as natural targets of natural reactions from the victimized denizens of the Valley.
Fantastic…. excerpts from above link!!
The politically incorrect version would be one where the absence of an armed struggle by Kashmiri Hindus in response to the savagery meted out to them and their culture is highlighted to drive home the message of peace and the futility of vengeance. But then, that version would have been received with stone-pelting (with ample encouragement from “brothers” across the border), a not-so-non-violent demand for a ban on the movie, fatwas calling for the heads of the entire crew of the film, threats from the underworld, and the “communal” tag from “intellectuals” in Bollywood.
Now which street smart director from Bollywood would want that kind of trouble on his hands? Isn’t it easier to simply play the righteous rebel by targeting the soft Indian State? Smart move Vishal!
You know, the guy whO completed a MASTER’s in engineering in INDUSTRIAL ENNG in US but not a master’s degree in humanities in the US…
please don’t let the SICULARS walk away with the winning flag.. they are fucking psuedos..[edited]…man nobody on this earth coud have DEVISED a more potent insult to my beloved city of birth B0MBAY than the sickulars who are nothing but arson communalists…we are fortunate that we have an extremely broad-minded individual like Satyam who has the tenacity to not be pulled in one direction..
I am with you bro…so what if the arsonists wish to label me a communalist…it is pretty clear who has more than 1 folding here…..
An Jo, appreciate that sir…means a lot.
BTW I was in Pune last two weeks, and my relative’s driver is a Muslim and is a Sallu Bhai fan. We became friends as he drove me around, and took me to his home to meet his wife and mom.. I was pleasantly surprised..The flat next to him had the Shubh -Labh, his flat had an Urdu inscription, His wife is educated , I said Aadaab to her and she replied back in Namsatey.
I weas really impressed by Pune…..
Fantastic Tweets by Rahul…Incidentally all the “C”s are abusing him……
Rahul Roushan @rahulroushan •
1.Doing a @kamalphil, me and @ajayendar introduce a new word to English : Chutiyals (noun, plural): Chutiyas who think they are liberals
2.A: What do you think of my ideas? B: I disagree. My point is… A: You are a HATER,a BIGOT! and… B: Kya Chutiyal hai be tu!
3.A: Violence is NEVER the answer B: But you thrashed that fellow, no? A: Oh, him? He totally deserved it. B: Wah re Chutiyal!
4.C: I know everything. Q: But, that’s not.. C: bakwas band kar. you’re not allowed to know anything. #CForChutiyal
5.Libtard: Fight ideas with ideas Reporter: Fine. Let’s Libtard: Oooohhh! You are a U-turner! “difficult to extend basic courtesies” to you
This takes the CAKE !!
@waglenikhil: BJP may win Maharashtra election,but they have already lost in the eyes of people who care for democracy.@narendramodi
SATYAMSHOT 
October 10, 2014 at 3:52 AM
Haider Has Decent First Week
Friday 10 October 2014 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Haider grossed a decent 35 crore nett in its extended eight day first week and held up fairly well over the eight days but the problem for the film is its very niche and the collections are coming mainly from the premium multiplexes so there is a limit to where the film can go.
The film has done its best business in the Delhi NCR belt with the Delhi/UP and East Punjab circuits recording decent figures, Mysore was also fair while West Bengal was helped by holidays for Puja. Mumbai circuit was the disappointment as Mumbai city and Pune should have done better. The mass circuits were dull.
Haider will have a decent hold in week two and should have lifetime business of around 50 crore nett which is an average result..
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October 10, 2014 at 8:21 AM
with a solo release – it wud have done 50+?
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October 10, 2014 at 3:53 AM
Bang Bang Has Good First Week But Trend Not Good
Friday 10 October 2014 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Bang Bang (Hindi) had a good extended eight day first week of around 115 crore nett but considering the amount of holidays that were there the collections were not as good as they should be. Also on the weekdays its decent hold was due to holidays but when there are holidays the hold should not be decent but good. At centres where there was no holiday from Tuesday onwards the film did show noticeable drops in collections.
The trend does not look good for week two as it will not get support of holidays. The best case scenario for the film looks around 150 crore nett for lifetime business. It is possible it may fall short of that mark and much will depend on the business in the second weekend.
The film has collected well in multiplexes of big centres but it was the business of multiplexes and single screens in B and C centres which let the film down. The collections across the Hindi belt were not up to the mark. Only Bihar was good but that had holidays for Puja. Gujarat, CP Berar, CI, Rajasthan and UP all had average to above average figures which is not good for a film of this scale.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:04 AM
Not particularly pleasing numbers for BB. Even taking the producer figures which are around 135 crore (note also an 8 day figure not 7) compared to Kicks 165 crore, Dhoom 3 189 crore, CE 157 crore, ETT 156 crore it is way behind. In fact it will probably not even have the legs to get to D3’s first week total itself, BOI or producer or whatever sources.
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October 10, 2014 at 8:00 AM
yes poor numbers by any stretch. if anything BOI continue to be far too kind in terms of their commentary. Hrithik has had two clear under performers/failures in two big films (Krrish, Bang Bang). This isn’t even like Agneepath where at least the week 1 numbers were very high. But as usual some of the fans who start off with the highest predictions come around for brownie points later. Sooner or later someone will also pop up saying ‘hey even his flop made so much’!
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October 10, 2014 at 8:13 AM
not bad i feel – if this weekend collects 30+ cr – it can do 150+ lifetime – shd have done more but that means the product is not that good – i want this to happen to HNY
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October 10, 2014 at 9:50 AM
WHY?
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October 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM
srk needs a reality-check…..he has hardly done any remarkable work after CDI I guess…..
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October 10, 2014 at 9:26 AM
I wonder if Haider lost anything at BO because of the boycott.
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October 10, 2014 at 10:02 AM
We’ll find out this weekend.
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October 10, 2014 at 3:54 AM
Top Domestic Opening Weeks All Time Bang Bang 7th
Friday 10 October 2014 11.00 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Bang Bang had the seventh highest first week collections ever as it grossed a little less than 110 crore nett. The collections were less than Hrithik Roshan’s last film Krrish 3 despite it having a more favourable release date.
The first week number of Bang Bang of around 110 crore is a good number but with just a good release date with maximum holidays it should have got a higher number. The first week is well short of the top grossers despite the first week being a holiday or part holiday practically very day.
The first week figures of Bang Bang are the third best of the year after Kick and Singham Returns. Below are the top opening weeks of All Time.
http://boxofficeindia.com/Details/art_detail/topdomesticopeningweeksalltimebangbang7th#.VDeQJUuwjLY
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October 10, 2014 at 5:49 AM
As I had said, it will probably wrap up af around the Singham Returns range.
For Katrina, it’s not going to be a major set-back because she always seems to have other commercial potboilers lined up. In Hrithik’s case, it is a set back because when you look at his line-up, he has nothing coming up until Mohenjodaro in 2016. By that time the Khans and Ranbir and Akshay and Devgan will have lined up several releases amongst themsleves and the 300cr barrier will probably be overcome. And even Mohenjodaro looks far from being the safest bet in that respect.
Hrithik certainly needs to line up more releases. One set back does him more harm because it will now take him at least a couple of years to return back to the top bracket.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:57 AM
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/kailash-satyarthi-malala-yousafzai-win-nobel-peace-prize-for-2014-604815?pfrom=home-lateststories
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October 10, 2014 at 9:48 AM
A jholawala wins. Great!
He supported AAP candidate Phoolka from Ludhiana in LS elections. But no one wants good honest politicians. 😦
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October 10, 2014 at 9:57 AM
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/if-not-you-then-who-the-philosophy-and-work-of-kailash-satyarthi-604825?pfrom=home-lateststories
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October 10, 2014 at 10:08 AM
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October 10, 2014 at 11:05 AM
Don’t understand the significance of this? Are you weighing it with his support of AAP candidate?
Don’t wish to become political here, but this chiwala thing is pure propoganda because Modi ran away from home when in his teens. He didn’t become PM from chaiwala but from a RSS wala. Everyone knows that. The above comment seems to repeat what was being propogated to get his point across.
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October 10, 2014 at 11:15 AM
Stupid Madhu Kishwar already thinks the award is because of affiliation with these foreign donors. She wants an investigation into the money received and actually how many children rehabilitated.
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October 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM
He is not jholawala otherwise he would have got recognition ( not even Padam Shri) from govt and in NAC type of parasite committees.
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October 10, 2014 at 11:08 AM
His NGO was being targeted, not particularly but included as in ALL NGOs which were stopped from taking help from abroad. It would have been better to have ignored than ban help without which functioning would be difficult.
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October 10, 2014 at 9:58 AM
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/never-been-happier-says-boy-rescued-by-nobel-winner-kailash-satyarthi-604863?utm_source=ndtv&utm_medium=top-stories-widget&utm_campaign=story-1-http%3a%2f%2fwww.ndtv.com%2farticle%2findia%2fnever-been-happier-says-boy-rescued-by-nobel-winner-kailash-satyarthi-604863
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October 10, 2014 at 10:00 AM
“I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age,” he said today.
“I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured,” he said. Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for but never won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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October 10, 2014 at 8:43 AM
Amitabh got ‘Box office Shahenshah Award’ and danced on Jumma Chumma
http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/shahenshah-amitabh-bachchan-goes-jumma-chumma-with-akshay-kumar-arjun-kapoor-ayushmann-khurrana-ali-677582 …
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October 10, 2014 at 9:21 AM
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October 10, 2014 at 9:33 AM
http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/bang-bang-vs-haider-who-s-cashing-in-on-the-power-of-word-of-mouth-publicity/article1-1273841.aspx
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October 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM
New Releases Dull – Bang Bang And Haider Lead But Fall
Friday 10 October 2014 14.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
The new releases opened to very dull collections with Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami having the best collections of the lot at multiplexes but the occupancies were just 5%. Tamanchey has the widest release of all the releases but it makes no difference as its screen average is a disaster
The releases were Ekkees Tooppon Ki Salaami, Jigariya, Spark, Tamanchey amongst a couple of very low budget films. None of the films have much of a chance as the opening is low and the sort of pick up the need does not really happen.
It will be Bang Bang and Haider which will continue to lead at the box office but they have also dropped significantly from their respective collections from last Friday which was the second day for both films.
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October 10, 2014 at 12:44 PM
PK trailer coming on Diwali BUT not with HNY….
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October 10, 2014 at 1:35 PM
In Defense of Obama
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October 10, 2014 at 2:58 PM
Great read.
Imagine if Repubs had given even 25% support, what the economy would be?
Obama could say something like it’s 10/10/2014 2:58pm ET and repubs would jump right away with, no way, it’s probably 10/10/2015.
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October 10, 2014 at 3:05 PM
LOL, true! these guys take Reagan’s name at the drop of a hat but compared to these guys he looks like a Dem!
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October 10, 2014 at 4:29 PM
http://mic.com/articles/100970/nobel-prize-committee-s-devastating-letter-to-president-barack-obama
“Barack, you had so much promise. And while we love the man you said you’d be, you haven’t lived up to expectations.”
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October 10, 2014 at 4:58 PM
Lol! And now they realize the folly of giving the Peace Prize to a novice US President. All the supposed potential based on a bunch of hot air which he blew in the midst of an election season. No prior experience, no nothing. Dont worry Nobel Peace Committee. The entire US population thinks and feels just like you, the distinct feeling one gets when buying a Lemon or Damaged Goods. Welcome to the club.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:26 PM
LOL, the US population has thought this about a number of US presidents who’ve then been ranked very differently by historians! By the way I do agree on the pre-mature nature of the Prize and this was always true. On the rest I am more or less in agreement with Krugman though I’d cavil with things here and there.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:02 PM
It is oxymoronic to award the Nobel Peace Prize to any US President, given that every one of them in the past century has had to authorize some war somewhere on the planet. What were they thinking anyway? That they had landed a Koombaya US President who would nary lift a finger when push came to shove?
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October 10, 2014 at 5:18 PM
just FYI, this is an satirical piece…but agree on both of your comments!
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October 10, 2014 at 5:37 PM
When I heard Putin was also in the reckoning for NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, I then realized the brilliant logic of the committee and withdrew my objection to Obama being given the peace prize. It was literally a begging movement from the committee asking these guys to NOT start new wars; not for their historical record! That’s what the prize is: an euphemism not to stop existing wars, but to NOT adventure into newer wars..
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October 10, 2014 at 8:14 PM
I think it was the RELIEF that one got with Bush away that they gave the award to Obama, and Putin because the unthinkable happened! USSR ws no more and Putin rose from the ashes of communism as a ‘new’ world messiah and so perhaps was thought to be well deserving. Thank goodness he didn’t get it. Obama looks better.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM
TIMESOFINDIA
Bang Bang box-office: Film crosses Rs 250 crore mark, aims for Rs 300 crore now
TNN | Oct 10, 2014, 02.21 PM IST
Bang Bang
Ruling the box-office since one week of its release, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif-starrer Bang Bang seems unstoppable.
The film has already made it to the list of top five films with the highest openings and top 10 highest earning films of 2014. According to Koimoi.com, Bang Bang has now earned Rs 135 crore in India and Rs 57.25 crore worldwide, making a total of Rs 250.75 crore on the box office.
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While it released with Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider on October 2, Bang Bang raced ahead full steam and is now vying to enter the much coveted Rs 300 crore club.
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Directed by Siddharth Anand, Bang Bang is the remake of hit Hollywood film Knight And Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/box-office/Bang-Bang-box-office-Film-crosses-Rs-250-crore-mark-aims-for-Rs-300-crore-now/articleshow/44771188.cms
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October 10, 2014 at 5:28 PM
“According to Koimoi.com, Bang Bang has now earned Rs 135 crore in India and Rs 57.25 crore worldwide, making a total of Rs 250.75 crore on the box office.”
This must be from the Rakesh Roshan International School of Mathematics algorithm.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:30 PM
have you heard of the Japanese soldier on the island.. here I must given it to Salman fans. They didn’t keep debating Jai Ho! Many of Aamir fans found the ultimate D3 gross disappointing. You seem to be aligned with SRK fans though who were declaring the success of Ra One and a lot of other films. Between Krrish 3 and Bang Bang two big budget disappointments for Hrithik except for those who consume Rakesh Roshan’s numbers! If anything BOI are still incredibly kind on the film in their commentary.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:44 PM
one sign that a movies’ box-office status is a disappointment…when you have to spin the numbers in your favor.
bottom line is that this movie should’ve done a lot more. This was Hrithiks terrain, had katrina (coming hot off her D3 success). Hrithik has lost touch with a certain demographic whereas I think Ranbir, Ranveer have gained that audience from him. I’m beginning to think only SRK, Sallu and Aamir belong in the top tier now.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:49 PM
and this is where a person can’t take you seriously as far as credibility goes. you’re going to ‘defend’ this films ‘success’ to no end even though the writing is on the wall…but you down played D3 huge opening and success by having the most ridiculous standards ever for a film. either you are truly senseless…or just a troll. sometimes i think the latter.
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October 10, 2014 at 6:25 PM
Sometimes? Your too kind
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October 10, 2014 at 9:04 PM
Krish3 and BB are disappointments? Really? On which planet? Oh! may be on the same planet where Bachchan’s movies take 10% opening ,struggle to reach 20 cr lifetime and are declared hits here.
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October 11, 2014 at 2:04 AM
Krishh-3 and BB was not meant to be in range of 175 and 130 Crore respectively .. based on their budget, K3 just managed to recover and BB will suffer loss. If this is not underperformance then what is ?
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October 11, 2014 at 6:26 AM
ask your master satyam to remove moderation first–then i will answer u aptly !!!
anyhow
Katrina beats Deepika, Priyanka in the race to Madame Tussauds
October 5, 2014 bhavdeepnama 9898 reads 130 comments
Katrina Kaif will be the fourth Bollywood actress to have a wax statue at Madame Tussauds. It is said that her statue will be unveiled in 2015.
The team at the wax museum started a contest a few months ago asking the people to vote for the next Bollywood superstar to appear at Madame Tussauds London and the options were Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif. It is said that Katrina has won the spot with maximum votes, beating Deepika and Priyanka.
In a recent interview when quizzed about her wax statue at Madame Tussauds, Katrina said, “There is no official announcement on that yet, there is a process which is happening.”
The actress has reportedly done fittings for the statue but her look is still not decided. It will be either from “Chikni chameli” in “Agneepath”, “Sheila ki jawani” in “Tees Maar Khan”, or something from “Dhoom:3”.
Katrina will join the list of Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Kareena Kapoor Khan, to have a wax replica at the museum.
Big B was the first Bollywood celebrity to enter Madame Tussauds. He is also the first living Asian to have a wax statue there. Aishwarya was the first B’Town diva to get a wax replica at Madame Tussauds.
Now, we can only wait to see which look Katrina chooses.
http://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainmenttags/kareena-kapoor/katrina-kaif-madame-tussads
PS—actually i know somebody involved in this —apparently bang bang and its success SEALED it in favour of Katrina ahead of Deepika and Priyanka (both of whom underperfomrmed in Fanny and Mary kom–especially the “fanny-gate”)
ps2–what do people feel–what “look’ should katrimas wax statue take? (yeah b4 u say that–” nude” look is not possible)–family crowds & all that…
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October 11, 2014 at 6:57 AM
We are waiting for your two weeks of Haider + bb is more than dhoom 3 update … The equation you only solicited…a few weeks back. In any case you would find a way to defend any number so it’s pointless debating with such a small person.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:08 AM
Person(s) who hide behind unfair moderation are talking about “smallness”? hahaha
two weeks deal will come to play after two weeks//
the fact that u constantly have to go to the FANCHISED dhoom3 (with all its privileges and unfair advantages) to try to bring down the much DELAYED & NON-SOLO RELEASE (GETTING 1200 LESS SCREENS) bang bang shows what bang bang has still achived INSPITE of that
I USUALLY SUFFER FROM LACK OF TIME AND ATTENTION SPAN HERE NOWADAYS
BUT
IF U DARE–REMOVE MODERATION FIRST
ALL OF U CRONIES WILL BE COLLECTIVELY DEALT WITH & APTLY “PROCESSED” 🙂
remove moderation first
all your answers will be given and more
its like I AM UNFAIRLY WITHOUT ANY OF MY GUNS AND AMMUNITION AND WITH ARMS TIED
STILL SATYAM AND CRONIES NEED THE CRUTCH AND BODY ARMOUR WITH ME
THIS “FEAR” IN THE MINDS OF SATYAM AND HIS CRONIES IS THE ANSWER 🙂
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October 11, 2014 at 7:16 AM
Apex, these sorts of comments are the very reason why unfortunately everything from you has to be moderated. If you were a little more serious and made these points a little more seriously (as you once used to though you might not remember that self of yours) there would be no need for any of this. And others in any case have nothing to do with this moderation so it’s useless to take cheap shots at them.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:23 AM
@apex
Katrina being a Londonite should certainly be considered first for a Madame Tussaud statue.
She’ll also look more authentic with a long lasting expression on her face. hahaha.
oops.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM
I agree Katrina is the perfect one for a wax statue. Like Monalisa.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:46 AM
actually satyam makes some reasonable points and he DOES HAVE a difficult task to moderate me, agreed..
BUT
“And others in any case have nothing to do with this moderation ”
these ‘others’ are like those ‘innocent creatures’ or deer who sometimes feel ’emboldened’ and erroneoulsy feel like ‘taking a chance’ from time to time 🙂
they forget that theres a REASON a TIGERS DEN needs to be cordoned off–for their safety …
i hope satyam u get the guts some day to remove this moderation
as for these ‘offers’—
–by definition–a TIGER never eats grass….
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October 11, 2014 at 9:11 AM
“–by definition–a TIGER never eats grass….”
then why can’t you?!
also if I venture into the jungle I guess I have to live by the tiger’s rules but in ‘civilization’ the tiger sadly has to be kept locked up..
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October 11, 2014 at 9:19 AM
Lol…unfortunately this cat’s bite is more like Garfield or Tigger than a real tiger. Plus he is a daft as Tom too.
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October 10, 2014 at 5:46 PM
‘Bang Bang’ Box Office Collection: Hrithik-Starrer Grosses ₹250 Crore in 1st Week;
By Ankita Mehta October 10, 2014 11:57 IST
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Hrithik Roshan’s action film “Bang Bang” has grossed over ₹250.75 crore in its first week at the worldwide box office.
Delhi High Court: Hrithik-Katrina Starrer ‘Bang Bang’ to be Blocked for Illegal Hosting on 72 Websites Fox Star Hindi/ Twitter
“Bang Bang”, which is a remake of Hollywood film “Knight and Day”, has become the second highest grosser of the year. The film has also replaced Shah Rukh Khan’s movie “Jab Tak Hai Jaan” at 10th spot in the worldwide highest grossing Bollywood film list.
“Jab Tak Hai Jaan” released in 2012 had received mixed response at the domestic box office, but fared well in international arena. In its four-week run, the Yash Chopra’s directorial minted approximately ₹241 crore gross income from worldwide box office.
The film starring Katrina Kaif in the female lead role minted ₹135 crore nett and ₹193.5 crore gross amount from domestic box office. And from overseas market it fetched in ₹57.25 crore.
“#BangBangMovie ends Wk 1 @ ₹135 cr nett (₹193.5 cr gross) & ₹57.25 cr internationally.Worldwide total : ₹250.75 cr gross.Thnx fr the luv ppl,” Fox Star, the production house, tweeted on Friday.
Trade experts believe that Hrithik-Katrina’s magic has worked for the film. Their sizzling chemistry is one of the reasons why the film is going strong at the box office.
“The business has been phenomenal. The jodi of Hrithik and Katrina has worked its magicagain. Bang Bang is holding supremely well. It is a full family-entertainer and a total masala movie. The audience has loved the film and the figures reflect this,” Vajir Singh, Editor of Box Office India magazine, told The Times of India.
“Bang bang was expected to bang the box-office charts. And yes it did and how! Being a complete mass entertainer, the film has been liked by one and all,” Nikita Wagh, editor of leading trade site KoiMoi.com, told TOI.
Meanwhile, here is the list of top 10 highest grosser Bollywood films ever:
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/bang-bang-box-office-collection-hrithik-starrer-grosses-250-crore-1st-week-beats-srks-jab-610995
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October 10, 2014 at 9:56 PM
Idea:
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/2680095/Aamir-Khan%27s-PK-trailer-to-release-on-Diwali%2C-alongside-Shah-Rukh-Khan%27s-Happy-New-Year
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October 10, 2014 at 9:57 PM
Idea:
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/celebrities/features/type/view/id/7340
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October 10, 2014 at 9:58 PM
Girish Johar @girishjohar · 13h 13 hours ago
1st 8 Days of #Haider closes at 35.35crs aprox !!
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Girish Johar @girishjohar · 13h 13 hours ago
8 Days Total #BangBang Hindi closes with 115.5 crs aprox Tamil 1.20crs aprox Telugu 2.75crs aprox… All langs 119.45crs aprox
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October 10, 2014 at 10:47 PM
The underperformance of BB makes this the 8th year in a row where the Khans movies will be the the top 2 biggest hits of the year. This year should be PK and Kick or PK and HNY. Actually given their line up, I don’t think any other actor can break into the top 2 until 2016/2017. And yes I am grouping the 3 Khans together and at this moment it is completely justified as no Khan is significantly lower than the other 2 currently unlike the last 25 years.
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October 10, 2014 at 11:30 PM
PK< HNY and KICK will be the Top 3 films of 2014. Cant say the excat order nkw without seeing HNY and PK. But they will be in TOP 3 for sure.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:08 AM
This is not a knock on Aamir and or Hirani, but so far the PK roll out has been a disaster. The naked Aamir was an atrocity. Then the follow up turned into a fancy costume farce. Now they appear to direct the effort with the focus on Anushka.
This is not to say the movie itself will also be a disaster. Clearly Hirani has an excellent track record. Moreover Aamir is one of the more smarter Bollywood stars.
Like the rest of the Bollywood fans, I too am eagerly waiting for a turn around. After suffering a naked Aamir, the public wants substance, the public demands substance, it will not be baffled by bull crap. Without the naked Aamir disaster, any mediocre song & dance would have been acceptable, BUT NOW the spot light is on, and the microscope is out. Aamir got naked and the public will examine every crease and crevice of PK.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:45 AM
Utkal: Did you ever get around to watching Ankhon Dekhi. Would like to know your thoughts on it.
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October 11, 2014 at 1:55 AM
IMHO, Bang Bang isn’t a disappointing watch. Has its good action, funny moments, HRs dances, great visuals et al. Perhaps the chemistry cudve been a bit tighter, somehow they cud not recreate ZNMD. HR needs to loosen up a bit, at times he is taking himself too seriously. And he is indeed weak at dialogs, he tends to eat up words or does not give the right inflection at the right moment. Eg, I literally cud not understand his rapid English, and figured out from the English subtitles. Also, Danny did not impress as much in this outing, I was expecting more ‘dhamaka’ out of him.
But I wager that had this starred the 3Khans, it wud surely have been zooming towars 200crs. Perhaps HRs starpower is a bit lower now.
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October 11, 2014 at 2:15 AM
Pretty much agree…it’s not bad. Just it is not very good either and the chemistry is not raunchy at all!
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October 11, 2014 at 2:50 AM
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Ram-Gopal-Varma-in-a-legal-soup-over-Sridevi/articleshow/44780826.cms
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October 11, 2014 at 3:11 AM
Rajdeep sardesai exposed, he infatuated and then went physically in madisson square. Later, media indiatoday, ndtv and ibnlive projected him aas victim with edited video and images. HE is shame on journalism and slut of congress.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:15 AM
>HE is shame on journalism and slut of congress.
You mean in the same way as the majority of the other journos are sluts of BJP/Modi? Almost the entire media and complete Network18 group?
The proof lies in the shameless building up of Modi image day in and day out. Especially their tamasha seen during his US visit.
Not supporting RS action, but one has to see the rabid attack online by similar gundas on not only him and other leaders/journos not supporting a bjp/modi view and being critical, but ordinary people like me too.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:40 AM
They are called Bhakts.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:41 AM
Absolutely. Gates, Al-Talaal, Nilekani, Tharoor, Zukerberg, Kerry, Biden, Bloomberg et al are Modi-Bhakts.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:44 AM
LOL. You take them seriously? Or did the Indian media in it’s building up of Modi image fool you into believeing this underlines the greatness of the man in question?
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October 11, 2014 at 8:53 AM
Show me THE CHARACTERS certificate issued by these individuals.
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October 11, 2014 at 9:14 AM
Or are you saying that because these people, not being bhakts, praised Modi so anyone being critical is a fool and should be bullied and abused.
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October 11, 2014 at 5:49 AM
#HappyBirthDay Big B !!!
‘Anthony Gonsalves’ is someone any Indian born in post independence India would easily know. It was a character Bachchan played in 1977 cult hit Amar Akbar Anthony. Along with Lata Mangeshkar, there’s one name that comes to mind when you think entertainment – Amitabh Bachchan.
It must take something God-given to be loved by such a spectrum of people. I vaguely recall college-going cousins keeping day-long fasts and praying for Amitabh Bachchan when death came knocking at his doorsteps after the unfortunate accident during the shooting of Coolie. I recall my uncle’s driver Liaqaat telling me as a 10-year old how his favourite Amitabh was Iqbal from Coolie and how his much-loved song was the one Iqbal sings as pilgrims leave for Hajj in the film. I recall how daddy, bhai and myself would all break into UP bhaiyya style jig, with various degrees of grotesqueness, as Bombay Doordashan’s Hindi music programme Chhaya Geet would run ‘Mere Anganey Mein Tumhara Kya Kaam Hai’ from Laawaris.
It is in these little moments that an abiding image of the man, his craft, his staying power and finally his legend emerges. For most parts, Amitabh Bachchan is famous for belittling his greatness, much to the disgust, actually revulsion, of an avid fan like yours truly. Big B remains one of the most powerful images of modern India.
If pre-independent India lived with the romance of a Gandhi, Nehru and many other stalwarts of the freedom movement, post 1947 India owes much to its popular culture (cricket and Bollywood) for being the emblems of Indianness, however flawed.
– See more at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/the-anthony-gonsalves-generation-what-bachchan-means-to-a-70s-kid/article1-1274163.aspx#sthash.xNqxv79M.dpuf
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October 11, 2014 at 6:07 AM
Bang Bang box office–the REAL update
continued from
BANGBANG The PRETENCE , SLIPPAGE & SELECTIVE REPORTING !
Bang bangs ‘underperfromance’ is only RELATIVE to the excessive expectations from naives and agendaic folks.
in my assessment, it is totally on expected lines and infact v good
if anybody can dish out any link where i predicted bigger numbers than these–u can’t !
there are certain obvious factors at play here outlined beofee the release here
to add-
unlike most of us here –some people and families cant afford two big movies within three four weeks. This begin the PRE DIWALI LULL period and other buggy coming uo with all the circus and fanfare in HNY–many have decided to go for that ( & cant do both)
for purposes of comparison to SOLO releases like CE, ETT, 3I–the DEFINITIVE link is
bang bang has already grossed 325 cr + and nearing 200 cores net domestic already in about a week or so which is commendable.
hrithik poised to followup his 242 CR Net domestic krrsih3 with another 200 cr + net flick —well done!
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October 11, 2014 at 6:52 AM
Bang Bang Has Big Drop On Second Friday
Saturday 11 October 2014 11.00 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
Bang Bang (Hindi) dropped badly on its second Friday as it collected around 3-3.25 crore nett. the drop is a huge 85% from last Friday which was the second day of the film. The drop is huge despite no competition from the new releases.
The film will struggle to put up a strong second week total and the film is unlikely to hit the 150 crore nett. The cracks were there in the collections earlier but holidays in various parts of the country made the all India daily collections reasonable. The second weekend of the film is liely to be around the 13 crore nett mark.
The second Friday collections are less than Kick, Holiday – A Solidier IS Never Off Duty, 2 States, Singham Returns and Jai Ho. It is the ninth day for Bang Bang as compared to eight for the other films but a 3 crore second Friday is low for a like Bang Bang which is much bigger budget than the films above. The second Friday is nearly 50% less than what Hrithik Roshan’s last film Krrish 3 grossed on its second Friday.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:19 AM
Years ago Jack Lemon made “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. HR has made “Shitty Shitty Bang Bang”.
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October 12, 2014 at 1:14 AM
As early as Day 1 end of day I had said that this movie is going the Ra-1 way….If anything this has gone worse than Ra-1. Ra-1 did 200 crores worldwide on a 100 crore budget. This will struggle to reach 250 crores on a 140 crore budget…Bad result for Hritik and the future is not too rosy as he doesnt have any strength genre movies coming up…
On HNY i am sticking to my 40 cr day 1 estimate. Nothing in the promos that I have seen makes me feel it is going to gross anything less. If the product is half decent, expect 300 crores to fall by Week 2…
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October 11, 2014 at 6:53 AM
Haider Collections Down On Its Second Friday
Saturday 11 October 2014 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
The collections of Haider came down a lot on its second Friday as it collected in the 1.35-1.45 crore nett region. The fall is around 80% from its first Friday which was the second day of release for the film..
Haider had held up well in the first seven days of release but the drop came on day eight and a further drop on day nine. This is mainly as it only has an audience at premium multiplexes and the audience at other places has not appreciated it. The premium multiplexes of Delhi NCR have held pretty well and now are collecting more than Bang Bang when day one had started at 70% lower than Bang Bang.
Haider should collect around 6-6.50 crore nett in its second weekend and lifetime business will find it hard to reach 50 Crore nett, probably falling a crore or two short.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:27 AM
BOI seems to have joined the anti Haider brigade. Their language discussing it’s BO is interesting.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM
the thing is Haider has no room for error. It was stable at the lower end and certainly with this director’s movies you can never expect a big one. Kaminey because of the music and the relatively more mainstream urban setting got off to a strong start (again relative to the director’s other work) but still came down later. Now I’d expect Haider to be a bit better over the weekend. A lot of movies these days fall on the second Fri but again it has no room for error.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:41 AM
OK. I just thought given the type of film it is not much BO collection was expected. At least I’m quite pleased it might make around 50cr.
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October 11, 2014 at 9:13 AM
yes 50 isn’t bad at all for this sort of thing. Because films in a certain format let alone edgy political films (whether you agree with the politics or not) are never going to get to 100 or whatever. Which has been my point all along. When ‘different’ films are celebrated for reach a 100 or whatever that is the surest sign that they’re not radically different or anything (though they still get credit for doing this). Meanwhile the edgier stuff even with major stars always underperforms (of course not everything that underperforms with a star is edgy!).
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October 11, 2014 at 10:16 AM
>(of course not everything that underperforms with a star is edgy!).
LOL
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October 12, 2014 at 1:15 AM
50 crores is above average for the budget purely from a box office perspective…
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October 11, 2014 at 7:17 AM
IMESOFINDIA
NETT FIGURES
Box Office: ‘Bang Bang’ inching towards Rs 150 crores, ‘Haider’ towards Rs 50 crores in domestic market
Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif starrer ‘Bang Bang’ is going rock steady at the box office while Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Haider’ is also picking up with good word of mouth, even after a week of the film’s release.
According to a report in Koimoi.com, Bang Bang raked in approximately Rs 4 crores on its second Friday. The film has certainly made its way to the top as the total domestic BO collection stands at Rs 139.45 crores. While this is touted as a big release, the report further adds that the film is soon set to cross the Rs 150 crore mark in the domestic market
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/box-office/Box-Office-Bang-Bang-inching-towards-Rs-150-crores-Haider-towards-Rs-50-crores-in-domestic-market/articleshow/44782006.cms
THE OFFICIAL LINK OF THE MADAME TUSSAUDS VOTE
http://www.madametussauds.com/london/newsandevents/bollywoodvote.aspx
I posted the results in the post above
dont personally care for these statues much for some its big deal
but anyhow bang bang helps katrina trounce deepika and priyanka (sympathies for the two who lsot–they were also deserving)
CONGRATS KATRINA
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October 11, 2014 at 1:03 PM
There are all sorts of articles on this movie box office and like Krish-3 murmurs have begun again & HR credibility taking a bigger hit. Here is one such piece –
Guess this recently released film which actually isn’t doing as well as it is being said!
HR is overdoing these things with all sorts of projections and should just accept people’s verdict on his film and try to better them. But for that to happen one needs maturity which seems lacking with this type of a yoyo. If you go by pinkvilla articles and the comments there under by few his self obsession /narcissism may now be one of the reason Suzzane may have called it quits. Living-in with this type of Qtiyapa on a 24/7 bss can be taxing and she may have opted out after giving him enough time to mature.
Though previously done unsuccessfully after KNPH, he must once again give it a chance to do some real movies for a change. Incidentally if I remember correctly Vishal B. wanted him for Haider and he could have mixed things and explored himself as an actor with this kind of project. If not box-office at least Shahid is now being taken seriously as an actor. He should also think of doing something which is more relatable for a change to mix things up. There is no harm to try an aamir of munna in Rangeela and do dus ka tees tapori to breakaway and surprise everyone. But it seems he is too much of funko / scared and has dropped couple of projects just to go back to krish 4 with his dad going by his latest interviews.
As I suggested BB kind of movie would have been more a 90-110 cr lifetime deal if it was a fri /mon thing but for these 6/8 straight holidays/festivities acknowledged by all media expert, added with Katrina’s super-stardom will give it some kind of passable result. Its time a younger star consider breaking the monopoly and prevent a Kick kind of results/totals for trashy movies.
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October 11, 2014 at 7:22 AM
BTW, for people who were frustrated with the one-sided viewpoint of Haider, just go watch Bang Bang for another one-sided viewpoint: The villain is named Omar Zafar. His second in command is Hamid Gul! And the rest of them are named after members of the Pakistani Cricket Team!
Now I know why they underperformed. Haider lost the Hindu RIght, BB lost the ones on the Left.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM
This is the first Im reading such a POV. Any hashtags for it online? I may have missed it.
Any links to the fanatical opposition to Bang Bang?
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October 11, 2014 at 8:40 AM
For anyone interested there is a Pakistani film called as “Waar” (which released last year) which is almost a revenge on those Anil Sharma-Sunny Deol films. The film’s plot has Pakistani being rattled by terrorists from outside the border…India is not specifically “named” as the country instigating these terror attacks in Pak, but not much is left to imagination when the villain is clearly shown to be slipping into Pakistan from across the Indian border of Kashmir. Also there is mention of RAW which is shown linked to the attacks in the country. It’s not a good film by any means, but it’s pretty slick for an action thriller and has some nicely staged action scenes.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:05 AM
LOL!
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October 11, 2014 at 8:18 AM
Now Pakistanis will make a movie where all the villains will be named from India’s cricket team!
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October 11, 2014 at 8:36 AM
Seems I missed the sarcasm?
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October 11, 2014 at 2:09 PM
Tanaavi surkhiyaan zehni sanjeedgi paida kar deti hain. Kabhi Kabhi Light bhi le lijiye. Sehat hari-bhari durust kaayam rahegi.
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October 12, 2014 at 12:04 AM
NyKavi: The whole focus of the movie is that Omar Zafar and Hamid Gul are Indian terrorist and they talk about signing treaty to take him back to India(from UK) and thats why he want to find an Indian thief who could steal Kohinoor for Omar Zafar. So, clearly, it wasn’t talking about Pakistan in any way.
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October 11, 2014 at 8:17 AM
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Amitabh-Bachchans-birthday-Abhishek-Bachchan-shares-family-selfie/articleshow/44783186.cms
Happy birthday, Big B.
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October 11, 2014 at 10:35 AM
Fantastic piece by Pragya Tiwari on the sort of “teachings” some Right Wing fundamentalists are providing. Incidentally the minute she wrote this piece, she has been getting rape and murder threats on twitter etc-
In praise of Hemu: Medieval king reveals true intent of Hindutva history-
http://www.firstpost.com/india/rewriting-history-hindutva-subramanian-swamys-xenophobia-close-1749171.html?utm_content=bufferb1f70&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
“A couple of days ago Satish Mittal, former professor at Kurukshetra University and author of “40 books and 400 articles”, had helpfully explained the purpose of this event to me.
“Our history has been distorted by Western, Muslim, Communist and Secularist historians. The Western historians wanted to spread Christianity and help England to rule over us, the Muslims wanted to spread Islam, the Communists wanted Mao to come to India and turn us into atheists.” He did not say what the Secularists wanted but did add that all of the above were mercenaries, writing falsehoods in exchange for power, property and money.
“The story of Hemu, or Hemchandra Vikramaditya, is summed up as follows – He had humble beginnings but worked his way up, becoming indispensible to a string of Afghan rulers until he finally established himself on the throne of Delhi on the 5th of October, 1556 and set up a Hindu Rashtra after hundreds of years.
We are told that he proved to be a stellar administrator in his 29 day rule. Also that his first Ghoshana Patra (decree) banned cow slaughter and declared that anyone practicing it would be beheaded. Further, he issued a list of corrupt officials and took action against them, altered policy to make his kingdom more business friendly and made new appointments.
At this point Hemu’s life story is beginning to sound suspiciously like the ‘Myth of Narendra Modi set in Medieval Times’. Every medieval era historian I speak with outside of ABISY tells me that very little is known about Hemu.
None of them has come across any evidence or study that refers to the establishment of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ or Ghoshana Patras. “If they have these decrees let them put it out. It will change the way we understand medieval Indian history,” says Sunil Kumar, Professor of Medieval History at Delhi University, calling the claim “astonishing” because “medieval documents were not called ghoshana patras”.
“No king in that period would have put out a plan for intrusive governance so soon after taking control. Consolidation was always a slow process,” he adds.
The Ghoshana Patras are not shown at the symposium but the organizers do screen a “documentary” to prop up their claims. Curiously it largely consists of scenes from Ashutosh Gowariker’s 2008 Hindi film, Jodhaa Akbar. A film that was initially either banned or not released in some Indian states after sections of the Rajput community alleged that it intends to distort history.”..
This martyrdom of Hemu is what entrenches his credentials as a desh-bhakt for ABISY. “The Hindu king led from the front in the Second Battle of Panipat and was close to defeating the foreign army of Bairam Khan, regent to a very young Muslim ruler Akbar, when an arrow hit him, changing the course of India’s history forever. He was captured and killed and his head was taken to Kabul and exhibited,” says Mittal.
When I ask him why Akbar cannot qualify as an ‘Indian’, Mittal gives me two reasons.
One, that he always kept “dreaming of Central Asia where his forefathers had come from” and two, that he was an “illiterate man” who “mixed alcohol and opium and consumed copious amounts of this cocktail”.
When I remind him of Akbar’s state policy of Sulh-i-kuI (religious tolerance) and equal patronage to all faiths that made him unpopular with the Ulama of his time, Mittal summarily says, “his secularism was a political maneuver, not his conviction.” I am not entirely sure what his sources are ,but this conversation is beginning to sound more like the BJP and its supporters’ slander campaign against political opponents – be they Rahul Gandhi’s holidays abroad or Priyanka Gandhi “drinking too much alcohol”- than anything we know about Akbar.
“This martyrdom of Hemu is what entrenches his credentials as a desh-bhakt for ABISY. “The Hindu king led from the front in the Second Battle of Panipat and was close to defeating the foreign army of Bairam Khan, regent to a very young Muslim ruler Akbar, when an arrow hit him, changing the course of India’s history forever. He was captured and killed and his head was taken to Kabul and exhibited,” says Mittal.
“To call Hemu a patriot would be to suggest that the idea of India as a political state existed in 1556. “There were mentions of Hindustan in that period but it meant different things to different people,” explains Farhat Hasan, Professor of Medieval History at Delhi University. “Identities were extremely parochial- limited to caste, kin and village.” Which is also what makes the idea of Akbar as a foreigner less than credible. “For most people anyone outside their village would have been a foreigner,” says Hasan.
More problematic is the attempt to frame this as a story of Hindu-Muslim conflict. “Merging of different religious, cultural and social identities into one homogenous identity of ‘Muslim’ is a later development,” says Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, Professor of Ancient History at Delhi University. “There was a lot of borrowing- not conscious but liminal – from each other’s cultural and sacred traditions so it is anachronistic to talk of Hindus and Muslims as well-entrenched or uniform religious identities,” explains Hasan.”
“Hemu’s own final battle is more accurately a chapter in the extended strife between Afghans and Mughals in India.
“It was common for ‘Hindu’ chieftains to collaborate with ‘Muslim’ Sultans against common enemies. The Sharqi Sultans of Jaunpur and the Lodis of Delhi both had Rajput confederates in their armies as they battled with each other,” says Kumar.
So Hemu who worked closely with Sher Shah Suri and Adil Shah actually represented the Afghan forces in battles. His army in the battle of Panipat is likely to have consisted of large numbers of Afghan soldiers.
But despite these complexities, the symposium on Hemu seems determined to reduce his life to that of a Hindutvavadi nationalist.
Subramanian Swamy in his nakedly communal speech says it was due to the struggle of people like Hemu that Muslims and Christians failed to convert “80 percent of Hindus. That is the reason ISIS wants to come back to India. To finish the unfinished task.”
“Equally blatant are the political motives behind this effort. “In the elections this year when just over 30 percent of this 80 percent got together see what they could accomplish. Next time more Hindus will unite and vote,” says Swamy.
Mittal reminds us that Hemu banned cow slaughter as soon as he came to power, but cow slaughter has not been banned in independent India. “This is all because of Nehru.”
Nehru, who according to Swamy “listened to no one but Edwina Mountbatten” and was determined to keep India “a junior partner of the British commonwealth.” Jibes against Sonia Gandhi being from Italy are thrown in with even lesser pretext.
The communalization of this chapter goes well beyond Hemu’s life. The symposium expresses outrage over the alleged encroachment of Hemu’s memorial in Panipat. “It is a Muslim dominated area and they have built a dargah there. It is shameful,” says Vinayak Deshpande. The natural leap from this is Babri Masjid (named, according to a sniggering Swamy, after a young boy Babur was having an illicit affair with) and the Mathura temple. Swamy pledges to “resolve” both matters. “Muslims should cooperate otherwise we have other ways,” he says.”
“In the final speech of the afternoon Bal Mukund Pandey compares Hindus to the tiger who killed a young boy in the Delhi Zoo recently.
“They might not have hunted for many years but that does not mean they have forgotten how to hunt,” he says. The deceased was a “mentally challenged Muslim boy. When he was about to be eaten he did not say Allah but folded his hands in front of the tiger,” he adds smugly. If this is how they spin the voluble present imagine what liberties they might take with the silent past.
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October 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM
>Incidentally the minute she wrote this piece, she has been getting rape and murder threats on twitter etc-
Yes, this is what I have been saying about the kind of threats journos, leaders and common people going against the views get. It’s shocking.
RS had been tweeting about this long before the NY fiasco.
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October 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM
The difference jhadu jee is the violence at azad maiden, Denmark etc, yard nahee pasta soorab ya aapkey kuch kahan ho use Barry mein
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October 11, 2014 at 11:54 AM
You are defending this?
You support the death threats, rape if it’s a female twitter by the online paid gundas of BJP?
sharam karo
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October 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM
Not defending this but trying to put some shame in shameless anti hindu people like you..
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October 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Your kind of people will suport anything which is anti hindu, anti bjp even if it is actually in India’s interest.
Shameless ….
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October 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM
as I said. Typical abuser of people who don’t support your point of you.
>Your kind of people will suport anything which is anti hindu, anti bjp even if it is actually in India’s interest.
What *is* anti.hindu BTW
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October 11, 2014 at 12:26 PM
But my main point is this online attacking and abusing in the worst sort of way. Not discussing what ideology one is following – meri balla se
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October 11, 2014 at 11:21 AM
I request Saturn to kindly delete the above link by a certified brown noser as it has no relevance here, just as he routinely deletes di and Bliss, links…. Thanks in advance.
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October 11, 2014 at 11:22 AM
Saturn=Satyam…
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October 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM
omrocky786: LOL. Satyam is free to delete the link, I have no issues with it at all (I hardly ever post any political link here at all. The only reason I put this up was because I couldn’t, for the life of me, understand why this lady- Pragya Tiwari- deserved to be getting rape threats). On the rest, it might come as a surprise to you (not that I need to explain anything to you! I avoid you anyway), but before Modi took over the party’s reigns I was a BJP supporter (of course the BJP I recognise was the one which was lead by Atal )..infact I still am to an extent. However sadly I can’t ever board this Hindutva bandwagon. I am however glad that you have only called me a brown noser, not a desh-drohi or “anti-Hindu” 🙂 . Anyway this is my last bit on the issue, you are free to take potshots.
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October 11, 2014 at 12:06 PM
Beta commies like cilema chootiya slobs key influence mein rahega toh bahut jaldee desh drohee bhee ban jaayega….
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October 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM
Ah, I see you are the typical example of the rabid violent abusers online.
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October 11, 2014 at 12:18 PM
And you are the typical example of spin master, and U turns…
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October 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM
Note well..still no answer on the Azad maidan incident, javed akhtars intolerance of an artistic expression, ,
But the glee in the thought of americans throwing all hindus out was mind boggling
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October 11, 2014 at 12:30 PM
>still no answer on the Azad maidan incident, javed akhtars intolerance of an artistic expression, ,
I dislike Javed Akhtar.
On the rest – IS THAT WHAT WE ARE DISCUSSING??
I REPEAT – I’m talking of ONLINE ABUSE, ATTACKS OF THE WORST KIND by the paid gundas of BJP.
>But the glee in the thought of americans throwing all hindus out was mind boggling
I *DID* explain I meant hidutva followers who want intolerance in India while making use of tolerance in the country they live in.
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October 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM
Not sure what this has got to do with Cilema Snob?! I am neither a fan of the guy (usually find him quite insufferable on Twitter), nor do I know him (in any sense). On the other hand, I do like the writings and views of Pragya Tiwari (not just her writings on politics, but also on films), that was one of the major reasons why I posted this piece because irrespective of what one’s ideologies are, this piece is worth reading. On the rest, I am not sure why do I have to quote examples from the “other side” everytime I say something (funnily enough I hardly ever participate in a political discussion here at all. And who are you in the first place to question me on anything). Man, I understand that you dislike me immensely, you have made that amply clear on more than one occasion. Now I couldn’t care less of what you think of me and that’s why it is best for both of us to continue avoiding each other…I hope we can do that.
And it seems I have unintentionally exposed a raw nerve somewhere by posting that article. So if it helps satiate your ego, Satyam (or anyone else) can remove that link and the comment.
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October 11, 2014 at 12:09 PM
This again begs the question, why have you not posted any linjs about the commie intolerance, ???
Ananya vajpayee letter, threats to rupa subramanya…
Oh, samjha…comrades set wahi wahi jo leni hai…
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October 12, 2014 at 12:21 AM
I happily voted for Vajpaye-BJP in 1999. Don’t mind Advani either. Bit the trolling bullying fundamentalists of this newer version — God save my country and its pluralist ethos, its free thinking citizens. S Swamy and his foul talking brigade will be the death of this country.
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October 12, 2014 at 1:15 AM
Ha ha,Now even Advani is moderate , don’t mind types !!
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October 12, 2014 at 1:34 AM
BTW LS– any comments on the Sauvé , English Speaking Shashi Tharoor’s wife’s mysterious death?
Oh , that will be considered trolling!!
God save us !!
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October 12, 2014 at 4:00 AM
Advani and Tharoor are both opportunists. Swamy and mediacrooks. I prefer Swamy. We have drowned fully and now let us enjoy the process.
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October 12, 2014 at 1:14 AM
Fantastic Video capturing Rajdeep’s and his cronies lies, incidentally his bhakts had started badmouthing NRIs in general and Gujratis in particular…
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October 12, 2014 at 7:03 AM
u think an FIR should be filed against rajdeep and he should have been arrested on the evidence of this video. He was gathering symapthy by spreading lies by his english media sources. Here we can see who started abusing and then who heckled whom.
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October 12, 2014 at 1:18 AM
Fantastic piece by Media Crooks, Incidentally the Commie goons and intolerant left keep abusing poor Media Crooks…
Bhagwan jee, please save my country from these people!!
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2014/10/rajdeeps-ugly-character-part-2.html
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October 12, 2014 at 1:22 AM
fantastic tailpiece, incidentally the goons will spin this to-
Telling people “You have money but have no class… Did Modi teach you this?… You American-Indians have no values” is nothing short of racist behaviour by Rajdeep. And these are the bimbos to teach us freedom of press and democracy?
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October 12, 2014 at 1:24 AM
Fantastic piece by Mediacrooks on Bengal, Incidentally the commie goons support TMCs goons…….
On the evening of October 6, Monday, the man in the pic, Derek O’Brien (DOB) was asked to respond to the incident of an accidental blast at the Burdwan centre of TMC which killed two men who were assembling IEDs. Instead of answering the questions DOB stated barking at the BJP and Social Media as “hate-mongering” with their Hindu agenda against the TMC.
http://www.mediacrooks.com/2014/10/bengals-terror-machine.html
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October 12, 2014 at 1:29 AM
Fantastic piece by Swami, incidentally the commie and congress brigade has been abusing him like forever…Bhagwan jee Desh Bachao !!
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article6489516.ece
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October 12, 2014 at 1:30 AM
Fantastic piece by Vivek Dahija, Incidentally the Goons have trolled him….
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/lhef7Y7yDxs6a6EMObXiuL/Narendra-Modi-historian.html
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October 12, 2014 at 1:36 AM
Fantastic satire by the Unreal Times ….Incidentally ….fuck it !!
http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2014/10/11/how-the-international-media-is-covering-kailash-satyarthis-nobel-peace-prize-win/
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October 12, 2014 at 1:45 AM
Fantastic Tweet by Sunanda..Incidentally the trolls goons have chosen to ignore this one !! Sigh !!
Sunanda Vashisht
@sunandavashisht Meanwhile confirmation of Mrs. Tharoor’s unnatural death evokes silent sighs and no outrage.. When alive she thought she had many friends..
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October 12, 2014 at 2:02 AM
Fantastic Piece by Deepak on the Politics of Haider..Incidentally- read it !!
Although he appears to condemn the path of violence opted by the separatists in Kashmir, he also tacitly justifies it (through the character arc of Haider) as a natural reaction to the Indian Army’s alleged excesses in the Valley under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
Despite the charitable references to the Army’s yeoman work during the recent floods at the fag end of the film (by which time the damage is already done), Haider has the cumulative effect of painting the Army and the Indian State with a manipulative and diabolical brush
Not to question the director’s freedom and prerogative, but if “realism” is truly Bhardwaj’s obsession, surely the natural and human reaction of an Indian soldier who finds himself in an extremely hostile and treacherous environment is worth alluding to, in howsoever fleeting a manner.
But then that wouldn’t have won Bhardwaj the raving approval and endorsement of the left-liberal cabal in and outside Bollywood, nor would addressing the elephant in the room–the role of radical Islamists in Kashmir’s politics and its consequences for non-Muslims in Kashmir. That Bhardwaj’s take on Kashmir is superficial, clichéd and populist is borne from his effort to draw tacit parallels between Gaza and Kashmir through his Chomsky-esque reference to Kashmir as a prison. This must have really warmed the cockles of Kashmiri separatists who have left no stone unturned in internationalizing the dispute with the able support of the left and in drawing contrived symmetries between the Palestinians and Kashmiris.
http://blogs.swarajyamag.com/2014/10/10/the-politically-correct-realism-of-haider/
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October 12, 2014 at 2:02 AM
You see, every community, except the Hindus, is entitled to “react naturally” to alleged excesses and perceived victimization. “Natural reaction” is only human and never communal when it comes from non-Hindus, more so when it is directed at Hindus.
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October 12, 2014 at 2:03 AM
Also, as required by the only acceptable definition of “secularism” and “syncretic tradition” in this great land of ours, every movie on Kashmir must necessarily accept and perpetuate the myth that Kashmir has always been a Muslim majority region, and its Hindu roots and remnants (if any) are but a vestige of the past best forgotten and stamped out to give way to a more “secular” present.
For instance, in the movie, when an Army officer asks the character Haider his native place, Shahid Kapoor’s Haider answers “Islamabad” with righteous defiance just to irk the officer. We are then told that Anantnag (where Basharat Peer hails from) is locally referred to as “Islamabad”, bringing to memory the recent controversy surrounding the re-naming of the Shankaracharya Temple in Srinagar to Takht-e-Sulaiman. Conveniently again, Bhardwaj does not dwell on the issue further because we wouldn’t want to hurt “secular” sentiments, would we?
In the interest of preserving secular clichés and harmony, we must let remnants of Hindu culture such as temples serve as props for a shoot, or more frequently as natural targets of natural reactions from the victimized denizens of the Valley.
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October 12, 2014 at 2:05 AM
Fantastic…. excerpts from above link!!
The politically incorrect version would be one where the absence of an armed struggle by Kashmiri Hindus in response to the savagery meted out to them and their culture is highlighted to drive home the message of peace and the futility of vengeance. But then, that version would have been received with stone-pelting (with ample encouragement from “brothers” across the border), a not-so-non-violent demand for a ban on the movie, fatwas calling for the heads of the entire crew of the film, threats from the underworld, and the “communal” tag from “intellectuals” in Bollywood.
Now which street smart director from Bollywood would want that kind of trouble on his hands? Isn’t it easier to simply play the righteous rebel by targeting the soft Indian State? Smart move Vishal!
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October 12, 2014 at 3:03 AM
SPAMMING spotted!!!!!
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October 12, 2014 at 3:56 AM
neurotic!
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October 12, 2014 at 5:42 AM
OMG, a few links to counter view point and the intolerants have started abusing me online, calling me names like Trollm neurotic etc ….OMG OMG !!
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October 12, 2014 at 4:58 AM
Rocky bha’!!
An Jo here..
You know, the guy whO completed a MASTER’s in engineering in INDUSTRIAL ENNG in US but not a master’s degree in humanities in the US…
please don’t let the SICULARS walk away with the winning flag.. they are fucking psuedos..[edited]…man nobody on this earth coud have DEVISED a more potent insult to my beloved city of birth B0MBAY than the sickulars who are nothing but arson communalists…we are fortunate that we have an extremely broad-minded individual like Satyam who has the tenacity to not be pulled in one direction..
I am with you bro…so what if the arsonists wish to label me a communalist…it is pretty clear who has more than 1 folding here…..
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October 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM
An Jo, appreciate that sir…means a lot.
BTW I was in Pune last two weeks, and my relative’s driver is a Muslim and is a Sallu Bhai fan. We became friends as he drove me around, and took me to his home to meet his wife and mom.. I was pleasantly surprised..The flat next to him had the Shubh -Labh, his flat had an Urdu inscription, His wife is educated , I said Aadaab to her and she replied back in Namsatey.
I weas really impressed by Pune…..
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October 12, 2014 at 5:59 AM
Fantastic Tweets by Rahul…Incidentally all the “C”s are abusing him……
Rahul Roushan @rahulroushan •
1.Doing a @kamalphil, me and @ajayendar introduce a new word to English : Chutiyals (noun, plural): Chutiyas who think they are liberals
2.A: What do you think of my ideas? B: I disagree. My point is… A: You are a HATER,a BIGOT! and… B: Kya Chutiyal hai be tu!
3.A: Violence is NEVER the answer B: But you thrashed that fellow, no? A: Oh, him? He totally deserved it. B: Wah re Chutiyal!
4.C: I know everything. Q: But, that’s not.. C: bakwas band kar. you’re not allowed to know anything. #CForChutiyal
5.Libtard: Fight ideas with ideas Reporter: Fine. Let’s Libtard: Oooohhh! You are a U-turner! “difficult to extend basic courtesies” to you
This takes the CAKE !!
@waglenikhil: BJP may win Maharashtra election,but they have already lost in the eyes of people who care for democracy.@narendramodi
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October 12, 2014 at 7:18 AM
I’ve shut down this thread. Too much politics here. And it’s going to be a huge fight if I don’t.
Rocky, you’ve gone on a tear here! Thought Modi won..
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