About Adlabs FIlms Litd, Big cinemas

Adlabs Films Ltd., a member of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADA G), which operates Big Cinemas, has tied up with Sambhaav Media Ltd. for Gujarat & Media Prophet India Pvt. Ltd. for UP to tap the regional & local advertisers in these markets .

Big Cinemas is India’s largest cinema chain with 83 properties across 66 cities with 208 screens in India and 38 properties across 35 cities internationally.

Sambhaav Media is a leading Media house in Gujarat, with presence into Outdoor, Magazines (Abhiyaan) and Newspapers (Sambhaav Metro & Loksatta-Jansatta) & Media Prophet India Pvt Ltd. (Barasia Advertising), is a prominent Advertising Agency with over 30 years of experience in the UP market.

“We are delighted to be a partner with BIG Cinemas and are quite confident that our combined strength will offer a wider array of advertising opportunities to reach the end consumer in Gujarat” said Kiran Vadodaria, CMD Sambhaav Media.

In 2008, Big Cinemas along with IMRB carried out “The BIG Cinemas - IMRB Multiplex Consumer Study” which was bestowed the honor of Best Paper Award, in the Innovative research section by Market Research Society of India (MRSI).

The study is a first of its kind initiative in the world where RFID technology is used to understand the Attitude & Behavior, Product/Media Usage & Media Efficacy of the multiplex goer.

In the US, it operates about 23 properties with 170 screens & 14 properties with 66 Screens in Malaysia. A recent tie-up with Pathe theatres of Netherlands marks its entry into the European Markets which has a base of 700,000 Hindi movie fans.

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IIFA Awards 2009 Nominations List

Best Film

A Wednesday
Dostana
Ghajini
Jodhaa Akbar
Race
Rock On

Best Director

A R Murugadoss - Ghajini
Madhur Bhandarkar - Fashion
Abhishek Kapoor - Rock On
Ashutosh Gowariker - Jodhaa Akbar
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Male

Aamir Khan - Ghajini
Abhishek Bachchan - Dostana
Hrithik Roshan - Jodhaa Akbar
Naseeruddin Shah - A Wednesday
Shah Rukh Khan - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Female

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Jodhaa Akbar
Asin - Ghajini
Bipasha Basu - Race
Katrina Kaif - Singh is Kinng
Priyanka Chopra - Fashion

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Male

Abhishek Bachchan - Sarkar Raj
Arjun Rampal - Rock On
Irrfan Khan - Mumbai Meri Jaan
Sonu Sood - Jodhaa Akbar
Vinay Pathak - Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Female

Bipasha Basu- Bachna Ae Haseeno
Ila Arun - Jodhaa Akbar
Kiron Kher - Dostana
Shahana Goswami - Rock On
Kangana Ranaut - Fashion

Best Actor in a Comic Role

Abhishek Bachchan - Dostana
Anil Kapoor- Race
Rajpal Yadav - Bhoothnath
Tejpal Singh - Jodhaa Akbar
Shreyas Talpade - Welcome to Sajjanpur
Tusshar Kapoor - Golmaal Returns

Best Actor in a Negative Role

Akshaye Khanna - Race
Imran Khan - Kidnap
Paresh Rawal - Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
Pradeep Rawat - Ghajini
Vishwas Badola - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Story

Abhishek Kapoor - Rock On
Haidar Ali - Jodhaa Akbar
Madhur Bhandarkar, Ajay Monga, Anuradha Tiwari - Fashion
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday
Shiraz Ahmed - Race

Best Music

A R Rahman - Jodhaa Akbar
A.R.Rahman- Ghajini
Pritam - Race
Shankar Ehsaan Loy - Rock On
Vishal Shekhar - Dostana


Best Lyrics

Anvita Dutt Gupta - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Jaideep Sahni - Haule Haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)
Javed Akhtar - Jashn-E-Bahara (Jodhaa Akbar)
Javed Akhtar- Socha Hai (Rock On)
Sameer - Pehli Nazar Mein (Race)

Best Playback Singer - Male

Atif Aslam - Pehli Nazar Mein (Race)
Farhan Akhtar - Socha Hai (Rock On)
Javed Ali - Jashn-E-Baharaa (Jodhaa Akbar)
KK- Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Sukhwinder Singh - Haule Haule (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi)

Best Playback Singer - Female

Bela Shinde - Man Mohana (Jodhaa Akbar)
Monali - Zara Zara Touch Me (Race)
Shilpa Rao - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)
Shreya Ghoshal - Teri Ore (Singh is Kinng)
Sunidhi Chauhan - Desi Girl (Dostana)

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Pop diva Madonna, has dismissed reports that she is planning a lavish wedding

Pop diva Madonna, 50, has dismissed reports that she is planning a lavish wedding with her 22-year-old boyfriend Jesus Luz.

The Brazilian model's father Luis Heitor Pinto da Luz had said that Madonna was planning to wed his son in New York. But Madonna insists the reports are false, reported contactmusic.com.

"This is completely and totally not true," said the singer's spokesperson.

Madonna started dating Jesus shortly after splitting from husband Guy Ritchie last year.

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The list of Bollywood’s top 10 star tax payers in 2008-09

Here is the list of Bollywood’s top 10 star tax payers in 2008-09.

Akshay Kumar - Rs 31 crore (Rs 310 million)
Shah Rukh Khan - Rs 30.99 crore (Rs 309.9 million)
Salman Khan - Rs 14 crore (Rs 140 million)
Saif Ali Khan - Rs 8.6 crore (Rs 86 million)
Rajesh Khanna - Rs 8.6 crores (Rs 86 million)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - Rs 4.7 crore (Rs 47 million)
Kareena Kapoor - Rs 3.6 crore (Rs 36 million)
Abhishek Bachchan - Rs 3.2 crores (Rs 32 million)
Himesh Reshammiya - Rs 3 crore (Rs 30 million)
Amitabh Bachchan - Rs 1.25 crores (Rs 12.5 million)

Akshay Kumar has emerged as top tax payer from Bollywood, which is the highest income tax paid by any film star in India and also the highest income tax paid by Akshay Kumar himself.

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IPL Schedule 2009 for matches

IPL Schedule 2009 for matches
Match No. Between Teams Venue Match Date and Time[IST]
1 Mumbai Indians Vs Chennai Super Kings Cape Town April 18 4 p.m
2 Rajasthan Royals Vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Cape Town April 18 8 p.m
3 Delhi Daredevils Vs Kings XI Punjab Cape Town April 19 4 p.m
4 Deccan Chargers Vs Kolkata Knight Riders Cape Town April 19 8 p.m
5 Chennai Super Kings Vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Port Elizabeth April 20 8 p.m
6 Kings XI Punjab Vs Kolkata Knight Riders Durban April 21 4 p.m
7 Rajasthan Royals Vs Mumbai Indians Durban April 21 8 p.m
8 Bangalore Royal Challengers Vs Deccan Chargers Cape Town April 22 8 p.m
9 Chennai Super Kings Vs Delhi Daredevils Durban April 23 4 p.m
10 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Rajasthan Royals Cape Town April 23 8 p.m
11 Bangalore Royal Challengers Vs Kings XI Punjab Durban April 24 8 p.m
12 Mumbai Indians Vs Deccan Chargers Durban April 25 4 p.m
13 Chennai Super Kings Vs Kolkata Knight Riders Cape Town April 25 8 p.m
14 Bangalore Royal Challengers Vs Delhi Daredevils Port Elizabeth April 26 4 p.m
15 Kings XI Punjab Vs Rajasthan Royals Cape Town April 26 8 p.m
16 Deccan Chargers Vs Chennai Super Kings Durban April 27 4 p.m

17 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Mumbai Indians Port Elizabeth April 27 8 p.m
18 Delhi Daredevils Vs Rajasthan Royals Pretoria April 28 8 p.m
19 Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Durban April 29 4 p.m
20 Kings XI Punjab Vs Mumbai Indians Durban April 29 8 p.m
21 Deccan Chargers Vs Delhi Daredevils Pretoria April 30 4 p.m
22 Rajasthan Royals Vs Chennai Super Kings Pretoria April 30 8 p.m

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Sachin Tendulkar is the first Indian sports personality to be portrayed at Madame Tussauds, in London

Sachin Tendulkar is the first Indian sports personality to be portrayed at Madame Tussauds, in London.
Here is the photo of Tendulkar’s wax figure that was launched at the Taj Lands End Hotel in Mumbai recently.

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The original producers of the Hindi film A Wednesday, Friday Filmworks have sent a legal notice to UTV

The original producers of the Hindi film A Wednesday, Friday Filmworks have sent a legal notice to UTV, who presented and marketed the film. The notice says “disputes have arisen under the film production agreement” signed between both the parties over the film and its marketing.

It is bad news for Kamal Hassan who is remaking the film in Tamil and Telugu as the shoot was to start by mid-March. Kamal is said to be making the film along with UTV.

The original producers of the film have issued a Public Notice in tradepapers in Mumbai stating that – “Friday Filmworks have served a legalnotice on UTV to terminate the Agreement for their gross violation of the terms and conditions of the Agreement.”

Till UTV clears the issue with the original producers, it will be difficult to start the remake of the film in Tamil.

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A. R. Rahman in Oscars 2009 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - Video Clipping

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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - Oscar Awards Nominations

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - OSCAR AWARDS NOMINATIONS

An eighteen-year-old from the slums of Mumbai finds himself competing on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where the questions he must answer offer a look back at his earlier life. The show's host, however, insists that he must be cheating and takes steps to force young Jamal to admit that a boy from such an impoverished background could not possibly possess the knowledge necessary to win the show's top prize.

Nominations (10)

* Achievement in Cinematography
* Achievement in Directing
* Achievement in Film Editing
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
* Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
* Best Motion Picture of the Year
* Achievement in Sound Editing
* Achievement in Sound Mixing
* Adapted Screenplay

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Gandhi in Britain!

Rare facts about the Richard Attenborough classic - ‘Gandhi’ (1982) had been Richard Attenborough's dream project.

Before him, Gabriel Pascal, in 1952, had secured an agreement with the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to produce a film on Gandhi. Pascal’s death in 1954 nullified the project.

David Lean and Sam Spiegel had also planned to make a biopic. Lean had even cast his favourite actor Alec Guinness as Gandhi, but the project was abandoned and ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962), was taken up instead.

The shooting of Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ began on November 20, 1980, and ended on May 10, 1981. Dolly Thakore, was the casting director. Many known names were shortlisted for the lead part, but Ben Kingsley (alias Krishna Bhanji) got the call.

While the film showed Gandhi, the leader, in all his glory, there were voids when it came to depicting Gandhi, the man. Some important personalities such as Subhas Chandra Bose, Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh were left out, as well.

The film was criticised for its hagiographic depiction of the Mahatma. Wrote historian Lawrence James: "The film ... is pure hagiography, the late-twentieth-century equivalent of a mediaeval encomium of a remarkable saint rendered in words and illuminated pictures.”

Attenborough had prefixed a passage to the film, perhaps as preemptive justification for his narrative approach: “No man's life can be encompassed in one telling... least of all Gandhi's, whose passage through life was so entwined with his nation's struggle for freedom.

There is no way to give each event its allotted weight, to recount the deeds and sacrifices of all the great men and women to whom he and India owe such immense debts. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record of his journey, and to try to find one's way to the heart of the man...”.

Approximately 300,000 extras were used for the opening sequence (the Mahatma’s funeral procession), which is still a world record.

‘Gandhi’ received 8 Oscars—for the Best Picture, Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Director ( Richard Attenborough), Best Art Direction (Stuart Craig, Bob Laing, Michael Seirton), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams, Ronnie Taylor), Best Costume Design (Bhanu Athaiya, John Mollo), Best Editing (John Bloom) and Best Original Screenplay (John Briley). Even though Ravi Shankar was nominated for the Best Music, he did not land the statuette.

Two other films were later made on Gandhi (‘Making of the Mahatma’ and ‘Gandhi My Father’), which spoke of two different aspects of Gandhi’s personality, but the 1982 biopic reigns supreme on the list of Gandhi biopics.

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