What a Price to pay for Name and fame?
Sleazy world it is, despite glamour!
Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar reportedly has been gruesomely killed by two of her co-stars in a failed attempt to extort money from her family.
26-year-old Thapar was strangled and then beheaded after allegedly being kidnapped by two aspiring actors that she met on the set of her latest film “Heroine”.
Amit Jaiswal, 36, and his lover Preeti Surin, reportedly decided to kidnap Ms. Thapar after listening to her boast about her family’s wealth and status in Dehra Dun, in the Himalayan foothills of northern India, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
The New York Daily News quotes Indian police as saying Amit Jaiswal and his girlfriend Preeti Surin allegedly lured Thapar on a trip with them to the town of Gorakhpur. According to the report, the pair then took Thapar capitve and sent threatening communications to her mother, saying they would force her to make pornographic films if their demands were not met.
Jaiswal and Surin had demanded a 1,500,000-rupee (approximately $28,000) ransom from Thapar’s family. The International Business Times reports that Thapar’s mother gave the kidnappers 60,000 rupees (just over $1,000). The pair evidently decided the amount was insufficient, and reportedly killed Thapar by strangling her to death and then beheading her.
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Bollywood Actress Beheaded by Co-Stars
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Binaca GeetMala of Ameen Sayani For Music Lovers. Audio.
I recall the days when I used to await Ameen Sayani‘s ‘Binaca Geethmala’
The songs that had been promoted on the basis of Listeners’ Preferences became a hit, invariably.
I had a touring job .
I used to finish my work early and wait for Bianaca Geetmala.
Apart from the songs, it is the voice of Ameeen Sayani with his unique style of announcing that scintillated the listeners.
Eternal Songs, Lyrics and Music.
Click the Link and Enjoy.
Ameen Sayani.
The show was first called “BINACA GEETMALA”, then “CIBACA GEETMALA” and, thereafter, “COLGATE-CIBACA GEETMALA”. It commenced over the Commercial Hindi Service of RADIO CEYLON towards the end of 1952 and shifted to All-India Radio’s VIVIDH BHARATI network in 1989.
The initial half-hour “Geetmala” began as an experimental weekly jackpot show based on a random selection of songs. It dropped into Ameen’s lap only because other leading broadcasters declined it. For all of Rs. 25 a week, he was required to select the songs, produce, script and compere the programme, and also process the mail.The mail-response competition required every letter to be checked, and hardly 40-50 letters were expected. The first episode brought 9,000 ! Within a year, that number touched 60,000 per week. The show, and the station, both began ruling the Asian airwaves – but Ameen was fast becoming a nervous wreck managing the mail response with a mini-group of volunteers! Fortunately, the competition was shelved in 1954, and was replaced by a 1-hour countdown hit-parade.
The new format became a rage in no time, drawing an estimated nine to twelve crore (90 to 120 million) listeners from all over Asia, and even from East Africa, with its powerful Short Wave sweep. “That was the golden period of film music”, Ameen reminisces. “The songs were not only fabulous, but also helped in integrating our huge, intricately multi-lingual nation. Everyone loved Hindi film songs, and everyone was latched onto Geetmala and Radio Ceylon – particularly because the gigantic network of All-India Radio had suddenly decided to totally ban Hindi film music in the early fifties!
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SRK’s Yale Speech Fluent,Inspirational Full Text, Video.
Apart from an actor of substance , Shah Rukh Khan, the entertainer he is, knows how to deliver a speech that relates to a heavy topic.
SRK delivering Speech at the Yale University. His recent inspirational Talk at the Yale University is a case in point.
I happened to stumble into the channel and was so engrossed by the speech and the way SRK related to the audience, I forgot to watch the programme I intended watching!
He made the even the humiliating the experience of his having been detained by the US authorities sound funny!
Though from a prepared Text( could have been written by a Ghost Writer),, it needs an understanding of the subject to deliver with passion and humour.
Here is the full Text.
Good evening everyone, I’d like to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to be here. I also want to thank Isha for following up with the most disorganised and incommunicative person in the world in order to fix today’s meeting with all of you. Thanks I really am honoured and extremely happy to be here.
I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty….which went something like this…..Kabhie alvida na kehna….my mouth froze itself to death… I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her…. mouthing the words kabhi alvida…na…my mouth and jaw just locked….like this.
So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently because it would be highly embarrassing if I said “good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers” or whatever you guys are called and got stuck at… yaaaaa….that wouldn’t make for much of a speech.
I was told not to dwell too much on my movies when I spoke to you, I am to give you an inspirational talk — tell you stuff you can think about when you leave this room.
That worries me, it gives me performance anxiety. Here you are, 1500 of you, hoping to hear words of wisdom from this sexy, desirable man, who couldn’t kiss a girl, last time he was in Yale because it was too cold. But I’m not that guy, I mean, I’m sexy and desirable for sure but I’m not about to leave you anymore inspired than when you walked in here.
I read this lame joke on Google the other day (yes I pick everything up from Google, even the script of my next movie and I’m not ashamed of it — you can pick me up on Google too if you like!)
Anyway, the joke went like this — a dying man, gasping for breath, desperately gestured to the priest by his side for a piece of paper. With great effort, he then wrote a few words on it, handed it to the priest and passed away. The priest kept the paper in his pocket and forgot all about it until the final service. Here he suddenly recalled the dead man’s last scribble. Unfolding the paper, he told the funereal congregation that he was about to read great words of inspiration to them. The piece of paper had these words on it….
“You are standing on my oxygen tube…fool…”
So I am not going to be the priest tonight… instead I will tell u simple experiences of my life’s journey, with simpler words… which may not leave you inspired…. but will help u survive this life. And if you can do that… survive… happiness… creativity and success will follow on its own… or maybe not but u will have to live this life nevertheless. Only I hope my words will give u enough insight so that u can tell the world… hey guys you are standing on my oxygen tube… move over and let me breathe.
Journeys can be defined by age and time or even by destinations, as most often they are. But I feel it is hard for me to tell the story of my life in those terms because the concept of time has always eluded me. The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood.
The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went.
Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work the dark until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl… I like to think of myself as Bat… Batman… the prince of darkness.
Age is not my forte either, I still cannot fix my own — am I 45 or 15?… if I could… would I be romancing girls one third my age who normally would call me “uncle”.
I had so much fun collecting the action figures of my last film (called ra.one) that none of the critical reviews tanking it mattered to me.
As for my destination, I don’t think I ever knew one. I walk, I run, in the direction of my dreams. Things change along the way, people change, I change, the world changes, even my dreams change. I don’t have a place to arrive, I just keep doing what I know how to do the best that I can do it. I’ll probably end up a deluded geriatric in a wheelchair wearing a cape and tights, imagining my own flight out of this world, but of course with a young girl in my arms.
So I’ll tell you the story of me but I’ll tell it in my own way. In the language of my perceptions, in the things I think matter beyond fame and success and the dyeing of my hair. I have understood that the measure of my life lies in the expanse of my heart’s experience and nothing else matters, if u take anything out of it good… otherwise I can put on music and dance to my last big hit song… have a drink… and try and practice my kissing in the cold of Yale one more time.
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Sachin Anthem by’Kolaveri’ Dhanush-Video.
Yet another one from Dhanush– has signed Hindi films and now this.
Truly his stars are on the rise.
“The much hyped anthem that southern star Dhanush sang for cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was mysteriously removed from YouTube on Friday morning only to find its way back on the website a few hours later.
On Friday, a disappointed Dhanush, whose song ‘Kolaveri Di’ became an overnight success, tweeted, “Sad dat sum1 removed sachin song link.v worked so hard 4 a week wout a mins sleep … The song had 4,80,000 views within 24 hrs (sic).”
The song was offered to the southern star by an energy drink company, which the Master Blaster is a brand ambassador of.
Unlike Dhanush’s earlier song ‘Kolaveri Di, which went viral instantly, this song did not get that good a response. In fact, many of Tendulkar’s fans disliked the song and tweeted against it.
Talking about the song, dedicated to the ‘darling of masses’ Tendulkar Dhanush had told HT Cafe: “I have always respected Sachin for his dedication to the game and it is amazing to see how it’s kept him going.”
Perhaps, Dhanush’s earlier tweet did the trick as YouTube instantly got to work and uploaded the video again. The excited actor then tweeted, “The video is back on you tube guys.thanks to youtube reps who imm looked into d issue and sorted it out 🙂 GOD BLESS(sic)”.
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Rajni’s Website runs with out Internet!
May seem to be a hoax, which it is not.
Rajni. A new website dedicated to the superstar Rajinikanth runs ‘without an internet connection’!
Desimartini.com, a portal for all Bollywood news, released a microsite as given below.
Follow the Link.
http://www.desimartini.com/allaboutrajni.htm
Interestingly, while browsing, if a user connects to the internet, a message pops up, which says, “This was unexpected. To keep browsing, switch off your internet”. So, keep your internet connection off to enter the site. If a visitor attempts to re-connect the internet, an error message will appear in a Rajinikanth’s style.
“He is no ordinary Man:This is no ordinary website.
It runs on Rajni Power.
The only way to enter this website is by switching of your internet” is the message one gets.
The website has been designed by Wehutney for desimartini.com. The developers of the site inspired by Rajini wanted to make the site unique in every way possible. WebChutney had a mandate to design Rajinikanth’s website for his 61st birthday and after going through many deliberations, they wanted the website to run on Rajni Power, not Internet.
Visitors to http://www.allaboutrajni.com are greeted with a warning that “He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power” and are advised to switch off internet connection to enter the website.
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