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Herschelle Gibbs Autobiography Exposed

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Stories about sexual orgies, marijuana sessions and the dominance of a group of senior players in South Africa cricket squad have been exposed in out of favour opener Herschelle Gibbs’ autobiography, which is releasing on Monday. The weekly ’Sunday Times’ carried excerpts from Gibbs’ book, a day before its release. The book graphically details the sexual exploits of the controversial player who has been in trouble for his late night binges and drunken driving charges, as well as leading players in smoking pot in the West Indies. Gibbs, who just last week confessed that he would have to work very hard to return to the national squad, could also incur the ire of fellow players after writing in his book that the Proteas are dominated by a clique of older players. "The team has been criticised for being run by a group of senior players - Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, and more recently, AB de Villiers," Gibbs wrote. "This inner circle spli...

Sachin Tendulkar Named The Indian Cricketer Of The Year

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Capping a splendid season in which he scored the first-ever double century in ODIs and crossed 14,000 runs in Test cricket, iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar was on Saturday named the Indian Cricketer of the Year at the second Sahara India Sports Awards function here. The list of the winners of Sahara India Sports Awards 2010: Best Young Achiever (Male): Asher Noria Best Young Achiever (Female): Soumya Swaminathan Memorable moment of the year: Vishwanathan Anand Team of the Year: Davis Cup Sportsman of the Year: Sushil Kumar Sportswoman of the Year: Mary Kom Cricketer of the Year (Male): Sachin Tendulkar Cricketer of the Year (Female): Mithali Raj Outstanding Performance of the Year: Pankaj Advani, Suranjoy Singh, Sharath Kamal and Om Prakash Singh Coach of the Year: Yashvir Singh Outstanding Performance at CWG (Male): Gagan Narang Outstanding Performance at CWG (Female): Deepika Kumari Unsung Hero Award: S. H.H. Hamid and Manohar Topno Legendary Honor: Gurbachan Singh Randhawa

Bhavana's Jackie Has Grossed Rs.10 Crores

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Puneet Raj Kumar-Bhavana starrer Jackie has grossed Rs. 10 crores in its first week. This was disclosed in a success meet of the film by Raghavendra Raj Kumar, the production-in-charge of the film. "This is perhaps the biggest collections we have seen in all the films made under our banner. Even in the second week the collections have been hugely encouraging. We are sure all the distributors who have paid a huge amount for obtaining the rights of the film would be happy by the end of the fourth or fifth week," says Raghavendra Raj Kumar. Jackie would also be released in nine countries in over fifty screens. The exact date of release of the film abroad has not been listed yet, but Bevin Exports India Private Limited has taken over the distribution rights, disclosed Raghavendra Raj Kumar in the press conference. The film’s release has been planned in USA, UK, Dubai, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia besides one more country which would be decided later...

Actress Manjari Opposite With NTR

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The petite beauty Manjari who acted in Siddhu From Seekakulam, Inkosaari and Subha Pradam couldnt achieve stardom in Telugu so far. She gets the chance to be in the top league now by grabbing a big movie. She is to be a part of Shakti opposite NTR as the second heroine in the film. Illeana plays the main lead but Manjari also has an equally good role. If the movie clicks, she would definitely get more big films. Shakti also has Pooja Bedi and Jackie Schroff in key roles and it is being directed by Meher Ramesh and produced by Ashwini Dutt. The shooting is under progress in Hyderabad.

Bava Telugu Movie Review

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Movie: Bava Director: Rambabu Cast: Siddarth, Praneetha, Ahuti Prasad, Rajendra Prasad, Samrat, Brahmanandam, Ali, Tannikella Bharani, Raghubabu With a Telugu title, beautiful rural locations, and a hero who has proved his mettle with the family crowds, Bava - starring Siddarth and big-eyed Praneetha - has come with a big bang. A successful farmer Seetharam (Rajendra Prasad) has an ambition: to ensure that his son Veerababu (Siddarth) is married into a family that will take care of him. Veerababu, however, is unaware of his father’s dream and remains a wastrel along with his buddies. One day he falls in love with Varalakshmi (Praneetha), a girl from his neighbouring village. He tries many tricks to impress her, and at last succeeds in winning the girl’s confidence and love. When the girl’s parents try to get her engaged elsewhere, Varalakshmi comes crying to Veerababu. The hero ties the nuptial knot, but his father does not approve. He tells him how the two families -...

Taylor Swift Has A Giant Bird Cage In Her Lounge

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Country singer Taylor Swift has revealed she has a giant bird cage in her lounge and likes to sit inside it to watch TV and binge on her favourite snack. The 20-year-old moved into a house in Nashville, Tennessee, this summer, and insisted on the ’person-sized’ birdhouse, which is suspended over her pond in her living room and is her favourite place to snack and catch up on television shows, reports femalefirst.co.uk. ’It’s just fun having the cage,’ she said

Ricky Martin Spoken About His Fatherhood

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Ricky Martin has finally spoken about his sexuality and fatherhood on the Oprah Winfrey show. Ricky welcomed cameras to his home for a candid portrait of his happy family home life for his interview with Oprah, in which he talks about his sons and his sexuality for the first time, reports the Daily Mail. The 39-year-old Puerto Rican megastar quietly became father of twin boys, called Matteo and Valentino, via a surrogate mother in August 2008. Previously, the star has only released occasional pictures of himself with the two gorgeous children via his official Twitter account, then ’came out’ on his website in March this year. "I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am," he said at that time.But he has never before opened up about becoming father or finally going public with his sexuality. Before he came out as gay, the ’Livin’ La Vida Loca’ star had a 14-year on-off relationship with Mexican TV host R...

Akshay Kumar To Collaborate With Rapper Ludacris

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After shaking a leg with singer Kylie Minogue and rapping with Snoop Dogg, Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is set to collaborate with rapper Christopher Brian Bridges, better known by his stage name Ludacris, for his Indo-Canadian venture Breakaway. "It’s very exciting to collaborate with Ludacris for the music video of Breakaway. It’s great to have the opportunity to work with such great artists from across the globe. Ludacris is going to make the music video one to watch out for," Akshay said in a statement. The film to be directed by Robert Lieberman is a cross-cultural hockey drama set in the Indo-Canadian community of suburban Toronto, Canada. Other than Akshay, Anupam Kher, Vinay Virmani, Russell Peters, Rob Lowe and Camilla Belle are said to feature in the film.

Victoria's Secret Angel In Guzaarish

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Model Monikangana Dutta, who would debut in Bollywood with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish, seems to be in no mood to hang up her boots on the ramp for the tinsel town. "I have not given up modelling. I have been selected as one of the six Victoria’s Secret Angels, the world famous brand synonymous with chic women wear," she said. Monikangana, who earlier appeared in fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue, is the first Indian model to be one of the six Victoria’s Secret Angels - the main models. The others include the likes of Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio and Australian Miranda Kerr. Coming back to Guzaarish, the model-turned-actress refused to divulge details about her character Estella Francis in the movie toplining Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. However, she said she has a dance with Hrithik in the movie for which the director had put her in a dancing school. "The character is very much like what I have gone through in my personal ...

Bipasha Basu Has Signed Her First Hollywood Film

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After sizzling on Bollywood screen for almost a decade, dusky beauty Bipasha Basu has signed her first international project -- English-French director Roland Joffe’s Singularity. The 31-year-old is extremely excited and admits she does have butterflies in her stomach. ’I am very excited...but have to admit that I am also a little nervous. Everything happened really fast,’ said Bipasha. Bipasha met Joffe in a chance encounter at the Taj Land’s End Hotel in Mumbai in September. The $33 million movie, written by Ajey Jhankar, is a riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents. It is set in the backdrop of the First Anglo-Maratha War of the 18th century and revolves around four characters - a British officer in colonial India and the Indian woman he falls in love with, an American marine biologist and his researcher lover -- who gets trapped in a wrecked British merchant ship. The film will be shot in Australia and India. Bipasha wi...

Shankar’s Boys Will Be Dubbed In Hindi

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Endhiran has done a whopping Rs. 318 crore collections within the first three weeks which has broken several barriers. Shankar’s ‘Mudhalvan’ remade in Bollywood as ‘Nayak’, bombed at the box office whereas ‘Robot’ was acclaimed as a riot which they wholeheartedly enjoyed. Anniyan went average in Hindi and Robot was the turning point. Now, ‘Boys’ which was neither remade nor dubbed will be dubbed in Hindi and released in the north. The film has Siddharth and Genelia who enjoy some popularity in Bollywood which is expected to bring in some business. Now, as Shankar is well recognized throughout India, ‘Boys’ may see some fanfare due to its offbeat story and pungent script. The peppy songs of AR Rahman will be another attraction. Sri Surya Movies had burnt their fingers by spending lavishly on the film and finally incurring loss. Abbas Tyrewala will write the Hindi dialogues and lyrics. Sri Surya Movies hopes that this dubbed version will win some of the...

Aascar Ravichandran To Make Marudhanayagam

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Problems had been brewing between Aascar Ravichandran and Kamal Hassan after the shoot of ‘Dasavatharam’. The news was doing the rounds that Kamal Hassan was not even told the film was going to be released. Rumors worked over time to say that Kamal Hassan and Aascar Ravichandran did not get along. Recently, Kamal Hassan cleared the air and said that there was possibility of both of them working together. Kamal Hassan made another announcement which created the most buzz in tinsel town. His ‘Marudhanayagam’ was going to be made!!! Aascar Ravichandran is confirmed as the producer. When asked if he would be making ‘Marudhanayagam’, he said he had been holding discussions with Kamal Hassan and the official announcement would be made soon. This has come as a sweet surprising shocker for Kamal Hassan’s fans. Also, his ‘Thalaivan Irukkiran’ is in the pipeline which might be either of the two films that Aascar Ravichandran would produce. Fans, however, expect ‘Maru...

I Like Each And Every One My Songs-A R Rahman

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Mozart of Madras A R Rahman bestow numerous tunes pending now, but he on no account revealed the songs which are put up the shutters to him. In a modern interview given to a Tamil glossy magazine Rahman says “I like each and every one my songs bar I do encompass a register of five songs which are close to my heart.” He also held “That his mental picture is to give supplementary musical group. For this we could do with to establish music schools with huge sum of change”. This motivation be promising if I do Intercontinental Projects which can help to take home wealth. And for this sake I am not going to admit the development anything comes in my way”. Dialogue on the saintly part, Rahman says, “One can show the way his pious life in a undemanding way or in a composite way. I am subsequent what elders have preached. I can at the moment see no differentiation stuck between joy as well as mourning”.

Tamil Novelist Lodged A Grumble Against Endhiran

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Well-known Tamil novelist Arnika Nasar, who is admired for knowledge imaginary tale novels, has criticize to the police that the account of Superstar Rajinikanth’s up-to-the-minute film ’Endhiran’ was lifted on or after his story. This accusation comes just two days subsequent to novelist Aarur Tamil Nadan, who is a assistant news editor with a popular weekly, lodged a grumble at the Chennai city Police Commissioner’s Office alleging that ’Endhiran’ was a follow-up beginning his original that was published a few years ago. Arnika Nasser, who collect Police Commissioner T Rajendran above Thursday, understood that the innermost ingredient description of ’Endhiran’, warped by Sun Pictures as well as spring for by Shankar, was ’stolen’ commencement his account in produce in the year 1995 in a new-fangled admired glossy magazine. In his grumble, the playwright whispered, "I am the single manager of the legend. I never gave whic...

Cheran Met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

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Executive Cheran these days met Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi in a bolt from the blue appointment that has set the rumour mills rolling. Cheran go to the dwelling of the chief minister this break of day furthermore met him. He whispered the convention was only a courteousness call along with he also talked on the subject of the details of his movies he is responsibility now to the chief minister. Excluding roumor mills boast in progress steep with the postulation that Cheran might comprise also asked for a quantity of help to his combine of big plan movies above production.

Rajinikanth And Kamal Haasan With Shankar

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Dream of all tamil cinema lovers to watch 80′s Rajini again in a Villain role was very much satisfied by Endhiran Chitti V2.0, but another long pending desire has beeen to watch the top two super stars of tamil industry Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan together on screen? And the question of will they or will they not had indeed been lurking in the minds of all. And now if sources are to be believed Yes, after nearly 30 years the two true icons of Tamil Cinema will be soon joining hands to share the screen under the James Cameron of tamil cinema( As stated by K balachander ) Shankar. According to the latest buzz in the industry, the victorious duo Shankar and Kalanidhi Maran , riding high on the success of ‘Enthiran’ , are planning for a mighty magnum opus multistarrer with the ‘Super Star’ Rajinikanth and ‘Universal Hero’ Kamal Haasan. And this time around Sun Pictures’ chief Kalanidhi Maran who has hit the jackpot already with 160 crores is now ready to s...

Ajith Doing Experiments In The Kitchen

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Actor Ajith’s penchant for fast cars and racing habits is well known to the people. But, it might come as a pleasant surprise to many if we say that Ajith is an expert in cooking and he loves doing experiments in the kitchen. Ajith’s 50th film Mankatha is gearing up in high speed. The movie which is directed by Ajith’s close pal Venkat Prabhu has created a huge expectation after the release of the teaser even before the shooting. During the shooting interval, ‘Thala’ Ajith has cooked delicious, traditional biryani for the entire team of ‘Mankatha’. Venkat Prabhu, the director of the movie tweeted, “Ellarum Thalapakati biriyani kelvi patturupeenga!!! Thala biryani kelvi patrukeengala??? Mankatha team is going to experience it! Thala is cooking biryani for the Mankatha team.” Thala who is getting ready for the ‘Mankatha’ game is reportedly spending his mornings and evenings in the gym these days to maintain his physique.

Actor Vijay Condemned The Brutual Murder

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Actor Vijay condemned the brutual murder of two innocent kids at Coimbatore by a call taxi driver on Friday. In a heart-wrenching incident, a 10-year-old girl(Muskan) and her seven-year-old brother(Hrithik) were allegedly kidnapped and thrown into a canal by a driver, identified as Mohana Krishnan alias Raj (23). While the girl’s body was found in the PAP canal in Vavipalayam, near Palladam in Tirupur district, the boy’s body is yet to be found. According to the police, the driver Mohana Krishnan, had to repay a debt of Rs 2 lakh and hence, kidnapped the children – studying in standard V and III of Coimbatore businessman P Ranjit Kumar Jain for ransom. During interrogation, Mohana Krishnan, the father of a 11-month-old child, reportedly confessed to having pushed the children into the canal after they started crying. Jains with their son Hrithik. The seven-year-old and his sister Muskan (right) were abducted from outside their house by their former school van driver on Frid...

Actress Tabu To Marry An Industrialist

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The pretty actress Tabu, who shared her screen spaces in some wonderful Tamil movies like Kadhal Desam, Siraichaalai, Iruvar, Kandukondein Kandukondein is back into the flashnews this time she is expected to marry an Industrialist,sources say Tabu had earlier brought in a similar gossips to town ,with the news she was going to marry boy friend Upen Patel(a British-Indian Model- Actor) but it got vanished completely as the days rolled. The News around this time is she is seen dating with a power house Industrialist, hailing from Mumbai. The truth came to light when the actress was caught with the industrialist on the hands of the media at the Marine drive last Saturday, the actress was very reluctant in revealing the details to the level she didn’t even open her open mouth to answer any questions raised by media. A close source says the Industrialist, has made the proposal to Tabu and she has also accepted it. Further the Industrialist met the Parents of Tabu and received a...

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