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Bollywood Salaries

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Interesting update at IndiaFm on how much each Bollywood star makes... with some interesting snippets... Myth Versus Reality Myth: Shah Rukh Khan is the highest paid hero. Reality: He can command the highest price, but he doesn't. Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar are the highest paid stars. Myth: Stars charge a lot of black money. Reality: Most stars today prefer to accept cheque payments. Myth: Stars get their entire fee irrespective of the losses of the producer. Reality: Stars are a considerate lot. They sometimes do forgo their remuneration if they are convinced about the genuineness of the losses. If not, they may even take legal action to recover their fees. Amitabh Bachchan got the last installment of his pay for Boom from court. Myth: Stars ...
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India Blocking Bloggers

Monday, July 17th, 2006
Update : International bloggers have caught on to this news. Here's a few links I've read so far: Boing Boing Michelle Malkin A Public Wiki Wayne Porter Jon Lebkowsky Interestingly caught a comment on Desi Pundit left by one of the readers...Rohan Pinto July 17th, 2006, 10:33 am | # This seems to be a over-adhered-to action on a directive to ban access to SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and LeT (Lashkar-e-Toiba) run blogs, which is known to have played a role in the recent bomb blasts in Mumbai. End of Updates. Just caught this on Rediff.com. Also Labnol addresses this issue here (tip: Trasie). Seems like India is officially blocking bloggers' websites. Long live the democracy of India errr.... sorry... ...
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Golmaal : No Brain Dhamaal

Monday, July 17th, 2006
The intentions are pretty clear. Non stop nonsense, no brains required. The idea is to tickle your funny bone. Director Rohit Shetty and writer Neeraj Vohra focus on the goal. To create a comedy, for an audience with the lowest recorded levels of intelligentsia. And in the process, if you get swept away, and end up laughing at the least expected moments, let not that embarrass you. Expecting no great shakes from Golmaal, you enter the theater and are greeted with the opening song running behind the titles, where our four leading actors sandwich themselves between blonde babes on a golden beach. Is it just me or is this now a well recorded fact that extras in a Bollywood song sequence ...
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One Masala Life Please! : Two

Friday, July 14th, 2006
Chapter Two : Are you ready for, a Masala Life? To : tigermane342@yahoo.com From : mcat765@gmail.com June 06, 2006 9:45PM GMT Sir, We received the shipment on time from R*v&^i__n++dr$$a M#a~h{{a||j))a||n. As per your wishes, I will be arriving on J17 and will meet you at the appointed place to deliver the notes of the meeting. Bhenchods have been advised by our supplier. Hence canceling the supplier was important. We are checking for new communication systems as the walls have become very thin. See you shortly. Regards, Mousecat ------------------------------------------------------------------ “The Churchgate fast will arrive on Platform number 6 instead of Platform number 4. The train will stop at Bombay Central, Marine Lines and Churchgate only.” Sidhu jumped off the platform and landed on the tracks, rushing towards platform 6. Bombay’s suburban ...
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It’s Official : Al Qaeda opens office in India

Thursday, July 13th, 2006
And it's done. The terrorist organization Al Qaeda, has unofficially or officially opened it "regional office" in Jammu & Kashmir, the northern most state of India. Two days after the Bombay Bomb Blasts, the sons of bitches appointed a "spokesperson", who called in the local news office in Kashmir to make the announcement. According to this Rediff report, The Al Qaeda terrorist outfit was launched in Jammu and Kashmir with its spokesman making the announcement in a telephone statement to a local news agency, Current News Service. Well, so was there a ribbon cutting ceremony? Did those corrupt politicians who are suspected to be in alliance with the bastards, come in to congratulate them? Do people working in this "regional" ...
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Bombay suburban railway blasts

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Update 24: July 12, 2006 Are politicians involved? About 190 dead. 625 injured, many fighting for life on hospital beds. According to Aaj Tak, the 4 suspected second rung leaders in LeT were in Bombay, 2 months ago. The Mumbai Crime Branch got this information and raided several houses in Jogeshwari, where they were supposed to be hiding. I guess the 4 terrorists got wind of it and fled before the police team could arrive. They could have also seen the news where the cops arrested many in Nagpur and seized a huge amount of RDX from them, and that could have made them run and hide for the next two months only to resurface on 7/11. Aaj Tak also pointed to ...
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Desi Train gets a Pickup Guru Onboard

Monday, July 10th, 2006
First things first. The Desi Train Forums are now O P E N. For now, the forums can be viewed by all, even those who have not registered. But that will change in the near future. Because, I'm working on bringing in Gurus expert in their respective fields who will give free advise to questions you may have, that are related to the topics, those Gurus are,... well Gurus in. To flag off the forum, please let me introduce to you, one of the best, new and upcoming, pickup Gurus in Orange County. Lespuppup. a.k.a. Mo. Mo and I have been going out to dig deeper in the art of socializing, for quite some time now. Our usual Fridays and Saturdays start ...
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Omkara : Back to Raw Countryside Beats

Monday, July 10th, 2006
I rarely venture into writing on music. Cause I know nothing about it, except two unrelated things. (a) The song should suck me into its world, where I obsessively start building images in my head as the song plays in the background,… OR… (b) I walk to the nearest trash can to junk the CD. Those are the only two things I have, that are in anyway related to music. So if you read anything about music on Desi Train (which is rare and has been time and again pointed out by Desi Train's readers), it is because a song or an entire album gave me a huge high. And Omkara does that to you, if you grew up listening to various ...
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Italy are the World Soccer Champions 2006

Sunday, July 9th, 2006
And it boiled down to Penalty kicks. 5 for each team. France's second kick hit the goal post bar. Italy converted all, and become the World Cup Soccer Champions 2006. The game was tied at 1 - 1. France got the first goal within the first 10 minutes, off a penalty kick awarded to them because of a foul by Italy infront of their goal. Italy's equalizer came in the 19th minutes. And what an idiotic way to go for Zidane. What a disappointing way to end his career - for which no one is to blame but him. Out of pure frustration, with 14 minutes left in the second half of the overtime, Zidane head butts an Italian player right into ...
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Corporate : Step into my Bored room

Saturday, July 8th, 2006
Tunna tunna. Tak tak tunna. Tunna tunna... Somewhere in the corporate world an industrialist, Mr. Ringu goes, "Which ring should I wear today Guruji?",... meanwhile at the other cornor, another big shot enters the house of a TV journalist, slash, pimp, slash, "this world has used me" crying auntyjee (Lillete Dubey, please stop accepting such shit). The big shot enters Ms. Pimp's bedroom to meet a "I brush my nails for a living" call kudi. You did rather have paani puri. Oops so sorry. Life is tough in this Car-porate. From stealing business information from the laptop of a CEO who's in the snore zone after a marathon with a model slash call girl, to selling a contaminated drink call something something ...
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Alag : Run Bhola Run

Friday, July 7th, 2006
After watching a 90 minute show of Alag, in part fast forward, part normal motion, I switched off my Bose Home Theater. Bose has sent me an official letter from their legal attorneys, which mentions, that Bose is in no way responsible, if I stress, stretch and shock the bejeezus out of their systems far beyond what they were intended to sustain. On my about to-pop-open cushion seams of my European sofa, sat two other people. To my right was,... well he needs no introduction,... Mr. Superman. And to my left was,... India's superhero,... Mr. Krrish. I look at Superman. He is rubbing his scalp with his hand. I look at Krrish. He has his eyes turned upwards, shaking his head. oz : ...
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Corporate : The reviews are out

Friday, July 7th, 2006
Thanks to Vivek's tip-off - I landed around midnight to read Mr. Taran Adarsh's review of Corporate. I was tired and my brain was in the snore zone. The one day "sick leave" has been extended to three days, cause I haven't been able to pull myself away from my puter putting in 16 to 20 hours each day for the last 3 days, feverishly writing the next fiction, building the new exciting sites for my dear readers and shuttling between reading the techie boards for problems I've been facing in designing those sites (I'm such a non-programmer you know), and crawling the net to catch the latest news. And some of you have noticed my lack of participation in ...
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Quite Frankly… A. R. Rahman

Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Rahman talks to Hindustan Times about his forthcoming movies, his itch to find dream projects, and being a Himesh Reshammiya Fan,... (no kidding !) Excerpts from the Interview: What are your forthcoming releases? Well, I am looking forward to Mani Ratnam's Guru, as I have put in a lot of hard work in the project. Moreover, it is great working with Mani and Gulzar. We make a good team and are coming back together after a gap of two years. With Jodha Akbar you add another period movie to your list. Any personal reasons for signing period movies? Nothing like that. It's just that directors approach me with good projects. How is it composing music for period movies? Period movies give you a chance to ...
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What the FUCK IS GOING ON HERE????

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
How many people are dying of a terminal disease and by some strange fate, happen to be rich, and want to donate their money before dying,... Another email from someone... ============================================ VERY IMPORTANT, HELP ME PLS Dear Sir/Ma, How are you doing? I am Sadasivan Giridhar Kakalure a Multi Businessman in Bahrain, I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous,I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared ...
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World Cup Soccer Final : It’s France v/s Italy

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
It’s a France v/s Italy game on Sunday. France beat Portugal by a solitary goal. A foul in front of the Portugal goal and a penalty kick is awarded to France. Zidane makes no mistake. The Portuguese had ball possession most of the time, but their offense kept running into the French defense wall. Frankly none of the sides showed any spark offensive-wise. The Portugal offense seemed to be playing amateurish soccer infront of the strong airtight French defense. And the number of mispasses by the Portuguese side seemed to be like they were playing a town league championship instead of the World Cup. Why continue trying your flashy no-look passes when you know they are being intercepted by the French players? ...
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