Sporting Milestones 2008

JAN 19: India beat Australia in Perth Test by 72 runs to stop the World Champions from bettering their record of 16 consecutive Test wins.

JAN 25: Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions eight teams to different franchises.

FEB 10: Indian golfer Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia wins the $2.5 million EMAAR-MGF Indian Masters. Chowrasia won $416,660, the biggest pay cheque received by any player on Indian soil.

MARCH 9: Eight time gold medal winner India failed to qualify for men’s hockey at the Olmpics for the first time in 80 years. They lost 0-2 to Great Britain in the final of a qualifying tournament in Santiago, Chile.

MARCH 4: India won the Commonwealth Bank tri-series in Australia. The victory was India’s first tri-series win on Australia soil.

APRIL 18: Inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) starts with eight teams.

APRIL 24: India’s women hockey team also fails to qualify for the Olympics.

APRIL 28: The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) suspended by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) after a sting operation showed secretary general K. Jothikumaran accepting a bribe for a place in the national team.

JUNE 1: Shane Warne leads Rajasthan Royal to the inaugural IPL title.

JUNE 15: Badminton player Sania Nehwal becomes the first Indian to reach the semi-final of a Super Series event at the Singapore Open Super Series.

JUNE 18: Indian shooter Ronjan Sodhi wins the gold in the double trap event at World Cup in Belgrade. He also equaled two world records en route to the gold.

JULY 18: India staged a dramatic fight-back to beat South Korea 3-2 and retain the Junior Asia Cup hockey crown in Hyderabad.

JULY 27: Jeev Milkha Singh wins Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega-Sammy Cup at the North Country GC in Hokkaido, Japan.

AUG 11: Shooter Abhinav Bindra wins gold in the 10-metre air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics. He becomes the first Indian to win an individual gold medal. India bags a gold medal after 28 years.

AUG 13: India win the AFC Challenge Cup football tournament by defeating defending champions Tajikistan 4-1 at the Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi. They qualified for the 2011 Asia Cup after a gap of 24 years.

AUG 13: Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal loses in the quarterfinals at the Beijing Games. She was also the first Indian woman to enter the Olympic quarterfinals.

AUG 20: Wrestler Sushil Kumar bags a bronze at the Olympics. The medal came 56 years after wrestler Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav gave the country its maiden individual Olympic medal.

AUG 20: Boxer Vijender Singh wins the bronze at the Olympics after losing his semi-final bout to Cuban Emilio Correa. Vijender becomes the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal.

SEP 6: India’s Pankaj Advani beats mentor Geet Sethi to win the 42nd IBF World Billiard Championship title in Bangalore.

SEP 14: Saina wins Chinese Taipei Grand Prix badminton tournament.

SEP 26: Badminton player Chetan Anand wins Yonex Czech International.

OCT 29: India’s Viswanathan Anand draws the 11th game of the 12th game World Chess Championship final in Bonn against Vladimir Kramnik to take an unbeatable 6.5-4.5 lead and retain his world title.

OCT 5: Chetan Anand wins Bitburger Open Grand Prix.

NOV 10: India defeat Australia by 172 runs in the Nagpur Cricket Test to seal a 2-0 series victory and win back the much-coveted Border-Gavaskar Trophy. It was the first time Australia had lost a Test series by more than one match since they were trounced by the West Indies in 1988-89.

NOV 16: Jeev Milkha Singh wins the $5 million Barclay’s Singapore Open Golf tournament and also seals the Asian Order of Merit title.

NOV 29: MC Mary Kom wins her fourth consecutive World Championship women’s boxing title in China.

DEC 4: Saina breaks into top-10 of world badminton at No.10.DEC 6: Soccer legend Maradona arrives in Kolkata amidst fanfare to inaugurate a football academy.

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Ghajini Review

GHAJINI ***1/2
Cast : Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat.
Direction: A.R. Murugadass

Aamir Khan who is known for his uniqueness has created yet another sensational performance. His hard work for almost 13 months of rigorous workout in building his body has really paid off. He is looking stunningly macho man. After all this year 2008 is completely is for skin show for most of the Bollywood stars. This year should be known as Six Pack Year.!
After the spectacular success of Taare Zameen Par, Ghajini has already has its record braking opening . The first day of release on 25th Dec it broke all the records with estimated 40 crore of revenue.

Ghanini is a complete thriller. Aamir Khan’s class act of the hero who switches from a shy, taciturn tycoon who finds love in the a very common ordinary girl- to a vulnerable killing machine who mauls his pray like a wounded tiger. Roars and grunts included!. Aamir Khan hardly speaks in the entire film, he speaks with expressions and his body language. A man who suffers from short term memory loss –just remembers things for 15 minutes. He also doesn’t remember who has killed his beloved(Asin). He has to make marks on his body to remember his past incident to take revenge.

Also scrawls on walls, his un finished desires, his Polaroid snapshots, his fading memory cells and a friendly medical student (Jiah Khan) who also makes thing worst to him to some extent.
After a long time we can see the olden bollywood style of stunts in this film. The film also boasts of a polished act of Asin who makes her debut in Bollywood with a spontaneous rendition of good polite Mumbai girl who breezes her way through like.

So anything wrong in this film, you might ask. Firstly the film needs some tighter editing, specially in the fight sequences. Second, it needed a real bad guy who should live up to the eponymous character, after all he is Mr. Ghajini. Pradeep Rawat with his white shoes, his gold tooth and his behari accent isn’t as menacing as the title would like us to believe. Lastly the fulcrum of the revenge drama, not quite convincing.

All in all, Ghajini is a thorough suspense Bollywood thriller.So its a complete romantic action packed 3 hours and 10 minutes of entertainment.

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Here are the Rates of the Tollywood stars-

Nayantaya - 10 lakhs
Shriya - 10 lakhs
Trisha - 9 lakhs
Ileana - 7 lakhs
Bhumika - 7 lakhs
Charmi - 6 lakhs
Hanssika - 5 lakhs
Anushka - 5 lakhs
Tamanna - 4 lakhs
Priyamani - 3 lakhs
Navneet Kur - 1 lakh (approx)

NOTE : These are industry estimations of the asking rate for these stars.

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Anushka Shetty is hot actress in the Kollywood and Tollywood industries these days. She was born in 1981. She debuted in Nagarjuna's Super, and she made her debut film with R. Madhavan in the Tamil hit Rendu. Anushka did her schooling and college in Bangalore. After completing graduation in Computer Applications, she learned yoga from famous Yoga Guru Bharat Thakur. Then she became a yoga instructor. She is a pure vegetarian. Puri Jagannadh happened to see Anushka through another director and she got selected for Super. Her acting in Vikramarkudu got the appreciation of youngsters. She has also rendered playback singing in several films.

Anushka is no.1 in Tollywood industry competeing with Iliyana and Nanyatara.