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Just watch this video. I got goosebumps all over when I watched this video.

The one and one master…. master blaster! Sachin may out of form, but certainly not out of class!

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As I recall some of his best blasts… Indian was playing Australia in Sharjah back in late 90s. Australia has a bowler by the name of Michael Kasprowicz. Fate maybe that this guy was unfortunately bowling to Sachin when he was at his peak. Indian had to make 243 or something in 44 overs to qualify for the finals at Sharjah. India failed to win the match, but Sachin made sure we were in the finals by better run rate compared to the third team in the tournament. Statistics apart, the shots that he played that day, the hits against Kasprowicz is totally out of this world. Am sure Kasprowicz would have been questioning his own bowling ability that day. But poor guy, little that he would have known that any bowling attack on that day was destined to be murdered by the Master Blaster, Sachin Tendulkar. To me, that was Sachin’s best tournament ever and I have my doubts if he would be able to perform the same feat again himself.

In that calendar year(1998) he scored 9 centuries and scored about 1900 odd runs in total.

Is Maran arm-twisting Tatas?

MDMK leader Vaiko’s allegation that Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran has been pressurising, even threatening, Mr Ratan Tata virtually to hand over Tata DTH [Direct to Home] project to his family may end up as more than just an allegation by a political rival during an election campaign.

As for Dayanidhi Maran, when contacted at Coimbatore where he was on his election campaign, he evaded a direct reply when this website’s newspaper asked him whether the allegation that he had put pressure on Tatas to grab the Tata DTH project was true. Instead, he spoke disparagingly about Vaiko.

The Tatas presently hold 80 per cent of the project and Murdoch 20 per cent. The Maran family has acquired a DTH license. But there is a rider to that. Under its terms the Sun TV cannot hold more than 20 per cent like the Star TV cannot hold more than 20 per cent in the Tata Sky project. It has to find a partner for 80 per cent and also investment of thousands of crores!

DTH space heats up

Dish TV, a DTH venture in which Zee Telefilms has a 20 per cent stake, had 7,50,000 pay-TV subscriptions in December 2005 and is expected to have reached approximately one million subscriptions by March 2006. Tata Sky, a $500-million DTH joint venture between the Tatas and News Corp, is expected to be launched after June and it plans to acquire around one million subscriptions by this year. DTH ventures from Reliance and Sun TV are also likely to come to the market over the next year or two, the report said.

The plus for DTH is that it is backed by large corporates and vertically integrated media majors, both of whom will be able to subsidise set top boxes (STBs) and invest in programming, technology and marketing, the study said.

http://tamil.galatta.com/entertainment/livewire/livewire/id/3412/news/SivajiProductions.html

Sivaji Productions re-enters Bollywood

Sivaji Productions, the production banner founded by Thespian south star Sivaji Ganesan nearly 50 years ago with a Hindi film Amar Deep (1958), followed by Rakhi (1962), and more than 20 Tamil films, is now returning to Hindi films with Delhi Heights. Delhi Heights, produced by Prabhu and written and directed by Anand Kumar, will be launched in Delhi on May 1, with two shooting schedules in May and July. It features Jimmy Shergill, Neha Dhupia, Om Puri, Rohit Roy, Simone Singh, Vivek Shauq and Kamini Khanna. The film is slated for a Diwali release.

With Delhi Heights, Rabbi Shergill makes his debut in films as music director and lyricist. The banner’s last Tamil film was the Rajnikant starrer Chandramukhi, one of the biggest box-office grossers in the history of Tamil cinema

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/21472.html

Having completed Tirupathi and also his long-pending God Father, Ajith is gearing up for his dream project Naan Kadavul, to be directed by Bala.

The director makes a return to wield the megaphone after Pithamagan, which won for Vikram the National award for the best actor.

Bala is reportedly busy at Podhigai Hills with his assistants giving a final shape to the story and script of Naan Kadavul.

Ajith, after a brief vacation, would commence shooting of the movie.

Meanwhile, Kollywood is abuzz with rumors that Bhavana has been chosen to play Ajith’s ladylove in Naan Kadavul.

Impressed with her performance in Chithiram Pesuthadi, she has been given the task.

David Pogue has arranged for a special guest video artist: Scott Kelby, Photoshop maven. Last week, as he keynoted his own Mac Design conference, he played a hilarious Apple ad spoof for something called the iPod Flea, which I’m pleased to offer in its Web debut.

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