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Just a day after #awesomeindianthings became the top trended tag on Twitter, Sachin Tendulkar re-wrote the record books not only on the field but on the social networking site. As many as three tags pertaining to Sachin’s double ton – #Sachin Tendulkar, #Sachinisgod (Sachin is god) and #Sachin. – are trending in the top ten list, making him the only Indian to achieve this status.

Evoking love for the game and patriotism, Twitter is flooding with tweets about the Master Blaster’s brilliance in today’s innings.

Here are some of the user tweets expressing their love to the Master Blaster.

“Sachin can make 300″

“Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting, it will go unnoticed, coz even god is watching him play”

“Sachin is greater than anything, thank god we are in Sachin’s era!”

“200 not out a Hall of fame award in itself. Cheer for sachin tendulkar and his greatness”

“Privileged to live in this world when the GOD has incarnated.”

Even the Bollywood Twitteratti comes out in strength to show their love for the master.

The Rang De Basanti star Kunal Kapoor says: “I finally know what god really looks like!! He is about 5″5, Maharashtrian and plays cricket!! Tendulkar bapa moraya”

Abhishek Bachchan: “You make us proud SACHIN!” and “SACHIN. Master, idol, LEGEND!!! Congratulations!!! What an innings.”

Karan Johar: “His name is TENDULKAR and he is a LEGEND!!!”

IPL Chief Lalit Modi writes: “My heartiest congratulations to Sachin the worlds greatest sportsman. We can see him only rise. Inspiration to us all. He is the best, I salute Sachin”

Austrailian ace, Sachin’s good friend Shane Warne tweets: “nervous for my good friend Sachin everything crossed for you mate!!!! P.S. glad I’m not bowling to him today hahaha”

Sagarika Ghose of CNN-IBN tweets: “Bharat Ratna for Sachin tendulkar!”

Twitterolics are doing all they can to show their love for the player and deservingly so! Sachin is the best Cricket has ever had, and so agrees the Twittererverse.

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When the watchdog of democracy turns into a business enterprise and when journalistic ethics are pawned off for TRP-friendly sensationalism, it’s time to sit up and take note.

Without succumbing to cynicism typical of other filmmakers repeatedly offering us the so-called ‘slice-of-life cinema’, Ram Gopal Varma guides us through the innards of the fourth estate, revealing its dirty underbelly that serves as a handy tool for politicians in their power games in Rann.

At the centre of the drama, without hogging the limelight, is Amitabh Bachchan, playing Vijay Harshwardhan Malik, the founding head of a news channel, India 24/7. In a media age where news is selectively edited, hyperbolized and presented with attention grabbing headlines and dramatic background music to boot, Malik is somewhat an oddball. A conscientious newsman, he sticks to his uncompromising journalistic ethics, even though it may lead to nose-diving TRPs for his channel. No surprise that his US-returned ambitious son Jay (Sudeep) doesn’t believe in his dad’s ideals and opines that the news channel ought to be run like a business company if it has to beat their rival (Mohnish Bahl), who believes in ‘creating’ news rather than reporting it.

Things take a turn for worse when Malik’s son Jay and son-in-law (Rajat Kapoor) become pawns in the hands of the wily and cunning politician Mohan Pandey (Paresh Rawal) who masterminds a media-led campaign against his political rival to get to the Prime Minister’s seat.

There’s only one man who can put a spanner in their working – Purab Shastri (Ritesh Deshmukh) who imbibes the lofty journalistic ideals of Vijay Harshwardhan Malik and an unwavering desire to dig out the truth and report it to people.

Credit must be reserved for Ram Gopal Varma for not making ‘Rann’ a mere bland exposé of the world of overzealous hacks. Ramu pumps in enough drama, grit and a wee bit of suspense and thrills to make the movie a compelling watch. However, at times the maverick filmmaker does overflap in his flight of idealism. Sequences like the one where Bachchan is shown spieling against religious hatred on a national television seem far-fetched. Also the plot gets a little convoluted in the second half as the story keeps flitting between a dozen or so characters. There’s also humour to be found in some characters – like that of Rajpal Yadav, playing the creative director with a knack for sensationalizing even the dullest of news stories. In a sequence he tells a filmmaker (Gul Panag) that the media’s job isn’t very different from that of a filmmaker – that is, providing entertainment.

‘Rann’ boasts of some stupendous performances, not the least by Amitabh Bachchan and Sudeep. Big B somehow stays the central force of the film without hogging much footage, but it is Sudeep (of Phoonk fame) who truly impresses with his well nuanced performance. Ritesh Deshmukh takes to a serious role effectively and Gul Panag (as his live-in girlfriend) does emote well the few scenes she’s given. Paresh Rawal is superb as the debauched politician. On the sidelines, Suchitra Krishnamurthy (playing the programming head of India 24/7) and Neetu Chandra (the Muslim fiancée of Jay) perform well.

Like his previous film ‘Sarkar’, Ramu’s cinematographer Amit Roy plays with light and shade and cans the shots from imaginative angles. The background music however gets jarring at times. Ramu can’t seem to do without it. Rohit Banawlikar’s writing is not without holes. The dialogues reek of superfluity in some sequences.

‘Rann’ takes off well but begins to lose momentum in intermittent reels. The drama does build up nicely in the last half hour – with a literal ‘sting’ in the tale – and concludes on a thought-provoking monologue by Big B.

If you are looking for a dose of serious cinema, ‘Rann’ is the answer.

Rating: 6/10

Director ‘Sreenu Vaitla’ who has given many hits in the past is ready to launch his project ‘Namo Venkatesa’ featuring Victory ‘Venkatesh, Petty Beautyt Trisha, Brahmanandam’ playing the role of Paris Prasad in the lead cast.

‘Namo Venkatesa’ is a pack of comedy, action and romance promises to be a full time entertainer to spend your sankranti holidays.

‘Namo Venkatesa’ tuned by Devi Sri Prasad, has six tracks, which has been picturised in ‘Iceland’

• Namo Venkatesa – Title Track
  
• Soundarya
  
• Ding Dong

Highlights

• Brahmanandam Comedy
  
• Family Entertainer

Ravi Teja, Allari Naresh, Shiva Balaji Starring Multi Starrer Movie Shambo Shiva Shambo is going to be released on sankranthi. Priayamani is playing a key role in this movie. Movie was produced by Bellam Konda suresh

Shambo shiva shambo was a remake of tamil movie Nadodigal .The story is based on friendship, which is crucial part for the movie. The story revolves between the freinds. Ravi Teja and Allari naresh .Most of the shooting part was completed.

The movie is under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions,and is directed by Samudhirakani. The Overseas Rights of this movie was sold for a sum of Rs 70 Lakhs .

Om Shanti (2009)
Cast & Crew :: Navadeep , Kajal , Nikhil, Bindu Madhavi, Aditi Sharma
Music Director :: Ilayaraja
Producer:: Seshu Priyanka Chalani
Director:: Prakash

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Playing darts is a good excuse for having a few beers. In the other hand, beer drinking is a perfectly good excuse for exercising your dart playing skills. If you are new to darts or even if you are an experienced player, you can use this page as a reference to the basic rules of some of the most popular games. If you havequestions, comments or suggestions drop me an mallanaveen@gmail.com

General Rules

• Height: 1,73 m (measured from the Bull’s Eye)
• Throwing distance: 2,37 m (player´s feet should stay behind this mark)
• At each turn the player throws three darts
• If a dart falls from the board before the player gets it, its score is not computed

Scoring

• The dartboard is divided in 20 slices. Each slice has an associated value, indicated in the outside area (from 1 to 20)
• The Bull (circle in the center of the board) scores 50 points. The green ring around the Bull scores 25 points
• The outer ring doubles the score while the inner ring triples it. For example, a dart that hit 20’s slice usually scores 20 points (brilliant!) but will score 40 if it hits the outer ring and 60 if it hits the inner ring
• So the top score with one dart is the triple 20, not the bull’s eye!

501

• Each player starts with 501 points
• At each turn, the points obtained in the three darts are subtracted from the player´s total ammount
• To close the game the player must go all the way down to 0 point. But he must throw his last dart in a DOUBLE (the Bull´s Eye is also considered a double – double 25). For Example, if 32 points lacks, the player must hit the external circle at the 16´s slice
• If the player scores more than the number of points he needs to close the game or exactly the number he needs (but not hitting a double) or if only one point rests (there is no such thing as double 1/2), the points of that turn are not considered and the turn goes to the opponent. This is called a blow
• The players should agree beforehand if it is going to be a “double in” match. If that is the case, each player only starts scoring when he/she hits a double

Tactics

• The goal of the game is to close the numbers 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15,14, trebles, doubles and the Bull, the order is not relevant. The number is closed when the player hits it three times (makes three marks). After that he may score in that number until the opponent closes it too.
• For the closure of the Bull, the Green Bull scores one mark and the Bull´s Eye itself scores 2 marks
• Triples score three marks and doubles score two
• The game finishes when the player with more points has all the numbers and the Bull closed. If the player with less points closes all first, he must use the numbers that are still open to score to get the overcome the opponent before he closes too

Suicide Cricket

• This is called Suicide Cricket.  Good for 3 or more players.
• Each player must shoot at the 20’s until all players close it.  If a player doesn’t close it the first round everyone keeps hitting it until it is closed. Then you go onto 19, 18 etc.
• If you hit another cricket number you lose a turn per what you hit (single= 1 turn, double=2 etc…. Bull is 4/8 for split).   The object is to close as quickly as possible and run your opponets scores up.
• The Philadelphia Bar Record is 3,127.  The game was won by a guy with 15 points.

Mickey Mouse

• It´s a Tactics variation
• The rule that makes the difference between Mickey and traditional Tactics is that, once both players have closed a number, if one of them hits that number, the score of that dart goes to the opponent.
• It may seem to be a non-important change, but it forces the players to close the Bull as soon as they can. Imagine that all numbers are closed. Can you have the picture of how many points you would give to your opponent trying to close the Bull?

Killer

• Each player chooses a number by throwing a dart with his non-throwing hand
• The player tries to hit his number exactly 5 times. When he gets to it he becomes a KILLER
• The Killer throws to the other player´s numbers (including other killers) subtracting points form them. When the player comes to 0 point he is removed from the game
• If a Killer has his number hit by another Killer, looses his position and has to regain it by throwing to his number until he gets to 5 points again
• If the thrower overides 5 points he goes back the number of exceeding points. IOW, if you have 4 points and hit a triple, you´ll stay with 3 (4+1-2)
• If a non-Killer hits another player´s number, he scores for the second one (if the second is not a killer, of course)
• The one who survives till the end is the winner

HYDERABAD: Telangana will shut down for the fourth time on Wednesday within a span of one month with agitating political parties and students

giving a bandh call in support of formation of separate state. The region is likely to come to a halt with road and rail services being suspended completely for the day.

This happening just two days before the New Year will rob the people of their festivities to welcome 2010. The Andhra Pradesh State Road and Transport Corporation has not only withdrawn its 8,052 bus services in the 10 Telangana districts but has also announced that its bus pass centres in the Twin Cities will remain shut. The South Central Railway has cancelled 165 short distance mail express and passenger trains. The MMTS service between Secunderabad and Falaknuma has also been cancelled but it would continue to function on the other routes.
Authorities have asked travellers taking long distance trains to carry sufficient food and water as services might be disrupted. While Hyderabad police commissioner announced that the force is well prepared to prevent any untoward incident, senior officials in both Hyderabad and Cyberabad have been informally advising people not to bring out their vehicles on to the roads.

The advice comes in the light of JAC members forming local JACs in each area of the city and are determined to make the bandh successful. In fact, the T agitation is now threatening to spread to technical institutes with a ‘JAC, Kukatpally’ formed by students of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) on the same lines as that of Osmania University. Students of JNTU said that their agitation would spread to areas around Kukatpally including Moosapet, Balanagar, Hydernagar, Miyapur and Nizampet.

Meanwhile, Telangana Rashtra Samiti general secretary T Jagdishwar Reddy said that the party had no objection to New Year celebrations but said that people themselves should not venture out given the prevailing situation. TRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kavitha said that OU JAC members had only appealed to citizens to stay away from celebrations to express their solidarity with the T cause and keeping in mind their month-long struggle for the same.

In any case, bars and restaurants in areas like Dilsukhnagar have decided to shut shop at 11 pm on December 31. Some hotels have already beefed up security. The city police has deployed 112 platoons of paramilitary force and stationed 40 senior IPS officers at various places to meet the bandh. In all, 17,000 police personnel were being deployed in the city. The cops have further stated that if private property is targetted again, they would be forced to go on the offensive.

New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Aamir Khan starrer comedy-drama ‘3 Idiots’ has created a record by grossing over Rs.100 crore in its first four days. Reliance BIG Entertainment, distributor of the film, released about 2,000 prints across 40 countries.

Based on Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller ‘Five Point Someone’, the film has been produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

‘We are privileged to have been associated with ‘3 idiots’ and its immensely talented team led by Vinod, Aamir and Raju. The ramp-up to Rs. 100 crore in 4 days is phenomenal and we are confident that the film will continue to blaze new records in the weeks to come,’ Amit Khanna, Chairman, Reliance Big Entertainment, said in a statement.

Added Chopra: ‘Response has been overwhelming from all over the world. Aamir, Raju and I knew from the responses earlier on that people liked the film but this is something else? We have got reports from places like Australia that they have reduced ‘Avatar’ shows and increased ours.’

Released Friday, its box office collection has beaten the initial earnings of another Aamir starrer ‘Ghajini’, considered Hindi cinema’s highest grosser till date, with 30 percent more earnings till Sunday night.

”3 Idiots’ is the highest grossing Hindi film ever in Australia on its opening weekend. Similarly in the US, I have been given to understand that ‘3 Idiots’ would be highest ever for a Hindi film,’ said Chopra.

The paid previews of the movie also garnered over Rs.9 crore worldwide, above those of the paid preview collections of ‘Ghajini’ that was Rs.7 crore globally.

The film, which reportedly cost Rs.80-100 crore, also stars R. Madhavan,Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani and Kareena Kapoor in pivotal roles.