The tagline : Jai Ho!! and Ho Jaye fits aptly for the India and Indians.

Here’s the image(click on the image for full screen view):

Did it encourage you to visit the site day.in?

Recently Purani Jeans organised a Purani Jeans Film Festival. Where they planned to show 1 Classic movies every week for a month. They started with Vijay Anand’s Guide (It had to be, as Anmol’s fav star is Devanand!!). I tried a lot for the Passes but failed!

It followed by Shammi Kapoor, An Evening in Paris. Chief guest was Sharmila Tagore with Shankar Jaikishan’s Music, Rafi Saab’s magical voice. Again I tried a lot, but didnt get the passes.

Now they announced Kabhi Kabhie. And I had to watch the show at any cost. In the lines of Anmol – I am a self confessed Fan (AC) of Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. I have watched all his movies (Yes, even Saat Hindustaani, in parts though). I maintain Time sheet of all his movies, Tweets and blog posts. A regular reader of his blog posts and Tweets. These reasons along with Kabhi kabhie’s magic and love for old movies, made me win the passes. I went for the show at Oberoi Mall, Goregaon. Got to see the legend ‘Khyyam’ Himself.

The show as perfect.

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Volkswagen’s  all new sedan – Vento will be the brand’s second volume model after its successful launch of the new Polo and will be coming as a premium entry level Sedan in the country.

The New Vento will be available in diesel and petrol variants, both which will be powered by1.6 L engines and will be available in manual and automatic (petrol version with AT) transmissions in the market.

But, Now i think people got bored of the simple, minimalistic, while layout. Then Bing was launched with Background Images. I had a thought once about Google having a Background pic.

But, Today when I opened Google.com, I found a small link on the left hand bottom corner, which said – Sign in to see your background Image. When Signed up – It gives option of selecting Images from: Computer, Picasa, Public Gallery and Editor’s pick. Also they have awarning which says – only use pictures that you have licence to use. (how many people will use licenced pictures?) I Opted for Public gallery and chose this.

Still its a nice gesture to personalise the world favourite Search Engine.

Whats your Background image for the google Search Engine??

1. Was to reach Mumbai from Hyderabad by 10, reached at 1 PM (have to write a blog on that too!)
2. Had plans to cancel office, but came to office, reached at 2:30
3. My HR says – what should I write, u r not on leave, and crossed the half day mark too!!!
4. And then I sit in front of my computer, doing the daily updates, when suddenly my colleague shouted – Sud!! Amitabh Bachchan is on twitter!!!

And I was like – Whaaaaat!!!!

I stopped my work, and just searched Big B on twitter – and there was tweet mentioning his handle – @SrBachchan!!!

His first tweet -

@juniorbachchan hey baby !! I made it on twitter !!! Yeeaaaaaahhhh !! … sorry.. just got carried away .. safe onward flight and love

And my first action was clicking the “FOLLLOW” button, and tweeted -

And…Ladies & Gentlemen – Presenting BIG B on twitter!!!!! Welcome sir!!! @srBachchan

The very Apt name Sr. Bachchan seems to be inspired by Abhishek’s handle – @juniorbachchan.

Someone tweeted – Why he doesnt have a handle like @SeniorBachchan, to which my reply was -

nice to use sr instead of senior. He will get more chars to write!!! @srbachchan

And my excitement was even noticed by my boss who tweeted saying -

@umennet @ankeetd sud is a happy man now that Big B is on Twitter

So, the God of Movies, A blogger, is now a twitterer too!!! He was following only Abhishek Bachchan, and by evening he started following Sachin Tendulkar!

To one of teh tweet of Sachin -

The sea was rough n I can’t swim at all ! It was really scary. I had 2 life jackets with me incase something went wrong ha ha ha….

Amitabh Bachchan replied -

@sachin_rt Sachin !! a delight to connect to you. Are you out of the water yet ? lifebelts and all !! have fun

Amitabh Bachchan has been a very regular blogger. Hoping the same with twitter too. It should be more easy, more convenient and more frequent for Mr. Bachchan.

The twitter bug has now finally bit the Legend himself. it would be nice to see the growing followers of Amitabh Bachchan. I am sure someone would come forward to track his daily follower count as Mid-Day started for Sachin!!

P.S. – By 8 Pm today, he has 18,672 Followers!!!

Meanwhile – you can have a look in to the filmography of  Mr. Bachchan here.

Social media was used quite extensively for this. Pepsi’s Facebook Fan page which was launched 2-3 months ago, where they organised some contests and aggressively gave away Dhoni & Ishant Sharma USB drives.

Now with this new ad coming up, they started posting teasers in the form of Ranbir’s Pictures, Sanjay Dutt’s New look, The game concept, the sets etc. They even released a Making video on the facebook fan page.

In the teaser, Sanjay Dutt says: “Yahaan paheliyon ka jaal hoga, dher saara maal hoga… hai bheja to le jaa…”

All this created quite a buzz and curiosity for the ad, but today morning when the first look was released on Facebook, It was poorely edited, bad concept and strangely awkward Ad. Sanjay Dutt looks tacky.

But the biggest mistake was: I think they were quite excited for the new ad, but in excitement they posted an unfinished, unedited version of the Pepsi commercial.

so here are some clips where you can clearly see the camera trolley used, the chroma and the strings used for Ranbir.

Social Media is all about the content sharing but what do you share is also very important.

Some stills from the video

Camera trolley used for the shoot (0:11 - 0:12)

The Chroma & the strings used. in the Video you can easily see Ranbir jumping on the plain Chroma (0:16 - 0:17)

The actual shot after the Chroma is removed

The brain behind the video :

• Creative Agency: JWT India; Hari Krishnan
• Executive Creative Director: JWT India, Soumitra Karnik
• Production House: MAD Films; Sunil Manchanda
• Director: Marco Kalantari

Now whom should we ask – “Hai Bheja??”

You can download the unedited commercial here: Pepsi, Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt

Comments and views are most welcome.

Today I had a talk with my elder brother, who had a bigggg collection of comics, from which I got the habit of reading. Suddenly he reminded me of a comic character superhero – Supremo, based on Amitabh Bachchan.

You would ask, Comic book, on a Film star?? Yes!!! The only reason could be, Amitabh Bachchan has had such a huge fan following that  a comic book was based on him, where the superstar doubled up as a superhero.

Amitabh Bachchan with his Comic book - Supremo

Speaking about the story behind the Supremo Comic Series, Pammi Bakshi says:

Amitabh Bachchan was a huge name in the 1980s. He had changed the economy of the film industry by giving hit after hit. One day, I saw some children playing in my building. They wanted to be superheroes — some wanted to be Superman and some Batman. But when Amitabh’s name was dropped, all of them started fighting as every child wanted to be Amitabh Bachchan!

I was very stunned, as until then I had thought Amitabh was a rage among elders and college-going kids. Here, I saw that he had a huge effect on school kids too. So I realised we needed something for children. I met Amitabh about this and he was okay with the idea of a Comic book. His only clause was that his character should not look like a caricature. There was no talk about remuneration.

How Gulzar got associated:
Gulzar was a close friend of mine. He was writing a book for his daughter Meghna at the time. I told him about the comic book idea and he came on board as a consultant. I was working with Movie Mag, a sister concern of India Book House (Supremo’s publishing house). So it was easier for me to work things out.

The most difficult part was to get an artist, who would make these comic characters. I approached Pratap Mullick. He was an illustrator, who has worked on comics like Amar Chitra Katha. This was the most difficult part as Pratap was not interested in doing anything filmi. I had to really coax him until he agreed. Pratap had not seen any Amitabh movies; he was far removed from films. So we made him watch some movies.

He made about eight to 10 looks of Supremo, and we took them to Amitabh. He approved one of them. The comic had two boys as his sidekicks, Vijay and Anthony — the names of Amitabh’s screen characters. Since Coolie had just released, we used the falcon and called it Shaheen.

Actress Sudha Chopra (Sparsh, Dostana, Kalaa Patthar) would write the stories or we would get freelancers to write them — there wasn’t one fixed story writer. We would also take stories sent by readers.

Why the name Supremo??
There’s an interesting story of how we named the comic Supremo. Amitabh was shooting for Pukar in Goa, along with Randhir Kapoor. When Amitabh would come on the sets, the whole of Goa would come to standstill. So everytime Amitabh would arrive, Randhir would say Supremo has arrived.

I liked the name and decided to call Amitabh’s comic character Supremo. Amitabh was okay with it. We showed the first few editions to Amitabh for his okay. After that, we would send him the script as a formality because once the comic took off, Amitabh never interfered. He was always accommodating. He asked us to send the comics to hospitals, welfare organisations and orphanages.

The comics stopped after two years, as I got married and went abroad. After I went, there was no one to look after it and the initiative died down.

Source: Rediff.com

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I was on facebook, when I saw some ads. I saw  matrimonial ads of Shaadi.com and BharatMatrimony.com. And to my surprise the heading for the ad and Images they used, it seemed as of its an ad of some Dating/porno site.

And the images used by Match.com (Australian dating site for love, as they say themselves) uses much better image than the Indian Matrimonial sites. And, the same image was used for the two rival matrimonial Sites!!!

Who do you think is at fault? The matrimonial sites or Facebook to publish such ads?

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