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scramble in Bwood , Khans beating each other up for failures ..
In another news Kiran Rao ex wife of Amir khan has started usual victim card playing and rona dhona that amir is very dejected and needs your love ..


Salman Khan fans demand removal of Shah Rukh Khan from 'Tiger 3' after 'Laal Singh Chaddha' performance at box office; say 'bring Hrithik Roshan as Kabir'
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I made it my policy many years ago to not watch any movie starring any of the Khans. Sadly, SHQ does not believe in this, so she happily consumes all the nonsense stuff on Netflix and other platforms. I loved RRR, I think it is a better production than Bahubali which is saying something. Canada Kumar is turning out to be disappointment after all the good stuff he did in Pad Man and Toilet.

Aamir Khan is way past his sell-by date as are the others. They too shall be consigned to the dustbin of history .
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The movie does not work mainly because it is a crap movie. It does not resonate with anyone and is just a scene by scene copy of a movie that Indians have no connection to. Good movies work, irrespective of content or star.

Also, look at the fate of raksha bandhan movie. Crashed without a whimper, despite no boycott call.

Message is clear, make movies on merit, good stories, dump star kids and watch how audience flocks to see it
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Nihat wrote:The movie does not work mainly because it is a crap movie. It does not resonate with anyone and is just a scene by scene copy of a movie that Indians have no connection to. Good movies work, irrespective of content or star.

Also, look at the fate of raksha bandhan movie. Crashed without a whimper, despite no boycott call.

Message is clear, make movies on merit, good stories, dump star kids and watch how audience flocks to see it
merit films point is valid sir, but boycott call did make a big impact, even insiders who review Bwood films are saying this
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STOP being in denial about #Boycott calls *not* affecting film biz... The fact is, these #Boycott calls *HAVE* made a dent and impacted the #BO numbers of #LaalSinghChaddha specifically... Face it! https://twitter.com/taran_adarsh/status ... 8p5ufHsNmw
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Nihat wrote:The movie does not work mainly because it is a crap movie. It does not resonate with anyone and is just a scene by scene copy of a movie that Indians have no connection to. Good movies work, irrespective of content or star.

Also, look at the fate of raksha bandhan movie. Crashed without a whimper, despite no boycott call.

Message is clear, make movies on merit, good stories, dump star kids and watch how audience flocks to see it
There were boycott calls for Raksha Bandhan because of the writer's past tweets.

Today word of mouth makes or breaks a movie. Southern movies are just as much mindless trash as Bollywood, but they don't carry the baggage that Urduwood does.
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Sad day for Indian football.
https://www.the-aiff.com/article/coa-statement

It will be interesting to see how milords, who are so accustomed to slapping others, take this slap on the face.

FIFA has overstepped its bounds.
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Thakur_B wrote:
There were boycott calls for Raksha Bandhan because of the writer's past tweets.

Today word of mouth makes or breaks a movie. Southern movies are just as much mindless trash as Bollywood, but they don't carry the baggage that Urduwood does.

+1 Telugu film industry has many of the same issues minus the woke anti India/Hindu bigotry of bollywood. when i see these woke anti india folks i wonder did i growp up in a vaccum? none of the people i know are like this even the congress supporters.
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If anything at least let us rid of 50+ year old guys romancing 20 year old starlets... has been a trend in either industry...
I like the K industry in that regard even though it is not perfect... actors can move between TV and movies, hero and villain, young and old roles effortlessly... many of them have degrees in art/theatre/acting no less from local unis, some can actually sing well for soundtracks and they are 100% artists 24/7. Yes the agency system is not great in the initial years with its binding contracts but in our case apart from the top actors who are from famiglia every other member is a professional. Very weird how we practise this art!
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https://twitter.com/kamaalrkhan/status/ ... z23x4IHgDA KRK
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film #Dobaaraa released in 215 screens today. And all the morning shows are canceled because of no audience. Hahaha!

tapsee pannu starring dobara (copy of a greek film) had entire morning show in every screen cancelled after no one turned up to see the film.

KRK who has discovered his clickbaits with sanghis roasted tapsee yesterday brutally
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came to know ekta kapoor, anurag kashyap were minting money by releasing anaap shanaap trash on OTT. Netflix which is incurring heavy losses has asked them to release the film on screen first and wait for 4 weeks so we are seeing new trend of empty halls and cancelled screenings of woke scums
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Shamsera released on OTT, Delhi HC charged YRF a penalty of Rs 1 crore for stealing script and scenes from Kabu na chhadein Khet film https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ma ... 677881.cms
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Netflix rejects LSC https://www.geo.tv/latest/434805-the-de ... ils-inside
Aamir Khan's Laal Singh Chaddha was expected to open with a bang but unfortunately, the film failed at the box office, also causing Netflix to pull out from buying its digital rights.

The film garnered only INR 37.95cr over the weekend, with the streaming giant also turned down the offer of accepting the digital rights of the film.

Aamir started the negotiations with INR 150 Cr since he had blind faith in the film, but as the film started to fail at the box office, he reduced the numbers.

A source from Bollywood Hungama reported, “Netflix tried their best to get Aamir to relent and lower the cost and time period between the theatrical and OTT release."

"They were ready to offer a figure of around 80 to 90 crores. But the actor remained staunch on the price and the timeline since he was also looking to release the film in China. Netflix finally offered a deal at INR 50 crores."

However, Netflix backed out as soon as the film started failing. The other OTT platforms are also no longer interested in buying the rights, hence Aamir will be releasing the film on Voot as a formality.
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Earlier it was the satellite right purchased upfront by TV channels that was financing a lot of trash in Bollywood and other language industries. There also film makers sold the stardom of the actors for a premium and then delivered utter crap when the final movie came out. At one point they started to just pocket the money and didn’t even make an effort to deliver a decent movie. This went on for a while until channels realised their folly and only decent films started getting shortlisted for advance payment.

Now this is repeating in the case of OTT platforms as well. The day a movie has to be financed by one’s own hard earned money, all this tamasha of mindless crap getting weekly releases will stop.
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The Khan and Kapoor and Bhatt etc clans have hit on a winning formula. Keep working till the kids grow up and then add them to the industry. Same nautanki will be repeated ad nauseum. Add a few good songs in between the copied and messy script see if it works if not there is always Bhai laundry. Close the gates from the inside. Marry within the clans so that the formula is safe. Go to Bombay Scottish or some international school then London or NY, create an international marketing cartel and hence corporate acceptance and international lifestyle by marrying some rich dude or babe sell that to the aspirational NRIs and wannabe NRIs (or is it just journalists). After a few years Branch out into selling clothes, furniture, chaddhi banyan, insta, op-Eds etc.
Looks increasingly that the formula isn’t working.
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S_Madhukar wrote:The Khan and Kapoor and Bhatt etc clans have hit on a winning formula.
I may sound very rude, but this movie industry perhaps ranks just above the world's oldest profession. This kind of reputation was earlier there for professional theatre groups as well. It may be only in India that this gang has managed to get the skills to influence people. Looks like the Congress party was smart enough to understand the true potential of this industry way back in 1950s itself. There were lots of movies which sang praises of the Nehru-Ghandi clan, and also perpetrated the rich==bad & poor==good theories. From my understanding; Mumbai film industry always had a peacefool presence. But at that time many of the people involved took up Hindu sounding names. IIRC even these Kapoors etc had origins in Pakistan and ran away to India during partition.

The do Haji Mastan perhaps may be the first one to finance films, for he also had to get some good roles for his concubine (who was like a Madhubala clone). But from when this industry became Bhaiwood there needs to be more thorough study.

Ex-Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria in his biography sums up the attitude of these nautanki fellows. His father was a movie producer; who had to witness the pathetic work attitudes of these starlets. One incident was of an actor who accepted a work schedule and then went for a programe at Osho's Ashram at the same time. And when Rakesh Maria became the commissioner the same lot used to stand in front of his office, pi$$ing in their pants seeking an appointment. They all had received extortion calls, and they had to now seek help from the Mumbai Havildar 8).

PS: At least in the South; there seems to movies made with very common actors/actresses and very much down to earth story lines. Some of them appear in a couple of movies and then just move on with their lives.
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Sachin wrote: The do Haji Mastan perhaps may be the first one to finance films, for he also had to get some good roles for his concubine (who was like a Madhubala clone). But from when this industry became Bhaiwood there needs to be more thorough study.
Dawood Ibrahim and his criminal network (and also other competing underworld groups) started heavily funding Bollywood in the 80s and 90s, with a lot of extortion rackets as well. Their influence might have come down since then, with more sources of funding opening up (including legal ones) but the big shots of Bollywood even now are those who made their money during that time and hence the legacy continues.
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Nambi Narayanan's claims in 'Rocketry' are utter lies: Sasikumar.
Interesting. Looks like the only folks who are still milking the emotions of people and minting money are the film-wallahs. The Pandits still remain in shelters but Vivek Agnihotri & Co got the money. Now Madhavan & Co made 'Rocketry' and made money. Nambi Narayanan also got his compensations, while the co-accused in the false spy case did get neither.

A team of ex-ISRO Engineers organized a Press Meet in Thiruvananthapuram and released a detailed note on the false claims of Nambi Narayanan. The signatories signed on the press note are; Dr. A.E Muthunayakam, D. Sasikumar, Prof EVS Namboodiri, Sreedharan Das, Dr. Aadimoorthy and others.

This case does have some gray areas. I don't think Nambi Narayanan was involved in spying, but few of his other claims seems to be a bit dubious. Ex-DGP of K.P, Senkumar IPS had dug up some of the old vigilance reports and ACR on Nambi Narayanan as well.
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“I think Mughals were one of the original nation builders”, says director Kabir Khan (Ek than tiger, Bajrangi bhaijaan)

https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/b ... abir-khan/
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Amir Khan to leave for US. Apparently to make a parallel base in Khan land.

His flop LSC allegedely is doing good business in US https://indianexpress.com/article/enter ... y-8106535/
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Sachin wrote:Nambi Narayanan's claims in 'Rocketry' are utter lies: Sasikumar.
Interesting. Looks like the only folks who are still milking the emotions of people and minting money are the film-wallahs. The Pandits still remain in shelters but Vivek Agnihotri & Co got the money. Now Madhavan & Co made 'Rocketry' and made money. Nambi Narayanan also got his compensations, while the co-accused in the false spy case did get neither.

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Not going to comment on the accuracy of Nambi Narayan's claims but your first point makes little sense

It is not Vivek Agnihotri or R Madhavan's job to bring justice to those who need it, Their job was bringing the plight of the victims on the big screen and show it to a broader audience which they did successfully. It is the government and the public's job after that to actually ensure justice gets done

It is a great thing that these movies made as much money as they did because it gives more directors confidence that it is possible to financially succeed in Indian movies without following the Bhaiwood way. I'm sure we will see more such events brought to light because of TKF and Rocketry's praise.

Now if the public is happy with just watching the movie and then going back to their normal lives not giving a second thought to what they saw then it's not the filmmakers fault
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Bollywood’s wrong answers to boycott calls: Why our ‘stars’ still operate in a vacuum https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/bolly ... 09501.html
More often than not, mainstream Bollywood stars operate in a vacuum, and it’s not surprising that they refuse to read the writing on the wall. For a few years now, the tools available to make content (read films) are the same with which someone in the neighbourhood makes a video that goes viral. The platforms for screening, too, have changed. Today, a tent-pole Bollywood production has to jostle for eyeballs with YouTubers or a stand-up comedian who became famous thanks to Instagram Reels.

One can gauge Bollywood’s disconnect with reality when young stars such as Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan don’t know the name of India’s President and continue to proudly flaunt their ignorance. The OTT platforms that were previously shelling out big bucks to reel in the Bollywood stars also seem to read the tea leaves. That popular Hindi cinema needs to take stock and probably reinvent itself for the sake of its viewers is a foregone conclusion. The bigger question is whether it would understand that to be treated like an industry, it needs to understand that without customers, it might just as well be spitting in the wind.
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Sachin wrote: Interesting. Looks like the only folks who are still milking the emotions of people and minting money are the film-wallahs. The Pandits still remain in shelters but Vivek Agnihotri & Co got the money. Now Madhavan & Co made 'Rocketry' and made money. Nambi Narayanan also got his compensations, while the co-accused in the false spy case did get neither.
Sachin, day in day out, you cry and question about bhaiwood’s motives, its thought policing and anti-Indian false narratives. But now we actually got an answer from alternative film makers that challenge bhaiwood’s dominance in setting narratives, you have a problem with that? All because they “earn money”? That is what ecosystem is all about - you thrive and make others thrive, while achieving greater goals.

Seriously ?
This case does have some gray areas. I don't think Nambi Narayanan was involved in spying, but few of his other claims seems to be a bit dubious. Ex-DGP of K.P, Senkumar IPS had dug up some of the old vigilance reports and ACR on Nambi Narayanan as well.
Both Senkumar and Jacob Thomas, who is being feted out by state BJP nowadays are oddballs and prima donnas with inconsistent track records. Senkumar’s dug up things by a notoriously incompetent state vigilance is what you are quoting? Same vigilance who let go of KMMani, despite taped audio?

Nambinarayanan is a smart operator and brags a bit about cryo as part of his PR initiative against far more powerful people, but his other observations on Sreekumar etc are spot on. That there was an IB mole hunt was known to anyone in both state police and SIB. What you are doing here is a grave disservice in bringing out the role of such guys, by casting aspersions on Nambi. Sasi kumar did not have Nambi’s persistence over years, but now feels disappointed. I have greatest sympathy for both.
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Amir Khan's MOGUL to be shelved after LSC disaster (was based on life of Gulshan Kr) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ent ... 793672.cms

came to know now a days corporates invest money in films (Reliance, Times..)
who should get money is decided by foreign returned MBAs who speak English, are wokes and disconnected from Indian reality. Hence these houses end up financing woke liberal Islamist agendas of Bwood.

Bramhastra has costed Rs 600 Cr & 9 yrs of work..allegedly out of box vfx and all..failue of this film will tank Kapoors & Alia and deliver another blow to Bwood
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From the above linked article this is what Sasikumar ji said about NASA and such.
There is nothing to be amazed about. NASA might have decided to recruit Nambi for any project and it was not because Nambi was an expert. One of my colleagues, Raveendran, who is a Kollam native had gone to NASA for such a project. It's not a big deal for a scientist. There are many fools in our nation, who perceive NASA and Princeton University as something incredible. They are those who romanticise such trivial events.
Quite an accurate observation by Sasikumar ji, IMHO.
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hnair wrote:Senkumar’s dug up things by a notoriously incompetent state vigilance is what you are quoting? Same vigilance who let go of KMMani, despite taped audio?
Nope. This report is of the internal vigilance organization within ISRO. Sen Kumar had got this report which highlights the fact that Nambi Naryanan had been amassing wealth way beyond his means at that time. The suspicion was that he was running another business (related to his domain only) on the side. Secondly, Sen Kumar also had got hold of the appraisal reports on Nambi Narayanan which mentions that he was an average performer. Any ways; let us see if Nambi Narayanan can counter the point by points listed out by the other engineers at ISRO.
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Sachin wrote: Nope. This report is of the internal vigilance organization within ISRO. Sen Kumar had got this report which highlights the fact that Nambi Naryanan had been amassing wealth way beyond his means at that time.
Sachin, what Nope? Do a basic Google search on ISRO and vigilance department. This is the first article that pops up. So this getting even more silly - I thought you were referring to some KP vigilance report. There is no “internal vigilance organisation within ISRO” because it is a crown jewel of India since its inception and hence comes under IB (and some other discrete org that reports to PMO). They run a vigorous counter intel operation around national installations and its reports are highly confidential, particularly about department heads. KP, SenKumar etc keeps a distance of around one km between their HQ next to Trivandrum club and that SIB building at Vazhuthacaud for a reason. So I don’t even know where that claim (if he made such a claim) is coming from.

Like I said, Nambinarayanan has embellished his work on hypergolic propellants with cryogenics because the book on which the movie(even more embellishments by script writers) is based on is an “autobiography” (Co-authored by a friend of mine) and not a more rigorous “biography” by a third party, if you can figure out the difference.

The scientists who are talking loudly now, has never come foreward when Nambi was dragged around by the Oomen Chandy clique of congress and Sreekumar/Vijayan duo. These “scientists” cowered under their bed when manorama rag was running daily BS reports of a sleazy nature at that time. Now they are proudly and bravely coming forward when a silly fictitious movie came out in 2022? Why did they not call out the fictitious and highly harmful propaganda that destroyed a national program and many families? Like I said I had and always have greatest sympathy for both Sasikunar and Nambi. Only that Nambi was very dogged in clearing his name, unlike a more fatalistic Sasikumar.

Senkumar and Jacob Thomas are into sensationalism and unless you like “ikkili journalism”, please don’t go around posting their rubbish as reference.
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India vs Pakistan cricket resumes, next Pk team in IPL?

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Sachin wrote:Nambi Narayanan's claims in 'Rocketry' are utter lies: Sasikumar.
Interesting. Looks like the only folks who are still milking the emotions of people and minting money are the film-wallahs. The Pandits still remain in shelters but Vivek Agnihotri & Co got the money. Now Madhavan & Co made 'Rocketry' and made money. Nambi Narayanan also got his compensations, while the co-accused in the false spy case did get neither.

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Not going to comment on the accuracy of Nambi Narayan's claims but your first point makes little sense

It is not Vivek Agnihotri or R Madhavan's job to bring justice to those who need it, Their job was bringing the plight of the victims on the big screen and show it to a broader audience which they did successfully. It is the government and the public's job after that to actually ensure justice gets done

It is a great thing that these movies made as much money as they did because it gives more directors confidence that it is possible to financially succeed in Indian movies without following the Bhaiwood way. I'm sure we will see more such events brought to light because of TKF and Rocketry's praise.

Now if the public is happy with just watching the movie and then going back to their normal lives not giving a second thought to what they saw then it's not the filmmakers fault
+100 very well put.
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hnair wrote:There is no “internal vigilance organisation within ISRO” because it is a crown jewel of India since its inception and hence comes under IB (and some other discrete org that reports to PMO).
Please read the book "എൻ്റെ പോലീസ് ജീവിതം" (My Police life) by T.P Senkumar. In the book he has actually added the official reports which talks about earlier internal investigations. "Scheme for Preparation, Maintenance and Custody of Lists of Public Servants of Gazetted Status of Doubtful Integrity", was initiated following the guidelines given in OM No 105/1/66/AVD dated 28.10.1969. In a letter dated 23.2.1983 by Shri P.M Nair, Controller, VSSC there are below observations regarding Shri. Nambi Narayanan. "We have some reports about his running a private business. Vigilance case has been registered on 11.8.82. The case has been included in the quarterly report for the period ending 30.9.82. We have also suspicion about his unaccounted wealth and the matter is still under investigation by the vigilance cell". The book also has a copy of the Annual Confidential Report prepared in 1994 which was signed by Dr. Muthunayakam who was Nambi Narayanan's superior. "Contribution to Cryo development could have been better. Very capable officer but could have been more productive", and a recommendation of promotion to higher grade in normal course.

This was what I was mentioning in my earlier posts. Nambi Narayanan has given a defamation case against T.P Senkumar, which does not seem to be making any progress. Any ways; I agree with you on your point that the ISRO engineers should have raised their concerns not after a movie was released. And that the ISRO spy case was fabricated and had political angle to it as well.
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Sachin wrote: Please read the book "എൻ്റെ പോലീസ് ജീവിതം" (My Police life) by T.P Senkumar. In the book he has actually added the official reports which talks about earlier internal investigations.
No thank you, you can continue reading those, not me. I am not into pulp-fiction of the kind peddled by sibi mathews, senkumar, jacob Thomas and soon, Behra. I had interacted personally with some of these worthies and they are not exactly original sources you want to quote due to their “capabilities”.

Now about your reference document. That “official report” of Sen kumar is a dodgy one to put it mildly.
1) Comptroller of VSSC is an audit and accounts postion (the late gent mentioned in the report is ex AG’s office on deputation) who keep track of department spending and calls out budgetary overruns or profligacy in spending. They will have zero insights into a senior employee’s background check, which is what that spurious “report” of senkumar is implying.

2) The non-redacted counter-intel cases had zilch about Nambi’s “businesses” (that too in 1982, a full 12 years before the 1994 blowup?), until Sreekumar played havoc with the case. Nambi’s son had business started after the whole thing flared up, not Nambi

2) senkumar comes from a force that had people like sibi mathews and vijayan, who cobbled up all sorts of treasonous false-docs, while malayalees clapped like idiots at their “honesty and patriotism”. No amount of seniumar’s deperment’s BS stood in court and repeatedly got thrown out after severe scrutiny.

Here he is waddling around in an interview. “I think, I feel, I kinda know…. But hey, I was not allowed to investigate. So I am a hero”



The kind of sleazy allegations he is throwing around about an ISRO department head and a foreign women, would cause loud blips inside a half-competent counter intel ops. We had arrests galore of even lower level guys leaking low quality data to ISI and getting convicted. Nambi not getting arrested by such teams itself is a marker that KP guys like sibi Mathews started play-acting after they were caught with pants down.

Here is another one of vijayan (who started the whole chain of events by slobbering after a Maldivian women he saw at a store in Pattom Junction)



This Vijayan evading a simple question “if there was suspicious activity, how come you were not able to prove in court?”

It is upto you to believe these guys, but please don’t post around these guys as some kind of original reference and sell their crappy books about their dodgy careers!

PS: I had once hired a Russian violinist as a “musical consultant” for a year or two at Trivandrum. A rather young chap just out of college. So he parties around a bit. I instantly get pings from FRRO, “that fiddler of youse been loitering in XYZ beach for way too long. Wassup?” So I call up the fiddler and ask him to stop fooling around and come within an hour to my office. Good thing is he comes from an even severe security apparatus place and so he calmly hears my yelling at him. But scene is that tough and scary. And that is despite me filing C-forms and assuring them he is under control. So would assume if a Dept head had a bad report in 1982, he would not survive and thrive with the sort of rubbish we are discussing here.
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Vijayan dude refers to Officials Secrets Act of 1923 (i.e. Brutish origin law). Isn't it time India revisits all these ancient Brutish laws and rewrite them for India of today. Why perpetuate the Brutish law for India?
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Forgot to post this one:

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https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/b ... me-begins/

Knives out between Reliance entertainment (Viacom18) and Amir Khan productions after LSC disaster and revenue loss.
What doesn't pass smell test is Amir Khan productions apparently earned Rs 5000Cr from Dangal from China alone then why are they crestfallen for Rs 100 Cr loss in LSC!? Any explaination from gaarus?
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IndraD wrote:https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/b ... me-begins/

Knives out between Reliance entertainment (Viacom18) and Amir Khan productions after LSC disaster and revenue loss.
What doesn't pass smell test is Amir Khan productions apparently earned Rs 5000Cr from Dangal from China alone then why are they crestfallen for Rs 100 Cr loss in LSC!? Any explaination from gaarus?
Chinese production companies, theaters and marketing agencies take a huge cut of whatever the foreign films box office revenue in China is..

So even if one is to believe the 1000 crore + box office in China the amount actually going into AK's pockets might be much lower.

he won't really be hurting for money or become bankrupt by just this flopshow it's more the hit on his ego and "star power" that is hurting him.

Its gonna take a few of these in a row to start ensuring the financial pinch really starts getting to them
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Making megabucks on a Super Duper hit is rare. You are assuming Aamir got all the money on Dangal in China but was he the producer of the film or did he personally distribute the movie in China? It is the producer who decides and controls the overseas rights and/or earning there of.

What brings in the lolly for the actors these days is not so much the remuneration of acting in films but the endorsement fees for modeling on different brands (Upwards of 10 crores per brand per year for top actors/sportsmen). But again their demand for different brands depends on hit their films are!!

Aamir is a loser here as he does very limited films and his last two films have been mega flops. A couple of them more and he will be totally out of demand.
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upcoming flick Bramhastra is based on Turkish sufiana story, name & characters changed recently
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https://twitter.com/rahulroushan/status ... o98K6Gtt1A
KRK is an equal opportunity offender. Everyone can definitely find that one tweet that would offend him/her. But recently he pissed off the big league with his caustic comments on LSC and other woke Bollywoodiays. Iska matlab samjhe Daya?

https://aninews.in/news/national/genera ... 830091827/
Frustrated Bwood targets KRK gets him arrested over 2020 tweets so that he is not around when Bramhastra is released
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Vips wrote:Making megabucks on a Super Duper hit is rare. You are assuming Aamir got all the money on Dangal in China but was he the producer of the film or did he personally distribute the movie in China? It is the producer who decides and controls the overseas rights and/or earning there of.
He was the producer, his production company is actually called "Amir Khan Productions' lol and he did make most of the money from Dangal. Most of the big actors have their own production companies and release movies under their own banner. Same for SRK as well with 'Red Chillies Entertainment'.
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