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Yesterday Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) organised curtain raiser of 15th Mumbai Film Festival at Crystal Room of Taj Palace and Towers, Colaba. Poster designed by V Lamba was unveiled Amit Khanna, Ramesh Sippi, Shyam Benegal and Shrinivas Naraynan at Press Conference Our organisation Freelance Media Journalists Combine has been associated with MAMI's initiative right from the beginning, our members have enjoyed watching world cinema, used the platform to interact with film celebrities gathered from across the globe and given objective coverage in the respective publications. in fact FMJC members published special bulletins during the course of festival to give topical coverage , which was appreciated by the delegates as well as the organisers also. MAMI was initiated by film industry stalwarts in 1997 under leadership of late Shri Hrishikesh Mukherji. Initially the Festival was started in a very modest way, fewer films, very few international film celebri...

चचा अशरफी  चचा अशरफी  खाने को मांगें काजू बरफी  डायबिटीज का डाउट आया  चाची ने डाक्टर बुलवाया  ब्लड का सैम्पल झट से जांचा  निकली शुगर नार्मल से ज्यादा  नहीं दिखाई कोई मरसी  नो मोर बरफी   चचा अशरफी                @ प्रदीप गुप्ता 

Media entrepreneur Anurag Batra is owner of Exchange4Media, which is  better known as platform for media to media communication. He  has  surprised many media watchers by  buying  business magazine Businessworld,  the title owned by the ABP Group last week for an undisclosed amount, together with investment banker Vikram Jhunjhunwala.  In an interview , Batra speaks about why he bought the magazine title despite the challenges being faced by print and magazines, his plans for the print version and how he plans to leverage the title for a bigger digital play. Your acquisition of Businessworld has generated a lot of interest, given the state of the print industry. What prompted the decision? Businessworld is a 32-year-old magazine brand and India’s most respected, a business brand, has a great editorial team and has tremendous potential to be expanded in a 360 degree manner. It is a logical step up for me. I have nurtured a dream to make a difference ...

First a reality check :  The success of low-budget films is proving an important factor in the industry's growth. The film industry's revenue climbed 21 per cent from the previous year to Rs 11,240 crore in 2012, according to a report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and consulting firm KPMG. The success of low-budget films has also prompted big studios and production houses to take a new look at their business models. Until a couple of years ago, studios such as Eros Entertainment bet mostly on bigbudget films involving top actors such as Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. Not any more. Of the 25-odd Hindi films that Eros plans to release, 12 are in the Rs 5-10 crore budget range. Viacom 18 says almost 80 per cent of its films in 2013 will be low-budget. Disney UTV Studios will have an equal mix of star-driven and low-budget films this year. If somebody  invest in a Rs 5-6 crore film and it does not do well, he will lose Rs 2-3 crore at th...

फिर से पुरबा हवा चली है  जख्म भी ताजे  ताजे  हैं  तेरी     यादें ले   के बैठे  दिल को दर्द सताते हैं  छोड़ जरा चिंता को मनवा  दुःख सुख आते जाते हैं  लाख छुपाओ गहरा  कुछ भी  अश्क बयां कर जाते हैं  दीवानगी इस हद से गुजरी  दीवाने दीवाना कह जाते हैं 

मूषक पर कर कर के सवारी  गणपति चल के आए इस बारी  सब देवों से  छवि इनकी न्यारी  दर्शन से कट जाएँ संकट भारी                                      -pradeep gupta

How a small idea can change people's life and  environment ?   OSHIWARA LOKHANDWALA CITIZENS ASSOCIATION (OLCA) has shown the way through it's unique initiative. Every year lacs and lacs of Ganapati idols big not so big all shapes all sizes are immersed in the sea  in Mumbai alone. This results sudden increase in the pollution  level in the sea water as the eco unfriendly colors and material do enou harm to the marine life.   Last year Eco Friendly Visarjan was initiated by our organization OLCA in the Lokhandwala area of Mumbai suburb Andheri. OLCA is back again this year in Association with Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai to Promote Eco - Friendly Visarjan of all kinds of Ganesh Idols. The pond IS 50x20ft in size and 15ft Deep and this Method of Immersion can Protect Natural Water Bodies from Pollution. And I am proud that I am associated with this organisation since it's inception. Last year OLCA  had 1200 plus...

Better late then never catch word can not work in tech industry. There were many companies doing very well at one point of. Time, but are hardly around now because they were failed to hop the bus. Some failed to keep up due to funds, while others never caught up because poor judgement and anticipate the competition. Yahoo was on a great run between late 90s to middle of 2000. That was the time when every one  who used Internet used Yahoo Messenger. At least once. It was favroite platform for instant messaging for almost everyone. Apart from simple chat , one could use 'chat rooms' , keep all the friends together and sharing files with them. Another excellent feature was video calling, though the video quality was poor if you compare with today but the innovation enabled people to stay. And then it fell to Google. Google fired the first salvo with Gmail by offering much bigger storage and bigger attachment size that too for free. Yahoo retaliated but by announcing 100 MB of sto...

Bollywood music has really transformed during past few years. Recent success of film music such as kai Po Che, Go Goa Gone, Ghanchakkar,  Ranjhana, Yeh Jawani Hai Diwani, Bhag Milka Bhaag,  Shudh Desi Romance bear this out. New singers, composers, song writer are changing the way music is created in Bollywood in the old time. They have brought fresh sounds, voices and language. Now the young breed of directors and producers is also using music more innovatively  in films. Apart from this , the way listeners are consuming music has also changed drastically. ofcourse there is a good news. there is more room for experiment now, no sticking to tried and tested, boundaries are being streched in terms of texture, craft, rendition and of course the voice. you may now find all music genres the spectrum is far wide. The gap between Indian and western is getting  steadily reduced, elements of South American, African to Arabian music is also richly utilized. Due to a n...