After the hype and hoopla it's the film's serious nature and subject matter which is putting people off.
The youthful former owner of Fame has unwittingly set off a takeover battle over his successful multiplex business.
The show has got a rating of 5.1, much more than the first episode of Bigg Boss (also on Colors a couple of months earlier) that the senior Bachchan hosted. In the process, Abhishek has outperformed the other celebrities as well -- Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, et al (see table below). The ratings have been given by TV rating agency TAM Media Research.
The Aamir Khan-starrer raked in Rs 12.5 crore on Friday and experts estimate the movie to net Rs 40 crore over the first weekend from the box office, with gross collections of Rs 65 crore.
The fight is between Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the producer of 3 Idiots, and multiplexes.
To launch in BIG Cinemas in India, abroad. Brother Mukesh Ambani might be the king of retail, but Anil Ambani's ADAG is getting ready to make its presence felt in branded food products
Your holiday in Dubai just got a little cheaper. Thanks to Dubai World's crash, travel portals and agencies like MakeMyTrip, Yatra, Cleartrip and SOTC are offering packages at prices almost 40 percent lower than a week or two ago.
Turner International is close to acquiring a controlling stake in entertainment company NDTV Imagine, which runs three entertainment channels.
Anil Ambani's radio business, Reliance Media World, which operates radio station BIG FM 92.7, will list on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange on Thursday. This makes BIG FM 92.7 the second radio station to be listed on the stock exchanges.
The eight team owners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are all set to lock horns with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by refusing to pay their next instalment of the franchisee fee which is due in January 2009.
The heat from the cricket endorsement pitch is cooling, with rates falling between 25 and 50 per cent as advertisers shy away from new deals.Industry sources say the only major cricketer to have signed on for a new brand in the last six months is Yuvraj Singh. Up-and-coming players like Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina are charging Rs 40 lakh to Rs 60 lakh but have not signed any new individual deals in the last few months.
SET Max, the official broadcasters of the Indian Premier League (IPL)cricket tournament, has already hit a sixer with the third edition of the twenty20 league. The channel is estimated to rake in over Rs 650 crore, 30 per cent higher than it got in IPL-2.
Post-Satyam, brokerages asked to do stricter checks of financial records.
On the last day of Satyam's stint in India's benchmark indices - the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex and the National Stock Exchange S&P CNX Nifty - its shares turned out to be a punter's delight.
Mutual fund investors may soon have to give separate cheques to distributors as commission.
The proposal to scrap 'indicative portfolios' has arisen because investors have sometimes found deviations of as much as 80 per cent between the indicative and actual portfolios. In some cases, the entire corpus has been invested in a single instrument. Sebi will also consider Amfi's suggestion of a 3 to 6 per cent exit load for FMPs, a minimum tenure of three months and a faster processing of redemption payouts,
Sebi wholetime members T C Nair and M S Sahoo passed the 26th such consent order on October 31, asking Bansilal Mehta and Chimanlal Shah to remit Rs 4,26,000. Mehta and Shah 'were alleged financiers to key operators for cornering shares in the IPO of IDFC', the order said. The regulator had earlier prohibited them from buying, selling and dealing in securities. So far, the regulator has settled 128 cases through consent orders.
Few market participants will stick their neck out to give a target for the Sensex during Samvat 2065, a stark change from the last year, which reflects the overall mood in the Indian equity markets.
Share of SGX Nifty in total Nifty futures surges to 40% from 8% a year ago.
In March this year, he quit to start his own firm for equity syndication to cater to small and medium enterprises in smaller towns. Huzefa Sitabkhan, who was working with one of the domestic investment banks (i-banks), left to start PNR Consulting, an advisory and consultancy firm for equity and debt syndication for SMEs.
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