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Saturday, March 10, 2012
National Awards winners
By Hindustan Times
National Awards winners
Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.ONGC auction disappoints, gets bids for Rs 8,500 cr worth shares
The auction for sale of government's 5 per cent stake in ONGC on Thursday got bids for 29.22 crore shares worth about Rs 8,500 crore, but could fetch only about two-third of the targeted proceeds of over Rs 12,000 crore. At the end of the one-day auction, the auction got total bids for 29.22 crore shares, including 19.92 crore on the NSE and about 9.3 crore on the BSE platform, exchange official said. The final figures were yet to be updated on the websites of the two bourses.
The government had proposed to sell about 42.77 crore shares through the auction at a floor price of Rs 290 a piece.
The total bids were worth about Rs 8,500 crore and accounted for 68.3 per cent of the total offer size.
In the event of the total number of orders received at or above the floor price being less than the number of shares being offered for sale, the government would have the right to either conclude the sale to the extent of subscription or cancel the sale.
The shares would be allocated on 'price-priority' basis, meaning the bidders at highest price would be allotted shares.
The bids were mostly in the price range of Rs 290-293 per share for the auction, which commenced at 9.15 am and closed at 3.30 pm today.
The government had fixed a floor price of Rs 290 per share for the share sale through this one-day auction, wherein it was targetting to raise about Rs 12,000-13,000 crore.
The bidding began on a weak note and only about 37,500 shares were bid for in the first hour. Till 3 pm also, total bids had come in for only about 1.43 crore shares, but the momentum picked up in the last 30 minutes.
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Sonakshi 'can't wait' to join Dabangg 2
By Hindustan Times
Actress Sonakshi Sinha says she is looking forward to join the star-cast of Dabangg 2 and hopes that the film does better than the first part.
"Dabangg 2 shoot starts today (Friday). I join them on the 18th... Can't wait to get back to where it all started! All the best to Arbaaz Khan,
Salman Khan and the entire team! Abhi tak sabko nehlaya tha, chalo ab sabko dho daale ;) dabangg ho (sic)," she tweeted.
Dabangg 2 marks the directorial debut of actor Arbaaz Khan. Starring Salman and Sonakshi, the movie is slated for release at the end of the year.
What women want, actresses tell on Women's Day
By Hindustan Times
Veteran Shabana Azmi says women must be "placed at the centre of development" while another seasoned actor Khushboo feels it's time to "change the mindset of people" towards women.
Women's Day is March 8 and Indian actresses express what it means to be a woman, what changes they feel should be brought about and which woman inspires them:
ShabanaShabana Azmi: Separate but equal/different but equal surely must become the axiom for Women's Day. Men and Women are different... and this difference needs to be celebrated. I salute the women's movement for creating space that has allowed many of us to walk the untrodden path. But we must remember with shame that there are pockets in our country where female foeticide is still being practised... Women must be placed at the centre of development because empowerment of women is the true yardstick of a nation's progress….
Being a woman for me is essentially mastering the art of multitasking, being a care-giver to parents, kids and spouse... But above all being a woman means being informed by my gender and playing the game differently and negotiating more space for all women.
The woman I admire most is my mother Shaukat Kaifi. I find inspiration from my maid who washes our dishes so her daughters can go to English school, from women who work in the fields and factories. More power to women.
Khushboo: I don't celebrate Women's Day as I celebrate being a woman every day. We need to bring the change in our mindsets rather than in society, because we are the architects of our social order. Do I want changes? I am quite content with my space at home and at work. I am not inspired by any woman. But I do have the highest regard for Hema aunty (Hema Malini). The one woman has made a difference in my life was Ubin Fernandez, my hairdresser, guide, guardian, mother, friend… Lost her to cancer last December. She had been with me for 28 years from the time I became a leading lady in 1984.
Aditi Rao Hydari: Being a woman means turning every negative into a positive... mustering a great inner strength in the toughest and gentlest of circumstances. In most societies, women are taught to hide their inherent sensuality grace and beauty. Every woman must be allowed to be herself. Speaking for cinema, I wish our movies wouldn't objectify women... I'm inspired by any woman who has worked with passion and lived with grace. There are so many unsung women who do that every day. They are my heroes.
Pooja Bedi: Being a woman is the most complete experience. We embody and express naturally the qualities of nurturing and empathy, gentleness and compassion and an incredible inner strength. We are Laxmi, Saraswati, Parvati, Durga and Kali. Personally on this Women's Day I see no need for change, as I feel I possess a great yin and yang balance. Professionally I'd like to do another talk-show to inspire women to live their lives to their full potential... I also want to create awareness about female foeticide and gender bias. The woman I find most inspiring? Angelina Jolie.
Alisha Chinai: The only way to get power is to give it away. No one understands this more than a woman. She has the ultimate unimaginable power... The women who inspire me? Sonia Gandhi, Eva Peron and Madonna.
Lilette Dubey: For me being a woman means that I have the power of Durga and Shakti... the power to be a force. The power to be multifaceted. I'm lucky to be born to play so many roles in real and reel life... I'd like to expand the scope of my activities, explore new talents, may be make a film, write a book or cut an album. I'd love to be a grand mom. I've always been inspired by Meryl Streep's versatile talent and innate goodness.
Raima Sen: Being a woman for me means a number of things. Independence, strength, grace, determination... I'd like to do more roles of substance, stronger characters. On a personal level, I'd like to be more resolute and go out there to make a difference. The woman who inspires me most is my grandmother Suchitra Sen.
Crews begin raising crashed helicopter to surface
Mobile, Alabama: US Coast Guard officials say they've begun the process of lifting a submerged helicopter from the floor of Alabama's Mobile Bay to the surface as they continue searching for three missing crew members after the aircraft plunged into the water.
Petty Officer Bill Colclough said Thursday morning that the effort started between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Rescue crews have said they need to raise the helicopter's fuselage to gain access to it, and find out whether the crew members are inside or somewhere at sea.
The MH-65C helicopter crashed on a training mission Tuesday evening near Point Clear. One crew member, the chopper's rescue swimmer, was found unresponsive and later declared dead.
Colclough says 95 per cent of Mobile Bay has been searched.
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Sonakshi Sinha turns showstopper for JJ Valaya!
By Hindustan Times
Ten leading designers came together to showcase their designs at one single show known as Karmik. Actor Sonakshi Sinha was the show stopper as she walked the ramp for JJ Valaya.
Sonakshi wore a beautiful cream and blue paneled anarkali dress with netted designs. Sonakshi said, "It was fantastic and great walking for Karmik. I am glad to be associated with Karmik. It is very affordable and all the girls who have dreamt of wearing designer wear now can buy it in an affordable rate."
Pradeep and Neha Hirani's luxury fashion brand Kimaya, seen in India and internationally, launched brand Karmik at Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012.
Karmik provides designer wear at affordable prices making them accessible all across the country.
The outfits displayed were a blend of western and Indian attires. Designers Rohit Bal, Anamika Khanna, JJ Valaya, Rocky S, Falguni and Shane Peacock, Ranna Gill, Shantanu and Nikhil, Rina Dhaka, Neeta Lulla and Kavita Bhartia presented a great affordable range of Indian designer wear.
From the film industry Sridevi, Mugdha Godse, Mahima Chaudhary, Poonam Sinha among others were present at the show.
SRK's Family to fly down!
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, March. 6 -- Bechara Shah Rukh Khan, sighs my Nautanki Naari from Lokhandwala. The actor who has been in London for two weeks now, shooting with Yash Chopra and Katrina Kaif, is missing his kids Aryan and Suhana and wife Gauri a lot.
My lady jasoos says that he had a day off, thanks to the untimely rains. So, he made a full-fledged plan to fly them to London and have them with him, hopefully till he wraps the schedule by the end of March. He wants to spend time with his sonny, cycle around with his little daughter, and read her poetries and stories.
9 Indians in Forbes Asia Power Businesswomen list
New York:
ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochchar, Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and film producer Ekta Kapoor are among the nine Indian women named in Forbes magazine's inaugural 'Asia Power Businesswomen list'.
The list names 50 "pathbreakers", whose extraordinary business success is driving the region's remarkable economic rise, Forbes said.
"Although the role of women in Asia-Pacific's economy is growing, most of these honorees still have had to overcome significant barriers to get where they are today," it said, adding the business success of the 50 women on its list is a combination of capital, ideas, energy and leadership.
The list also includes Britannia Industries Managing Director Vinita Bali, 56 years, HT Media Chairman and Editorial Director Shobhana Bhartia, 55 years, AZB & Partners Founder and Senior Partner Zia Mody, 55 years, Axis Bank CEO and Managing Director Shikha Sharma, 53 years, and Tractors & Farm Equipment Chairman Mallika Srinivasa, 52 years.
Kapoor, 36, is the youngest on the list who as a "TV and movie producer is lighting a fire under Bollywood," Forbes added.
HCL Corp Executive Director and CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra, 30, is on a separate list of 15 power women to watch out for.
The list includes CEOs, founders and executives from China, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Macau and Vietnam whose "extraordinary business success is driving some of this region's most exciting growth and prosperity".
"These 50 dynamic women not only represent game-changers within their respective industries, but they also have inspired and empowered scores of talented women to follow suit," the publication said.
Others on the list include HSBC Asia Pacific's non- executive Deputy Chairman Laura Cha (62 years), Morgan Stanley CEO and Managing Director China, Co-CEO Asia Pacific Wei Sun Christianson, 55 years, Singapore Telecom Group CEO Chua Sock Koong, 42 years, Hyundai Group Chairman Hyun Jeong-Eun, 57 years and Temasek Executive Director and CEO Ho Ching, 58 years.
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John Abraham's bail plea accepted
By Hindustan Times
Actor John Abraham's 15-day jail sentence in a case of rash and negligent driving in 2006 was initially suspended by the Bombay High Court on Friday. The latest update is that he will now be let out on bail on a surety of Rs 20,000.
A sessions court had dismissed Abraham's plea challenging the 15-day simple imprisonment given to him by a lower court. It also rejected his plea to grant him time to surrender. The actor then applied in the Bombay High Court for bail.
In 2006, Abraham had crashed his bike and injured two pedestrians in Mumbai's Khar Danda area.
He had also reportedly taken the victims, both of whom worked in a shop together, to the Bhabha Hospital.
The actor had filed a plea against the conviction in the same month and the Bandra metropolitan magistrate court had sentenced the actor to a jail term of 15 days.
Twitter quips
@madversity
John Abraham held in rash driving case. Now Bipasha plans to walk over Rana Daggubatti and match the publicity
@shadymumbai
They should send John Abraham to the Women's Prison ...The women there will make sure he gets released only after 15 Years !
@amreekandesi
John Abraham drove rash 6 years back, and trends on Twitter now. Moral of the story, patience always pays.
@BollywoodGandu
That awkward moment when John Abraham drops his soap in the jail shower
@PM0India
John Abraham gets 15 days in jail. Big blow to Modi government. John speaks Gujarati.
@being_aditi
I'm sure he attributes that to his middle class upbringing too.
@mikul37
If Salman Khan crushes 2 person and still start Being Human, John Abraham after injuring 2 person can safely start Being Angel! #lrlr (sic)
Russian woman assaulted, robbed at gunpoint allegedly by BSP legislator's son
New Delhi: The son of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator from Uttar Pradesh has been accused of assaulting and threatening his Russian female friend in her south Delhi house and escaping with her passport, cellphone and debit card.
Vivek Singh, son of BSP legislator Chandraveer Singh, was in an inebriated state when the incident took place on Wednesday morning in the 24-year-old victim's home in Mehrauli, police said. The woman hails from Moscow and works as an intern with an architect in Gurgaon.
"The victim had met Vivek around a year back and became friends. Few months later they broke off their ties," said a police official, adding that the woman had returned to the capital early Wednesday morning from Moscow.
According to the police, Vivek was left red-faced when the woman took a cab to her home despite knowing that Singh had come to receive her at the airport.
Vivek then followed her to her home and abused her. He even threatened her with a revolver and finally left the place with her passport, mobile phone and her debit card, said police.
Vivek was earlier arrested in 2009 for opening fire inside Mocha Bar in Nehru Place, south Delhi, and was sent to Tihar Jail.
Vivek Singh, son of BSP legislator Chandraveer Singh, was in an inebriated state when the incident took place on Wednesday morning in the 24-year-old victim's home in Mehrauli, police said. The woman hails from Moscow and works as an intern with an architect in Gurgaon.
"The victim had met Vivek around a year back and became friends. Few months later they broke off their ties," said a police official, adding that the woman had returned to the capital early Wednesday morning from Moscow.
According to the police, Vivek was left red-faced when the woman took a cab to her home despite knowing that Singh had come to receive her at the airport.
Vivek then followed her to her home and abused her. He even threatened her with a revolver and finally left the place with her passport, mobile phone and her debit card, said police.
Vivek was earlier arrested in 2009 for opening fire inside Mocha Bar in Nehru Place, south Delhi, and was sent to Tihar Jail.
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Wishing our fans a very Happy Holi!
By Bollywood.com
Bright colors, Water balloons, Lavish gujiyas & Melodious songs are the ingredients of the perfect Holi. Wish you all a very happy Holi!
Poonam Pandey wishes Holi with risqué video!
By Hindustan Times
After Bathroom Secret, Bedroom Secret and Mirror Act, strip queen Poonam Pandey is back with another racy video called Dirty Play, which she has been promoting on Twitter since yesterday.
The video isn't sexy, it's rather hard to watch. After finishing a glass of milk (or bhang), she rubs colour all over her body. Then she starts stripping and rubs more colour on her body. She tries to be sexy by pouring water over her and dances and what not. The 2.56 minutes long video is silly and vulgar.
However, the video was removed as its content violated YouTube's terms of service.
She started the 'video game' on March 5. She tweeted: "TwetHearts!!! the Video "Dirty Play" is o in its Way in Next few hrs and Series of Pix ... Keep Watching ... Tweethearts!! get ready to experience the Heat as never before.. the show begins today evening!! its gonna get Hot, Hotter and Hottest!"
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/Popup/2012/3/poonam-pandey-holi1.jp... tweets:
Poonam Pandey: "The Game has Begun #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey let know how do want the Video to be? its a Real Wild Act!!!"
Poonam Pandey: "#DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey is Gonna be? Let me hear it Faster... so Soon u can Experience it too"
Poonam Pandey: "TweetHearts!! #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey #Video is on its Way .... but Let me hear from u all?"
Poonam Pandey: "Tweethearts!!! Reading all ur Comments on #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey u guyzz r Crazyy Thanx for Loving me so much. #Video is on its way"
Poonam Pandey: "Let Me know when do u want me to Share #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey Tonight or Tomorrow morning?"
Poonam Pandey: "Still thinking when shud i upload d Video #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey Guys keep watching youtube.com/user/officialp… will upload before Afternoon!!!"
Poonam Pandey: "Tweethearts!! i was Born on Holi.. and this year on 11 thMarch will turn 20 this Video is also a Pre BDayBashGift"
Holi pictures
To build up excitement, she posted a set of racy pictures playing holi, wearing the same old white bra seen in most of her pictures.
Poonam Pandey: "#NewPic Tweethearts!! whtz ur Plan for this HOLI ... Mine u will Experience it soon! #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey"
Poonam Pandey: "#NewPic Yet another Pic from #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey ... #Video is on its way but let me hear more about"
Poonam Pandey: "Tweethearts!! Before Sharing the #Video do u want one more pic from #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey but first let me hear!!!"
Poonam Pandey: "#NewPic but the #Video is on its way let me hear #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey will RT the best ones twitpic.com/8sezpd"
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/Popup/2012/3/poonam-pandey-holi2.jpg
She retweeted her followers:
She kept retweeting some of her fans for encouragement. How hard can one try to be famous!
Walii (@Wali_04): "@iPoonampandey: And now #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey is gonaa be?" Its gonna blow our minds away?"
Nitin Sharma (@nikss9): "@iPoonampandey #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey is gonaa be....another Tsunami aftr long time...wd lots hotness..."
Vikgnesh Sekar (@vikgnesh): "@iPoonampandey. #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey is gonna be another heartthrobbing head line. !!"
Jatin Dhorda (@jatstherebel): "@iPoonampandey #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey reminds me of 1 sng "Patli kamar..Chikna badan.. Tirchi najar hai! Masti bhari teri baali umar hai;)"
Chamwin (@Chamwin): "@iPoonampandey #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey is what my dad warned me to stay away from ... as he wanted to watch it!"
Shantanu Singh (@shan_reddevil): "#DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey @iPoonampandey is parental advisory .. Over excited ppl are advised not to view.. Hotness in the video mite kill u"
Vikrant Bhosale (@vikrantbhosale8): "@iPoonampandey Inteha ho gayi intezar ki... kab ayegi wo ghadi #dirtyplayofpoonampandey ki ...."
Rockstar (@RockingCool999): "@iPoonampandey: i dint wait this eagerly for my results also..come on poonam.#DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey we are ready to get dirty.!!"
Final countdown
Poonam Pandey: "so lets Start the Countdown for the Hottest #Video #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey ?"
Poonam Pandey: "TweetHearts!!! #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey and the #Countdown Begins 100"
Poonam Pandey: "WARNING 18 & under should not try looking up the Video. that said i do not take responsibility for anyone under age "
After a lot of wait, her fans were glad when she finally posted the video saying: "#NewVideo #DirtyPlayofPoonamPandey is here "HAPPY HOLI" Thanx to all the fans Worldwide for Loving me so much… Luv u all."
For Sale: Deserted French village, pool included
Courbefy, France: The village of Courbefy has rustic buildings with fireplaces and exposed beams, a horse stable, a tennis court and a swimming pool.
Sound nice? It's for sale.
The saga of the abandoned hamlet is a story of flight from rural France, bad economic times and real estate schemes gone awry. It's turned the mayor of the village next door into a minor celebrity whose office fields inquiries from places as far flung as Qatar and China.
The village in Limousin, about 280 miles (450 kilometers) southwest of Paris, was put on the block last week because its latest owners, who had run it as a luxury hotel and restaurant, had long stopped paying their mortgage.
The entire hamlet carried an asking price of just euro300,000 ($400,000) - about the cost of a studio apartment in Paris.
But nobody bid.
That meant the village fell into the hands of bank Credit Agricole, which holds the mortgage. The bank hopes to put it up for auction again, and this time the odds are more promising: Since word leaked out to the media that an authentic French village was up for sale, Courbefy has swarmed with potential buyers, joined by curious hangers-on.
This past Sunday more than 50 cars pulled onto the grass that serves as a parking lot just inside the gated entrance to Courbefy.
Among those who are considering the property: a band of former college friends who always promised to live in a commune together, a group of retirees looking for a place to settle down, people interested in setting up a center for the handicapped, others scouting locations for a film set and studio.
"It's a real media phenomenon, it's crazy," said Bernard Guilhem, mayor of Saint Nicolas Courbefy, just down the hill from Courbefy. "It's a big snowball that everyone wants to push."
Who wouldn't, after all, want to own a French village?
Well, Credit Agricole, for one.
The bank, eager to unload the property, gave suitors a Thursday deadline to express serious interest by leaving a deposit of euro330,000 ($440,000) - by law 10 percent higher than the original asking price. A new auction date will then be set.
Already more than 100 people have called Credit Agricole lawyer Paul Gerardin's office with queries.
They come from all over - every corner of France, England, Italy, Belgium, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. Gerardin's secretary has done nothing but field calls all day since the first story appeared in the national press last week.
Since then, Guilhem has also been overrun, variously serving as an amateur historian and real estate agent, showing potential buyers and journalists around. His photo appears in newspapers in Paris. His appointment book is filled. He has to turn his phone to silent when he gives his tours of Courbefy or risk being interrupted every 15 minutes.
Courbefy has gone through many incarnations in its long history.
The village goes back at least to Gallo-Roman times, when a road connecting Limoges and Bordeaux passed through, according to Guilhem.
It was the site of a chateau occupied by Jeanne d'Albret, mother of King Henry IV. Its surroundings are dotted with three so-called "miraculous springs" whose waters supposedly have healing powers.
Local lore has it that early in the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the residents of Limoges hired a mercenary to chase away the English who had settled at Courbefy.
One of the ironies of Courbefy's modern twist of fate? It could be the English who step in to save the town. Wealthy Britons in recent decades have flocked to this corner of France, mostly to the neighboring Dordogne region, where they've scooped up vacation homes and retirement properties.
The last couple to live in Courbefy left in the early 1970s, according to Rachel Mallefont, who grew up in Saint Nicolas Courbefy and went to school with kids who lived "en haut" - up there, as the residents of Saint Nicolas invariably call Courbefy.
It was not uncommon for villages to be abandoned in that era. In the 1970s, running water was brought to the last corners of France but many people ended up leaving villages where hooking up to the grid was too difficult and expensive, according to Francis Cahuzac, president of the French Commission for the Protection of Historic and Rural Heritage.
Other villages were abandoned as farming became industrialized and small plots like those in Courbefy didn't lend themselves to mechanization. Anywhere that manual trades predominated risked being emptied out, as children sought better education and easier lifestyles in big towns and cities.
Many of those hamlets have since been repopulated, often taken up by foreign buyers - especially English and German. But others still languish in obscurity.
Courbefy followed the former path for many years, passing through a series of hands - many foreign - becoming variously a summer camp for children, a property to rent for vacations and conferences, a luxury hotel and restaurant.
But folly seemed to lay at the end of every road.
Guilhem says the people who scooped up the village always seemed to be amateurs in their chosen field, running the place more on love than know-how.
Its latest incarnation began at the start of the last decade.
Sometime in 2008 or early 2009, the owners abandoned it, according to Guilhem, who says they may have been done in by an overly ambitious plan to renovate - a familiar story of property bought at peak prices whose owners are unable to keep up with interest payments once crisis hits.
Credit Agricole did not respond to several requests for comment. But Gerardin, the bank's lawyer, said the property was purchased in the early 2000s and that the owners stopped paying the loan a few years later.
On the several-acre property, there are more than a dozen buildings. The interiors have been largely picked over, with the wiring, tiles and light bulbs removed. But a hulking stainless steel stove from the restaurant's kitchen remains. The occasional toilet is spotted and the huge fireplaces and exposed wooden beams set even the most skeptical mind wondering what great parties or intimate dinners could be held there.
Guilhem hopes for something that produces a handful of jobs and breathes new life into the place.
Mallefont, from the neighboring town, also hopes for a new beginning - along with continued access. She and her husband, Robert, attend the mass that's held once a year in the village's 12th century chapel.
That will continue, they hope, since the chapel itself is excluded from the sale.
But they also want to be able to still visit the hamlet and wander its lanes.
"To see it abandoned, that hurts," said the 63-year-old Mallefont in her living room, as she pored over old photo albums and a scrapbook of cutouts about the area's history.
"The only thing (we hope for) is that it lives again."
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No fight with Bhatts over Sunny: RGV
By Hindustan Times
Wary of drawing filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt’s wrath, director Ram Gopal Varma has retracted from his reported statements against Bhatt on the issue of the latter forbidding porn star Sunny Leone from working in his film.
Varma, who had earlier said in an interview that Bhatt has bound Leone by a contract and is not letting her do an item number in his upcoming film, Department, now says, “I never gave such a statement.
I’ve been misquoted.” He also tweeted, calling the reports of him lashing out against Bhatt as “crap.”
Bhatt, in whose film Jism 2, Leone is playing the lead role, says, “I called up Ramu to check as I believe in transparency.He assured me that he never made any such remark.”
Varma was earlier quoted by a publication as saying, “I actually wanted Sunny Leone for the item song in Department... but she has a contract with Mahesh, Mukesh and Pooja Bhatt, so I was denied access to her.”
Dharam, the icon!
Kareena-Arjun on Heroine sets!
Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.'Salman's still my first choice!'
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, March. 6 -- Salman Khan was expected to produce he Hindi remake of Mahesh Manjrekar's acclaimed Marathi film Shikshanachya Aicha Gho (2010) under his banner Salman Khan Being Human.
Now, rumour has it that actor-producer Akshay Kumar has stepped in, and replaced the Bodyguard star as the film's producer at the original film's director-producer's behest. "I don't know where such 'news' comes from," retorts Mahesh. "Salman is my first choice to remake the film. I know he's really busy presently but I won't approach anyone else till he turns the project down. Salman was excited about the film but he is yet to revert to me. I'll wait for him to get free so we can speak at length."
Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho highlights loopholes in the education system in India. Last week, reports made the rounds that Mahesh had approached Akshay to remake the Hindi version since Salman has backto-back acting assignments Ek Tha Tiger, Dabangg 2 and Kick.
In the meantime, South baddie Prakash Raj released the Telugu version of the film, Dhoni. Mahesh, who teamed up with Salman in Wanted (2009), Dabangg (2010) and Ready (2011), says that a recent incident involving a 15-year-old student who fatally stabbed his teacher in Chennai has forced him to speed up the Marathi film's Hindi remake.
"A lot of questions have been raised about the kind of pressure a child goes through in school that provokes him to stab his teacher," says Mahesh. "The Hindi remake will touch on such issues. But I don't want to set a deadline that will mess up the content."
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