Rajkummar’s ‘Made in China’ to release a day before his B’day

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December 26, 2018

“Made in China”, starring Rajkummar Rao and Mouni Roy, will hit the screens a day before the “Stree” actor celebrates his birthday on August 31, 2019. It will now release on August 30, 2019 instead of August 15.

The reason is still not known but interestingly, this year’s hit film “Stree”, starring Rajkummar, also released around the same time (August 31, 2018), a statement on Wednesday said.

“Made in China” will be directed by Mikhil Musale and produced by Dinesh Vijan under the banner of Maddock Films.

The film will feature Rajkummar as a struggling Gujarati businessman. Mouni will play his feisty wife.

It will mark the Bollywood debut of Gujarati director Mikhil Musale, whose 2016 thriller-drama “Wrong Side Raju” bagged the National Award for Best Feature Film in Gujarati.

Sushant has his fanboy moment with ‘Dada’

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December 26, 2018

Sushant Singh Rajput can’t keep calm after getting clicked with Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly, and his latest picture is proof.

The actor, who is loved by millions, looks all happy and elated in his latest Instagram post posing with Ganguly.

“I couldn’t hold my excitement at all and get one expression right clicking pictures with dada, so excuse me for that :)) What a man, One Of the greatest ever #ourdada #souravganguly,” he wrote alongside the photo.

The picture features Sushant, who can be seen all smiles standing next to the 46-year-old cricketer and going by his expressions in the photo he surely had a fanboy moment!

Interestingly, the 32-year-old actor’s love for cricket is quite old as he also starred in legendary cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s biopic titled ‘M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story’ in the titular role.

On the work front, Sushant has four movies in his kitty including ‘Drive’ opposite Jacqueline Fernandez, multi starrer ‘Sonchiriya’, ‘Kizie Aur Manny’ and ‘Chhichhore’.

Siddharth wants to remake ‘Andhadhun’, Ayushmann says ‘go for it’

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December 26, 2018

South actor Siddharth on Wednesday said he is keen for a remake of “Andhadhun”, which has been dubbed as 2018’s best Hindi film by critics, and the original film’s star Ayushmann Khurrana is up for the idea.

The 39-year-old actor, best known in Bollywood for his stint in “Rang De Basanti” and “Chashme Baddoor”, asked his fans if they would like a reimagining of the Sriram Raghavan-directed thriller.

“Quick vote – since it’s on the table already, how many of you want to see me remake this lovely film? I’m very serious #Andhadhun @ayushmannk #sriramraghavan #Classic,” Siddharth tweeted.

To which Ayushmann gave a nod, replying, “Go for it machaan (friend)!”

“Andhadhun”, an edge-of-the-seat thriller about a blind pianist, has also topped IMDb charts as the best Indian movie of this year.

Also starring Tabu and Radhika Apte, the film released on October 5.

Boxing Day Test: Top order steers India to 215/2 at end of Day 1

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December 26, 2018

Electing to bat, India ended day one of the third Test against Australia at 215 for two at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), here Wednesday.

India lost openers Hanuma Vihari (8) and Debutant Mayank Agarwal (76) before skipper Virat Kohli (47) and Adelaide Test hero Cheteshwar Pujara (68) stitched an unbeaten 92-run stand for the third wicket.

Paceman Pat Cummins took both the wickets for the hosts.

Brief Scores:

India 1st innings: 215 for 2 in 89 overs. (M Agarwal 76, C Pujara 68 batting, V Kohli 47 batting; Pat Cummins 2/40).

Chiragh, Chadha off to fine starts in Asian Tour Q-School

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December 26, 2018

Indian players got off to a fine start in the Asian Tour Qualifying School Final Stage with no less than four Indians featuring in Top-20 of the first round.

A total of 17 Indians are in the fray among the 242 players who are fighting for 35 cards this week at the two courses at Lakeview Resorts and Golf Club.

Former Asian Tour winner, Chiragh Kumar, returning to the Q-School after failing to hold onto his card, turned in a superb six-under 65 that placed him tied 8th but just one shot behind the seven players, who shared the lead at seven-under 64.

The 19-year-old Thai-Japanese Kosuke Hamamoto, compatriot Kwanchai Tannin, China’s Xiao Bowen, Sweden’s Christoffer Baumann, Koreans Taewoo Kim and Jaewoong Eom and Japan’s Daisuke Yasumoto shared the lead.

After Chiragh, a team silver medallist from 2006 Asian Games, the next best Indian was the 2010 Asian Games team silver medal winner, Abhijit Chadha (66) in tied 12th place while Aadil Bedi, who played at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Karandeep Kochhar carded four-under 67 and were tied 20th.

Other Indians include Amardip Malik and Arjun Prasad (68) were tied 31st, while Aman Raj, Gaurav Pratap Singh and Veer Ahlawat shot 69 to be tied 50th.

Sunit Chawrasia, nephew of the famous SSP Chawrasia, shot one-under 70, as did Samarth Dwivedi, to be tied 67.

Shankar Das and seasoned Amandeep Singh Johl carded two-over 73 to be tied-162nd, Divyanshu Bajaj (74) was tied 188, Tapy Ghai, Manu Gandas and Kshitij Naveed Kaul shot 75 each to be tied 203rd.

The first cut will be applied after second round as top 140 players and ties will make the third round. A second cut will see leading 70 players after 72 holes to play the final 18 holes after which Top-35 and ties will be ranked for the 2019 season.

‘Disappointed to miss Kohli’s wicket’

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December 26, 2018

Australia were disappointed to miss out on the prized wicket of Virat Kohli on a tough opening day of the third Test, said Travis Head, stressing on the need to make the still-hard Kookaburra ball count in the second morning.

Kohli was dropped on 47 by Australian skipper Tim Paine during Mitchell Starc’s brilliant over towards the end of the innings.

“… the best over today was from Starc. Beating Kohli inside and outside, that new ball hopefully can come out and do that tomorrow again. It was disappointing to leave that chance but it happens,” Head said on Wednesday.

Australian bowlers had to toil hard as India finished at 215-2 with Kohli (47) and Cheteshwar Pujara (68) remaining unbeaten at stumps, following Mayank Agarwal’s 161-ball 76 on debut early in the day.

“We would have liked to have 4-5 wickets tonight, but it is a massive morning and if we can still get them down two wickets in the morning, it will be good while the ball is still reasonably hard and a couple left handers coming later on,” he said.

“Hopefully as the game goes on we will get more spin, but we have been able to restrict a lot of runs today even though we didn’t get the wickets we would have liked. It makes for an exciting morning and momentum can change.”

Head said that the bowling unit did well to restrict the flow of runs on a grinding day and hoped they can continue in the same vein on Thursday.

“Yeah it was a tough day. A grinding day of Test cricket and they batted well. We created pressure and we have seen for the whole series there hasn’t been high run rate for the day,” said Head.

“Sometimes that’s Test cricket. It is not always going to be clear sailing and good wickets, and today was a case when we had to grind it out.

“It makes for another massive morning tomorrow to create pressure and make sure we bowl tomorrow the day we did today. I thought we restricted India in trying conditions,” he added.

Head also lauded Pat Cummins for his two-wicket haul on the opening day.

“Cummins led from the front and got two wickets for us. He bowled hard and aggressive, used his bouncer well, and extracted something from the wicket. And he put pressure on Indian batsmen all day,” he said.

The pitch at MCG came under scrutiny once again for a lack of general aid to the bowlers and Head said they need to wait and watch how it goes through the next four days.

“I thought it would offer a little bit more than it did in the first couple hours. We thought it would offer more life leading into it. If you hit the wicket the pacers were able to get some pace off it but in other parts they weren’t able to,” he said.

AFC Asian Cup: India to play Oman behind closed doors

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December 26, 2018

A day prior to playing Oman in a football friendly match scheduled at the Baniyas Stadium on Thursday, coach Stephen Constantine stressed “India haven’t come here expecting to play easy games.”

The match is part of India’s preparations for the forthcoming AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019. Both the coaches have decided on playing behind closed doors, which means there won’t be any telecast of the match.

India begin their campaign in the Asian Cup against Thailand on January 6.

Commenting on the match against Oman, Constantine stated: “It’s going to be extremely hard. We have come here to play the big boys of Asia. We played against the likes of Jordan, China. We need to play these sort of games to prepare in the best possible fashion.”

Oman are currently ranked 82 as per the December FIFA Rankings, whereas India are at 97. India last played Oman in the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 qualifiers twice, with Oman winning on both occasions.

“We were very unlucky to lose the first leg in Bengaluru,” Constantine reflected. “That was our first group stage game in the qualifiers. But we are a much improved side now and much younger.”

Central midfielder Pronay Halder, who wasn’t part of the squad in the first-leg in Bengaluru, complemented his coach saying “we are a much matured side now.”

India have been the first team to land here for the Asian Cup.

ESIC hospital cut payout for infant girl

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December 26, 2018

Parents of a week-old twin girl who died four days after a blaze ravaged state-run ESIC hospital here last week alleged on Wednesday the authorities slashed the Rs 10 lakh compensation payable to them to Rs 2 lakh, saying “the premature baby was anyway going to die naturally”.

A hospital official said they had issued two cheques each of Rs 2 lakh as payout, apparently for the deceased girl and her infant brother who was also injured in the incident.

The fire occurred on December 17 in the ESIC hospital located at Marol in suburban Andheri in which 11 people died.

Union Labour Ministry had announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the next of the kin of the deceased and Rs 2 lakh to each of the seriously injured persons. About 175 people were injured in the blaze.

Lalita Logavi, the mother of the deceased girl, alleged the hospital authorities denied them full compensation of Rs 10 lakh, saying “the premature baby was anyway going to die naturally”.

Lalita had delivered twins, a boy and a girl, three days before the fire mishap.

Her son is doing fine, she said.

Lalita claimed her daughter, whom the couple had not even named, might have died while being shifted to Holy Spirit Hospital when the blaze swept through the ESIC Hospital on Monday.

“She was taken away from the ventilator support in the ESIC Hospital during fire and was being shifted to the Holy Spirit hospital. She might have died because of interruption in ventilatory support coupled with smoke inhalation”, she said.

The baby girl died in Holy Spirit hospital four days after admission.

“ESIC hospital authorities said that chances of survival of my daughter were very less as she was a premature baby. They said she was going to die naturally (and) not due to burn injuries”, Lalita told PTI while fighting back her tears.

Any monetary compensation is not going to bring back my daughter, but refusing us the full compensation is like rubbing salt on our wounds, Lalita said, adding that she and her husband would fight against this “injustice”.

Meanwhile, a hospital official said they had issued two cheques of Rs 2 lakh each to the Logavis.

This effectively means that the hospital authorities are counting the deceased girl as a seriously injured victim of the fire. Another cheque is meant for her infant brother.

ESIC Additional Commissioner S K Sinha did not respond to the calls and message.

Lalita said that she would not realise the cheque given in the name of her daughter.

“We will honour the cheque of Rs two lakh issued in the name of my son, but not the other cheque”, she said.

Meanwhile, North East Mumbai MP Kirit Somaiya claimed that the ESIC has agreed to issue the balance compensation at the earliest.

“As a chairman of a parliament committee in Labour Ministry which controls ESIC, I took up this issue and spoke with the officials concerned. ESIC has agreed to issue the balance compensation at the earliest,” he told PTI after meeting the parents of the deceased girl.

“We are sad about the ESIC hospital Mumbai fire incident & the death of new born baby girl due to fire in ESIC hospital. I discussed issue of compensation with Minister and officials of ESIC. They are releasing the balance of Rs.8 lakh immediately to victim’s family,” Somaiya tweeted.

Prosecutor assaults judge outside courtroom in Nagpur

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December 26, 2018

A sessions court judge was allegedly assaulted by an assistant prosecutor in a court premises here in Maharashtra on Wednesday, a police official said.

The incident took place around noon outside a lift on the seventh floor of the district sessions court, he said.

Senior civil judge K R Deshpande alleged that assistant public prosecutor D M Parate slapped him outside the courtroom, Sadar police station in-charge Sunil Bonde told reporters, quoting the judge’s complaint.

The accused was apparently miffed over a decision taken by the judge in a case, he said.

An investigation was on into the incident, police said, adding that no arrest was made so far.

When contacted, district government pleader Nitin Telgote condemned the incident.

“He (the accused) should not have done this. If he had any grievances, he should have taken it up in a proper manner…the society does not expect this from lawyers,” Telgote told agencies.

Sena takes swipe at PM for power like oxygen remarks

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December 26, 2018

The Shiv Sena on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his power like oxygen remarks, saying those who failed to get “achhe din” are now feeling disgusted at the thought of sitting in the opposition and thieves were being “purified” to ensure the supply of oxygen.

It also said that the government’s move to snoop on computers and mobile phones was not a sign of a real democracy but its “restlessness” to stay in power.

In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, the Sena said today Lord Rama in Ayodhya and BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani in politics are in exile while others are reaping fruits of the “oxygen of power”.

“Sending somebody in exile forcefully is the (current) politics for power,” said the party, which is an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Maharashtra.

Taking a jibe at the opposition, Modi had said on Monday that power is like oxygen for “some people” with restlessness setting in if they are out of it for even “two or five years”.

Further slamming the BJP, the Marathi daily said that those who could not bring ‘achhe din’ (good days) despite being in power now fear the Opposition. They get a feeling of disgust if they have to sit in the Opposition.