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Excerpt from Hindustan Times, reported on March 13, 2010: Read Full Article

Mankhurd police nabbed a 32-year-old man on Thursday night while he tried to escape after strangling his wife.
Milton Noor Gazi, was booked for murder. “Beat marshals and some locals spotted him near Mankhurd junction at around 11.30 pm, when he tried to escape in an autorickshaw,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dilip Sawant.
Priya alias Zarina Gazi (25), is survived by two children, a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. Milton, a farmer, lived with Priya in West Bengal, before she quarrelled with him, came to Mumbai, and began working in a Mankhurd bar.
Police said, at 11 pm, Milton entered the house where Priya lived with a waiter from the bar where she worked. “The couple fought for around 15 minutes, then there was silence,” said senior inspector Pascal D’souza, adding that the locals saw Milton running down the lane, holding Priya’s son.

Plot :

Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is the daughter of Charles Kingsleigh (Marton Csokas), a wealthy man who planned to find profitable shipping routes through the world in the 19th century. However, many years afterward, Charles has passed away, and Alice misses his playful attitude.

Now feeling trapped in a world of proper etiquette for one such as herself, Alice is taken to a garden party, where it is hoped that she will accept a marriage proposal from Hamish (Leo Bill), the son of one of her father’s business partners. However, Alice soon grows distracted seeing a rabbit with a waistcoat nearby, and rushes after the strange creature.

Following it, she finds her way to the trunk of an old tree some ways off, and falls down a hole. The hole leads her to a strange room, of which she finds a key, as well as a drink that makes her smaller, and a cake that increases her size. After getting the key and shrinking down to use a small door, she soon finds herself in an enormous garden area.

Soon after, she comes across the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), as well as the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), a Dodo bird (Michael Gough), and the Tweedles (Matt Lucas). The White Rabbit explains that is sure he has found the right Alice this time, while the Dormouse believes he is mistaken. Alice explains that her name is Alice, but feels they are looking for another “Alice.” They take her to Abosolom the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), who consults a scroll, which contains details regarding the history of Wonderland, from it’s birth onward. The scroll claims that on the Frabbulous Day, Alice will return to slay the Jabberwocky. Alice sees this, and adamants that she is not the person in the scroll, when a commotion breaks out, and the Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover) appears, along with some red-carded soldiers and a creature called a Bandersnatch. Everyone scatters, as the Knave takes the scroll, and captures the Dodo bird. Alice, when confronted with the Bandersnatch, stands her ground, convinced that it is just a dream. However, the creature scratches her, and Alice takes off running, but not before the Dormouse plucks out one of the creature’s eyes.

Some ways off, Alice encounters the Tweedles again, who attempt to help her, but are soon captured by a giant bird that takes them to the Red Queen’s castle. At the castle, the Knave of Hearts informs the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) about the scroll, and the prophecy of Alice killing the Jabberwocky (of which she possesses). The Red Queen orders Alice to be found, and the Knave utilizes a bloodhound named Bayard (Timothy Spall) to track her down, promising freedom for Bayard’s wife and pups (a lie, meant as a way to get the dog to help the Red Queen).

Meanwhile, Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), who leads her to the Mad Hatter’s place, where she encounters the Dormouse again, as well as the March Hare (Paul Whitehouse). The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) is pleased to see Alice, and is in rapture over the coming Frabbulous day in which she will slay the Jabberwocky. Alice again insists she is not ‘that Alice,’ when the Knave of Hearts and Bayard close in. The Hatter stuffs Alice into a teapot, to hide her from the Knave. In secret, the Dormouse scolds the dog for bringing the Knave there, but Bayard explains why he came. He then attempts to lead the Knave off in a different direction.

After they have left, the Hatter walks Alice through the nearby woods, where they come across the burned ruins of a small village. The Hatter then explains to Alice about how in the time she was gone, the Red Queen has taken over Wonderland, banishing the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) to her own domain, and taking her vorpal sword.

As they talk, the Knave again approaches, and the Hatter places Alice on his hat, and flings it across a river, giving himself up to the Knave, who takes him to the Red Queen. Later on, Bayard finds the hat and Alice. Alice manages to convince Bayard to take her to the Red Queen’s castle, to rescue the Hatter. Along with the hat, they find their way there, where Alice encounters the White Rabbit assisting with a game of croquet with the Red Queen. Alice requests to be made larger (she is still the size of a gerbil), and the rabbit gives her a cake. However, she eats too much and ends up almost 10 feet tall, disrupting the croquet game. The Queen does not recognize Alice, who says she is from Umbridge, and wishes to help the Queen. The Queen, impressed by the size of Alice’s head, declares her to be made part of her royal court, and gives her the name “Um.”

The Hatter is brought before the Queen and Alice, and is at first intended to be beheaded. However, the Hatter manages to stall for time, by requesting that he make the Queen a hat for her enormous head. Flattered by the attention, she gives into this request. Alice soon after finds out that the vorpal sword is on the grounds of the castle, but is locked away in a chest in the quarters of the Bandersnatch. After procuring the plucked eye from the Dormouse (who has broken into the castle to free the Hatter), Alice manages to return the eye to the creature. This allows her to gain access to the sword. Alice goes to the Hatter’s room, and finds the Dormouse there. However, the Knave of Hearts shows up shortly, and when the Dormouse lets slip Alice’s true name, he attempts to kill her. Alice manages to escape into the courtyard, where the Bandersnatch helps her escape from the castle. Bayard also accompanies her, as they head for the White Queen’s castle.

The Red Queen then orders that the Hatter and the Dormouse be executed the next day. However, the Cheshire Cat uses his trickery to take on the guise of the Hatter, and allows the Hatter, Dormouse, the White Rabbit, the Tweedles, and Bayard’s family to escape. They all soon meet up at the White Queen’s castle, where the Queen has used her potions knowledge to shrink Alice to normal size.

The next day then dawns…the Frabbulous day. Almost everyone is willing to take up arms for the White Queen. However, she hopes that Alice will fulfill the prophecy, but Alice rushes off to the Queen’s garden, still upset over everyone pushing her into this task. It is there she encounters Absolom, cocooning himself. It is here that Absolom explains to Alice how she had been to Wonderland before, and suddenly, it all comes back to her, that what she thought originally was a dream was real. After her revelation, Alice dons the armor prepared for her by the White Queen, and takes up the vorpal sword.

Both the White Queen and the Red Queen meet on a checkerboard field. Both Queens meet first, with the White Queen asking her sister to not do battle, but the Red Queen refuses to give into the pacification of her sister’s plea. The White Queen brings forth Alice as their ‘champion,’ as the Red Queen’ summons the Jabberwocky. As Alice faces off with the creature, the rest of the armies go to war. Alice plays a mindgame with herself, talking of 6 incredible things. In her mindgame, she manages to find the strength to slay the Jabberwocky. The Red Queen demands that her subjects kill Alice, but as the White Queen’s champion has slayed that of the Red Queen, the Red Queen’s subjects will no longer follow her commands.

The White Queen orders the Red Queen banished to the Outlands, for the crimes that she has committed (due to a the White Queen’s vow not to harm a living creature, she will not kill her sister), with noone to offer her sympathy. The Knave of Hearts is also chained to her, as punishment as well. However, the thought of being alone with the Queen causes him to try to kill her, before his dagger is taken from him by the Hatter.

After the Red Queen and the Knave are taken away, the White Queen’s army rejoices, with the Hatter doing a Fudderwupping dance, much to the delight of everyone. The White Queen then collects some of the Jabberwocky’s blood, and gives it to Alice. The blood of the Jabberwocky allows Alice to return to her world, and she returns to the Garden Party.

Alice then explains to Hamish that she cannot accept his proposal, as well as speaks her mind to a number of different relatives and acquaintances. Her forthright attitude catches the eye of Hamish’s father, and soon, the two discuss plans to expand the shipping routes to China, a land that has not yet been opened to the west.

Alice is then made an apprentice to the company, and sets off with a crew to open the shipping route to China, aboard a ship titled “Wonder.”

Release Date:  12 March 2010 (India)

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Plot:
SWAHA is a low budget film based on the eradication of superstition in our country. Preveen Bhardwaj, the filmmaker of this film wants to expose the misdeeds of some fake babas in our country. He will tell people through his film that such babas are cheaters in the disguise of God’s messenger (doot).

99 % people in our country are superstitious and believe such babas and saints words with blind eyes. These innocent people consider the orders of such saints, equal to the order of god. Hence they do whatever they are told to do.

We have seen many films in the past exposing the alleged saints. But hardly anytime any filmmaker admitted that his film was based on real life of someone. But filmmaker of SWAHA openly admits that his film has been made to expose evil saints. The truth can be found out only after the release of the film.

SWAHA is a story about a man/saint Shree Asanandji Gurudev, whom people consider as the messenger of God. They believe his words blindly and get ready to obey his orders.

This saint has established many ashrams all over the country in the name of Shree Asanandji itself. His has millions of followers from all corners of the country. His followers are not only common people but renowned actors, film stars, ministers, politician, industrialists, builders etc. This saint has engraved in their minds that whatever they have got are due to the saints blessing.

Jayant Oberoi is a businessman who follows Shree Asanandji’s instruction blindly. He even forces his family members to do according to that. Everyone in Oberoi family follow Shree Asanandji’s instructions; either happily or reluctantly but Oberoi’s son Raj doesn’t have faith in all these. He doesn’t like Shree Asanandji’s instructions and eventually doesn’t follow them.

The story takes a turn when Oberoi purchases a bungalow and gives the credit to Shree Asanandji, that due to his blessings he could purchase that bungalow. Oberoi thinks that if Shree Asanandji would visit his bungalow, his status would be raised high in the society and others would get impressed. So he invites his Gurdev to visit his bungalow.

But after Shree Asanandji’s visit, strange incidents keep taking place, reasons unknown to all except Shree Asanandji. Oberoi seeks his help as solution. What kind of problems they are facing? Does Asanandji find solutions to their problems? What would Raj do? Is he going to believe Shree Asanandji?

There is thrill and suspense and when the secret is revealed; some characters over there would really get shocked.

This film is being produced under the banner Bluesky Entertainment and its director is Manoj Sharma. Its lyricist as well as music director is Praveen Bhardwaj. Some of its casts are Rikee, Svitlana, Ishrat Ali, Sushil Parashar, Shekhar Shukla, Tarun Shukla, Rajesh Vivek, Jiten Mukhi etc.
Release Date : Mar 12,2010

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Cast & Crew :
Banner : Bluesky Entertainment
Director : Manoj Sharma
Cast : Rikkee, Svitlana, Ishrat Ali, Shekhar Shukla, Rajesh Vivek, Sushil Parashar, Tarun Shukla, Jiten Mukhi

Music Director : Praveen Bharadwaj
Lyricist : Praveen Bharadwaj
Cinematography : Ravikant Reddy
Story Writer : Manoj Sharma, Praveen Bharadwaj
Action Director : Mehmood Bakshi
Art Director : Kartik Vidhate

Plot:
Rajesh Parekh, a simple Gujarati boy who’s been looking for love since he was a baby. Thoroughly unsuccessful in his endeavors, he nearly gives up till he meets Natasha, the girl of his dreams. Desh is the youngest superstar in the country. Mothers want to adopt him and their daughters want to marry him. But when will he find the girl of his dreams? All of their worlds turn upside down when Tara an alien from Venus, lands on Earth in the search of true love.

Release Date : Apr 09,2010

Cast & Crew

Banner : People Tree
Presenter : Warner Bros. Pictures
Producer : Mukesh Talreja, Nikhil Advani
Executive Producer : Zoeb Springwala
Director : Milap Zaveri

Cast : Riteish Deshmukh, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Jacqueline Fernandez, Vishal Malhotra, Sonal Seghal, Farah Khan
Satish Shah, Supriya Pilgaonkar

Music Director : Sajid-wajid
Lyricist : Sameer
Cinematography : Attar Singh Saini
Story Writer : Milap Zaveri
Dialogue Writer : Milap Zaveri
Editor : Manan Sagar
Action Director : Gurubachan Singh
Art Director : Sukant Panigrahy
Sound Designer : Jagmohan Anand
Publicity Designer : Sucharita Sengupta, Glamour Design Studio

Release Date : Mar 12,2010

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Excerpt from DNA, reported by Pandurang Mhaske on March 10, 2010: Read Full Article

Closure of the Deonar dumping ground is turning out to be tougher than the BMC thought as workers involved are being heckled, threatened and even beaten up by anti-social elements at the site. Adding insult to injury is the refusal by the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) to provide jawans to patrol the ground.

The civic body had started a scientific closure of the grounds a couple of months ago. It had appointed Tatva Global Environment Ltd to carry out the work of partial closure and maintenance of the dump on a design-build-own-operate-transfer (DBOOT) model. The project is expected to take two years.

But work is being hindered by antisocial elements and rag-pickers. Recently, civic officials and an engineer were assaulted by goons

As reported in TOI by S Ahmed Ali, on  Mar 10, 2010

Hasmukh Solanki, the third shooter and the fourth accused in the killing of advocate Shahid Azmi, was picked up by the crime branch unit 6 from Nehru Nagar in Kurla (E) on Tuesday.

The police also recovered a revolver from Solanki, who has two previous cases of murder against him.

Solanki, along with Devendra Jagtap alias JD and Pinto Devram Dagle, had shot Azmi on February 11.

The Chembur police are waiting to take the custody of JD and Solanki as the duo had killed social activist Sunil Mane in a case of mistaken identity in 2008.

Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Management Studies and Research hold Congruence ’10; its annual Management event on 27th February 2010. This year, Congruence focused on Marketing in changing times and the event is envisioned to be a Marathon of Marketing.

Renowned Marketing professionals from accorss industries shared their years of invaluable knowledge with the Management students from Mumbai and nearby areas. They spoke on the current developments and trends in the field of Marketing and how these trends will influence the future.

The topics range from Branding to IT Marketing and from Rural Marketing to Public Relations. Some of the noted speakers include names such as Brand Guru Jagdeep Kapoor, Chairman, Samsika Marketing Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Abhinav Kakade, Sr. Director (NPD & International), Neoacceal, Rajesh Agrawal , Head-Steel trading, Cargill, T K Cherian , Global SME Head, TCS and Veena Gidwani , CEO, Madison Public Relations.

Congruence has always focused on enabling academic and industry interface. With this purpose in mind, Congruence sparks panel discussions, debates and student interaction. Marketing Marathon 2010 brought together management students, academicians and industry professionals with a view to enrich them both.

Article provided by Vineeth Kannoth

Excerpt from DNA, reported by Divyesh Singh on March 9, 2010: Read Full Article

Residents of Alidada Estate in Shramik Nagar, Kurla, are scared to send their children to school after a nine-year-old girl from the locality was found raped and murdered on the terrace of a police colony building, about a kilometre away, on Sunday.

The entire area wore a deserted look on Monday as most of the children stayed indoors. Rashmi (not her real name) had gone out to play after returning from her tuition classes on Saturday when she went missing. “We did not allow our children to go out of the house to play,” a resident said. “We do not want any such thing to happen to them. Though children cannot understand what has actually happened, they can sense something is wrong.”

Nearly two weeks ago, Coro, an NGO working in Shivaji Nagar, Bainganwadi, and Govandi, had protested in front of the deputy commissioner’s office in Chembur against the failure of the police to stop rapes. A member of the NGO said that at least eight minors from the area had been raped in the past two-and-a-half months.

Excerpt from DNA, reported by Dayanand Kamath on March 7, 2010: Read Full Article

The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai conducted raids at five places in the last four days and recovered 30gms of cocaine, 79kgs charas and 900kgs ganja, collectively valued at Rs91.38 lakh. Nineteen drug peddlers, including three Nigerians, have been arrested. The ANC also seized a tempo, and two cars.

Addressing a press conference on Saturday, police commissioner D Sivanandan said, “With the arrest of 19 persons, the ANC have busted three outstation gangs who brought narcotic drugs into Mumbai and sold them.”

The narcotic drugs were sent to Mumbai from Orissa and Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). Sivanandan added that they will soon co-ordinate with the J&K and Orissa police to nab the culprits who were involved in sending large consignments to Mumbai. Acting on the information, the ANC officers of the Bandra unit laid a trap at Vakola bridge, Santacruz (E) on March 4 and nabbed a Nigerian national, Jems Fanck, 30, and seized 24gms of cocaine valued at Rs96,000 concealed in his trousers. Fanck resided at Mira Road.
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In the third seize, the ANC officials received information that Dhannu alias Raju from Orissa would send narcotic drugs to Mumbai. Accordingly, ANC officials laid a trap at Mankhurd and intercepted a tempo and seized 900kgs ganja valued at Rs27 lakh concealed in the gunny bags. Five people from Andhra Pradesh were arrested. Amongst the arrested, one was held by the AP police two years ago for possession of ganja and convicted for six months. Another was arrested by the Nagpur police for possession of 220kgs ganja two years ago and was currently on bail, said DCP (ANC) Sunil Paraskar.