Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan celebrating flop Raavan

Though Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan starrer Raavan did poorly at the box office it did not affect their romantic relationship. They are still the most beloved couple in Bollywood.

Aishwarya and Abhishek posed for the July issue of famous Vogue magazine and the cover has become an instant hit among Aishwarya Rai fans.

It is a norm all over the world that after marriage, wife takes up husband’s name but there are exceptions one such is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Aishwarya is very much well known as Aishwarya Rai. Though she is married to Abhishek Bachchan, most of the time she is addressed as Aishwarya Rai and when some one addressed her as Mrs. Bachchan it became very special to her and her husband.

After a hectic shooting schedule, “Aishwarya Rai Bachchan” and Abhishek Bachchan went on their honeymoon to Bora Bora. This is their second honeymoon and they were looking forward to it very much for they just finished a hectic shooting schedule and both are very tired and looking forward to spend some quality time together.

In the plane, the airhostess addressed Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as “Mrs. Bachchan.” This is something that is very new to the couple because nobody addresses Aishwarya Rai as Mrs. Bachchan.

For the first time in their three years of marriage, Aishwarya Rai heard someone addressing her as Mrs. Bachchan and they both enjoyed it so much and started to laugh about it.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan pays a surprise visit to Abhishek Bachchan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan are one of the most popular real-life couples in Bollywood and both of them remain busy most of the time for shooting movies. This is why, the couple does not get much time to spend together.

Recently, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan went to Paris for the French Open and she missed her husband very much. So, as soon as she returned to Mumbai, instead of heading home, she straightly went to the venue where Abhishek Bachchan was doing a press interview.

The media as well as Abhishek Bachchan were quite surprised at the visit of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because Aishwarya Rai Bachchan does not accompany Abhishek Bachchan in his work.

Recently, Aishwarya Rai made an exception by spending a short time with Abhishek Bachchan in Greece where the actor was shooting for his upcoming movie, Game.

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer Raavan will hit the theatres on June 18, 2010. This is the sixth movie of the couple after Dhai Aksha Prem Ke, Kuch Naa Kaho, Sarkar Raj, Guru, and Dhoom2.

Raavan is directed by famous director Mani Ratnam, who previously directed Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Guru. The movie will be released in both Tamil and Hindi version. The movie also stars Vikram Kennedy.

Aishwarya Rai Bacchan played the role Aishwarya Rai as Ragini Sharma (Seeta) who is married to Dev Pratap Sharma (Ram), a police officer. Fans of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan are eagerly waiting for the movie.

Dhoom 3 Script is being Written

After the raving success of Dhoom and Dhoom 2, Dhoom 3 now seems to be in the making. The script of the next sequel of Dhoom series is now being written. Abhishek Bachchan, who starred in both of the previous two movies, recently revealed the news that Yash Raj Films is now preparing for the Dhoom 3 project.

The script of Dhoom, which was released in 2004, was written by Vijay Krishna Acharya, while its sequel was penned jointly by Vijay Krishna Acharya and Aditya Chopra.

Recently, Abhishek Bachchan met Uday Chopra to talk about the next sequel and he later said Dhoom 3 would do better. The movie is expected to hit the screen in 2012.

Both Abhishek and Uday were in two key roles of the previous two movies and it is pretty much certain both of them will be in Dhoom 3 too. Like the previous two films, Dhoom 3 would most probably be directed by Sanjay Gadhvi.

Both the movies are based on a story where a cop along with his assistant chases an intelligent thief who masterminds some breathtaking thefts.

In Dhoom, John Abraham played the role of the thief, while Dhoom 2 had Hrithik Roshan in the same role. However, it is not yet revealed who is going to be in the role of the thief in Dhoom 3.

Deepika Padukone: A Freedom Fighter in Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey

Bollywood actress, Deepika Padukone, would be seen in a new look in Ashutosh Gowariker’s next film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. The actress plays the role of Kalpana Datta, a Bengali freedom fighter, who fights against the British for the independence of India.

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey is based on a book titled ‘Do and Die: The Chittagong Uprising 1930- 34’ by Manini Chatterjee. Set in Chittagong, a port city of the current-day Bangladesh, the movie also stars Abhishek Bachchan opposite Deepika Padukone. Abhishek Bachchan will play the role of Surya Sen.

Surya Sen is one of the most prominent figures in the history of anti-British movement in India. Kalpana Dutta was one of the assistants of Surya Sen in the armed resistance. She took part in the famous “Chittagong Armory Raid” on April 18, 1930.

To portray the role of a Bengali woman, Deepika Padukone had to wear traditional sari. Initially, the actress faced problems doing her action sequences wearing saris. Noted designer, Neeta Lulla, designed the dress to give Deepika a Bengali look.

Deepika Padukone, who shot to fame with her debut movie, Om Shanti Om, opposite Shah Rukh Khan, has appeared in many glamorous roles so far, but this time the 24-year-old is going to play a non-glamorous role in the movie.

Director, Ashutosh Gowariker, is well-known for his periodical films. He directed hit periodical movies like Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India and Jodhaa Akbar. Gowariker decided to rope in Deepika for the role because of her sporting background. Before coming to acting, Deepika was a state level badminton player.

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan remained inseparable during the shooting of Raavan

During the shooting of Raavan Hindi movie, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai always stayed together even when they were shooting at the dense forest.

Raavan Hindi movie is the upcoming movie of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan. A major portion of the movie was set in jungle. The jungle shooting lasted for two hundred days and it was very grueling especially for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for she had to shoot both in Tamil and Hindi version.

In Hindi version, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan play the lead roles while South Indian actor, Vikram, played the villain. In Tamil version, Vikram and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan played the lead role.

The shooting was very grueling but even after all the hard work, Abhishek Bachchan always stayed with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

While talking about her experience of shooting the movie, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan said, “You're drenched from six in the morning till seven in the evening; the day starts with a trek, going to locations and then you muddy yourself, dirty yourself, get into costume. It's just a very demanding, consuming experience from moment to moment.”

Call it love or insecurity, Abhishek Bachchan made sure that Aishwarya Rai does not dine or spend time with Vikram.

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan got married in 2007. Recently, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attended the Cannes Film Festival where she also promoted Raavan Hindi movie. Both the Tamil and Hindi version of the movie will be released in June.

Ravana songs free download

Ravana music was released on April 24, 2010. Ravana songs free download is now available on Internet. The movie is directed by Mani Ratnam and will release on June 18, 2010. The album was launched on T-Series in India and in the International market. Ravan music is composed by A R Rahman and lyrics is written by Gulzar. The album contains six songs:

1.Beera Beera

Singer: Vijay Prakash, Mustafa Kutoane

Length: 3:15

2. Behene De

Singer: Karthik,Mohammed Irfan

Length: 6:04

3. Thok De Killi

Singer: Sukhwinder Singh, Am'Nico

Length: 4:58

4. Ranjha Ranjha

Singer: Rekha Bhardwaj, Javed Ali

Length: 5:54

5. Khilli Re

Singer: Reena Bhardwaj

Length: 4:11

6. Kata Kata

Singer: Ila Arun, Sapna Awasthi, Kunal Ganjawala

Length: 5:11

To download the visit the following link:

The same songs had been used in the Tamil version. A R Rahman is one of the most successful music composers of India. Prior to the release of the album, many fake songs claimed to be from the movie, Ravan was spread on Internet. The audio release was originally scheduled to be released in March but as the release date of the movie had been changed the audio release was changed to April. On April 21, 2010, the tracklist was officially published. On the eve of audio release a surprising track titled Jaar Re Ud Ja Re was performed by A.R. Rahman. This title will be included in the Tamil version of the music album. The song Kata Kata Bechara Bakra

was shot with 1000 dancers in Orchha, Madhya Pradesh. A large set was built in Orchha to shoot the song. The shooting went on for fourdays. The song was choreographed by Ganesh Acharya.

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai celebrate third marriage anniversary

Bollywood super couple, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, is going to celebrate their third marriage anniversary in the U.S. Son of Bollywood megastar, Abhishek Bachchan, was the most eligible bachelor in Bollywood and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is one of the most beautiful women in the world. The couple announced their engagement on January 14, 2007 and got married on April 20, 2007. Their marriage ceremony was one of the most publicized events of that year. Although it was a private gathering, Indian media covered every moment of the wedding. No other wedding ceremony received so much publicity in the media.

A source close to the couple said that they are going to the U.S to celebrate their anniversary. In his blog, Amitabh Bachchan wrote that the couple was taking a flight to New York. They would return right before the music release of Raavan movie. The music of Raavan movie will be released on April 24, 2010. Abhishek latest Twitter message goes like this

“...It' s Houdini time again. Have managed to abduct the wife. See you all soon."

Abhishek and Aishwarya have been very busy with their schedules. They have been planning for this holiday for a long time. While shooting for Raavan movie in Kochi, the couple had a two week vacation at a resort near Athirapally waterfalls. During their first marriage anniversary, Abhishek was busy shooting for Dostana but Aishwarya Rai joined him over there.

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Idea Cellular Ltd: The GSM operator of Aditya Birla Group

Founded in 1995, IDEA Cellular is currently one of the leading GSM mobile service providers in India. IDEA Cellular became a public limited company in March 2007 by being listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). With a subscriber base of more than 40 million in 15 different service areas, IDEA Cellular is one of the top pan-Indian mobile phone operators. It has one of the most consumer friendly and competitive pre-paid services. The company is also famous for starting many new trends in the Indian mobile phone Industry. IDEA Cellular was the first mobile operator in India to introduce trariff plans. It is also the first mobile phone operator in India to launch GPRS and EDGE.

Before getting further into talking about IDEA Cellular, it is important to talk a little bit about Aditya Birla Group, the owners of IDEA Cellular. The Aditya Birla Group is one of the leading business houses in India. It has business in 25 countries with an employee of more than 100,000. Aditya Birla Group is engaged into wide ranges of business including: financial services, telecom, software, BPO, retail, viscose staple fibre, aluminium, cement, copper, carbon black, insulators, and garments sectors.

Name: IDEA Cellular

Brand vision: To be the most customer-focused mobile service brand, continuously innovating to help liberate our customers from the shackles of time & space.

Brand values: Innovate. Stimulate. Liberate ….

Mission: “We will Delight our Customers while meeting their individual communication needs anytime anywhere.” We survive because of our customers.

Chairman: Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla

Partners:

On Mobile Asia Pacific Ltd.

Cellebrum India Ltd.

Siddhivinayak Astro Services Ltd.

Kodiak Ltd

Mauj

Net4nuts India Ltd

Yahoo India

Rediff

India Times

Mobile2win

Sify

NDTV

Roamware.inc

Starhome

Bharti Telesoft

Lowe India Pvt Ltd

Lintas Media Group

AdFactors PR

Nokia - Siemens

Ericsson

Atos Origin

Operating circles:

• The entire Indian region is divided into 22 (in some places it is mentioned 23) circles that are divided into three categories based on their economic potential: A,B and C.
• Currently, IDEA Cellular exploits more than 60% of India’s telephony potential. It operates in some of the top Indian circles. These are: Andhra Pradesh & Delhi (inclusive of NCR), Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgarh, Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (W), and Uttar Pradesh (E).

• The 13 circles where IDEA Cellular operates are further categorized into established and new service areas.

• Established services areas include: The established service areas are Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra, Haryana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (West).

• New Service areas include: Uttar Pradesh (East), Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Mumbai, Karnataka and Punjab.

• IDEA Cellular is also going to expand its business in Orissa and Tamil Nadu region which will become the company’s first stepping stone towards becoming a pan Indian mobile operator.

Background:

IDEA Cellular was created in 1995. Initially, it was named Birla Communications Ltd. and it obtained licenses to provide GSM based services in the Gujarat and Maharastra circle. The next year, it was changed to Birla AT&T Communications Limited after a joint venture deal was struck between Grasim Industries and AT&T Corporation. In 2000, it merged with Tata Cellular Limited. IDEA Cellular was jointly owned by the Birlas, the Tatas and AT&T Wireless. Each of the three stakeholders had one-third stake in the company but in 2004, after AT&T Wireless merged with Cingular Wireless, Cingular decided to sell 32.9% stake of the company which was eventually bought by the Tatas and the Birlas, two of the most influential business houses of India. Things became complicated when IDEA Cellular applied for license to operate in Mumbai. Tata Indicom, a CDMA mobile operator and a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Group, was already operating in the city, it conflicted with one of the pre-conditions of the license procurement process which states that a particular mobile promoter can not have a stake share of more than 10% in two mobile operators operating in the same circle. Hence, Tata had to sell its share of stake. In April 2006, Aditya Birla Group acquired 48.18% stake from Tata for a price of Rs.44.06 billion. Currently, Aditya Birla Group and its subsidiary companies jointly hold 49.1% of the total shares of the company.

Subscriber:

Out of the total 320,330,393 mobile connections in India, IDEA Celluar has 31,582,937. Here is a province wise break down of the number of mobile phone subscribers of IDEA cellular.

Maharashtra and Goa - 6,260,690

Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh - 4,137,200

Andhra Pradesh - 4,325,204

Kerala - 3,712,887

Gujarat - 3,327,261

Uttar Pradesh (West) & Uttarakhand - 3,372,808

Delhi - 2,216,027

Haryana - 1,341,146

Uttar Pradesh (East) - 1,457,570

Rajasthan - 1,062,526

Himachal Pradesh - 117,253

Mumbai - 178,378

Bihar & Jharkhand - 73,987

Trivia:

• For two straight years, IDEA Cellular won GSM Association Award for “Best Billing and Customer Care Solution.”

• By acquiring Spice Telecom for more than more than Rs. 270 million, a subsidiary of Modi Group, IDEA Cellular entered in Karnataka and Punjab circle in 2008. After acquisition, the name of the company was changed from Spice to IDEA.

• Shortly after acquiring Spice Telecom, IDEA Cellular signed an eight year contract with IBM, one of the leading IT companies in the world. Under the contract, IBM will provide IDEA Cellular various technical assistance to transform necessary applications and hardware of Spice Telecom. IBM would also manage all the IT operations and services of IDEA in Punjab and Karnataka.

• In 2009, IDEA Cellular struck a partnership deal with World Wide Media Private Limited and the Times Group-BBC Worldwide joint venture to organize the 54^th Bollywood Filmfare Award ceremony, the most prestigious award ceremony in the Indian film industry. IDEA Cellular launched a number Value Added Services for its mobile phone subscribers in India.

• Abhishek Bachchan, son of legendary Bollywood actor, Amitabh Bachchan, and husband of former beauty queen, Aishwarya Rai is a brand ambassador for IDEA Cellular.

Useful Links:

IDEA Press Release

IDEA Press Release

Wikipedia-Idea Cellular

IDEA Cellular official website

(This entry was first published in February 2009. Because of a technical problem, the entry had to be deleted and I am reposting again now.)