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Written by admin on 20 May 2012
Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) Around 100 people were detained after police busted a major rave party in northwest Mumbai late Sunday. Drugs were also seized from the site.
“Around 58 men and 38 women were detained and taken to a hospital for narcotics check-up after a rave party was busted in Andheri. The raid is still on,” said a senior police official.
Although police officials refused to divulge more details, sources said that most of those who were detained were foreign nationals and several small time celebrities were also amongst those detained.
Police have seized 150 grams of cocaine and over 100 grams of other restricted drugs from the party.
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Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) A worker in an imitation jewellery warehouse was arrested here Sunday for molesting his 18-year-old daughter for the past three years, police said.
The last time Harishankar Patawa molested his daughter was May 2. His wife gave a police complaint against him Sunday.
He lives with along with his wife, two daughters and a son in a slum in Malwani in northwest Mumbai.
According to police, Patawa first molested his older daughter in the absence of her mother in November 2009 when she was away to her hometown in Uttar Pradesh.
The victim later told her mother about the harassment who quarrelled with Patawa. The worker, however, continued to molest his daughter whenever he got an opportunity.
“It still took the woman a long time to muster courage to complain against her husband. The family had been looking for a solution for a long time,” said a police official.
“The victim’s mother sought advice from friends and relatives and finally approached us, following which Patawa was arrested,” the official said.
Patawa was booked for assault or criminal force to woman with the intention to outrage her modesty. He would be presented in a court Monday.
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Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) Bollywood’s Nightingale lata Mangeshkar says she is totally with Javed Akhtar in his fight to secure royalty rights for singers and lyricists.
“I’m a 110 percent with Javed Saab. My only fear is, how will he cope with all the backlash coming his way from producers and music companies who are very angry and upsetIJ I fought for royalty for singers in the 1960s. I had even stopped recording songs at that time while other singers who didn’t support my cause continued to record. My mission collapsed. My colleagues didn’t get the point. If a songwriter like Javed Saab had spoken up alongside me in the 1960s, a change in copyright rules would have occurred long back. Javed Saab is fighting a much wider battle. Singers and other musicians often die in penury,” lata said.
She feels she is being deprived of her rightful royalties. “The music company Saregama HMV has nearly all my songs. They are putting my songs in various compilations of Naushad, Salil Chowdhary, Bappi lahiri,etc. What do I get from thisIJ I don’t get any royalty. Now there is internet and the MP3 format. On top of that, the serials on television play my songs. It’s the music company that gives them permission to play my songs. Is that correctIJ There’s a popular serial ‘Bade Achche lagte Hain’. Even the title of the serial is from a popular song by Amit Kumar.”
“Javed Saab is fighting a brave battle. But the time to fight battles for film music is gone. Where are the singers and song writers with durable contentIJ Today I see my songs being sung on television by other singers. Even my face is used. But I am not singing. Is there any way of stopping such practicesIJ However what Javed Saab is doing fully justified. But even if the amendment becomes a law, how can the music companies be controlled,” lata asked.
Said Javed: “What lataji fought to achieve in the 1960s has now come to fruition. She feels she should have spoken up in parliament about the issue. But I say, she is the queen and it up to us, her followers, to ensure her dream is fulfilled. The singer has now been given a moral right over the song. This has not happened anywhere else in the world. What more could I wantIJ We’ve fulfilled what lataji had set out to do for musicians 50 years ago. When she was gracious enough to come to release the Marathi translation of my poems on Saturday I told lataji that we’re near achieving what she had set out to achieve.”
“In recent times, the desecration of songs has attained epidemic proportions. They take the songs of lataji and add rap and jhankar sections to them. When I hear a new version of ‘Mera lal dupatta mal-mal ka’, I feel like crying. If there are people who feel this kind of remix invites youngsters to listen to the classics, then by the same logic strobe lights should be added to the Taj Mahal during weekends so that youngsters can go and dance in the moonlight. This is absurd logic. Now they won’t be able to make these additions without the singer’s permission,” Javed added.
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Mumbai/Nagpur, May 20 (IANS) The dowry system is driving many farmers of Maharshtra’s Vidarbha region to suicide, a fact which was brought into national focus Sunday on ‘Satyamev Jayate’, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan’s popular show.
In an interview on the show, Usha Ashtekar, 25, spoke about how her father borrowed from a money-lender but had to repay the loan even before he could get Usha married.
‘My father took a loan from a money-lender to get me married. But before he could do so, the money-lender made my father repay the loan by using force. Worried about my marriage plus the bad condition of our farm, he committed suicide two years back,’ Usha told IANS from her village Sakra in Pandharkawada tehsil of Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district.
‘later, my brother and mother took another loan and spent over Rs.3 lakh on my wedding, bowing down to the needs of my in-laws. But it was all in vain as their demands kept increasing. I had to return to my mother’s home in only three months as I could no longer bear their torture,’ she added.
Usha, who has been married for over a year, is still staying at her mother’s home and prays that her husband will call her back some day.
‘Usha is one of the many cases that have met a similar fate. According to a survey done by the Maharashtra government in 2006, out of 20 lakh households in Vidarbha, around 4 lakh households had daughters of marriageable age,’ said Kishor Tiwari, President of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), a farmers advocacy group.
‘But most of these girls did not get married due to lack of resources. The survey also said that the entire credit chain of these farmers was disturbed as they had to use the loan money in their daughters’ marriage instead of using them for betterment of their farms,’ Tiwari said.
Tiwari pointed out that there has been no such survey in the last six years and that VJAS is planning to demand for a similar survey.
‘It is inhuman to ask for dowry, as those seeking dowry are themselves aware of the grave crisis in Vidarbha,’ Tiwari said.
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New Delhi/Mumbai, May 20 (IANS) The crisis in Air India raged on for the 13th day Sunday and the national carrier’s losses mounted to Rs.230 crore as the impasse between agitating pilots and the management continued.
‘The loss due to ticket cancellations, unused labour and with the bulk of our Boeing-777 fleet grounded now stands at Rs.230 crore. Our losses per day stand between Rs.13-15 crore,’ a senior official of Air India’s operations arm told IANS.
‘Under the contingency plan for international operations, we are operating a bare minimum number of international operations by clubbing flights to destinations in Europe and the US.’
According to the official, the agitating pilots, who are on a mass sick leave, are mandated to get a medical check-up done by doctors from the Indian Air Force after the completion of 14 days of their absence.
‘Within the next two days, they (pilots) will be checked by Indian Air Force doctors. If they clear it and are actually sick, then it is valid, but if they fail the test and come out to be absolutely fine, then they can either join back or resign,’ the official said.
The government may also further curtail Air India’s international operations if the strike continues.
‘There is a proposal to further curtail international operations if they (pilots) do not come back or if they are joined by the executive class of pilots. If we don’t have pilots, how can we flyIJ’ said the official.
The airline is already operating its international flights under a contingency plan through which it is clubbing flights to various destinations in the US and Europe.
The development comes a day after when Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh asked the striking pilots to resume work, saying the government is willing to listen to them.
He said he failed to understand what good the pilots were doing by going on strike, causing financial losses to the national carrier and leading to the harassment of thousands.
‘When one goes on strike, there may be some reasons but there is no point in being adamant and holding a system to ransom,’ he said.
The minister added that the Delhi High Court had ruled that the strike was illegal, ‘and pilots must abide by the law’.
The airline on its part to mitigate losses and to win back passenger trust has started a special scheme whereby passengers can advance, postpone or cancel their tickets without any extra charges till May 22.
The airline has deployed the Airbus family of aircraft such as A320, A321 and A330 for international routes.
It is operating only eight of its 17 Boeing-777 aircraft which are normally manned by the pilots belonging to Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), who are now on strike.
Trouble started for the airline May 8 when pilot-members of the IPG took mass sick leave, protesting the move to provide Boeing-787 Dreamliner training to pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines.
The pilots have made four demands which include exclusive flying rights on Boeing 787 aircraft, payment of arrears from 2007 onwards, travel on first class when not working, and the right to be promoted as commanders within six years.
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Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) After creating niche audiences with films like “Black Friday”, “Dev D”, and “That Girl In Yellow Boots”, director-producer Anurag Kashyap now targets a larger audience with “Gangs of Wasseypur”, which will be premiered at the ongoing 65th Cannes International Film Festival.
Explaining how his film is an out-and-out commercial experience, he said: “For the first time, I have made a film for the masses and we are going to Cannes (with the film). People usually think when a movie goes to Cannes, it is an art movie. We have made a commercial film. It has taken me a lot of years to reach here. When you stop running after a butterfly, it comes and sits… it’s the same thing.”
“Ganges of Wasseypur” is a gritty take on the coal mafia and stars Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Syed Zeeshan Quadri and Aditya Kumar.
Kashyap’s crime thriller “Peddlers” has also been selected for screenings at the prestigious festival.
The filmmaker is happy with is experiments and choice of cinema.
“It is important for me to know where my audience isIJ What my audience isIJ And what they would like to seeIJ Everyone used to tell me don’t do this, don’t do that. Today, I realised I was not wrong,” he said.
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Pooja praises Arunoday’s performance
Filmmaker Pooja Bhatt, who is busy directing “Jism 2″ in Sri lanka, is amazed at Arunoday Singh’s performance in the movie.
“Delighted with Arunoday Singh’s performance on set for ‘Jism 2′… He was strong enough to be weak and touched a real chord within us all,” Pooja tweeted.
The movie, a sequel to 2003 film “Jism”, also stars Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny leone and Randeep Hooda.
Pooja Bhatt, who had produced the original, is directing the part two.
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Tusshar thanks dad for Urdu gyaan
Actor Tusshar Kapoor thanks his father, veteran actor Jeetendra, for making him learn Urdu before joining Bollywood.
“Excited that I could read the Urdu titles of Dilip Saab’s ‘Insaniyat’ on TV, thank my father for making me learn Urdu before I joined films,” the 35-year-old tweeted.
Tusshar, who made his acting debut with “Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai” opposite Kareena Kapoor in 2001, will be next seen in “Kya Super Kool Hai Hum”.
The sex comedy, a sequel to 2005 release “Kyaa Kool Hai Hum”, also stars Riteish Deshmukh, Neha Sharma and Sarah-Jane Dias in pivotal roles.
“The ‘Kyaa Superr Kool Hai Hum’ family, everyone finally arrives in Goa. last day for the schedule arrives, hope we finish the climax scene nicely! It’s been terrific, like always, here in my favourite state…” he tweeted.
The movie is scheduled for a Aug 2 release.
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