Reliance Entertainment to start Cinema halls' Chain in US

No. It's not an April fool. It's true. Reliance Entertainment is all set to start a chain of Cinema halls called 'Big' in the US that will be showing Hindi movies as well as other regional Indian movies. There will be almost 200 cinema halls under the brandname showing these movies.

Reliance's movie theaters' chain in India is known as Adlabs which Reliance Entertainment had acquired from Manmohan Shetty. But the US chain will be branded as Big, which is also the music label and FM brand of Reliance Entertainment.

From the movie makers' point of view, the project will be welcome only as it will give a better chance to Indian movies in the US as there is a number of Asian viewers in the US.

ADC goes. Calls may get cheaper..

With the Access Deficit Charge for local and STD calls being finally put to an end by the TRAI, the call rates may once again be cheaper. Access deficit charge (ADC) was the price that operators other than BSNL used to pay to BSNL so that it could provide subsidized service in rural sector.

But with the number of mobiles increasing at a hopping speed, there seems to be no more a need of such a thing. Hence, it's a welcome move that will surely remove a lot of burden from the private operators and is expected to help their customers too.

BSNL used to get almost 5000 crore as ADC from private mobile operators until 2 years ago.

The ADC for ISD calls is also brought to a half from Re 1 to 50 p per call.

All for money

Doing things for money is fine. But doing things only for money is not. And BCCI certainly is doing things which confirm that cricket, people, morals, gratitude, all come second. First comes MONEY.

The board has this time done a thing that doesn't even cost it money. It's not about money in a direct way this time. This is about the fact that those who come in the way of money, whoever they are, whatever they are, whatever they do or have done, for the Cricket or Country or BCCI itself (as team India does not represent India, it represents BCCI actually), they will not be tolerated. Rather they will be done all the bad that can be done.

Well, this is the story of Kapil Dev and Ajit Wadekar. The two former Indian captains that were not invited on the celebration of Anil Kumble's 600 wickets' celebration. Other than Kapil and Ajit, all the captains were invited to the program. But these two were not invited because they are related to ICL, the rebel league.

The interesting fact is that India has won the Cricket World Cup only once and the captain of the World Cup winning team happens to be Kapil Dev. But this fact seems to be easily ignorable to BCCI while compared to his joining the ICL.

Any other reasons than money?

No.

On the other hand, 3 players from the West Indian Cricket team are unable to confirm their commitment to their national Cricket team due to a probable IPL clash. These players include veterans like Chanderpaul.

We shall also see a great deal of interesting things happening in the IPL matches. For example, there will be Ricky Ponting playing under Ganguly, a news that shocked even my 9 yr old niece who hardly has an interest in Cricket. I wonder what SRK thought.

Sometimes I wonder what has money make these people do.

Sometimes I think how much more is remaining.