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| Bollywood remakes Indian rags-to-riches story | | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN. 11
Dhirubhai Ambani is India's best-known rags-to-riches billionaire, but the makers of a new Bollywood film about a villager who rises to the pinnacle of the corporate world insist the movie is not about him. "Gurubhai", the name of the lead character in "Guru", rhymes uncannily with the name of the deceased founder of the Reliance group, and both men come from a poor village.
On their journey to the top, both founded their companies in 1958 in India's financial hub of Mumbai and displayed a penchant for getting things done without taking a 'no' for an answer. One of the promo lines of the film reads: "Think big. Think ahead. Think fast", which matches word-for-word the corporate motto of Ambani.
But the film's director, Mani Ratnam, told reporters that "Guru", which opens on Friday (Jan. 12), was largely fictional. "It is about the journey of a man at a point of time in India who is trying to reach where he wants to reach," Ratnam said.
The hero in "Guru" is the son of a school teacher who travels from a village in the western State of Gujar... | |
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| Indo-Pak talks unlikely to yield any breakthrough | | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 11
Even as Pranab Mukherjee, Minister for External Affairs, is all set to set his foot on the soil of Islamabad on Saturday, Pakistan-watchers in Delhi's ruling political class do not expect any wonder. Mukherjee's trip is expected to firm up peace efforts between his country and Pakistan rather than yield any breakthrough.
Pranab Mukherjee's two-day visit starting Saturday to Islamabad is primarily to invite Pakistani leaders to New Delhi for a South Asian summit in April, although the two sides will inevitably discuss the ongoing peace process. According to sources in the External Affairs Ministry, Mukherjee and his Pakistani copunterpart, Khurshid Mehmood K... | |
| | | | Pranab launches trust building drive Bar on Pak diplomats' movement being lifted | | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 11
Government of India will soon announce lifting of restrictions on the movement of Pakistani diplomats, according to a Ministerial source. The issue of easing bar has been discussed by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, with the Minister for External Affairs, Pranab Mukherjee. And the two have felt the need to remove restrictions on the Pak diplomats.
Pranab Mukherjee, the Ministerial source told EARLY TIMES, convinced his Prime Minister by his argument that there would be no need for restructions on the diplomats of Pakistan and India in the face of evolving relations that demand trust. Mukherjee, who is slated to arrive in Islamabad on Saturday (Jan. 13) o... | |
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