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Toshiba India Private Limited, the 100 percent subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba Corporation, a world leader in high technology and innovation, announced the launch of a new range of products spanning key product lines, including Notebook PCs, LCD TVs, Refrigerators, and Washing Machines. The new products deliver new levels of value to Indian consumers, are will further strengthen Toshiba’s presence in the Indian market.

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Alongside the launch announcement, Toshiba also announced that Ms. Vidya Balan, one of India’s most renowned and critically acclaimed actresses and film stars, would serve as the company’s brand ambassador in India.

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The identification of Ms. Vidya Balan as the face of Toshiba is in line with the company’s wholehearted commitment to its Indian operations, and the centrality of the customer-focus credo that Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd. follows in all of its activities.

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Shahid Kapoor

After his break-up with Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapur has immersed himself in his professional commitments. He has already begun shooting for Aziz Mirza’s Kismet Connection and given several powerhouse performances at award shows. Nevertheless, his love life post Kareena has been a topic of much speculation.

So far, he has been romantically linked with Sania Mirza, Vidya Balan and Amrita Rao. Of course, Shahid has denied all of these link-ups. In fact, the actor stated that as he has just emerged from a four-year relationship, he is trying to look positively on his life. He even admitted to being very sad for the few last months, but realises it is best to look to the future rather than the past.Professionally, Shahid is on the upswing.

He has delivered two blockbuster films in the last two years: Vivah in 2006 with Amrita Rao and Jab We Met in 2007 with Kareena. Now, the Bollywood heartthrob has several more in the pipeline. Besides Kismet Connection with Vidya Balan and Milenge Milenge with Kareena, both released this year, he is expected to star in his father Pankaj Kapoor’s directorial debut.Shahid’s career is undoubtedly on the fast-track, but we’ll just have to wait and see which lady will capture his heart..

Rajkumar Santoshi’s political commentary Halla Bol has received a mixed response in its opening week. While the audiences in the western circuit have rejected the movie, it is doing reasonably well in some pockets in north India.

Box office collections in Mumbai started dropping from the second show of its opening day last Friday (Jan 11). The movie notched a lacklustre Mumbai territory opening with 70 percent collections, considered unusual for an Ajay Devgan starrer.

Bollywood trade circles were taken by surprise when the collections in cinemas in Mumbai dropped to as low as 42 percent after the opening day.

The box office graph tilted downwards in all major suburban circuits.

The verdict is now clear. Though appreciated critically, Halla Bol is the first debacle of 2008.

But the movie has been doing reasonably well in some pockets in north India. A leading Mumbai distributor attributes this moderate success to the political culture of the north.

“It was expected. The political undertone explicit in the movie is akin to the political culture of the North. Cine-goers in the north generally like movies that have a fair amount of action. ’Haala Bol’ has it in ample measure. The action scenes in the movie, as in all Raj Kumar Santoshi movies, are nicely executed to boost the narration. Maybe, audience in other centres squirmed at the movie’s political content,” a leading Mumbai distributor, not wishing to be named.

A group of young girls who watched the movie at the Fame-Andheri in Mumbai summed up the mood of the audience when they told that in Halla Bol, director Rajkumar Santoshi assumed the role of a teacher, telling them what they should do and what they should not.

“Come on, we do not like to be talked to in such a silly manner,” said Sangita Sajlani, the most vociferous among them.

The debacle of Halla Bol is also a major setback to Pyramid Symira. It was the theatre chain’s first foray into the Hindi belt. It is too shell-shocked to comment on the film’s poor show all over.

Though reports from overseas market are yet to be made public, trade circles believe that the movie may not fare well there either.

The verdict that the movie has received in the domestic market has set the overseas distributors wondering whether the NRI audience will be able to identify themselves with the Indian social milieu into which the issue has been woven.