Over 25 years, societies evolve and tastes change. Cinema absorbs and reflects this transformation. Picking only 25 films from the first quarter of the century is tough.
Every defaulter is not a wilful defaulter who has the capability of paying back and is yet not servicing the bank loan, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The Sanjay Dutt starrer, produced by Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, was shown on Friday evening as a part centennial observation of the first Satyagraha launched by Mahatma Gandhi.
The protesting doctors displayed placards that read "Ramadoss Get Well Soon" and held bouquets of red roses.
Every morning, Basanti leaves with a bunch of roses for door-to-door campaigning to cash on the pervasive sympathy for her son.
Writer Abhijat Joshi talks about Lage Raho Munnabhai.
Showing Gandhigiri, West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi went without light on Wednesday, after deciding to have voluntary power cuts at Raj Bhavan, triggering a spat with the Communist Party of India Marxist, which felt the gubernatorial post should be abolished. The action of Mahatma Gandhi's grandson came as an embarrassment to the Left government, with whom he had a run in last year, on its handling of the Nandigram issue.
Gandhi will now be seen in two upcoming OTT series -- Hansal Mehta's Gandhi, starring Pratik Gandhi in the title role, and Freedom at Midnight by Nikkhil Advani.
Punjab National Bank has made a name for itself in recovery of bad loan dues. Usha Ananthasubramanian, managing director and chief executive officer of the government-owned lender, explains how it has achieved this reputation.
'If enough of us take up the issue with their elected representatives, politicians will get the message.'
Banks have started organising silent demonstration in front of houses of defaulters.
United Bank of India and Andhra Bank employees start organising silent protests.
Protesters at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi said the police can baton charge them as much as they want, but their message is "love in return for hatred".
Industrialists and traders of Punjab have adopted a novel method to convince state politicians to provide them with adequate electricity--flowers.
Ten sequels that either complemented the first or surpassed it.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was moved by the plight of a senior citizen who was being denied his pension by corrupt government officials as depicted in the Bollywood movie Lage Raho Munnabhai.
A flower and a polite message - that's what Arvind Kejriwal's volunteers will give to violators of the odd-even vehicle scheme on Delhi roads.
Facing political pressure and legal action, the U.S. government may speed up green-card processing and make more slots available
Following a "raw" deal by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), which issued a notification on September 16 that deprived them of an immediate pay rise and ignored other demands for enhanced allowances, faculty of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have decided to express its dissatisfication with the Centre in a novel way.
In a sarcastic move, some BJP MPs on Tuesday offered roses to their Congress rivals in the Lok Sabha who were protesting inside the well over alleged atrocities against Dalit youths in Punjab.
Munnabhai is back with his 'Gandhigiri' but this time he is in a fresh avatar of 'Sattarbhai' for the upcoming film EMI. Sattarbhai, played by Sanjay Dutt in the film, is a loan recovery agent who works for various banks and other multinationals.
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
Gandhigiri is a new club founded by former Union minister Mohan Dharia and former Pune Mayors Shantilal Suratwala and Ankush Kakde, alongwith others.
'Gandhigiri' was on display at 200 locations in the city with civil defence volunteers offering roses to those violating odd-even rules implemented for 15 days.
While we concentrate on the long-term through building military strength we cannot afford to ignore the instant and immediate. It is well within Indian capability to deal with this threat but for that we need clear thinking and resolute action -- not 'Gandhigiri', says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale.
Addressing a press conference, Pawar, a Rajya Sabha member, also bemoaned the conduct of Deputy Chairman Harivansh and the Modi government's decision of "bulldozing" the Opposition in the House.
Despite measures adopted by the government under the Right to Education Act, several parents are sweating it out in national capital New Delhi to secure admissions for their children in nursery schools.
Call it Annagiri or Gandhigiri. Government officials in the coal town of Jharkhand are being offered roses and white caps by activists of Anna Hazare-led India Against Corruption with a request to help weed out corruption.
Even if Anna Hazare's protest is not an enduring solution, it would most certainly be a brake on the incorrigibility of the political and bureaucratic class, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
For 26 days 25,000 displaced people took part in a march seeking the restoration of their land. Seven died during the journey but the marchers walked on so that they could be heard.
The Lage Raho Munnabhai remake is a must watch.
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
Factors like dedicated recovery teams, centralised follow-up on bad loan accounts and resolutions via NCLT are driving the trend
Devoting an hour of his speech at the RIL's 42th annual general meeting, the billionaire industrialist said Jio was targeting 100 million users in a shortest possible time
'The Shaheen Bagh model of bullets and biryani won't work. The RSS looked at a template that would play to Bengali pride and harp on the state's development. Mamata's slogan to defeat the Left Front was 'Bengal awake and arise'. She promised to check the flight of capital from Bengal to far-flung states and usher in a renaissance. The RSS wants the BJP to pitch this line because it feels Mamata hasn't delivered on her promises.'
Raju Hirani on making Sanju.
The PNB fiasco falls into a family line that involves non-fund limits - read contingent liabilities which are off-books. Harshad Mehta did it with bankers' receipts in 1992. Ketan Parekh exploited the ignorance of bankers who did not know the difference between a cheque and a pay-order. And the RBI blinked when it failed to insist the SWIFT platform be linked to the core banking solution. Raghu Mohan & Abhijit Lele trace the banking mess that was just waiting to happen.
When PK works, it does with great merit. When it does not, it sermonises, says Sukanya Verma.
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