The big stars who failed to live up to expectations and ended up disappointing not only their IPL franchises but also their fans.
Will Vijay will go the most successful MGR/Jayalalithaa way, or that of Vijayakanth, Seeman or Kamalahaasan, or will he end up as another Rajinikanth who cries wolf at the last minute and quits the scene even before it all had really begun, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Here's looking at the films that failed at the box office in the first half of this year.
The films that fared badly at the box office.
A lot happened in the Bigg Boss house over the first weekend as Salman Khan hosted a dinner, played games with the contestants and welcomed the first celebrity guests on stage.
The spate of flops during the year gone by notwithstanding, the corporate sector remained upbeat about the potential of the entertainment industry if one goes by the number of cinematic ventures financed by them during 2002.
Indian shooters flopped on a windy day at the Aoti Shooting range with the country's first woman world champion Tejaswini Sawant and Gagan Narang ending up way off target in their respective events at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, on Monday.
The Curran-Rayudu partnership for the third wicket put the brakes on the CSK innings in the middle overs, as they could add just 27 runs from 26 balls before both fell in quick succession.
Who do you think should be part of India's playing for the second and final Test against South Africa?
The game changer could have been cash transfers of the cooking gas subsidy.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict.
Sukanya Verma remembers the Boss in 30 of his underrated, overlooked gems in Hindi film music.
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma on Saturday lauded his bowlers for bundling out Pakistan for a paltry 191 on a pitch that had nothing much in it for the bowlers during their marquee World Cup match.
'Everything I know about acting and direction I learnt from him.'
Former Indian cricketer Atul Wassan on Sunday said that the idea of experimenting with the pink ball and the day and night Test would be a flop from the perspective of attracting more spectators to the stadium to watch the game in real time.
Shares of One97 Communications Ltd, Paytm's parent company, on Thursday made a tepid market debut, listing with a discount of over 9 per cent from the issue price of Rs 2,150.
Steve Smith might be taking a wee bit more time to adjust to sub-continental tracks but his poor returns in the first two ODIs against India is least of concern for the Australian team management, senior speedster Mitchell Starc said on Tuesday.
'I was very rude, and made statements for the sake of making them without realising they would backfire on me someday. I thought people would forget after six months. But if you make statements, they will come back. Now after having tasted failure, I have realised that I must be politically correct.' Meet the all-new Sajid Khan.
At the Leo fete, Vijay had this also to tell his fans: 'I know you all are in my heart. But today, I also know that I am also in the hearts of all of you...' A typical politician's line, did you say, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Indian team was "mentally and physically drained" during the T20 World Cup and did not even "try to win", as it wasn't switched on during pressure situations in big games, outgoing head coach Ravi Shastri stunningly conceded before the side's last Super 12s match against Namibia, in Dubai, on Monday.
Congress asked the government to clear its stand on whether it intended to hold talks with Pakistan.
In its first three days, the film made about $22 million,
Kara Johar goes down memory lane and spilled the beans on his infamous rifts with Kareena Kapoor and Kajol.
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The central bank will come out with two measures on restructuring to tackle financial stress, Rajan said.
Avinash Sable shattered his own 3000m steeplechase national record but failed to qualify for the final, while sprinter Dutee Chand produced a below-par performance to make an exit from the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
'Later, I asked Hrithik how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances. He told me simply, "What could have happened? At the most, they would have killed me".'
Chief coach Pal Singh Sandhu refused to take responsibility for the Karnam Malleswari flop-show.
Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan slammed his team after they went down by 10 runs to Mumbai Indians in the IPL match in Chennai on Tuesday.
Kya Kool Hai Hum 3, Mirzya and Mohenjo Daro make the list.
Even though the score is below-par against Southern Stars, Vastrakar's clean hits at least gave them something to fight for.
A wasted exercise, a total flop show and not to mention a total failure: This is how Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santhosh Hegde, member of the Lokpal Bill drafting panel, described the final outcome following the last meeting of the committee with the government.
The United States-China Summit meeting concluded at a sprawling mansion in Woodside, California with Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreeing to work towards ensuring that the differences between the two countries remain manageable and the relations do not derail.
A flip-flop by a Bharatiya Janata Party leader that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in the Bihar assembly elections on Monday set off fresh strains in the party's ties with Janata Dal-United, which threatened to review the alliance between the two parties.
In an unprecedented attack that few Israelis saw coming on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah on Saturday, Hamas fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip.
He doesn't need Yogi Adityanath's bulldozer to bring down a structure. He can just punch and the building falls like a pack of cards.
'I need mental conditioning and support staff to deal with the mental aspect.'
India's much-vaunted top order let them down at The Oval
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
Foreign investment firms, especially private equity, are jittery about the Indian market as uncertainty continues to shroud the energy sector.
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