“Mud” Release Date – 3rd May

“Mud”  Release Date – 3^rd May

 Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios—he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

Director - Jeff Nichols

Starring – Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard and Reese Witherspoon

Release Date – 3^rd May

Language – English

Reliance Digital showcases the Samsung Galaxy S4 experience in India

Reliance Digital showcases the Samsung Galaxy S4 experience in India

~ First consumer durable and IT retailer in the country to present the exclusive experience to consumers ~

Mumbai, April 28, 2013: Reliance Digital, the consumer electronics & durables arm of Reliance Retail in association with Samsung India today unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S4 in Mumbai. Reliance Digital, in line with its reputation of India’s largest consumer electronics retailer has taken the lead by exclusively associating with Samsung to present this unique experience to its consumers. The star attraction at the launch of this iconic device was Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh who enthralled the audience with a spectacular stage launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4.

The actor also gave away the Samsung Galaxy S4 to the first 5 customers who pre-booked the Samsung Galaxy S4 at Reliance Digital. Reliance Digital had designed a special 3-day pre booking scheme wherein smartphone enthusiasts were given an opportunity to book the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S4 so that they could get the device on the first day of the phone’s launch in India. Select pre-booking customers also had the chance to be a part of this exclusive experience presented by Reliance Digital in association with Samsung India.

Speaking on the association with Samsung, Mr. Brian Bade, CEO, Reliance Digital said, “At Reliance Digital we aim to bring a differentiated experience to our customers through our product and service offerings. The exclusive Samsung Galaxy S4 experience has been designed with this as the key objective in mind. We are happy to present our customers with an opportunity to be among the first in the country to experience the most awaited smartphone through our pre-booking initiative.”

Speaking on the occasion, stated Mr Asim Warsi , Vice President – Samsung Mobile , “The Galaxy S4 is a device that enables us to do more, it’s a companion that helps us experience life to the fullest and makes our life simpler and richer… That’s the promise of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and we are happy to be partnering with Reliance Digital to hand over, at this exclusive event, our flagship Galaxy S4 to customers who pre- booked the device.”

The evening also signified the availability of Samsung Galaxy S4 across all Reliance Digital stores from today, priced at Rs. 41, 500.

The GALAXY S4 has the world’s first Full HD Super AMOLED display to showcase images at their very best. Its 5-inch large screen has 441ppi for stunning viewing quality.

Equipped with a 13 megapixel rear camera, the GALAXY S4 enables users to take pictures in several exciting different ways.  ‘Dual Shot’ allows simultaneous picture-taking of both front and rear cameras. Users can choose from a variety of frame effects which blend the two pictures naturally as well as outstanding shooting modes. ‘Drama Shot’ enables users to see all the action in one continuous time-lapse image. ‘Sound & Shot’ stores sound and voice in unison as the picture is taken so those special moments are captured in the truest form imaginable.  While ‘Animated Photo’ allows the user to take a series of shots, and pick one part of the photo to move while the others stay still.

Samsung GALAXY S4 understands the value of relationships, enabling true connections with friends and family regardless of where you are; more than a personal device that can be enjoyed by one user, it allows us to easily share and experience many of life’s pleasures together with loved ones. 

 ‘Group Play’ enables users to enjoy music, photos, documents and games with those around them without requiring a Wi-Fi AP or cellular signal. Users can connect directly with others to share, play and co-create content and entertainment instantly. With ‘Share Music’ they can have the same song playing on multiple phones in sync to create the best party atmosphere.

Smart enough to detect your face, voice and motions to enable screen control with no need for finger touch activation, GALAXY S4 delivers effortless tasking, making life easier and hassle-free.

‘Air Gesture’ allows users to, for example, change the music track they are listening to with a wave of their hand.  ‘Air View’ will preview photos and emails by hovering over the screen with your finger.

‘Samsung Smart Pause’ enables you to control the screen by where you look. When you are watching a video, the video pauses when you look away then it starts right up again when you are back.

About Reliance Digital

Reliance Digital is the consumer durables and information technology concept from Reliance Retail. Reliance Digital seeks to fulfill the dream of every Indian, be it through its nationwide network of conveniently located stores or through its presence on the web, by providing a delightful shopping experience of products & solutions and helping them bring home the latest & best in technology from the widest selection at the lowest assured price with complete peace of mind through lifelong support.

With over 200 international and national brands and over 5000 products at amazing prices, Reliance Digital has the largest display of models to help you find the right solution that fits your lifestyle. The range at Reliance Digital spans Audio and Video products (3D, LED, LCD & Plasma TVs, DVD players, Home Theatres), Digital Cameras, Durables like Air Conditioners, Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Water Purifiers, Kitchen and Home Appliances, Gaming Consoles and Games, Computers and Peripherals, Mobile and Fixed line instruments as well as a wide range of accessories covering all major product categories. The entire ranges of Apple products are also available.

At Reliance Digital, you get to touch, try and feel every product before you make your decision. The specially designed Experience Zones (for high-end entertainment systems like home theatres, televisions, smartphones, laptops & IT products) simulate exact conditions to familiarize you with your product. The trained staff will be only too happy to understand and advise on the optimum choice of products meeting customers’ needs. What’s more, Reliance Digital is backed by Reliance ResQ, the service arm that is available for support all 7 days and fully geared to provide end to end solutions. For more information, log on to www.reliancedigital.in

About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of televisions, smartphones, personal computers, printers, cameras, home appliances, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 236,000 people across 79 countries with annual sales of US$187.8 billion. To discover more, please visit www.samsung.com.

About Reliance Retail Ltd.

Reliance Retail Limited (RRL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited opened its first retail store in November 2006 and today operates more than 1,450 stores spread across 129 states with nearly 9 million square feet of retail space, serving over 2.5 million customers every week. RRL’s loyalty membership program Reliance One has over 13 million members. RRL is a multi-format retailer that operates –

“Reliance Market” - a concept for local traders and small businesses

"Reliance Fresh” - a neighbourhood store concept

"Reliance Super”- a super mart concept

"Reliance Mart” - a hyper market concept

"Delight” - a non-vegetarian offering

"Reliance Digital” - a consumer durables and information technology concept

"iStore by Reliance Digital” - an Apple specialty store concept

"Reliance Trends” - an apparel specialty concept

"Reliance Footprint” - a footwear concept

"Reliance TimeOut”- a books, music & entertainment concept

"Reliance Living” - a Furniture, Furnishing, Homeware and Home kitchen concept

"Reliance Jewels” - a jewelry concept

"Reliance AutoZone” - an automotive specialty concept

Reliance Retail is the largest grocery retailer in the country. Reliance Digital, Reliance Trends and Reliance Footprint are leaders in their respective formats with the largest number of stores.

About RIL

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company on all major financial parameters with a turnover of INR 371,119 crore (US$ 68.4 billion), cash profit of INR 30,505crore (US$ 5.6 billion) and net profit of INR 21,003 crore (US$ 5.6 billion) as of March 31, 2013.

RIL is the first private sector company from India to feature in Fortune’s Global 500 list of 'World's Largest Corporations' and ‘World’s Top 100 companies’, ranking 99th in terms of revenues and 130th in terms of profits in 2012. RIL ranks 68th in the Financial Times’ FT Global 500 list of the world's largest companies. RIL is ranked amongst the ’50 Most Innovative Companies - 2010' in the World in a survey conducted by the US financial publication - Business Week in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In 2010, BCG also ranked RIL as the second highest ‘Sustainable Value Creators’ for creating the most shareholder value over the decade in the world.

Special screening of film 'Bombay Talkies'

Karan Johar and Zoya Akhtar had kept a special screening for their upcoming movie Bombay Talkies on 26th April 2013 at Lightbox, Santacruz. 

Their guest list included Varun Dhawan, Javed Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Randip Hooda, Anurag Kashyap with wife Kalki, Abhinav Kashyap, SIdharth Roy Kapur, Ranveer Singh, Abhishek Kapoor  and a lot of other big names from Bollywood.

IRON MAN 3 REVIEW

IRON MAN 3   REVIEW

STORY
Sometime after the events of The Avengers, a haunted Tony Stark has obsessively built several Iron Man suits in his mansion. This causes friction with his girlfriend, new Stark Industries chief Pepper Potts. In a flashback to New Year's Eve 1999, Stark, with his scientist paramour Maya Hansen, arrogantly avoids crippled scientist Aldrich Killian, who wants Stark's backing in his endeavor Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM).
In present-day America, a string of bombings by terrorist the Mandarin has left intelligence agencies bewildered at the lack of forensic evidence. When Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is caught in one such attack, Stark revives himself from his stupor and issues a televised threat to the Mandarin, who responds by destroying Stark's home with helicopter gunships. Potts and Hansen, who had come to warn Stark, survive the attack. So does Stark, who finds himself in rural Tennessee after his artificial intelligence JARVIS follows a flight plan from Stark's investigation into the Mandarin. Stark's experimental armor lacks sufficient power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.
Teaming with Harley, a precocious 10-year-old boy, Stark investigates the remains of a local explosion bearing the hallmarks of a Mandarin attack. He discovers the explosions were triggered by soldiers from the Extremis program, an experimental treatment intended to allow its users to recover from crippling injuries. However, if a user's body cannot properly metabolize Extremis, the user heats up and explodes. After veterans started growing unstable and exploding, their deaths were used to cover up Extremis' flaws by manufacturing a terrorist plot. Stark witnesses Extremis first hand when Mandarin agents Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin attack him.
With Harley's help, Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami. Stark then infiltrates the headquarters using a variety of home-made weapons where he discovers the Mandarin is actually a British actor named Trevor Slattery, who is oblivious to the acts the Mandarin has carried out. The Mandarin is a creation of Killian, who appropriated Hansen's Extremis research as a cure for his own disability and expanded the program to include injured war veterans. Killian reveals he has kidnapped Pepper and subjected her to Extremis, intending to infuse her with superhuman abilities and turn her against Stark as leverage to gain Stark's aid in fixing Extremis' flaws.
Killian has also manipulated American intelligence agencies regarding the Mandarin's location, luring James Rhodes — the former War Machine, now rebranded as the Iron Patriot — into a trap to steal the armor. Stark escapes his captivity and reunites with Rhodes, discovering Killian intends to attack President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Remotely controlling his Iron Man armor, Stark saves the surviving passengers and crew but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis. They trace Killian to an impounded oil drilling platform where Killian intends to kill Ellis on live television. The Vice President will become a puppet leader, following Killian's orders in exchange for Extremis to cure a little girl's disability.
On the platform, Stark goes to save Potts, and Rhodes saves the President. Stark summons each of his Iron Man suits, controlled remotely by JARVIS, to provide air support. Rhodes secures the President and leads him to safety, while Stark discovers Potts has survived the Extremis procedure. However, before he can save her, a rig collapses around them and she falls 200 feet to her apparent death. Stark is forced into confronting Killian and traps him in an Iron Man suit that self-destructs. Potts, whose Extremis powers allowed her to survive her fall, kills Killian, who had survived the exploding armor.
After the battle, Stark orders JARVIS to remotely destroy each Iron Man suit, as a sign of his intention to devote more time to Potts. Both the Vice President and Slattery are arrested. Potts undergoes surgery to remove Extremis, and Stark to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He then pitches his obsolete chest arc reactor into the sea, musing he will always be Iron Man, even without his armor.
In a post-credits scene, it is revealed that Stark has actually been talking to Dr. Bruce Banner, who awakens after having fallen asleep while Stark was recounting the events.

CRITIC VIEW.
Super hero Tony Stark [Robert Downey Jr.] is back yet again in battle field full of extravagant action and thrills to give you the adrenaline rush as much you desire.Some outstanding action sequence designed as larger then life house attacks of Tony Stark and amazingly filmed air rescue of air force one delegates is applaud able.

Some moments of emotional swings also keeps this super hero flick to a realistic cinema where you get a taste of a human side to the steel robot.

Lack of 3D visual clarity as the post-conversion has degraded the actual richness of viewing.But no matter as there is much more to it, to keep you engaged and  thrilled.


Directed by Shane Black
Produced by Kevin Feige
Screenplay by Drew Pearce
Shane Black
Based on
Iron Man by
Stan Lee
Larry Lieber
Don Heck
Jack Kirby
and Extremis 
by Warren Ellis
Adi Granov
Starring Robert Downey, Jr.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Don Cheadle
Guy Pearce
Rebecca Hall
Stephanie Szostak
James Badge Dale
Jon Favreau
Ben Kingsley
Music by Brian Tyler
Cinematography John Toll[1]
Editing by Jeffrey Ford
Peter S. Elliot[1]
Studio Marvel Studios
DMG Entertainment[2]
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures1

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Sunny Super Sound and Yash Raj Music join hands for Yamla Pagla Deewana 2

Sunny Super Sound and Yash Raj Music join hands for Yamla Pagla Deewana 2

Yash Raj Music has finally ventured out of their own confines and has acquired the music rights of Dharmendra, Sunny and Bobby Deol starrer Yamla Pagla Deewana 2. Yash Raj music till date are always known for retaining the music rights of their home production films only, but with Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 they are all set to enter a different territory by acquired the music of a non-YRF project for the first time.

Sunny Super Sounds and the global giants, Yashraj Music, have forged a strategic alliance with their latest offering Yamla Pagla Deewana 2. This will be an exclusive license deal of the much awaited film Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 marketed by Yashraj Music for worldwide distribution of songs & videos across all digital and physical formats.

Multi talented music director Toshi Sharib’s flawless compositions are sure to add a different essence to the film and will definitely groove the audience with its dancing numbers.

Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 is all set to release on 7 June, 2013.

Vogue Eyewear announces Deepika Padukone as the new face of its communication campaign for 2013

Vogue Eyewear announces Deepika Padukone as the new face

of its communication campaign for 2013

26 April 2013

Vogue Eyewear announces Deepika Padukone as the new face of its communication campaign for 2013. A breathtaking beauty, fashion muse and an acclaimed actress, Deepika’s talents are multifaceted: she is perfectly in line with the playful and youthful spirit of Vogue Eyewear. Deepika is also the first Indian face of the brand in India; she follows in footsteps of fashion icons Gisele Bündchen, Kate Moss and Eva Mendes.

“It’s a privilege being the face of 2013 Vogue Eyewear communication campaign in India, as I like playing with my looks, be it on or off screen, by mixing and matching various ‘in’ accessories. Thanks to its colorful, stylish models, both optical and sunglasses, Vogue Eyewear enables me to have a complete different look depending on the situation: flirty, feminine, chic or even geeky smart like my various on screen characters”, says Deepika

The 2013 India communication campaign of Vogue Eyewear features six brightly colored images, shot by the ace fashion photographer Prasad Naik and was exclusively styled by the ultimate fashion authority - Anaita Shroff Adjania; keeping in mind Deepika’s dynamic and vivacious personality as well the high glamour world of Vogue Eyewear.

The latest collection of Vogue Eyewear is an eclectic mix that is inspired by the trends seen on the runway and demonstrates how the brand is always at the forefront of fashion. The range consists of glamorous, colorful, and feminine frames that have a strong personality and a sophisticated charm, just like Deepika.

Mariavittoria Di Stasi, Global Brand Director - Vogue Eyewear, comments “We are truly happy to have Deepika as the face of our communication campaign. She is very feminine, sensual, astonishing beautiful and at the same time fun and playful. She is stylish, smart and she likes to be updated without losing a personal touch in her style: she really reflects the core values of our brand and this is why we think she is the perfect fit for Vogue Eyewear!”

Deepika is widely recognized for her trendy on screen characters in films like Cocktail, Love Aaj Kal, Race 2 and Jawani Deewani to name a few, firmly believes Eyewear to be a must have style accessory!

IN VOGUE

VO2757S

Inspired by the latest fashion trends, this cat-eye sunglass

model is distinguished by subtle details and clever combination of acetate front and sleek metal temples. It is ideal for girls who want to give a fashionable touch to their style. In addition to the gradient black and classic Havana, this models is available in red, purple and orange opaline shades.

VO2748

A trendy cat eye frame for girls who like to express their personality and play with their looks.  Available in bright candy colors, that are fun, playful and in vogue.  A clever metal insert at the head of the temple serves as structural and ornamental mechanism, giving a discreet embellishment touch to the eyewear.

VO2778SB

A classic and winsome square sunglass shape that is embellished by a metal flower that is enriched by rhinestones and acts as a clever hinge.  The elegant colors of this model include heartwarming colors like cherry red, olive and avio blue apart from black and Havana. 

                                                      VO2789B

An exclusive rhinestone twist enlightens the side of this timeless piece without losing the elegant nature of the eyewear. This frame is available in a bilayer palette of colors in an elegant taste, for a self-confident and smart woman of today looking for eye-catching details and bright temple décors. The square shaped fits any prescription even with high powered lenses.

VO2773S

This nature inspired model with drops of colors and brushed details is perfect for young ladies who love feeling chic and contemporary with fashionable eyewear.

The delicate temple details on an ultra-modern shape, make it an ideal and stylish accessory in every occasion. Available in Pale Gold/ Brown, Cherry Pink/ Pale Yellow as well as Blue Green/ Pale Violet apart from Black and Havana.

VO2766

A slightly Cat Eye frame with glamorous enameled decor on the temple, making it a modern yet discreet style. The tri colored enameled drops on the temples highly complement shade of the front.