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ET Awards 2009: For Corporate Excellence

It was business, brand and sheer excellence yesterday as 400 CEO’s and Ministers came together under one roof for the 11th ET awards in Mumbai on 10th Jan,2010.

Magical moments that would rarely be accessible to corporate or the common eye, like Mr.Mukesh Ambani shaking hands with his nephew Jai Anmol (Mr.Anil Ambani’s elder son), corporate magic and powerful quotes freely flowing from Mr.Ram Charan himself coupled with notable remarks from Mr. Nitish Kumar, Mr. Anand Mahindra and the Indian cinema’s superstar Mr.Aamir Khan, caught the sight of millions across the globe.

ET Award Winners 2009:

Jean Dreze

• Economic Times’ Policy Change Agent of the Year 2009, for his outstanding work in poverty alleviation and rural employment – Policy Change Agent of the year: Jean Dreze, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

• Business Leader of the year: Anand Mahindra, Mahindra Group

• Business Woman of the year: Vinita Bali, Britannia Industries

• Entrepreneur of the year: GVK Reddy, GVK Group

• Global Indian of the year: Ram Charan, Management Guru

• Business Reformer of the year: Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar state

• Company of the year: Hero Honda:Truly a hero as they spent more to fight a slowdown when most cut back and emerged victorious with newer models, larger profits and greater reach across.

• Emerging Company of the year: Idea Cellular , their new ideas well, transformed them to a much stronger and focused organization, ‘what an idea sirji?’

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Keshub Mahindra, Founder, Mahindra & Mahindra

• Corporate Citizen of the year: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Few very notable quotes:

Mr.Ram Charan: He answered the business leader’s queries and concerns and pumped up more hope as he quoted “The financial structure of the world remains fragile, US has begun preferring India over China”.  His views on the transforming role of a sole owner of a small or medium size business to a CEO was worth listening to. He mentioned that “transformation of an owner to a CEO must happen if he or she is wanting to give more than just the 24 hours available to listen, take and make decisions for business. Giving the power to someone else to decide is an important and difficult but essential role that one (owner of medium size business) might opt for in order to be able to “MULTIPLY” his work speed and share and shoulder the responsibility from being an individual and look at profits and growth from an organization’s point of view”.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee put forth the 2020 blueprint as he quoted “Policies must reach out to all especially to poor, benefits must be seen by all people and right to education and food must be available to all”.

Mr. Aamir Khan wowed the audience with thoughts on education and lateral thinking. He quoted, “Inclusion should start from childhood and schools should admit children with disabilities”.

<<<Video Link from YOUTUBE: Source link given to us by one of our readers : Mr Rajiv Menon>>>

Thanks to ET awards 2009 for a memorable mega event with corporate flair and panache.

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3 IDIOTS – *ing Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi & Kareena Kapoor

***Give Me Some Sunshine, Give Me Some Rain, Give Me Another Chance, I Wanna Grow Up Once Again***

and so the story unfolds………………

Written by:

Credits:

Writing credits
Chetan Bhagat -  book “Five Point Someone” (After reading the book and watching the movie, its probably just about 10% that’s been taken from the book)
Rajkumar Hirani     –    story
Abhijit Joshi      -   writer

Original Music by
Shantanu Moitra

Cinematography by
C.K. Muraleedharan

Production Design by
Acropolis
Rajnish Hedao

Art Direction by
Rajnish Hedao

I watched 3 IDIOTS at PVR Cinemas thereby making my long & lovely Christmas holiday have a wonderful end. How? Well, I watched it with my friends, my high school friends.

My verdict – Ensure that you have a ‘dhekko’ of this movie. It is absolutely worth the moolah. This movie is definitely one of the finest produced this year.

The concept of the movie takes off from where Aamir left off in Dil Chahta hai. It is the story of three guys (3 Idiots) who meet at an engineering college, become room mates and then become the best of friends. One of their less illustrious friends Chatur Ramalingam reminded me of a friend in school days. So did few others too.

This very feature of the movie wherein the audience can relate to the characters and the situations is what works in making this movie the hit of the year.

The Characters & Plot:

Aamir Khan, if he can make it to the Education industry, he can well transform the entire education delivery system in the country by the intelligent ideas portrayed in Taare Zameen Par & 3 Idiots system of teaching and learning. Nevertheless, the beauty is, we will only get to watch these beautiful teaching techniques only in a movie, as our Indian education system will never change.

Boman Irani has given a great performance as usual again proving to one and all that he cannot become an effective Principal/Headmaster – All his students tend to get the better of him in his movies. First Main Hoon Na then Munnabhai MBBS & now 3 Idiots. He has again done it with ease.

Madhavan and Sharman have under acted and done it amazingly well. Their characters are definitely not the main catch of the script but the end scenes and performances given by both of them, takes the story and those characters to a totally new level.

The story begins with two friends Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman) trying to hunt down their old friend Rancho (Aamir) 10 years after they completed their engineering. This journey leads them through many a twist in the midst of which we are given a detailed account of their years at the engineering college. They manage to even gate crash Kareena’s (Aamir’s love interest) marriage in their search.

I would like to divulge the details rather the entire movie but do not want to spoil the fun for those who are yet to see it.

So Watch it and come back impressed by Aamir’s performance coupled with Sharman & Madhavan playing the perfect foil.

My advice: DO NOT miss the first 10 minutes of the movie.

Movie Rating:4/5

To bolo: All isz Wellll……………………….

Regards

Mani S (A.k.a Ananth S) & TD