Mumbai: The Wolfpack is back as The Hangover Part II arrives onto Blu-rayTM and DVD on November 30th, released by Reliance Home Video & Games. In Todd Phillips? sequel to the 2009 smash hit ?The Hangover?, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis reunite in Thailand for the wildest comedy of the year.

In The Hangover Part II, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu?s wedding. With the memory of Doug?s nearly disastrous bachelor party in Las Vegas still fresh?or at least well-documented?Stu is taking no chances. He has opted for a safe, subdued, pre-wedding trip brunch, with pancakes, coffee... and no alcohol. However, things don?t always go as planned.
Two nights before the big day, at a fabulous resort in Thailand, Stu relents. One beer each. In sealed bottles. What could go wrong?

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok can?t even be imagined.
The Hangover Part II is director Todd Phillips? follow-up to his 2009 smash hit ?The Hangover?, which became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time and also won the Golden Globe? for Best Film - Comedy or Musical. The film also stars Ken Jeong and Jeffrey Tambor, returning from the first film, and Mason Lee, Jamie Chung and Oscar? nominee Paul Giamatti, who join the ensemble.

The Hangover Part II is available on Blu-rayTM (Rs 1299), DVD (Rs 599), VCD (Rs 299) and VCD Hindi (Rs 115). What?s more, the 2-film box-set collection is available as well - these box-sets contain The Hangover (2009) and The Hangover Part II.

The Hangover Collection Standard edition and The Hangover Collection ? Gift-set Edition are priced at Rs.999 each. The Gift-set Edition contains the ?Wolfpack Kit? - exciting gifts that are essential party items - a disposable camera, a set of temporary tattoos, a party check-list and a magnetic photo frame. The ?Wolfpack Kit? comes inside the Gift-set Edition & is absolutely free to the customer.

The Blu-ray includes the following special features:

• THE COMEDY RHYTHM OF TODD PHILLIPS
  • A journey through the creative process of Todd Phillips? direction as we experience his comedic vision through the eyes of the Cast
• NOT YOUR EVERDAY MONKEY
  • Crystal the Monkey stole the hearts of all the cast on set, especially Bradley Cooper, who the crew joked had an on-set romance with the adorable primate.
• BANGKOK TOUR WITH CHOW
  • Take a politically incorrect tour with the legendary ?Mr. Chow?. This ride is not for the faint of heart!
• ACTION MASH UP
  GAG REEL

Reliance Home Video & Games and Warner Bros. Pictures India Facebook fans can enjoy exciting daily contests on their respective pages. Fans can win DVDs of The Hangover.

Mumbai: She was bold & beautiful... and was considered the most sensual southern siren. Her sex appeal and erotic body language dazzled the southern film industry as well as Bollywood and soon Vijaylaxmi became the popular ?Silk Smitha?.

Silk Smitha will be Reborn on screen in the upcoming Film ?The Dirty Picture? and her fans will be able to have a closer look at the Life of this Sex Siren of the 80?s. But, before catching up with the movie watch original hot videos of this Bombshell and queen of fantasy on Shemarooent (www.youtube.com/shemarooent), one of the most popular entertainment channels on YouTube.
Visit: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF075121B417B79EF

The link has a variety of videos of Silk Smitha. Whether one wants to see any of her hot scenes, her sensuous item number or watch her movies, can watch it all here. Films like Sadma, Billu Badshah, Chinna, Tiger, Halli Meshtru, Lock Up Death and Panchratna are available on the page. Also, you can visit our facebook page (Tu hai meri Fantasy) - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tu-Hai-Meri-Fantasy/174449159316684 to know her better! 

MUMBAI: HomeShop18, India‘s largest e-commerce venture, was awarded the ‘Brand Excellence Award in Internet Business‘ category at the World Brand Congress, 2011 in Mumbai recently.

The award is recognition to HomeShop18‘s contribution to the e-commerce industry in India. The award cited and recognized HomeShop18‘s efforts in building consumer confidence in the e-commerce industry and HomeShop18‘s 10X growth in the e-commerce business YOY.

Held every year since 1999, the World Brand Congress is considered as one of the single largest rendezvous of best brains behind some of the world‘s most successful and sought after brands. Alongside the Congress, the Global Award for Brand Excellence is presented to organizations that have played a significant role in building their company brands on the international scene.

Delighted with the recognition, Sundeep Malhotra, Founder and CEO, HomeShop18 said, "We are pleased to receive such a prestigious award. It is a testament to our efforts to provide our customers a wholesome shopping experience. We are delighted that we are seen as a leader in the internet shopping space in India. We would like to dedicate this award to our customers for having preferred us over others. We will continue to provide our customers with the best that internet shopping has to offer."

HomeShop18 currently sells more than 450 brands and more than 10 million SKUs. The e-commerce portal, HomeShop18.com adds a new customer every 6 seconds to its database and has a rising rate of 30% repeat purchase customers. 

MUMBAI: Dilip Keshu, CEO of Group FMG, today announced that American Media Inc. (AMI), the leading U.S. print and digital celebrity, health and fitness media brands, has entered into a long-term $10 million partnership with one of its key holdings, FMG, an international media production agency. FMG will work with American Media to implement the agency‘s cutting-edge automated technologies to reduce costs, manage content, and optimize the media firm‘s products and services across digital platforms.

The production services provided by FMG will allow AMI to realize significant savings by streamlining its production process, managing cross-media content between print and digital platforms, widening the process to deploy this content across emerging media platforms.

AMI intends to offer these services to its publishing services clients, as well.

"Every publisher today is looking to reduce their costs," added David Pecker, Chairman, President and CEO of American Media, "And being able to provide them with the production efficiencies we developed for AMI‘s publishing services business unit allows us to build on this new revenue stream for the our company."

Mike Esposito, Senior Vice President of Operations and Digital Production commented, "FMG is the ideal partner to help AMI continue to optimize its internal production processes as well as its migration to distribute content across digital platforms. This is the next step in a series of enhancements that AMI began earlier this year."

Anish Nanavaty who leads Group FMG‘s Americas business said, "This deal builds on FMG‘s 30+ years of experience providing the publishing industry with innovative media production solutions. Our partnership with AMI on print and digital production processes is a new paradigm for publishers coping with the need to deliver content across multiple channels in a cost efficient manner."

MUMBAI: Madison Communication Group‘s rural division, Anugrah Madison Advertising has launched a rural marketing education service called Anugrah Madison Rural Academy (AMRA) to teach the basics of rural marketing to management students.

This initiative has been taken to commemorate the 25th anniversary celebration.

Anugrah Madison Advertising chairman RV Rajan said, "With the growing importance of rural markets there is a growing demand for skilled / trained human resources willing to work in the rural areas. Many management institutes across the country have started offering rural marketing as an elective course to the students. But there is a dearth of good faculty who have hands-on experience to provide practical knowledge for teaching the subject. AMRA hopes to fill this gap".

Madison World business development and diversification manager, Lara Balsara hoped that one day AMRA will become an important institution, imparting Rural Marketing knowledge service to any one interested in knowing more about rural marketing or wanting to take up rural marketing as a career!

The faculty from AMRA will be the top management of Anugrah Madison and a few others with years experience in dealing with rural marketing initiatives. AMRA will conduct the classes at the premises of the Management Institutes over week ends or according to the convenience of the Institute. It will be responsible for course content, faculty and evaluation of students based on assignments to be given to them.

Initially AMRA will offer certificate courses of one / two / three credits. If the management institutes are interested in giving an idea of the basics of rural marketing to all their students, it can also conduct a one day / two day seminar on rural marketing at the Management Institute‘s premises.

MUMBAI: Sananda TV, the entertainment channel from ABP group, is making fast inroads into the Bengali GEC market. As per the latest TAM data for the Mid Week 48, Sananda TV is now at the third position leaving ETV Bangla behind proving that it is moving up on the viewer‘s preference list.

Sananda TV was launched on July 25 of this year with a bouquet of six ground breaking fiction shows. In last four months it has spread its wings and today it has a basket of nine exciting programmes aimed at the entertainment of the entire family. The new shows launched in recent past viz a game show named Selaam Memshaheb and fiction shows Aami Shei Meye, Naayika have already carved out a space of their own in the Bengali entertainment genre.

Naayika, the latest in the kitty, is being produced by Raj Chakraborty - a name to reckon with in the Bengali film industry. The story traces the journey of Katha - a Plain Jane who becomes a DIVA under the arc lights. However destiny has something else in store for her. A scandal brings her back to where she had started from... In this short period of time since its launch on November 14, Naayika has made its own mark and is fast becoming a talk of the town.

This is not the end... Another fiction show named Josh is poised for launch in the month of December. The subject of this show, a first of its kind in Bengali entertainment space, is going to speak of youth energy. It will show the power of Gen Y and the difference it can make to life around...