ROBOT right on track - Pooja on April

Superstar Rajni seems to be in a hurry these days as far as his films are concerned. The much awaited pooja of 'Robot' aided by the combo Shankar and the Superstar Rajnikanth will be held around April 14 and is all set to go on floors by May. The photo-shoot was held in February at AVM Studios, Chennai. The music director A.R. Rahman too will start his work for the movie very soon. In spite of the unexpected demise of writer Sujatha, who was working with Shankar for finalizing the script, the film will soon be started. It was Sujatha who aided in his recent film and he was well versed in scientific matters. It would thus be a Herculean task for the movie team to find a suitable person to write the dialogues for the sci-fi movie. It is expected that Rajini would finish his portions in ‘Kuselan’ before 'Robot' goes to the floors by May 2008. Meanwhile Rajni was awestruck by the clippings of ‘Sultan the Warrior’ that were shown to him by his daughter and he was so eager to start dubbing for the film which will be released probably next year.

IPL Second Auction on Tuesday

The second round of auction for IPL Teams is set to take place in Mumbai on Tuesday. Rajasthan Royals are best placed to make the most of the situation as they have US$2.05 million of unspent money, the most among the franchises, and are looking to sign up a couple of Australians, including Shane Watson and James Hopes. Eighteen players are up for grabs in this round with 16 Under-19 players being decided by the so called draft pick. Other franchises are focusing on buying U-19 players on the auction date.

The money remaining with the other franchises are:

Bangalore $374,000

Chennai $23,750

Delhi $71,250

Hyderabad $262,500

Kolkata $107,500

Mohali $292,250

Mumbai $53,750

It was reported that Jaipur were fined for under-bidding in the first auction - they spent only $2.9 million lesser than the minimum amount of US$3.3 million and were reportedly asked to pay the difference penalty - but Fraser, who is a support staff of the team said that they have not paid any fine so far.

Bangalore need focus on boosting their batting strength and should look to pick up at least one batsman during the auction. The Hyderabad franchisee has recently signed up former Indian cricketer Sanjay Bangar and is not seriously looking to pick up anyone here. The Chennai and Mumbai teams do not have much money with them and want to focus on the U-19 players in this auction round. The Kolkata franchisee may not be interested in the auction as they unveil their team logo and name around the same time when the auction will be held. Some of the franchises have made signings since the auction on February 20; these are largely junior players and those from the catchment areas.

Some Players who were signed up after the first round of auction are:

Delhi - Yo Mahesh, Shikhar Dhawan, Mithun Manhas, Rajat Bhatia and Mayank Tehlan.

Bangalore - Sunil Joshi, Balachandra Akhil, R Vinay Kumar, Bharat Chipli, J Arun Kumar, KP Appanna, Devraj Patil.

Chennai - Goa's Shadab Jakati, Uttar Pradesh's Sudeep Tyagi, R Ashwin, Srikkanth Anirudha and S Badrinath.

Mumbai - Baroda wicket-keeper, Pinal Shah, along with Mumbai Ranji players Abhishek Nayar and Ajinkya Rahane and Maharashtra's Yogesh Takawale.

Hyderabad - Sanjay Bangar, Venugopal Rao, N Arjun Yadav, D Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, D Kalyankrishna, P Vijay Kumar, M Sarveesh and Orissa's Halahar Das.

Mohali - VRV Singh and two U-22 players in Karan Goel and Uday Kaul.

Jaipur - Pankaj Singh and Mumbai's U-22 player Anup Revandkar

Vikram`s next - Post Kanthasamy

Susi Ganesan’s ‘Kanthaswamy’ will have Vikram handling three different characters. The ever experimenting actor will don two different roles in his next movie to be directed by K S Ravikumar. He will start the film after finishing the post production work of Kamal Hassan's, Dasavadharam.

Vikram will also do a film with ace director Mani Rathnam next year. Director Amir too had expressed his willingness to direct him after finishing his ‘Yogi’. After being left in the lurch for two years during his Bheema days, it seems Vikram is all set to compensate for that as more and more offers come his way. Great going!!

TVS FLAME TO BE RELAUNCHED!!

The TVS Motor Co will re-launch the 125 cc Flame motorcycle with only a single spark plug ignition next week in an effort to cut losses due to the patent dispute with the makers of Pulsar, Bajaj Auto. The company that has registered a two-wheeler sales of 95,235 units in February this year as against 1,20,110 units in the same period last year is fighting a legal battle with the Bajaj auto over licensing and patent disputes. The exports witnessed a growth of about 56 per cent. The non-availability of 125 cc TVS Flame has made the company almost non existent in the executive segment, which forms half of the market. The new Flame will use a new and unique engine, specially developed, patented and licensed to TVS Motor Company by AVL, Austria, who are the world leaders in internal combustion engine technology.

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Metro rail in MUMBAI

The Mumbai Metro should be the answer to the city’s commuting woes. And Mumbai’s local trains will soon have a competitor. The three-phase Metro rail will be move across 40 km on the 14 km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar route connecting Colaba-Mahim-Charkop in Phase two. The Metro will change the way half a million people travel from the daily grime of packed trains and buses to a silent, air-conditioned mode of transport. It will also add a crucial link between Mahim-Bandra Kurla-Mankhurd on the eastern suburbs. To run on elevated platforms cutting through dense traffic; Metro is a joint venture of Anil Ambani's Reliance and the Mumbai Metropolitan Authority.

The Twenty Thousand crore project may be India's most expensive mass rapid transit system bringing smiles on the faces of more than six million people who brave perhaps the country's worst transportation system. And Delhi has shown the way where a 60 km Metro network is almost to be completed in record time. But it is not easy. With civil work on line one already in progress, authorities are optimistic Mumbaikars could get to ride the Metro in 2011.

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