India news from Cricinfo

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

RRKK releasing on May first week

Producer Dil Raju’s upcoming Srivas directed Rama Rama Krishna Krishna, starring Ram in the lead role, has been scheduled to grace the screens during the first week of May, the makers informed. The audio of the film was released recently by Jr. NTR at Durgam Cheruvu, Hyderabad.

At present the re-recording works are going on. A song is left to be completed and it would be canned in a few days. Ram plays the role named Ramakrishna. Bindhu Madhavi and Priya Anand are the heroines. The film has music by MM Keeravani. Dil Raju said that the film has all the elements to entertain all sections of the audiences.

Sehwag out of World Twenty20

Virender Sehwag prepares his bat for another onslaught, Nagpur, December 17, 2009

Indian opener Virender Sehwag has suffered a shoulder injury which will rule him out of the ICC World Twenty20 beginning in the West Indies on April 30. Sehwag has been advised rest for three to four weeks and has been replaced by Tamil Nadu batsman M Vijay in the 15-man squad, the BCCI said in a statement.

The BCCI statement, however, did not mention how or when Sehwag sustained the injury. Sehwag played all 14 IPL league matches for Delhi Daredevils, scoring 356 runs at an average of 25, his last appearance being on April 18. He was deemed fit when included in the World Twenty20 squad so it's likely the injury occurred during Delhi's IPL campaign.

The blow is similar to the one India suffered before the 2009 ICC World Twenty20. Sehwag had sustained a shoulder injury during the 2009 IPL in South Africa, shortly before the World Twenty20 was due to begin. He travelled with the squad to England but was not able to play a game and India were eliminated without winning a game in the second round.

His replacement, Vijay, has been in aggressive form for Chennai Super Kings, scoring 417 runs, including a century, at an average of 38. He has been India's back-up opener for Tests and ODIs as well.

Salman refuses Abhishek's film

It’s not an admission many leading stars would make, but 45-year-old Salman Khan is no longer reluctant to admit that he can’t be expected to play a young boy any longer. Recently, he turned down Ahmed Khan’s assistant Abhishek Dogra’s film as he felt he was a bit too old for the role.

Abhishek met Salman at his residence at Galaxy Apartments, Bandra to narrate the story of his film. The meeting lasted for an hour-and-half. After Abhishek finished his narration, Salman said he wouldn’t do his film and suggested that he cast a younger actor instead.

A source says, “While that’s what he said, it could have been that Salman actually refused Abhishek’s film because it is a three-hero project and he didn’t want to share too much screen space with two other actors.”
However, Abhishek didn’t leave completely empty handed. “Salman suggested a different ending to the script and the aspiring filmmaker agreed that it made for a far better climax than what he had envisaged. Abhishek is incorporating Salman’s input.”

But while he won’t be working with Salman in this film, Abhishek is keeping his fingers crossed for the future. “I’m earnestly looking forward to work with Salman one day. But I must say I don’t know how to thank him enough for his extremely valuable input to my script.”

Google Chrome users beware of unsolicited emails

BitDefender's warning to people who use Google Chrome and its functionalities to browse the net and to organize information. Cybercriminals are setting their minds on exploiting this environment to spread malware and steal user information.

The story goes like this: Users may receive an unsolicited e-mail which announces that a new extension of a browser has been developed to facilitate access to documents from e-mails. Apparently unsuspicious link is provided, and the recipients are advised to follow it in order to download the new extension. Once they click the link, they are redirected to a look-alike of the Google Chrome Extensions page, which, instead of the promised extension, provides them with a fake application that infects their systems with malware.



Although the sham application has the same description as that of an original Google Chrome Extension, the first sign the more inquisitive users will get about it not being what they were looking for should be the fact that instead of the expected ".crx" extension, it features a flamboyant ".exe" tail.

BitDefender identified it as Trojan.Agent.20577 the application modifies the Windows HOSTS file in an attempt to block access to Google and Yahoo web pages. This allows the malware creators to intercept the victim's calls to reach the respective sites. Through this, the innocent users will be redirected to the cybercriminal's own malware-laden versions of those sites.