Jr NTR Shakti Movie Review

Film: Shakti
Cast: NTR, Ileana, Manjari Fadnis, SP Balasubrahmaniam, Manju Bhargavi, Sonu Sood, Prabhu, Jackie Sharof, Pooja Bedi etc
Director: Meher Ramesh
Producer: Ashwini Dutt
Music: Mani Sharma
Releasing date : 01-04-2011

NTR Shakti is the biggest budget movie so far in the history of Tollywood. The movie is made with whooping 45 crs budget. Here are the live updates and review of NTR Shakti.

Story:

First half is cool..Second half will take you upto the expectations don’t’ expect toomuch.

Just go and watch the movie..u don’t  regret…, don’t try to analyse ..just enjoy it..

Simply good attempt and one should appreciate the making of this film.

• As a Director Mehar ramesh did good job, It is good attempt made by telugu industry again
• Art Director Anand Sai Did Extraordinary work
• NTR is good as usual
• Interval bang is awesome and you will enjoy it
• Concept is new and delivered properly
• Second half loo koncham drag cheysinatlu anipinchindhi . Need to wait and see how audience will receive
• Songs are good , As expected “premadesam yuvarani is good”
• There is no unnecessary usage of graphics
I happily enjoyed the visual treats and technical values of the movie. Some of my friends they said. second half drag cheysaru ani. till the interview people were soo happy…end of the movie…energy levels will drop in audience. Do not compare with any other movies..( you know what I am talking about right)

The concept of Shakti pethalu” is Awesome and powerful..not easy to narrate ..but Director Mehar ramesh did good work, something that we never heard of… One should encourage this kind of movies with high treatment and visual effects to bring back the nativity of our culture and strengths of the Culture.

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Big Hero Keeps Hands her Blouse

Commercial directors often rely upon masala gestures onscreen to please the masses and make some money. However, such things require a masala image hero to do it and right now, it looks like Jagapathi Babu who had a family image is getting into it. Incidentally, he has become the topic of discussion.

Jaggu latest release is ‘Chattam’ and in one of the song sequences, it is heard that he pulls heroine Vimala Raman close to him by keeping his hand in her blouse. This has become a discussion among the public and people are now going to the cinema just for that scene. As such, it is the hype getting generated due to the talk which is drawing crowds.

Discussions are also happening on this scene and the raunchy chemistry that both Jagapathi Babu and Vimala Raman have shared in their films. Whether ‘Chattam’ will teach any good law to the public or not, the hand in blouse scene sure seems to be teaching new things to the audience.

Sexy Bomb Juicy Assets

She is the Bollywood girl Mugdha Godse who bowled all with her bikini act in the movie ‘Fashion’. Known better as a hot supermodel, here is Mugdha flaunting her beauty.

While she bends a little to give that extra bit of cleavage show, it is obvious that the juice of her assets will quench the thirst of passion in summer. As if that is not sufficient, Mugdha sexy thighs are a journey to relish, explore her folks.

Zabyn Khan Spicy Item Song Stills

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180 Telugu Tamil Movie Photo Stills

Siddharth, Priya Anand, Nitya Menon starring Bilingual film 180 movie photos gallery. Priya anand and siddharth photo shoot stills for 180 movie. Nitya Menon new cute stills from 180 movie.

Teenmaar Trailers Rocking Every Where

Producer ganesh babu announced release date of Pawan Kalyan Teenmaar movie and that is april 14th 2011.

Already released posters and trailers along with dialogues are creating sensations. Craze of this movie is slowly catching up ever since music has been released this month.

Pawan kalyan 2 characters ‘Arjun Palvai and Michael Velayudham‘ once again proved his creativity of naming and establishing a character that goes straight into crowds hearts.

Trisha and Kriti Kharbanda share romantic space with him.

Sexy Heroine Enjoying Hugging

She is the sensuous beauty Vidya Balan who will soon be seen as Silk Smitha onscreen. Given her natural sexy appeal, everyone wants to give her a tight hug. Here she is, getting sandwiched by two superstars- Shahrukh Khan and Hugh Jackman.

This happened during the FICCI event and while Vidya is taken by pleasant surprise, many other men were getting jealous of SRK and Jackman for squeezing such a delicious beauty.

Siddharth 180 First Look Teaser Trailer

Siddharth upcoming bilingual movie 180 first look teaser trailer. Siddharth is romancing with two gorgeous south Indian heroines priya anand and nitya menon.

Director Forces Sexy Heroine to Smoke

It is often an effort of the director to make his film as realistic as possible. However, there are times when he must know where to draw the line. This is something director Rohan Sippy may have forgotten when he was persuading the sexy Bipasha Basu to smoke a cigarette for a scene in his movie ‘Dum Maro Dum’.

Apparently, Bips is a strong anti-smoker and it is heard that Rohan was all over her convincing Bipasha to just do one shot. Finally, the pretty girl agreed and after many hours of practice, she did the required. However, it is heard that Rohan simply chopped the whole scene off and this enraged Bips to the fullest.

The pretty girl was literally fuming since she had to go through a lot of psychosis only to find out that the entire thing has been chopped. To make things worse, sources say Rohan didn’t have a proper explanation for the chopping. It is also heard that Bipasha made it clear to Rohan that she would never ever do that again.

Prabhas Rebel Shooting April 4th

Young Rebel star Prabhas new film titled "Rebel" was launched almost four months back ago at Annapoorna Studios. Rebel Star Krishnam Raju was clapped the first muhurat shot while Anushka switched on the camera. Akkineni Nagarjuna was also attended the launch event.

Anushka is playing the female lead role in this film. This is the second film for Prabhas and Anushka together, earlier they acted in Billa movie.

Now the latest news is that the movie regular shooting will starts from April 4th onwards. This is going to be the highest budget film in Prabhas career.

This mass entertainer film will be directed by Choreographer-turned-director Raghava Lawrence and producers J.Bhagavan and Pulla Rao are producing this film on Balaji cine media banner. S Thaman is composing the music for this flick.

The movie has Brahmanandam, Mukesh Rishi, Kelly Dorge, Sayaji Shinde, M S Narayana, Ali, Chalapathi Rao, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Supreeth and Jeeva in other important roles.

Prabhas upcoming film “Mr Perfect” is gearing up for its release on April 21st. Prabhas romancing with Kajal and Tapsee in Mr Perfect. The audio of this film was released recently at CBIT College in Hyderabad.

Shriya '2 Heart Breaks' with Rana

Lately, a lot of news has been making rounds about Daggubati Rana and Shriya. Apparently, both have been linked up to having an affair. However, the towering hunk gave his clarification as to how he knew her from college days and nothing more. However, it appears that Shriya is not too happy with Rana.

A close friend of Shriya revealed that the pretty girl was quite miffed as to why Rana has been behaving indifferently with her in the recent few weeks. When asked for the detail here is the story.

Initially Rana and Shriya used t exchange ‘wonderful bond’. But Shriya is very commercial and thought that Rana would help her career in Tollywood. Rana also promised Shriya that he would make sure to place her in Puri ‘Nenu Naa Rakshasi’.

Shriya kept hopes on that but finally Puri finalized Ileana and Rana couldn’t show his influence on him. This brought pain for Shriya. But still Rana pampered her saying that he will place her in Bollywood flick.

Shriya had second innings of hopes again. But Rana could do nothing as Bipasha was confirmed in ‘Dum Maro Dum’. Thus Shriya had two heart breaks with Rana.

Incidentally, change has been observed after Rana’s bonding with the Bollywood heroine Bipasha Basu and this is reportedly hurting Shriya.

It is heard from the source that even during public events, Rana is making it obvious that he is not seeing eye to eye with Shriya. Those who heard all this are now getting a feeling that there was ‘something something’ between the two.

'Shakti' in Tensions of 'Dwiteeya Vighnam'

If all goes well then in less than 24 hours, the costliest movie ever made in Tollywood will take the litmus test. Yes, we are talking about ‘Shakti’ which is due for release. However, an inside report is suggesting that the chances are that the film might face a horrible ‘dwiteeya vighnam’ with respect to collections and the reason for that is the World Cup.

The World cup finals are happening on April 2nd and with team India entering the finals, it is obvious that many will not come to the theatres during the matinee, 1st show and 2nd show. Logically speaking, ‘Shakti’ might suffer a ‘Dvitiya Vignam’ which is usually considered a negative sign in the cine industry.

With this, few cine members are speculating whether ‘Shakti’ should go for a postponement. But unit members say the official announcements have been made and it is too late to make any changes. So, they just have to move forward and battle it with the World Cup Finals.

SRK Releases Ra.One Look

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan took the opportunity of India-Pakistan’s clash in World Cup semi-finals to launch the first look of his superhero flick Ra.One.

While his contemporary Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran watched the match in Mohali along with other Bollywood celebs like Preity Zinta and Vivek Oberoi, SRK opted to cheer for Dhoni team from home.

"I think I should have asked Preity," the actor joked when asked why he was not in Mohali.

"Too much crowd and I had a huge group of friends and we wanted to watch the match together. It would have been difficult…much better to watch it at home," said Shah Rukh, who was wearing an Indian jersey.

The 45-year-old actor was happy to get so many eyeballs for the first look of Ra.One, whose trailer was released during the match.

"I think the whole world is watching the match today. I am happy to show the trailer when so many people were watching. The film will release in October and it is too early to speak but it is a superhero film, lots of special effects and a new step forward in our technology. I think children will love it," he added.(PTI)

Naga Chaitanya 100% Not Happy

Doubts are rising that Naga Chaitanya is not 100% happy with his new movie ‘100% Love’ directed by Sukumar and produced by Allu Aravind. News is that Chaitu feels the director’s conditions that cinema must be made in limited days and limited budget has become a minus.

Since Sukumar took 2 years for making ‘Jagadam’ and almost the same time for ‘Arya 2’, it is heard that Allu Aravind has taken a written agreement from Sukumar for doing Chaitu film. But then, Akkineni fans are angry that Allu has not used the same principle for his son Allu Arjun film ‘Badrinath’ under the direction of V V Vinayak and gave full freedom.

The other news is that Naga Chaitanya has expressed his displeasure over the audio release date of ‘100% Love’ ie April 8th as it happens to be the birthday of Allu Arjun. Chaitu is feeling that activities like birthday cake cutting during the audio release function will cause inconvenience to his fans.

I'm Not Dead: Jackie Chan

Hollywood star Jackie Chan has assured his fans that contrary to his death rumours online, he is alive and well.

The actor is the latest celebrity to join the rank of celebrities who have been killed online. The other stars, who had to fight their death on the world wide web are Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford and Miley Cyrus.

"Jackie is alive and well. He did not suffer a heart attack and die, as was reported on many social networking sites and in online news reports," the star posted a note on his Facebook page.

Chan, 56, is working hard, however, continues the note: "Jackie is fine and is busy preparing for the filming of his next movie."

The Rush Hour star has also uploaded a photo of himself dated March 29 on his website showing him meeting with top Japanese officials, to convince the skeptics.(PTI)

Srija Not Ready For Compromise

It is now more or less confirmed that megastar Chiranjeevi daughter Srija is not interested in having a compromise with her husband Sirish Bharadwaj, but wants to get separated.

On Thursday, Srija failed to turn up at the Legal Services Authority, which had summoned her following a request from Sirish that he wanted to speak to Srija privately and pacify her.

After knowing that Srija would not be coming to the authority, Sirish also did not turn up.

The legal services authority gave a fresh date of April 16 for both Srija and Sirish for appearance. In the meantime, the police authorities too have begun efforts to bring a patch-up between them.

They have so far not arrested Sirish though the court had not granted him anticipatory bail. They want to give some more time for Srija to come to an agreement with her husband.

Interestingly, Srija has not so far produced before the police the e-mails and transcripts of the text messages reportedly sent by her to her parents about the alleged physical and mental harassment by Sirish and his mother. Hence, the delay in arrest of Sirish, sources said.

Hot Lady in Black Magic

Black is always beautiful and here is one classic example for that. This is Lisa Haydon, the super model whose dad is an Indian and mom is Australian.

This tall dusky bombshell is posing in a complete black outfit with a netted gown which is almost transparent. While her bra is proudly holding her assets, Lisa gives a feast of her chocolate smooth thighs and the valley of her hot skin show. Soon, she will be seen in the Hindi movie ‘Rascals’.

Rana 'Sweating' With Bipasha

For some reason, actors tend to think that if they pretend in real life like they do onscreen, they can get away with it, especially from the media. Unfortunately, it is not so. Well, atleast that is the talking emerging from the Bollywood media circles after looking at the recent instances involving Daggubati Rana and Bipasha Basu.

It is known news that Rana discarded his affair with Bipasha as a rumor and gave gyan on chivalry and making a colleague feel ‘comfortable’. However, what he did latest amused many media folks. Apparently, a common venue was decided to interview Rana and Bipasha at the Filmistan studio to know more about their new movie ‘Dum Maro Dum’.

But then, one of the journalists revealed “Rana insisted on giving the interview from his vanity van and was doing his best to keep away from Bips, even an eye contact. Now here is the funny part. The AC in his van was not working due to a technical snag but still, Rana gave his interview despite sweating profusely. It looked like he was willing to sweat it out just for the sake of Bipasha.” Well, comments awaited from Rana on this.

Sneha Stunned for her own trailer

Actress Sneha was stunned with a fine trailer on her produced by a private college students. After seen the trailer, she told with moistured eyes that she never experienced that kind of love and affection before.

Vinnaithandi Vaaruvaaya now go to Bollywood for another hit

‘Vinnaithandi Vaaruvaaya’ was a smashing hit in Tamil. The film was directed by Gautham Menon with Simbu and Trisha in the lead. Now the National Award winning director is all set to make another hit with the Hindi version of VTV. The film will get on the floors on April 4, say reports. Right from his first film ‘Minnale,’ Gautham has been receiving offers from producers for Hindi remakes of all most all his films.

Apart from a good script another winning streak in all Gautham films are the songs. Be it Rehman or Harris, most of the songs in all his films have been chartbusters in the south. Then the directot came out with an out and out psychological thriller film ‘Nadunisi Naigal’ with Sameera Reddy in the lead. Sans any songs, because of a very fast paced and thrilling story the film received mixed reviews from critics.

The director has roped in Prateik Babbar, son of late actress Smita Patel and actor- politician Raj Babbar, for the lead role and Amy Jackson will play the female lead. The shoot for this film which was supposed to have begun already was delayed because the hero of the film being tied up with Aamir’s ‘Dhobi Ghat’, suggest reports. Now we also hear that Ms. Jackson who made her debut appearance in ‘Madarasapattinam’ opposite Arya is learning her Hindi lessons for getting the language right for the film. The music for this Hindi remake too will be authored by A.R. Rahman.

Sneha rocks in Bollywood

The latest passenger from Kollywood to get a ticket to Bollywood is Sneha. The smiling beauty of Tamil cinema has been roped in for an upcoming Hindi movie, to be directed by Revathy Varma.

Sneha will play Naseeruddin Shah’s wife in the film titled ‘Mad Dad’. Popular Bollywood actress Ayesha Takia will play her daughter. “It is a challenging role and I love being part of the film,” she says.

According to Revathy Varma, Sneha’s looks in the film will be in 1980s style. “Sneha is a talented actor. She can perform any role with ease. This is the reason behind selecting her for the role,” the director says.

Sneha, who was last seen in ‘Bhavani’, is currently acting in ‘Vidiyal’, ‘Ponnar Sankar’ and ‘Murattu Kaalai’ in Tamil. “She has given bulk dates to Mad Dad and is eager to shoot for her maiden Hindi film,” sources close to her say.

Five Beautiful songs compossed by A.R.Rahman for Ponniyan Selvan

Ponniyin Selvan of Mani Ratnam is going to have great and outstanding music than ever by AR Rahman. Both Mani Ratnam & AR Rahman together gave many outstanding songs so far by continuing the same AR Rahman has completed five songs for this magnum opus.

Rahman gave all the five songs to Mani and the directed is elated with the tunes as they were simply outstanding. Mani approved all the five songs and he will commence the shoot for the songs very soon.
Right now Mani is busy with the pre production of the film. Ponniyin Selvan has Vijay, Mahesh Babu, Arya, and Sathyaraj in lead roles while sizzling beauty Anushka will be seen opposite Vijay. The rest of the cast are yet to be finalized.

Raana paired with Bipasha Basu in Dum Mera Dum

Raana is a Telugu actor who had acted in the film Leader. He is the grandson of the famous Telugu producer T Rama Naidu. Now he has paired with Bipasu Basu in the Hindi film Dum Mera Dum.

The film is to hit the screens next month. There is a news under circulation in Bollywood circles that Bipasu has fallen in love with Raana and because there is a conflict between John Abraham and her.

In between there was also news that Raana was in love with Shreya for the past five years and now Shreya’s parted way with him because of his love for Bipasu. Raana while speaking about this said," There is no truth in these news. I know Shreya from my college days. We are friends for the last 8 years. The news that we are in love is not true. Now they have started linking me with Bipasu Basu. I don’t know whether they are doing this for the sake of the publicity of this film. But I have great respect towards Bipasu. I don’t know from where these rumors are erupting."

Arya, Madhavan, Sameera Reddy and Amala Paul in Lingusamy's new Movie

Director Lingusamy, riding high on the success of his previous outing Paiyaa, has begun the shooting for the much-discussed Vettai. The shoot kick started in Karaikudi where a song is being shot with over 200 dancers. The song which goes 'Dumma Dumma Dummaa Dummmaa..Ponnu Anga Summa Summa..' has been penned by Na.Muthukumar. All the lead actors of the movie - Arya, Madhavan, Sameera Reddy and Amala Paul feature in the song. Arya and Madhavan play brothers in this film which also stars Nasser, Thambi Ramaiah and Raana.

After shooting at Karaikudi, the team will move to Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi. Vettai has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja and has Nirav Shah taking care of the cinematography. The movie is being produced by Tirupathi Brothers who are also producing several other movies such as 'Vazhakku En 18/9' directed by Balaji Shakthivel and an untitled film which is to be directed by Prabhu Solomon.

News is that, this production house will also produce another movie in Lingusamy's direction starring Vishal and will also produce a movie to be directed by Mysskin with Arya in the lead. Looks like the Arya-Mysskin movie is still on cards!

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Esha Deol Exposing Her Tight Big Boobs & Clevage In Fitted Dress

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Vijay's support to Jaya's AIADMK

A press release from the AIADMK headquarters from Chennai states that director SA Chandrasekar had met the AIADMK chief J Jayalalitha to pledge his support to the party during the forthcoming elections. He also informed her that the members of the Ilayathalapathy Vijay Makkal Iyakkam will extend their full support in all the constituencies to ensure the party’s win.

The press note stated that Jayalalitha extends her thanks to actor Vijay and SA Chandrasekar for the support.
Vijay is currently busy shooting for Nanban and hence it is not clear if he would campaign for the AIADMK in person.

Vikram next flick in kollywood with Katrina Kaif

Vikram is wrapping up work on Deiva Thirumagan and is all set to begin work on a brand new exciting project. The film is to be called Karikalan and it will be directed by Kannan who has been responsible for the graphics in director Shankar’s movies. Karikalan is expected to be a mega budget entertainer with impressive special effects.

It is to be produced by Silver Line Film Factory, the makers of the recent Singam Puli. The buzz is that Katrina Kaif will be the heroine as she is said to be perfect for the part and the entire team is keen that she be a part of this project. Harris Jayaraj will do the music.

Sneha playain Prasanth's sister in "Ponnar Sankar"

You read it here on IndiaGlitz that Sneha is playing Prashanth’s sister in ‘Ponnar Sankar’, a historic movie based on a novel by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and directed by Thyagarajan.

Now we have more details on the character the smiling beauty is doing in the film. The name of her character is Arukkani and she has a meaty role to play in ‘Ponnar Sankar’, we learn from sources.

“Sneha’s role in the film is very crucial and she has been given enough scope to show her acting skills. This is the reason behind the actress accepting the role,” ‘Ponnar Sankar’ unit members tell us.

Produced by Lakshmi Shanthi Movies, Prashanth’s home banner, the audio of ‘Ponnar Sankar’ was launched by Karunanidhi on Sunday and the film is getting ready to hit the screens in April.

Genelia D'souza Feeling & Enjoyed By lucky extras Guys during Stage Performance

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Dhanush-Andrea in Selvaraghavan's Erandam Ulagam

Selvaraghavan as per his commitment to UTV has to complete his Dhanush-Andrea starrer Erandam Ulagam, before he can start shoot with Kamal for Viswaroopam.

Selva, the professional that he is will start the last and final schedule of the film from April 11 in Chennai. During this 40 day shoot, he has to do the remaining four songs and talkie portion of the film.

Yuvan Shankar Raja is to provide music for the film, which is yet to be recorded. Ramji is the cinematographer. If Selva completes the shoot and finishes post production work of 'this intense love story'

UTV will release Erandam Ulagam by June end.

Udhayanidhi Stalin rocking

Maybe, Udhayanidhi Stalin didn’t have a really great start as a producer as his maiden production ‘Kuruvi’ bombed at box office. But soon, he learned the tactics of being a successful producer and got through a successful way. Especially in 2010, he had a remarkable journey as all his four movies became blockbusters.

To start off with, it’s ‘Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya’ released in February that crossed 125 Days successfully in box office followed by Aarya-Amy Jackson starrer ‘Madharasapattinam’ that had 100 successful days in many theatres. More than all, it was Aarya’s ‘Boss Engira Baskaran’ became a big blockbuster and drew more crowds to the theatres in spite of ‘Endhiran’ release.

The Diwali release ‘Mynaa’ become an instant hit and stunned even the trade analysts as the results exceed their own expectations.

Marking the success of all these four movies, Udhayanidhi Stalin will have a huge celebration hosted through an event by next month herein Chennai.

It would have been a GIMME FIVE situation if his previous release ‘Manmadhan Ambu’ was also a success.

Hot tamil girl Sakshi coming back to film industry

Sakshi who starred in films like Puthaiyal, Vedam, and Manasthan got married and chose to take a break from films. The slender actress will be seen after a long hiatus in a dance sequence for director Ameer’s Adibaghavan.

The film has Jeyam Ravi and Neetu Chandra doing the lead roles. Sakshi will provide the spice in this movie with a sizzling number. A huge set has been erected for the dance and as many as 150 dancers will be flown in from abroad. Sakshi is rehearsing diligently and is thrilled to don the greasepaint and face the camera ag

Vettai started rolling in Karaikkudi

The much awaited movie of this year ‘Vettai’ has started rolling in Karaikkudi that involved the entire star-casts (Arya, Madhavan, Sameera Reddy and Amala Paul). The song was choreographed by Brinda and had around 2000 artists participating in it. Following the huge success of ‘Paiyaa’, Lingusamy and his brother Subash Chandra Bose are producing this movie under their home banner of Tirupathi Brothers.

Soon after the completion of this schedule, the entire crew will move down to Tirunalveli and Tuticorin, where the major portions o the film will be shot. Yuvan Shankar Raja has composed couple of songs while Nirav Shah is winning praises of Lingusamy for his wonderful cinematography.

The film revolves around two brothers (Arya and Madhavan) and the disputes that emerge between them.

'Mankatha' Game In Mumbai

If our ‘Madurai’ is considered ‘Thoonga Nagaram’ of Tamil Nadu, ‘Mumbai’ is ennobled for the same term across the continent of Asia. So says Venkat Prabhu, who has now started working on his scheduled in ‘Mankatha’. Right now, the team is shooting during night times in Mumbai so as to avoid the crowd thronging at the shooting spots.

But then Venkat Prabhu mentions that Mumbai is very busy in nights than day. The entire team has successfully completed on the first day schedule wrapping up by early morning.

‘Mankatha’ will have the audio launch function held in grandeur at Chennai.

India Winning Moments Pakistan in Semifinal

Mohali: It promised to be a thriller and the India versus Pakistan semi final match turned out to be a super Wednesday blockbuster as the hosts registered an emphatic 29 run win and set a date against Sri Lanka in the final match of the World Cup.
 Though there were streaks of individual brilliance when India came out to bat, it was the bowlers who played with focussed intent to defend the 260 run total. Skipper MS Dhoni switched between pace and spin regularly and his bowlers did not let him or the fans present at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium here, down.

The openers gave Pakistan a good start with Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Hafeez stroking the ball to the fence on numerous occasions. It was the reliable war-horse in Zaheer Khan who brought about the first blow when his slower ball confused Akmal and his square drive only to find a waiting Yuvraj Singh at point.

New man in Asad Shafiq and Hafeez held the inning together for all of 26 runs for the second wicket but this time it was the other pacer in Munaf Patel who dug in. An edge from Hafeez and Dhoni gladly accepted the offering.

Pakistan perhaps would rue the fact that they built partnerships but could not capitalise on any of them as the likes of Shafiq, Younis Khan and Umar Akmal all fell prey to the Indian spinners once Dhoni introduced them to replace the faster bowlers.

Yuvraj Singh in particular, ensured that his first ball duck was erased when he cleaned the stumps behind Shafiq and returned to remove Younis. Though Harbhajan too contributed with crucial wickets, it was the duo of Munaf and Ashish Nehra who returned into action to send the Pakistan tail packing.

Earlier in the day, India managed to score 260 on a track that promised a 300-plus total. This after Tendulkar enjoyed a spell of mesmerising good fortune to score 85. He was supported well by Virender Sehwag (38), Gautam Gambhir (27) and Dhoni (25). The other batsmen though, were left clueless by Pakistan’s seamer Wahab Riaz who took 5 wickets for 46 in his full quota of overs.

Suresh Raina came to the crease after Riaz struck terror and managed to lash out in the final few overs to take his team to a modest total, although it was more than the average 1st innings total in a day and night match here at Mohali, by  11 runs.

In the end though, it proved to be enough to keep the Pakistan batsmen guessing as the Indians ensured a final against Sri Lanka on the 3rd which could perhaps be as thrilling as the one on Wednesday.
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