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Boom time

For the first time in history, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) exceeded $3 billion in worldwide ticket sales for the year 2006. In India, SPE crossed Rs. 100 crore in gross box-office sales for the third consecutive year. It distributed the year's biggest Hollywood hit in India Casino Royale, Pirates of the Caribbean-3 and Da Vinci Code. In fact, the Bond movie has become the second highest grosser ever after Titanic in the country. Says Uday Singh, Managing Director of SPE India operations: "This inspired performance has been due to a fabulous line-up of movies and dedicated marketing and distribution across India."

Rahman scores

Mani Ratnam's Guru, featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, is being dubbed into Telugu and Tamil the music was released in the city recently and it'll be called Gurukanth in Telugu. Madhavan plays a small but pivotal role of a reporter. The Mani-A. R. Rahman combo has come out with yet another winner as the songs from Guru have already turned out to be chartbusters. The sensuous song Maaya Mayaa... sung by Mayyum Toller has a strong Arabic flavour and is the pick of the album.

SREEDHAR PILLAI

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