MUMBAI: Omar shares his verdict on ?Wanted? directed by noted choreographer-turned-director Prabhu Deva starring the handsome hunk Salman Khan and the beautiful Ayesha Takia in the lead roles. Radhe (Salman Khan) is a hard-core gangster who works for Gani Bhai, the dreaded Mafioso. The film revolves around two gangs. Whether it‘s the Golden gang or Data Pawle‘s Gang, everybody wants the biggest piece of the lucrative cake that is Mumbai and the only way to get it is to eliminate whoever gets in the way.

Next on Omar?s card is the much hyped and most talked about ?Dil Bole Hadippa? from the famous Yash Raj Films banner. Directed by Anurag Singh and produced by Aditya Chopra, starring the glamorous Rani Mukherji and the talented Shahid Kapoor. Rani Mukherji is back after a long break to win hearts of many with her new and fit look. The film tells the story of a girl Veera who lives in a small village but dreams of playing cricket in the big league. She meets Rohan, who is an accomplished captain of a county cricket team in England. Rohan returns to India to captain his father‘s cricket team which has been losing consecutively for the last 8 years. The number ?Discowale khisko? is a foot-tapping number to watch out for.

Omar Qureshi gives his take on the latest, ?Blue Oranges?, starring Rajit Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri and Pooja Kanwal. The film is based on Shalini, the daughter of a very rich father who always wished to be an artist. Shalini was brought up in Goa where she joins the post-graduate institute of arts to pursue her artistic ambitions. It is here that she meets Kevin, who is from a modest family background and a brilliant painter.

Tune in to ?The ZoOm Review Show? to find out which movie is set for the top this Friday, September 18, 2009, 7:30pm only on ZoOm.

MUMBAI: Injuries may have forced them to take a temporary break from playing, but Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir continue to stand at the forefront of Indian cricket. The two lead the points tally for the Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year 2008, followed by their Captain - Mahendra Singh Dhoni and bowlers Harbhajan Singh and Ishant Sharma.

The Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year Award is decided on a two stage system. In the first stage, the points scored determines the top five contender?s shortlist. In the second stage, all Indian cricketers who have played at least one test match or five ODIs, are invited to vote for their choice of player for the Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year. This enables a qualitative element as well.

With votes still coming in from Indian cricketers across the country, the race is too close to call and the ultimate winner will only be known at the Castrol Awards for Cricketing Excellence ceremony to be held in Mumbai on 17th September ?09.

The Castrol Awards for Cricketing Excellence have honored the present, past and future of Indian cricket since their inception in 1997-98. Previous years‘ winners of the Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year have been Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar.

The Award ceremony will also include The Castrol Indian Junior Cricketer of the Year Award (Ravindra Jadeja) and The Castrol Lifetime Achievement Award (G R Vishwanath). Four new awards, instituted from 2008, will also be given away and these include The Castrol Indian Test Cricketer of the Year, The Castrol Indian ODI Cricketer of the Year, The Castrol Indian Bowler of the Year and The Castrol Indian Batsman of the Year. The Awards are for the calendar year 2008.

Gambhir, Johnson and Strauss in running for both Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer the Year at ceremony set for 1 October in Johannesburg

Gautam Gambhir, Mitchell Johnson, Andrew Strauss and Mahendra Singh Dhoni have all been short-listed for the top honour at the LG ICC Awards 2009.

The votes have now been cast by the independent 25-person academy and these four men are the ones in the running to receive the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for Cricketer of the Year at a glittering ceremony in Johannesburg on 1 October.

In addition, Gambhir, Johnson and Strauss are also short-listed for the Test Player of the Year alongside Sri Lanka?s Thilan Samaraweera at the sixth annual LG ICC Awards, presented in association with the Federation of International Cricketers? Associations (FICA).

Dhoni is also in contention to retain the ODI Player of the Year award he won last year as he is short-listed in that category with India team-mates Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag as well as West Indies? Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

The Twenty20 International Performance of the year sees two Pakistan players in the short-list, Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul, who are joined by West Indies? Chris Gayle and Sri Lanka?s Tillakaratne Dilshan.

This year?s LG ICC Awards includes eight individual prizes and also features the selection of the Test and ODI Teams of the Year and the award to the side that has adhered most to the Spirit of Cricket.

The long-lists of nominations were made by a five-man ICC selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain and current chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee Clive Lloyd. The panel also includes former players such as India?s Anil Kumble, Mudassar Nazar of Pakistan, Bob Taylor of England and New Zealand?s Stephen Fleming.

The short-lists were created after the individual player awards were voted for by an academy of 25 highly credentialed cricket personalities from around the world*. The academy includes a host of former players, respected members of the media as well as representatives of the Emirates Elite Panels of ICC Umpires and ICC Match Referees.

The nominations from the Women?s Cricketer of the Year were decided after a committee of former players, current administrators and journalists created a long-list. This in turn was broken down into a short-list by a separate 25-person voting academy.

This year?s short-list for the Women?s Cricketer of the Year sees the return of last year?s winner, England captain Charlotte Edwards along with team-mate Claire Taylor and Australia?s Shelley Nitschke.

The Spirit of Cricket award was voted on by all international captains as well as all members of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees. The Umpire of the Year award was voted on by the captains and the match referees based on the umpires? performance statistics.

The Emerging Player of the Year nominees short-list features two Australians, Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle, as well as Jesse Ryder of New Zealand and England?s Graham Onions.

To qualify for that award a player must be under the age of 26 and have played fewer than five Tests and/or 10 ODIs at the start of the voting period.

The Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year award serves to recognise and reward the efforts in all international matches of the outstanding cricketers from the teams outside the ICC Full Members.

This year?s short-list sees the return of last year?s winner, Ryan ten Doeschate of the Netherlands, who is joined by his team-mate Edgar Schiferli. Ireland?s ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier-winning captain William Porterfield and Canada?s Rizan Cheema complete the list.

Based on the period between 13 August 2008 and 24 August 2009, the LG ICC Awards 2009 ? presented in association FICA ? take into account performances by players and officials in a remarkable period for the game.

That period includes such high-profile events as the ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England, the ICC Women?s World Cup 2009 in Australia and the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2009 in South Africa, as well as several bilateral Test and ODI series.

The LG ICC Awards ceremony is now in its sixth year and this year it will be held in Johannesburg to coincide with the ICC Champions Trophy 2009. Previous ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007) and Dubai (2008).

LG ICC Awards 2009

Short-lists of nominees (in alphabetical order)

Individual Awards

Cricketer of the Year
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
Andrew Strauss (Eng)

Test Player of the Year
Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
Mitchell Johnson (Aus)
Thilan Samaraweera (SL)
Andrew Strauss (Eng)

ODI Player of the Year
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind)
Virender Sehwag (Ind)
Yuvraj Singh (Ind)

Emerging Player
Ben Hilfenhaus (Aus)
Graham Onions (Eng)
Jesse Ryder (NZ)
Peter Siddle (Aus)

Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year
Rizwan Cheema (Can)
Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned)
William Porterfield (Ire)
Edgar Schiferli (Ned)

Twenty20 International Performance of the Year

Shahid Afridi (Pak) for scoring 51 off 34 balls and taking 2-16 against South Africa during the ICC WT20 semi-final in Nottingham on 18 June

Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL) for scoring 96 not out off 57 balls against the West Indies in the semi-final of the ICC WT20 at The Oval on 19 June

Chris Gayle (WI) ? for hitting 88 off 50 balls against Australia during the ICC WT20 at The Oval on 6 June

Umar Gul (Pak) for taking 5-6 against New Zealand during the ICC WT20 at The Oval on 13 June

Women?s Cricketer of the Year
Charlotte Edwards (Eng)
Shelley Nitschke (Aus)
Claire Taylor (Eng)

Umpire of the Year
Aleem Dar
Tony Hill
Asad Rauf

Simon Taufel

Spirit of Cricket
Australia
England
New Zealand
Sri Lanka

MUMBAI: STAR World invites its viewers to celebrate Navratra with 10 nights of non-stop fun and laughter. Unwind with a double bill of the entire season 3 ?How I Met Your Mother? between 11pm to 12am from the 19th to the 28th of September only on STAR World!

Commemorating the festival of joy, STAR World has planned a special package of laughter and cheer for its viewers. Ringing in its 4th Birthday, How I Met Your Mother that premiered in America on 19th September 2005 will bring back the amusing tales from the life of Ted Mosby in the quest to find/meet his wife as narrated to his children. While two episodes of How I Met Your Mother Season 3 will be aired back to back between 11pm to 12am, it will be followed by your favorite sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S at 12am.

Don?t miss your daily dose of laughter and cheer with Navratra Delight from 19th to 28th September only on STAR World!

MUMBAI: India‘s most popular melody station, Radio City 91.1FM is celebrating Music ka Sabse Bada Jashan, Musical-E-Azam, Season 3, with a line up of the best talent from the music industry. Today on Day 7th,
the air in Radio City was filled with whistles by the one and only Kunal Ganjawala. He was one person who connected so well with Mumbai city on Radio City‘s breakfast show ‘Kasa Kai Mumbai‘, where he spoke of the blessings with the new Worli Sea Link and speedy turn out of the Metro for Mumbai. The studio was in full josh with Kunal singing some of his famous tracks such as Dupatta Tera, Oh humdam suniyo re and not to forget the latest Raat ke dhai baaje from Kaminey. Listeners and winners of the on air contest queued up to
meet and personally greet the star singer at the Radio City studios.

It all started with him whistling to the tunes of some music that led to the discovery of Kunals captivating voice, as he was ragged on campus and made to sing the songs he whistled. Kunal personally dedicated the song Bheege Honth Tere to Mumbai set against the rains, where the city gets beautifully drenched. All this and much more was revealed during his t?te-?-t?te with RJ Archana and Salil and his fans, all at the Live and Unplugged session at Radio City Musical-E-Azam - Season 3. The environment was in its most Whatte Fun mode with Kunal Ganjawala, singing for his listeners and interacting with them.

The festival, now in its 2nd and last week, gets into a much more exciting mode with the presence of music industry‘s renowned stars Shaan, Raghav Sachar and Sajid/ Wajid stepping in Live & Unplugged only into Radio City studios in the coming 3 days.

MUMBAI: What happens when sportspersons are put through medical examination to verify his age and are proved wrong? NewsX showcases FOREVER YOUNG, another exclusive by the channel which raises the questions and tries to find the answers. How do you establish a sportspersons age through medical examinations? How many times has this issue been raised in the past? Did we really deserve to win the Junior Hockey World Cup in 2001? And why is it such a big problem in India?

The special show revolves around the issue of overage in sports. This is not the first time the issue has been raised and it is recurring in all sports in India, especially hockey. A camp was held in Bhopal for the Under-18 Asian cup hockey players selection. Commenting on the issue Mr. AK Bansal, Coach, Junior hockey team admitted that 48 of 53 boys were overage after medical tests.

Indian hockey legend, Colonel Balbir Singh, added, ?In 2001 when India won the Junior Hockey World Cup everyone knew there were overage players. According to me at least 5-6 players were overage.?

Adding on Mohammad Aslam Khan, Former Selector, Indian Hockey Federation said, ?This has been happening for really long in India. And Pakistan is in the same category. Most of these players are being churned out from Sports Authority of India and the blame goes on the authority.? He also added, ?We are cheating the people ? The biggest problem with this country in sports is that nobody is taking responsibility for something that goes wrong?

Former hockey captain, Pargat Singh shared his views and said, ?We have an instance where there were two brothers with a 4 months age gap. Coach the coaches, as they are harming the game instead of promoting it.?

Catch the show exclusively on NewsX as Colonel Balbir Singh, a selector at the camp in Bhopal, joins in the discussion along with Mohammad Aslam Khan in the studio. Pargat Singh, who started the use of identification cards and has been trying to fight the problem, discusses his side of story too. Join them on FOREVER YOUNG as they share their perspective on the issue.

Tune in to catch the action on FOREVER YOUNG on Tuesday, 15 September at 7:30 PM only on NewsX.

Repeats: Wednesday, 2:30 AM, 11:30 AM