MUMBAI: As India celebrates its Diamond jubilee of Independence and the country celebrates, BIG 92.7 FM, Kanpur has decided to do something different and live its brandline ‘Suno Sunao, Life Banao‘. BIG 92.7 FM, India‘s No. 1 FM Station, started its week long Independence Day activity Hum 60 Saath Hain today in the city. Hum 60 Saath Hain is a week long activity which will see BIG 92.7 FM jocks take under-privileged kids for a joyride for an entire week. BIG 92.7 FM‘s popular breakfast show jock RJ Peeyush along with RJ Anamika, RJ Harsh and RJ Shivani will give 60 kids each day, a time of their life!

Beginning today, every single day will see 60 children get to have a great time with the jocks?as part of the fun-filled, action packed days with activities such as watching a movie, visiting the zoo, taken to the malls and of course a visit to the BIG 92.7 FM studios. Children will also be allowed to showcase their talent on the breakfast show - BIG Chai with favorite jock RJ Peeyush from 7 am to 11 am on weekdays.

Given that it is the 60th anniversary of Independence, the Station has chosen to take 60 children each day for an outing. More than 300 under-privileged children will be the part of this campaign.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Rehaan Khan, Cluster Head - UP, BIG 92.7 FM, said, "It is our endeavor to impact people‘s lives positively when living our brand-line Suno Sunao, Life Banao! Independence Day is celebrated across the country, and we wanted the under-privileged kids to also enjoy our freedom too! We look forward to giving the kids a great time as our jocks enjoy themselves with the kids too."

Flow of the activity:

9th August Interaction and Lunch with Kids at Mc Donalds.

10th August Children will go for a round at Rave Moti Mall and will visit Big Bazaar.

11th August Special screening of movie & refreshment

12th August Kids have a day with Harsh, Peeyush & Aditi (games, singing and dancing competition)

13th August Studio Visit & Kids to be with jocks on their respective shows

14th August Children to visit zoo.

15 August Kids to take part in the BIG walk, Independence Day Rally.

MUMBAI: This is the Recap episode, where you can see the brilliant performance of all the prelims and wildcard winner of TGILC3.The winners of the prelim round got direct entry into the semifinals but all the runners had to fight tooth and nail in the wild card round to enter the semifinals. Finally after the tough competition we had total of 14 semifinalists in TGILC3. To enjoy the best moments of TGILC3 watch our recap episode # 25 on Aug 10, 9 pm.

Friday, aug 10, 9 PM - (Recap Episode)

This is our Independence Day special. Shekhar and Siddhu talk about 60 years of Independence of both India and Pakistan. Secondly the contestants from both India and Pakistan came together to Participate in our Independence Day special episode. Brilliant performances were delivered by our Champions, Rajiv Nigam, Raju Srivastav and Gaurav Sharma. Rajiv Nigam delivers a brilliant Satire on Aazadi ki Budhiya. All this on Sat, 9 pm, Star One.

Saturday, aug 11, 9 PM ? Independence Day Special.

MUMBAI: This weekend sit back, switch on your TV and savour as HBO celebrates excellence in cinema with an enthralling line up of Academy Award winning movies for its viewers every night at primetime from Friday to Sunday.The channel will showcase some of the most critically acclaimed movies in recent times this weekend featuring tales of courage, love and conspiracy which got acclaim and awards all around.

Starting with Steven Spielberg?s war epic Saving Private Ryan on August 10, HBO will air the TV premiere of the forbidden love saga Brokeback Mountain on 11 August followed up another first on TV, Syriana, the espionage drama on 12 August.

Saving Private Ryan will telecast on Friday, 10 August at 9:00 pm. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director for Steven Spielberg, this mega blockbuster is credited with authentically recreating the setting and the horror of D- Day in Normandy. The story centers on the mission to recover one soldier, a Private Ryan (Matt Damon), with an 8-man team, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks). This is a team divided between duty and fear, as they risk their lives to rescue a soldier who is after all, just a name to them. Hanks earned an Academy Award nomination for his powerful performance as the woeful veteran whose only real goal is to return home to his wife. Saving Private Ryan was well received by audiences and garnered considerable critical acclaim, winning several awards for film, cast and crew as well as earning significant returns at the box office.

Brokeback Mountain, a touching tale of love will be on air on Saturday, 11 August, only on HBO See It First. Ang Lee?s multi award winning and heart-wrenching drama chronicles the forbidden love shared between two cowboys. Brokeback Mountain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was honoured with Best Picture and Best Director accolades from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Golden Globe Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards among many other organizations and festivals. Brokeback Mountain had the most nominations (eight) for the 78th Academy Awards, where it won three: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. The film was widely considered to be a front-runner for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In all the film won 75 awards across the planet at various film festivals and honours.

Syriana- Sunday, 12 August, 2007 at 8:00 pm shows George Clooney as a veteran CIA operative who is into his last mission in the Middle East. But his retirement won?t come easy as he gets sucked into the vortex of a dangerous conspiracy involving the government, corruption, oil and terrorism and double crosses. Matt Damon plays an executive for an energy company involved in the deadly conspiracy. The movie was inspired by the true story of a former CIA agent Robert Baer who wrote a book called ?See No Evil: The True story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA?s War on Terrorism.? George Clooney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Agent Bob Barnes and Stephen Gaghan?s script was nominated by the Academy for Best Original Screenplay. Syriana is a caustic and cynical political thriller with an absorbing plot and a message that leaves no room for misinterpretation.

HBO brings the best of Hollywood by premiering top blockbusters on television first in South Asia through exclusive licensing deals with four major Hollywood studios ? Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment (Columbia/ TriStar), Universal and Warner Bros.

Prime time viewing on HBO includes HBO Blockbuster Of The Month, a special television event that premieres a mega blockbuster movie every month, HBO See It First, which premieres a new box office hit each week throughout the year; HBO Sunday Super Hits, which showcases the blockbuster hits, star-studded hits, favourite genre hits, Asian hits, highly acclaimed hits and so much more. In addition, HBO features at least three new movie showcases every month to offer viewers an interesting mix of Hollywood movies based on exciting themes.

Wrapping up CNN?s dedicated week of coverage ?Countdown Beijing?, host Anjali Rao talks to Deng in this weekend?s Talk Asia. She discusses her experience of winning Gold at the Olympics, her role as ambassador for Beijing?s 2008 Olympics bid and her new job as the deputy director of the Olympic Village - before facing Anjali in a ping-pong showdown.

Standing just 4 foot 10, one of the toughest obstacles Deng Yaping faced was often her small stature. Despite winning national competitions, Deng was never on the coaches? first-string list and had to work particularly hard to get a place in the national team. Her single mindedness and training eventually paid off when she won a total of 4 gold medals at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympics, earning her the nickname (translated from Chinese) "the smallest giant".

After her surprising retirement at the age of just 24, Deng took up another challenge, namely promoting sport in China and promoting China to the world. The Olympian tells Anjali how difficult it was to persuade voters at the International Olympic Committee as most of them had never set foot in the country and some held rather subjective and stereotyped views of China.

While sport fans speculate how many gold medals China will win in 2008, Deng asks the media to tone down expectations as she knows all too well how pressure and national expectations can burden an athlete. She also reveals to Anjali her mission to instil Chinese traditional culture in the Olympic village, before taking her on in a somewhat one-sided table tennis match.

Airtimes: Indian Standard Times

Saturday, 11 August at 0500, 2030

Sunday, 12 August at 1830

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