“Faltupana.In”-Leading Marathi Info-Entertainment site crossed 3 million mark

“Marathi” language has gained prominent place in the web world with increasing number of visitors over last few years. To address need for interesting and informative content in Marathi, Nashik based creative young man ‘Kaustubh Shukla’ started Info Entertainment portal called www.faltupana.in

Due to its interesting, intriguing and informative content; portal became rally popular and one of the most visited one among Marathi net users. Especially, light hearted humorous content on the site is highly popular among youth.

 

The journey of www.faltupana.in started in June 2012 and within 3 years it crossed 3 million visitors mark. On 8^th November 2015, website received its 3 millionth hit. Notably apart from Maharashtra, portal has viewers from other parts of India as well. While Marathi population residing in the US, UAE and Europe also look at www.faltupana.in as their favourite Marathi portal.

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Top 7 recipes you must eat in Diwali

Diwali is most important festival in India and celebrated across all parts. The festival is light is a divine celebration for victory of good over bad. Apart from lighting and firecrackers one most important angle about Diwali celebration is unique recipes which are prepared.

 

Although due to today’s modern and urbanized lifestyle, people spend less time at home during celebrations. But Diwali has always been exception where entire family comes together to celebrate happiness.

Let us look at Top 7 recipes you must eat in Diwali

Sweet Shankarpali

Popular snack which is prepared both as sweet and salty. However, sweet Shankarpali is more famous during Diwali.

Ingredients: Ghee, Sugar, Milk, Maida/ wheat flour, Oil and salt

 

Chakali

Spiral shape snack is very famous due to its taste as well as crispiness. Diwali faral is incomplete without Chakali.

Ingredients for Chakali Flour: Chana Dal, Urad Dal, White Rice, Cumin seeds and Coriander seeds
Ingredients for Chakali Recipe: Chakali Bhajani (Chakali Flour), water, Asafoetida Powder, Sesame seeds, Carom Seeds (Ajwain), Red Chili Powder, Ghee, Salt and Oil

 

Karanji

Karanji also known as Gujiya is traditional sweet made during Diwali as part of faral. It is filled with soft coconut, jaggery, semolina and spices.  

Ingredients: Grated Coconut(dry / fresh), powdered Sugar / Jaggery, Cardamom Powder, Poppy seeds , roasted Fine Rava (Semolina) all for filling while Maida, Pure Ghee, Milk, salt and oil for covering.

 

Poha Chivda

Poha Chivda made from rice flakes is one of most popular Diwali recipe in India. Amazing part of taste in Poha Chivda is you get all flavors such as spicy, salty and sweet.

Ingredients: Thin Poha, puffed rice / murmura, peanuts, chana dalia, cashewnuts, raisins, sliced dry coconut, green chilies, coriander powder, cumin powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, safoetida, sugar, salt and oil

 

Anarsa

Popular Diwali sweet made from white rice and jiggery is very famous in Maharashtra and Central India. Unique taste of Anarsa comes due to high proportion of jiggery added in it.

Ingredients: white Rice, grated jiggery, Poppy seeds (khaskhas) and Oil/ Ghee

 

 

Besan Laddu

Besan laddu is very popular sweet item across all parts of India. During Diwali sweet and mithai menu is incomplete without Besan Laddu.

Ingredients: Besan, Ghee (melted), Powdered Sugar, Cardamom Powder (optional), Raisins, cashew-nuts, Almonds chopped

Sev

Diwali faral is perfect mix of sweet, salty and spicy items. Sev is considered as necessary Diwali faral item served with Chivada, Chakali and sweets. Cripsy Sev made in variety of sizes makes Diwali snack interesting and tempting.

 

These are Top 7 recipes you must eat in Diwali to celebrate festival of lights. But nothing would give you more joy than enjoying these items with family and friends together.

 

“Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” crossed Rs.52.83cr collections in Week One

Farhan Akhtar starrer film “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” which is based on legendary athlete Milkha Singh received huge response from Indian audiences. Driven by solid performances coupled with intriguing screenplay; movie managed to strike right cord with film lovers.

Especially, lead actor Farhan Akhtar’s performance got lot of positive feedback from both public as well as critics. As a result, “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” managed to collect Rs.52.83cr at the end of its first week. With no significant releases in the coming week, film is expected to perform well in the second week as well.

After recent announcement by Maharashtra State Government to grant tax exemption for the film; Bhaag Milkha Bhaag would benefit even more from “Tax Free” status.

60th National Film Awards: Maharashtra establishes its supremacy

Recently announced 60^th National Film Awards created wave of celebrations especially across Marathi film industry. The legendary actor Vikram Gokhale received best actor award for his magical performance in Anumati. He shared his award with Irrfan Khan – Paan Singh Tomar. While charming girl from Kolhapur, Usha Jadhav bagged best actress award for the film “Dhag”. Shivaji Lotan Patil was adjudged best director for “Dhag”. 

As Marathi film community dominated the show, other notable winners are:

Non-feature film category: Best Director – Vikram Pawar for “Kataal”

Best playback singer (Female): Aarti Anklekar Tikekar for Samhita

Best Music Director: Shailender Barve for Samhita (Marathi)

Congratulations to all winners from our team.

 

Gangnam Style create history by crossing 1 billion YouTube views

The entire globe had been chanting only one word during 2012 – “Gangnam Style. The song by South Korean musician with famous dancing step popularly called as “Gangnam Style” crossed 1 billion views on video sharing website – YouTube. This is a record of highest number of views by any video overtaking Justin Bieber’s single “Baby”.

Gangnam Style was released in July 2012 and being watched by 1 out of 7 people in the world as total global population is approximately 7 billion. The popularity of video is so huge that more than 40% of global internet user population of 2.4 billion watched this fascinating video.

Salman Khan starrer Dabangg 2 gets historic opening

Continuing his dream run at box-office, Salman Khan got huge response for latest release “Dabangg 2”. On the first day, the film collected record breaking Rs.19.25cr which is highest non holiday opening ever by any film.

Dabangg 2 is sequel of previous block buster Dabangg. The film’s star cast includes Sonakshi Sinha, Azbaaz Khan, Prakaash Raj and Vinod Khanna. Budget of the film was approximately Rs.40cr.

Aamir Khan starrer supernatural thriller “Talaash” joins Rs.100cr club

Supernatural thriller “Talaash” starring Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan along with Bollywood divas Rani Mukerje and Kareena Kapoor hit jackpot by crossing Rs.100cr of box office collections.

Talaash becomes fastest film to cross 100cr mark in just 10 days by collecting 85.38cr in domestic markets while 46.40cr in overseas. In spite of several new films releasing in last two weeks, Reema Kagti’s directorial venture never ran out of steam at theatre and continued to attract audiences.

Famous comedian Jaspal Bhatti died in a car accident

One of finest comedian India ever produced and maker of famous TV serials like Flop Show and Ulta Pulta, Jaspal Bhatti (57 years) died in a car accident. He was travelling in his car at 1:30 when vehicle crashed into the tree near Shahkot in Jalandhar district. Jaspal Bhatti was accompanied by his son and female actress of his upcoming film “Power Cut”. Jaspal Bhatti would not only be remembered for his contribution as comedy artist but his active role on various social issues.

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Legendary film director Yash Chopra passed away

One of the greatest film director and producer of Indian film Industry, Yash Chopra, died in Mumbai today at Lilawati Hospital. He was suffering from dengue for last few days. Yash Chopra who died at the age of 80 years was founder of “Yash Raj Films”.

Yash Chopra who started his film career as assistant film director made his directional debut with Dhool ka Phool in 1959. He directed 22 films including superhits such as Waqt, Daag, Deewar, Trishul, Kabhi Kabhi, Mashaal, Chnadni Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai and Vee-Zara. His last film as a director which would be released on Diwali this year is “Jab Tak Hai Jaan”

We offer our last respect for this legendary film maker.

Salman Khan change the rule of entertainment industry in India

Driven by series of mega successful films, Salman Khan has changed the way entertainment industry would work in India. Ek tha tiger star would pay his producers fixed amount in future projects instead charging them any money. Under this new model, Salman Khan would pay production cost plus additional profit to his producers while any excess profit earned above would be retained by the actor.

This new move by Salman Khan is surely going to change the way bollywood does its business in the future. Although new model limits profits earned by production house, it also transfers entire risk of the film on the leading actor like Salman. Hence if film does not do well as the box office then financial burden would solely lie on Salman Khan and vice versa.

Kareena starrer “Heroine” fetched Rs.25 crore in the first weekend

Madhur Bhandarkar’s latest film “Heroine” which featured Bollywood sensation Kareena kapoor in a lead received mixed response from audiences across the country. With first day collection of Rs.8 crore, film started on positive note finishing the weekend with approximate collections of Rs. 25 crore. Multiplexes did better business compared with single screens while metro cities fared better than smaller town in terms of percentage of collections.

The script of Heroine focuses on life of film actress and her journey showing various shades of life. The movie is heavily female lead oriented with little importance given to male characters. Although Kareena Kapoor’s performance got lot of positive feedback by critics as well as common viewers, Madhur Bhandarkar’s directions witnessed repetitiveness due to overlap of story with his earlier film “Fashion”.

Ranbir Kapoor – Priyanka Chopra Starrer “Barfi” gets good response

Barfi, the new film released on Friday which stars Bollywood sensation Ranbir Kapoor along with actress Priyanka Chopra received positive feedback from audiences. The film collected Rs. 8.50 crore on the first day of business.

Ranbir Kapoor who is known for taking challenges by acting in variety of roles in the past has delivered another majestic performance in the film. While Priyanka Chopra in de-glam avatar makes her mark.

Black Comedy “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro” to hit theatres again on 26th October

Kundan Shah’s classic black comedy – “Jaane  Bhi Do Yaaro” will be re-release on 26^th October 2012. PVR Director’s Rare and National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) would be jointly re-releasing digitally restored version of the film.

The film would be showed across Indian cities exclusively in PVR Cinemas only. Legendary actor Naseeruddin Shah has played central role in this political satire.

Manoj Kumar Raina becomes the first Crorepati of KBC -6

Popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati (Season 6) hosted by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan got its first crorepati of this season. Indian Railways employee Manoj Kumar Raina won Rs.1 crore by played magnificently.

Manoj who is 48 years old had to leave his house in Kashmir due to militancy and since then he is living in Jammu with his family. After winning the prize, Manoj wants to rebuild his destroyed house in the valley.   

Raaz 3 opens with good response

Horror flick – Raaz 3 had a very good first day at the box office as it collected about Rs.10.5cr. Bhatt’s typical blending of horror and sex was well received by audiences across cities. Especially, film’s 3D version fared better than 2D version.

This is biggest opening for Emraan Hashmi among all his solo starrer films. He justified his serial kisser image in Raaz 3 and had 20 minutes of lip lock with co-star Esha Gupta

Akshay Kumar starrer “Joker” flopped

·         Highly anticipated new Akshay Kumar film – Joker fared dismally at the box office. During 3 days of weekend, it collected only 15 crore rupees and ran out of steam

·         After the blockbuster performance of Salman Khan’s “Ek Tha Tiger”, film industry was hoping for a stronger performance from another dependable star Akshay Kumar

·         Weak screenplay coupled with predicable performances did not help the movie

·         With budget of more than Rs. 45 crore, the movie would certainly result in huge losses for the stakeholders