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Ranby Denies Karan SRK Flick ..

Ranbir Kapoor and clarifications have become rather synonymous. The young actor isn't amused at insinuations that he thumbed down a Dharma Productions venture alongside Shah Rukh Khan.

"I loved working for Karan Johar's production 'Wake Up Sid' and it was a great experience," states RK in a newspaper chat. "And honestly, I haven't been offered any other film by Karan, so the question of turning it down does not arise."

As regards SRK, Ranby opines that, "I'd love to work with Shah Rukh Khan. I've grown up watching his movies."

On the anvil for RK are 'Anjaana Anjaani' helmed by Siddharth Anand alongsidePriyanka Chopra; Imtiaz Ali's 'Rockstar' and Anurag Basu's 'Silence'.

Tendulkar's decision to play smelt of heroism.

India: The Mumbai Indians were the people's choice. There was admiration behind the campaign Sachin Tendulkar managed for his team this year and how he battled injury.

The venue was buzzing with support for Tendulkar as the great man chose to disregard injury and make himself available. The cameras kept panning at him - it was meant to be his night. It could still have been his night. But his team fared poorly.

They were ordinary in the final eight overs - catches were dropped, as it turned out twice crucially in favour of Suresh Raina, who was Chennai's hero. The bowlers invariably followed up good balls with some loose stuff.

When the chase began, Tendulkar needed positive partners. Opener Shikhar Dhawan was all at sea and even though Abhishek Nayar hit two sixes, what these two did was to force Tendulkar to take risks and lose composure.

It was apparent Mumbai were beginning to lag behind in the chase. A couple of decisions in the run chase have caused heartburn among the Mumbai Indian fans.

Particularly, Harbhajan Singh and Jean Paul Duminy being sent ahead of Kieron Pollard. Tendulkar believed Pollard was best suited for the final dash rather than be confused with a mixed role in the middle overs where he would have had to defend and attack in equal measure.

The jury is still out on this judgment. A couple of more overs for Pollard might have done the trick.

Sticking to Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu, his trusted youngsters up the order, would have helped. Tendulkar batted as bravely as he could under the circumstances.

After the final, Tendulkar greeted cricketers and officials with his left hand, protecting the injured right one. It conveyed how heroic his decision to play had been.

The champagne moment was of course reserved for Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He played a critical hand when Chennai were floundering and his bowling changes were spot-on.

Dhoni was also his usual formidable self behind the stumps, picking up catches and effecting run outs. His positioning of Matthew Hayden to get rid of Pollard was a classic piece of captaincy.

Their catching too was in contrast to the Mumbai Indians. Chennai's campaign was all the more remarkable since Hayden didn't have a major role in it.

I have a 'badmaash' streak in me: Shahid Kapoor

Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) He played a bad guy in dark thriller 'Kaminey' and will now be seen as a conman in 'Badmaash Company'. Shahid Kapoor says playing characters with a negative streak is an 'escape route' from his good-boy image in real life.

'I think I always wanted to be a good boy, but I think inherently I have a 'badmaash' (naughty) streak in me. That's why I love doing this role. This is my escape route. What I couldn't do in my childhood, (I'm) doing it in films,' Shahid told IANS in an interview.

The actor is thrilled to get such a role but adds that he doesn't play a 'kamina' (rogue) in director Parmeet Sethi's 'Badmaash Company'.

'I won't really call this guy a bad guy. 'Badmaash' is a little less of a bad guy than a 'kamina'. In 'Kaminey', from the very beginning Charlie is edgy and different, but here when the film begins you will find that the four characters are normal middle-class guys and then they get into doing these scams and schemes,' the actor explained.

'In 'Kaminey' Charlie never used to think...he was spontaneous, but here the guy is lot more of a thinker, planner and schemer. I think it's fun playing a bad guy,' he added.

'These guys want to do things on their own terms. That's what today's youth are all about? They want to set their own rules, make things in their own way. They find their own route to success. That's why the tag line says 'they want to do all the wrong things in the right way',' said Shahid.

Set in the 1990s, Sethi's directorial debut 'Badmaash Company' will see four young friends - Shahid, Anushka Sharma, Vir Das and Miang Chang from middle-class Mumbai joining hands to start a company. Their business is an instant success because they find a way to beat the system.

The actor says every con job shown in the movie is taken from crime stories published in the newspapers.

'When I spoke to him (director Sethi), he told me all con jobs have been picked up from newspapers. So these things happened and he has taken the basic thought of every con job from real incidents and that's why it will seem believable. It is the strength of the film,' the 29-year-old said.

'And he has based it in the 1990s and the period is apt for this kind of plot.'

Shahid claims 'Badmaash Company' is more believable than 2005 movie 'Bunty Aur Babli' in which Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukerji conned people.

'It's a genre that really excites me. These types of film are made less in India. I think films like 'Bunty Aur Babli' were not really con films...it was more of a fun movie. This one is more believable. The con jobs that have been shown in the film I haven't seen in any Hindi or English film. It's more original,' he said.

Shahid debuted in Bollywod with 'Ishq Vishk' in 2003. After that he featured in films like 'Fida', 'Dil Maange More', '36 China Town' and 'Vivah', but he got his major break with 2007 hit 'Jab We Met'. It was followed by 'Kaminey', which won him critical and commercial acclaim.

Shahid says he's been lucky to get challenging roles after Imtiaz Ali's 'Jab We Met'.

'I am happy. This is something that I hadn't done for the first three-four years of my career. Of late...it's exciting to get the opportunity to do roles like this.'

'Sometimes you get roles that break the ice. For me, 'Kaminey' and 'Jab We Met' were of those kind. It showed me new light. This film is also like that but apart from just the role, I think it's the space of the film...a con job film based in the 1990s, a very youth-oriented film and I am working with three new people.

'When I read the script, I found it very, very fresh. I have been really lucky in the last three years to get one significant film every year,' he said.

Shahid's next will be 'Milenge Milenge' opposite Kareena Kapoor. He is also working in his father Pankaj Kapoor's directorial venture 'Mausam'.

South Africa 2010 Match Schedule..... FIFA 2010

Group A

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
1	11/06 16:00	Johannesburg - JSC		South Africa	-	Mexico
2	11/06 20:30	Cape Town		Uruguay	-	France
17	16/06 20:30	Tshwane/Pretoria		South Africa	-	Uruguay
18	17/06 20:30	Polokwane		France	-	Mexico
33	22/06 16:00	Rustenburg		Mexico	-	Uruguay
34	22/06 16:00	Mangaung / Bloemfontein		France	-	South Africa

Group B

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
3	12/06 16:00	Johannesburg - JEP		Argentina	-	Nigeria
4	12/06 13:30	Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth		Korea Republic	-	Greece
19	17/06 16:00	Mangaung / Bloemfontein		Greece	-	Nigeria
20	17/06 13:30	Johannesburg - JSC		Argentina	-	Korea Republic
35	22/06 20:30	Durban		Nigeria	-	Korea Republic
36	22/06 20:30	Polokwane		Greece	-	Argentina

Group C

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
5	12/06 20:30	Rustenburg		England	-	USA
6	13/06 13:30	Polokwane		Algeria	-	Slovenia
22	18/06 16:00	Johannesburg - JEP		Slovenia	-	USA
23	18/06 20:30	Cape Town		England	-	Algeria
37	23/06 16:00	Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth		Slovenia	-	England
38	23/06 16:00	Tshwane/Pretoria		USA	-	Algeria

Group D

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
7	13/06 20:30	Durban		Germany	-	Australia
8	13/06 16:00	Tshwane/Pretoria		Serbia	-	Ghana
21	18/06 13:30	Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth		Germany	-	Serbia
24	19/06 16:00	Rustenburg		Ghana	-	Australia
39	23/06 20:30	Johannesburg - JSC		Ghana	-	Germany
40	23/06 20:30	Nelspruit		Australia	-	Serbia

Group E

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
9	14/06 13:30	Johannesburg - JSC		Netherlands	-	Denmark
10	14/06 16:00	Mangaung / Bloemfontein		Japan	-	Cameroon
25	19/06 13:30	Durban		Netherlands	-	Japan
26	19/06 20:30	Tshwane/Pretoria		Cameroon	-	Denmark
43	24/06 20:30	Rustenburg		Denmark	-	Japan
44	24/06 20:30	Cape Town		Cameroon	-	Netherlands

Group F

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
11	14/06 20:30	Cape Town		Italy	-	Paraguay
12	15/06 13:30	Rustenburg		New Zealand	-	Slovakia
27	20/06 13:30	Mangaung / Bloemfontein		Slovakia	-	Paraguay
28	20/06 16:00	Nelspruit		Italy	-	New Zealand
41	24/06 16:00	Johannesburg - JEP		Slovakia	-	Italy
42	24/06 16:00	Polokwane		Paraguay	-	New Zealand

Group G

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
13	15/06 16:00	Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth		Côte d'Ivoire	-	Portugal
14	15/06 20:30	Johannesburg - JEP		Brazil	-	Korea DPR
29	20/06 20:30	Johannesburg - JSC		Brazil	-	Côte d'Ivoire
30	21/06 13:30	Cape Town		Portugal	-	Korea DPR
45	25/06 16:00	Durban		Portugal	-	Brazil
46	25/06 16:00	Nelspruit		Korea DPR	-	Côte d'Ivoire

Group H

Match	Date - Time	Venue			Results
15	16/06 13:30	Nelspruit		Honduras	-	Chile
16	16/06 16:00	Durban		Spain	-	Switzerland
31	21/06 16:00	Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth		Chile	-	Switzerland
32	21/06 20:30	Johannesburg - JEP		Spain	-	Honduras
47	25/06 20:30	Tshwane/Pretoria		Chile	-	Spain
48	25/06 20:30	Mangaung / Bloemfontein		Switzerland	-	Honduras