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Fashion Value Chain
11 hours ago
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Bajaj Finserv Celebrates Dealer Success with Rakul Preet Singh
On 17th June 2025, five Bajaj Finserv partner store dealers met Rakul Preet Singh. But the excitement doesn't end here. Now, you have a chance to meet cricketing idol KL Rahul through Bajaj Finserv's latest campaign. Mumbai witnessed an exciting event on 17th June 2025, when five top-performing Bajaj Finserv partner store dealers were rewarded with an exclusive in-person meet-and-greet with Bollywood actress Rakul Preet Singh. Held at the JW Marriott in Juhu, this gathering was part of Bajaj Finserv's highly successful Blockbuster EMI Days campaign, an initiative that made premium home appliances more affordable and shopping experiences more rewarding for both customers and partner stores. The top five winners were Nandilath Gmart, Vasanth and Co., Deepak Telecom, Keshri Collection, and Vishal Mobile. Know more. Bajaj Finserv Celebrates Dealer Success with Rakul Preet Singh The Blockbuster EMI Days campaign: Making big purchases easy and fun Running from 10th April to 30th May 2025, the Blockbuster EMI Days campaign focused on transforming the way consumers buy big-value items like home appliances and gadgets. Bajaj Finserv combined attractive offers-up to 55% off on top brands and Easy EMI options-with engaging promotions featuring cricket star Suresh Raina and actress Rakul Preet Singh. To ensure the message reached customers nationwide, personalised videos were created in seven local languages. An integral part of the campaign was the BFL Summer Store Decor contest, also known as Apna Store Sajao, which encouraged partner stores across cities and towns to creatively decorate their stores with branded collaterals. The contest participants had an e-meet with Rakul Preet Singh and Suresh Raina. And 5 lucky winners earned the opportunity to meet Rakul Preet Singh in person. Introducing #KLRahulSeMilo Challenge: Your Chance to Meet KL Rahul For those who missed out on meeting Rakul Preet Singh, Bajaj Finserv's ongoing campaign is exclusively for the customers. The #KLRahulSeMilo Challenge, on from 30th May to 30th June 2025, offers an opportunity for you to win an exclusive meet-and-greet session with Indian cricketing icon KL Rahul. Dealer Success Team with Rakul Preet Singh How to participate in #KLRahulSeMilo Challenge Earn points for every activity completed Engage: Use the Insta EMI Card, shop via Hamara Mall, or pay bills using BBPS. Explore: Apply for loans, top-ups, or pocket insurance. Update: Download the latest app version, activate Bajaj Prime, or check your credit score. Share: Interact with the campaign on social media using #KLRahulSeMilo. Submit your proof of participation here: Benefits of participating Stand a chance to personally meet KL Rahul – a rare and exciting experience for cricket fans. Enjoy the convenience and benefits of Bajaj Finserv's financial products while accumulating points. Stay updated on exclusive offers, deals, and personalised services through the app and social media. Winners receive direct communication via WhatsApp, SMS, email, or phone call, with the final list announced on Bajaj Finserv's Instagram handle. â Bajaj Finserv: Where finance meets entertainment By blending celebrity-driven engagement with practical finance solutions, Bajaj Finserv continues to redefine customer experiences. Whether you're a dealer or a customer, the company's campaigns aim to reward loyalty, inspire excitement, and make financial services more enjoyable. Bajaj Finserv continues to build lasting relationships with customers and partners by blending entertainment and practical financial solutions. The Blockbuster EMI Days and #KLRahulSeMilo campaigns demonstrate Bajaj Finserv's commitment to listening to customer needs and rewarding partners who contribute to spreading the message. Bajaj Finance Limited Bajaj Finance Ltd. ('BFL', 'Bajaj Finance', or 'the Company'), a subsidiary of Bajaj Finserv Ltd., is a deposit taking Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC-D) registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and is classified as an NBFC-Investment and Credit Company (NBFC-ICC). BFL is engaged in the business of lending and acceptance of deposits. It has a diversified lending portfolio across retail, SMEs, and commercial customers with significant presence in both urban and rural India. It accepts public and corporate deposits and offers a variety of financial services products to its customers. BFL, a thirty-five-year-old enterprise, has now become a leading player in the NBFC sector in India and on a consolidated basis, it has a franchise of 69.14 million customers. BFL has the highest domestic credit rating of AAA/Stable for long-term borrowing, A1+ for short-term borrowing, and CRISIL AAA/Stable & [ICRA]AAA(Stable) for its FD program. It has a long-term issuer credit rating of BB+/Positive and a short-term rating of B by S&P Global ratings. To know more, visit
Pink Villa
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Kuberaa: Ticket prices for Dhanush and Nagarjuna starrer to increase in Andhra Pradesh? 10-day plan leaves fans furious
Dhanush and Nagarjuna Akkineni starrer Kuberaa is slated to hit the big screens on June 20, 2025. Ahead of the much-awaited film's release, the Sekhar Kammula directorial has received a price hike for tickets in Andhra Pradesh. As per a report by Aakashavaani, ticket prices of Kuberaa are set to hike by Rs 75. The new rate of tickets will be for both single-screen and multiplex theaters in Andhra Pradesh and will last for 10 days. With the film's updated price, fans seem to be dissatisfied with the decision and said, 'Dead by this weekend, if it's anything below Blockbuster.' Another user said, 'OTT release date?' opting to watch it on streaming services rather than in theaters. Talking about the movie, Kuberaa is a social thriller film featuring a twisted tale of a beggar and a middle-class CBI officer who delve into the world of money scam. As Dhanush and Nagarjuna play the leads, the movie features an ensemble cast of actors like Rashmika Mandanna, Jim Sarbh, Dilip Tahil, and more in key roles. In a recent pre-release event, Dhanush revealed how he accepted the script in just 20 minutes and was surprised when director Sekhar Kammula made him beg on the streets. In his speech, the Captain Miller actor said, 'Director Sekhar Kammula told me the story in just 20 minutes. I agreed immediately, trusting his name and reputation. But in the end, he made me beg on the streets of Tirupati.' Coming to Dhanush's work front, the actor is set to appear in his next directorial, Idly Kadai. The movie marking the actor's 4th attempt at direction following NEEK shows him in the lead role. Alongside him, the movie has Nithya Menen, Arun Vijay, Rajkiran, and many more in key roles. Moreover, the film was initially slated to hit the big screens on April 10 but was postponed to October 1, 2025. Recently, the actor was announced to play the lead role in Om Raut's upcoming movie, Kalam, based on the life of former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. On the other hand, Nagarjuna Akkineni is next set to appear alongside Rajinikanth in the movie Coolie. The Lokesh Kanagaraj directorial is set to feature the King actor as an antagonist, with Upendra Rao also in a key role. With Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan in a cameo appearance, the film is slated to release on August 14, 2025.
San Francisco Chronicle
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Review: Disney, Pixar's ‘Elio' channels '80s nostalgia and science in new adventure
Elio, the cheeky moppet at the center of Pixar's latest animated confection, could have been inspired by any child of the 1980s. Astronomer Carl Sagan is his muse, and as he peers at the stars through his telescope he dreams of faraway places and wonders if we are alone in the universe. We are not. At least not in ' Elio,' in which a grieving, lonely boy improbably becomes Earth's representative in a galactic dispute. The movie's '80s vibe extends beyond references to Sagan, the planetary scientist whose PBS limited series 'Cosmos' became a phenomenon, back when the national public broadcaster was fully funded and not a target in the culture wars. In fact, 'Elio' would fit perfectly on the Blockbuster shelf (if the video rental chain was still around) next to other '80s kid-powered movies such as 'The Goonies,' 'Explorers' and of course 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.' The title of the animated film itself is a nod to that era, with screenwriters Julia Cho, Mark Hammer and Mike Jones naming Elio afterElliott, the boy played by Henry Thomas in Steven Spielberg's classic. When the movie opens, Elio (voiced with depth and sensitivity by Yonas Kibreab) is mourning the recent deaths of his parents. He is taken in by his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), who is in the U.S. Air Force Space Command tracking junk debris in space. But Olga finds Elio to be a handful, and the boy feels lost and alone. His imagination is sparked by a planetarium show about the Voyager space probe, with narration by Sagan, and begins to long to be abducted by aliens. He spends hours on the beach drawing messages in the sand that he hopes the aliens will see. One evening while on the base with his aunt, Elio overhears one of the technicians say he thinks he has intercepted an alien transmission. The boy sneaks into the command center and contacts the aliens, and soon he is transported across the galaxy to a place called the Communiverse that seems like a Mad magazine parody of ' Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.' Elio is mistaken as the leader of Earth, and tries to mediate a dispute between the war-like Lord Grigon (Brad Garrett) and the population of the Communiverse while simultaneously striking up a friendship with the lord's son Glordon (Remy Edgerly). Directed by the Oscar-winning Domee Shi (' Turning Red '), Alameda native Madeline Sharafian and Adrian Molina (' Coco '), the visually appealing 'Elio' moves confidently and delicately handles themes of isolation, grief, family strife and friendship. And Sagan provides the coda, so it's not just the children in the audience who are transported to another time and place, but the adults as well.
San Francisco Chronicle
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Movie Review: Rebel Wilson's 'Bride Hard' is a wedding movie that's easy to break up with
Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get 'Bride Hard,' which is a movie, for better or for worse. In this case, much, much worse. 'Bride Hard' — which combines thrusting male strippers dressed as Vikings as well as deadly automatic weapon fire — isn't funny or thrilling. It has the kind of lazy pacing you'd usually find on the Hallmark Channel and a level of acting not much better than porn. Director Simon West, whose action movie credits include 'Con Air' and 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,' seems to be making a parody until he's not. The whole thing stinks of an '80s low-budget movie that you might find, back in the day, rummaging through a discount bin at Blockbuster. Wilson stars as Sam, a secret government 'Mission Impossible'-type agent who is a loose cannon, lethal with an elbow and as creative as MacGyver, but poor at managing her personal life. 'I will give you all of your flowers on the job, but in your real life, you're kind of dumb,' says her agent friend, played by Sherry Cola, who like everyone here, has been shorn of saying anything amusing. Even the blooper reel at the end of the movie is underwhelming. We start when Sam is reunited with her childhood best friend, bride-to-be Betsy — Wilson's 'Pitch Perfect' co-star Anna Camp — for a bachelorette party in Paris, which goes disastrously bad since Sam is also hunting for a bioweapon at the time. The action then shifts to a mansion on a private island in Savannah, Georgia, the site of a lavish wedding and lots of daytime drinking. That is, until heavily armed goons arrive to steal a pallet of gold bars. (Gold bars, like it's a Looney Tunes cartoon.) It's up to Sam to save the day and prove she's a good friend. Screenwriters Cece Pleasants and Shaina Steinberg seem to be mocking spy thrillers and wedding movies alike until they also kind of stop. There's lots of real blood, fiery explosions, impalings and electrocutions, along with irritable bowel syndrome jokes and plenty of kicks to the groin. Sample dialogue: 'Oh, Sam, you're alone,' the mother of the bride says as she approaches Sam. 'Well, no. I have my emotional support boobs,' Sam responds. There's also needless scene-explaining, like one bad guy yelling, 'She's using the chocolate fountains as cover!' Yeah, we see that. Have the screenwriters been reading the room? Not clear. 'If anybody ever mentions that I'm a secret agent, we will rendition you to one of our many unnamed bases,' warns Sam, as her spy colleague does a throat-slitting gesture. Rendition jokes are really so funny this summer. To be fair, there are some intriguing wedding-themed assaults, like the use of hairspray in the eyes, curling iron burns and a bad guy's chest punctured on an hors d'oeuvres platter. Sam likes to wield champagne bottles as clubs. One of the most cringe moments is when a stressed-out pregnant bridesmaid requests another sing the nasty, freaky 'My Neck, My Back (Lick It)' to her unborn baby, which triggers a sing-a-long with all the captives, mostly white, rich and middle aged. But even here it's neutered: The moviemakers go with the radio edit. The movie co-stars Stephen Dorff as the main bad guy, Justin Hartley as eye candy with a secret, Anna Chlumsky as a high-strung maid of honor and Da'Vine Joy Randolph as an edgy, sassy bridesmaid. They all need to break up with their agents. (So does whoever did the stunts — the body doubles are embarrassing.) 'Bride Hard' hits an insane low in a battle sequence in which the bridesmaids — all in fluffy red gowns — use Revolutionary-era cannons to take on trained mercenaries in tactical gear with rocket-propelled grenades. That, of course, leads to plenty of jokes about 'ramming it in.' If you do decide to pony up real cash to see this historic misfire in the movie theaters instead of waiting until you can hate-watch it for free on a streaming service, we have a word of advice: Bring your emotional support boobs. 'Bride Hard,' a Magenta Light Studios release in theaters Friday, is rated R for 'sexual references and some violence.' Running time: 105 minutes. Zero stars out of four.
Winnipeg Free Press
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Movie Review: Rebel Wilson's ‘Bride Hard' is a wedding movie that's easy to break up with
Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get 'Bride Hard,' which is a movie, for better or for worse. In this case, much, much worse. 'Bride Hard' — which combines thrusting male strippers dressed as Vikings as well as deadly automatic weapon fire — isn't funny or thrilling. It has the kind of lazy pacing you'd usually find on the Hallmark Channel and a level of acting not much better than porn. Director Simon West, whose action movie credits include 'Con Air' and 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,' seems to be making a parody until he's not. The whole thing stinks of an '80s low-budget movie that you might find, back in the day, rummaging through a discount bin at Blockbuster. Wilson stars as Sam, a secret government 'Mission Impossible'-type agent who is a loose cannon, lethal with an elbow and as creative as MacGyver, but poor at managing her personal life. 'I will give you all of your flowers on the job, but in your real life, you're kind of dumb,' says her agent friend, played by Sherry Cola, who like everyone here, has been shorn of saying anything amusing. Even the blooper reel at the end of the movie is underwhelming. We start when Sam is reunited with her childhood best friend, bride-to-be Betsy — Wilson's 'Pitch Perfect' co-star Anna Camp — for a bachelorette party in Paris, which goes disastrously bad since Sam is also hunting for a bioweapon at the time. The action then shifts to a mansion on a private island in Savannah, Georgia, the site of a lavish wedding and lots of daytime drinking. That is, until heavily armed goons arrive to steal a pallet of gold bars. (Gold bars, like it's a Looney Tunes cartoon.) It's up to Sam to save the day and prove she's a good friend. Screenwriters Cece Pleasants and Shaina Steinberg seem to be mocking spy thrillers and wedding movies alike until they also kind of stop. There's lots of real blood, fiery explosions, impalings and electrocutions, along with irritable bowel syndrome jokes and plenty of kicks to the groin. Sample dialogue: 'Oh, Sam, you're alone,' the mother of the bride says as she approaches Sam. 'Well, no. I have my emotional support boobs,' Sam responds. There's also needless scene-explaining, like one bad guy yelling, 'She's using the chocolate fountains as cover!' Yeah, we see that. Have the screenwriters been reading the room? Not clear. 'If anybody ever mentions that I'm a secret agent, we will rendition you to one of our many unnamed bases,' warns Sam, as her spy colleague does a throat-slitting gesture. Rendition jokes are really so funny this summer. To be fair, there are some intriguing wedding-themed assaults, like the use of hairspray in the eyes, curling iron burns and a bad guy's chest punctured on an hors d'oeuvres platter. Sam likes to wield champagne bottles as clubs. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. One of the most cringe moments is when a stressed-out pregnant bridesmaid requests another sing the nasty, freaky 'My Neck, My Back (Lick It)' to her unborn baby, which triggers a sing-a-long with all the captives, mostly white, rich and middle aged. But even here it's neutered: The moviemakers go with the radio edit. The movie co-stars Stephen Dorff as the main bad guy, Justin Hartley as eye candy with a secret, Anna Chlumsky as a high-strung maid of honor and Da'Vine Joy Randolph as an edgy, sassy bridesmaid. They all need to break up with their agents. (So does whoever did the stunts — the body doubles are embarrassing.) 'Bride Hard' hits an insane low in a battle sequence in which the bridesmaids — all in fluffy red gowns — use Revolutionary-era cannons to take on trained mercenaries in tactical gear with rocket-propelled grenades. That, of course, leads to plenty of jokes about 'ramming it in.' If you do decide to pony up real cash to see this historic misfire in the movie theaters instead of waiting until you can hate-watch it for free on a streaming service, we have a word of advice: Bring your emotional support boobs. 'Bride Hard,' a Magenta Light Studios release in theaters Friday, is rated R for 'sexual references and some violence.' Running time: 105 minutes. Zero stars out of four.
