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Bollywood stars, bureaucrats and flightloads of gleeful fans are all converging here to watch India take their next step towards challenging the Australians for the title, but it is strictly business time for the team. If their houses were vandalised after a first-round defeat to the world's best team, what might a semi-final defeat by Kenya bring?
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The worldwide launch of TinselVision's service has been much anticipated in the Bollywood, broadband IPTV, home entertainment, convergence media and entertainment capital markets. Yesterday, TinselVision's invitation-only launch period officially ended and, the full beta service has now been opened to the public. "We are pleased to announce our preview service has begun and went live at midnight last night," says Chase Weir, Chairman & CEO. The company's Chief Operating Officer, Chris Remus, adds, "we intentionally chose post-Diwali in India and, this Thanksgiving holiday week in the US -- where much of our initial marketing efforts began -- as we successfully transition from the invitation phase and scale our systems for broad, global viewership."
The 2000s meant a growth in Bollywood's popularity in the world. Mil Gaya, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Veer-Zaara and Dhoom 2 delivering a new generation of popular actors (Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan) and actresses (Aishwarya Rai, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji), and keeping the popularity of actors of the previous decade.
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