British cheerleaders accused by the "n" sigma !

One of the two black British cheerleaders, who were allegedly prevented from performing at an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match last month, says they were called by the “N word”, a tabloid newspaper reported Thursday.
A number of British newspapers Thursday carried the story about dancers Ellesha Newton, 22, and Sherinne Anderson, 25, claiming they were stopped from going on stage by organisers ahead of a match involving Kings XI Punjab in Mohali.
Newton told The Sun newspaper: “An organiser pulled us away. He said the people here don’t want to see dark people.
“The ‘n’ word was used and they said they only wanted beautiful white girls. We were crying. I could understand if it were the crowd but they were very receptive.”
Anderson, 25, added: “This kind of thing has never happened to us - not in Europe, not here, nowhere.
“We were offended. This shouldn’t be happening - especially after they made such a fuss over Big Brother.”
British celebrity Jade Goody was accused of making racist remarks about Indian film actress Shilpa Shetty in the reality show Celebrity Big Brother last year, causing outrage in India.
Organisers Wizcraft International Entertainment deny any knowledge of the incident.
A spokesman for Wizcraft said: “Our employees are trained to deal with our international clients. If there had been any racial discrimination, I would have received a complaint. But I know nothing of it.”
The girls had been hired by Fierce Performance Productions which has offices in London and Mumbai.
Director Jorge Aldana said the girls were eventually allowed to take part as cheerleaders after he intervened with the local officials.

"Rann" Ran into Controversy

The “Rann” controversy, whereby the title song of the movie is a modified version of the national anthem, has the censor board up in arms.

Rann’s JanGanMan track lyrics go like:-
Jann Gann Mann Rann hai
Is rann mein zakhmi hua hai
Bharat ka bhagya vidhata

Punjab Sindh Gujrat Maratha

Ek doosre se ladd kar mar rahein hain
Is desh ne humko ek kiya
Hum desh ke tukdey kar rahein hain
Dravid Utkal Banga

Khoon bahaa ker
Ek rang kar diya humne tiranga
Sarhadon pe jung aur
Galiyon mein fasaad danga
Vindh Himachal Yamuna Ganga
Mein Tezaab ubal raha hain

Mar gaya sabka zameer
Jaane kab zinda ho aage

Phir bhi Tava Shubh Name jaage
Tav shubh aashish maange

Aag mein jal ka cheekh raha hai
Phir bhi koi sach ko nahi bachaata

Gahe tava jaya gaatha

Desh ka aisa haal hai lekin
Aapas mein ladd rahe neta

Jana Gana Mangal Daayak Jaya hai

Bharat ko bacha le vidhaata

Jaya hai ya yah marann hai
Jana Gana Mana Rann hai…

Ram Gopal Verma said at the unveiling of the first look of Rann, “I have not tinkered with the national anthem. Tinkering would be if I would have shown it in bad light. I haven’t done anything of this sort, and if faced with problems later, I shall see to it”
Since the national anthem is an integral part of the Indian Constitution, verma being well aware of that, might use it as a ploy for some cheap publicity


Before the censor board came out with its views on the national anthem controversy,
Amitabh Bacchan, who plays a lead role in Rann, was quoted saying that he had full faith in the producers of Rann, that they would have taken the requisite legal permission to change the national anthem.

Riteish Deshmukh, who plays an investigative journalist said that the Rann title track talks about the disputes in the country, and had no intensions to ridicule anything.

Rann revolves around the nexus between the Indian media and centres of power and how it is driven purely by business rather than any moral compulsion to report the truth. It features the working behind a news channel whereby a reporter is torn between ethics, morals and self-consciousness on one side and the financial, business driven, TRP enriched ‘survival’ of the channel on the other end.

Rann stars Amitabh Bacchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Manisha Koirala, Gul Panag, Rajat Kapoor, Neetu Chandra, Mohnish Behl, Suchitra Krishnamurty and Purab Kohli.