Amitabh Bachchan and Ram Kapoor top TV popularity charts

22 Nov 201122 Nov 2011 Dale Bhagwagar Media Group NEWS RELEASES Amitabh Bachchan, Anandi, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, Balika Vadhu, Best Media Info, Big B, Characters India Loves, CIL, Dale Bhagwagar, Dale Bhagwagar Media Group, Jethalal, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Ormax Media, publicist, Ram Kapoor, Sony, superstars of Indian television, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma, television

According to the ninth edition of Ormax Media’s quarterly study Characters India Loves (CIL), Amitabh Bachchan (Kaun Banega Crorepati) and Ram Kapoor (Bade Achhe Lagte Hain) are the most favourite non-fiction and fiction characters on television respectively, reported Best Media Info.

This ninth track of CIL was conducted in October 2011, with a sample size of 3477 respondents in six cities – Mumbai,Delhi, Ahmedabad,Lucknow,Indoreand Jalandhar, in the 15-44 years age group, with Big B and Ram Kapoor emerging as the biggest superstars of Indian television.

Amitabh Bachchan leads the non-fiction popularity list with a staggering 57% share. A very successful season of his show Kaun Banega Crorepati (Sony) ended last week.

Ram Kapoor leads with 12% share in a more fragmented fiction category, ahead of past leaders like Anandi (Balika Vadhu) and Jethalal (Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma), as well as Priya, his wife in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain.

Kashmera gives Pak team a cold shoulder!

27 Mar 201127 Mar 2011 Dale Bhagwagar Media Group NEWS RELEASES calendar, Chandigarh, Dale Bhagwagar, Kashensuous, Kashmera Shah, Pak, Pakistan team, publicist, sex symbol, team

Not many can do what Kashmera Shah does! As if going topless for her newly launched calendar wasn’t enough, the reloaded sex symbol has done the unthinkable again!

It so happened that Kashmera was in Chandigarh for a city launch of her calendar Kashensuous and was put up in the same hotel where the Pakistan team is staying.

As coincidence would have it, she encountered the entire team (or should we say, the team encountered her), at the hotel’s coffee shop. But when Kash saw the Pak team members giving repeated glances and staring at her, she looked away, ekdum filmi style, letting the team’s jaws drop at the royal ignore!

“Luckily for them, Kashmera didn’t hand over a copy of her calendar, otherwise the Pak team would have been distracted by now and lose the upcoming match with India,” laughed her publicist Dale Bhagwagar. “We all want a fair fight, don’t we,” he winked.

Rakhi Sawant lambasts Kangna Ranaut!

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Rakhi Sawant is furious and fuming over Kangna Ranaut’s comment on the Kangna-Mika kiss ruckus. After Kangna apparently refused to engage in a lip-lock with singer Mika Singh for a film shoot, she went ahead and fired a salvo at the controversy queen.

“I am no Rakhi Sawant to do something like this” (kiss Mika), she is supposed to have said. This has enraged Rakhi, who has shot back, “How dare Kangna do her publicity gimmicks, firing from my shoulder. I have never kissed Mika. He had forcibly planted one on me and the world knows that. If Kangna is so publicity hungry, she should have kissed Mika for the song and become famous. Why resort to talking about Rakhi Sawant to gain mileage.”

Now, now! Knowing Rakhi, its best for Kangna to eat up her words or quickly apologize to her for ‘dragging’ her into the picture, or Rakhi might just road roller Kangna in national media. “With battle lines drawn, a new war seems to have just begun here,” chuckles Rakhi’s publicist Dale Bhagwagar.

‘Open’ Magazine

2 Aug 201025 Sep 2010 Dale Bhagwagar Media Group NEWS RELEASES Dale Bhagwagar, Gautam Vora, PR, publicist, suicide, Viveka Babajee

Click Here: Managing a Supermodel’s Suicide

An article in ‘Open’ Magazine

Thank you for the compliment Shobhaa De…

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“Dale Bhagwagar, an on-the-ball (well-informed) publicist.”

-Shobhaa De

The mentions:

Shobhaa De’s Blog

Shobhaa De’s column in The Week magazine

We thank you for the compliment Shobhaa De…

The hacker who got Meghna Naidu ‘pregnant’!

22 Jun 201022 Jun 2010 Dale Bhagwagar Media Group NEWS RELEASES Bollywood, Crime Branch, Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, Dale Bhagwagar, Gmail, Meghna Naidu, PR, publicist

Meow !?!

Actress Meghna Naidu complained to the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell in Mumbai this week, about a hacker who got her ‘pregnant’.

Unknown to the actress, a hacker had breached her Gmail account a few weeks ago and was chatting away with her friends, falsely claiming that Meghna ‘was pregnant from a fling with a guy whose name she couldn’t remember’ and that she ‘needed advice’. How imaginative!

But when this impersonator said hello to the actresses’ ex-publicist Dale Bhagwagar on the chat, the PR specialist sensed something fishy about the way Meghna was chatting. “PRs specialize in understanding the psyche of their clients. I take special efforts and time to comprehend how each client thinks, feels, behaves and talks. This person on chat had a subtle devilish sarcasm, and as I know Meghna, she’s cool and clear, but hardly sarcastic,” said the publicist. So immediately after the chat, Dale called her residence to verify if it was Meghna on the chat, and her parents told him, she had gone for her yoga class.

When the actress returned the call an hour later, she was shocked to learn about the conversation. Meghna said, “I was paranoid when I checked my Google chats. This imposter had been chatting with a lot my friends and claimed I was pregnant out of a fling. To add to this craziness, he wrote, I’d forgotten the name of the guy who made me pregnant. All this bogus talk was insane and scary.”

The publicist calmed the horrified actress and guided her to change her email privacy settings and escorted her to the Crime Branch the next morning. “We complained at the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell. Sadly and strangely, the cops there didn’t seem to be much interested about my case,” lamented Meghna. “I hope they are able to track the hacker,” she added.

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Neetu Chandra spreads her wings

Dev Anand is a man on a mission. The heavens can wait!

25 May 201025 May 2010 Dale Bhagwagar Media Group NEWS RELEASES Bollywood, Britney Spears, Charge Sheet, Dale Bhagwagar Media Group, Dev Anand, film, India, Justin Timberlake, media, Mumbai, publicist, rumors

STOP PRESS: Dev Anand ALIVE and kicking

What do George W. Bush, Fidel Castro, Queen Elizabeth, Pope John Paul II, Khushwant Singh, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Dev Anand have in common? All these famous figures have been reported dead some or the other time, before they actually entered the other world.

Yes! In the last couple of hours there have been strong rumors in a section of the media about the demise of yesteryears superstar Dev Anand. But Dale Bhagwagar, the publicist of his forthcoming film ‘Charge Sheet’ has clarified that Bollywood’s ‘evergreen hero’ is not only hale and hearty, but working at breakneck speed, completing the post-production of his latest movie.

“The rumors have no truth in them,” said Bhagwagar, and added, “Dev Saab has been working nonstop on the background score of ‘Charge Sheet’ and was actually watching television when these rumors broke out. I called him up late in the night at his Mumbai residence to check if everything was alright, and we ended up having a hearty laugh over it at 1.30 am. Right now, he’s charged about ‘Charge Sheet’. As I have known him, he possesses more energy than many of the young makers of today. Dev Anand, till date, is a man on a mission. The heavens can wait.”