Pepper Media-Thappana Vs Mr.Marumakan Battle At Box Office

Thappana Vs Mr.Marumakan Battle At Box Office|Pepper Media

The Big Bonanza Onam releases, Dileep's MR MARUMAKAN and Mammootty's THAPPANA have taken above average openings over the weekend. Mr Marumakan released on 18 August 2012, a day ahead of Thappana. Early estimates hint that Mr Marumakan has grossed about 1.35 Crores from 2 days, releasing in 70 theaters, and Thappana also has done well, rak

ing in about 70 Lakhs onits opening day, from 77 theaters in Kerala. While the word of mouth for Mr Marumakan is predominantly negative, Thappana has managed a better public opinion,in fact the best for a Mammotty star in recent times, which may work in its favor in the long run.
The opening day figures are much lower than other recent releases like Spirit, Bachelor Party or Usthad Hotel. But it is perfectly justifiable as the releases took place towards the fag end of the Holy Ramzan period. The collections are expected to pick up significantly this week,as the holy season has come to an end, and the schools are about to close for Onam vacation.Both the films have just one open week in front to make use of, as Joshiy directed Mohanlal starrer RUN BABY RUN is due for a hugerelease in the forthcoming week.
At the moment, Mr Marumakan looks good for an opening week gross of 3.20 - 3.40 Crores, while Thappana might end the week slightly better. Though the weekdays have definitely belonged to the Mega Star'sfilm, the second week shall decisively prove the winner out of these two. Thappana shall cash-in its positive reports, but Mr Marumakan can never be written off due to the acceptability of Dileep amongst families.A fiery battle for Boxoffice supremacy is sure on the cards this week...!

 

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London Olympics 2012 200m Mens Heat Usain Bolt Extra Ordinary Performance full Video

Usain Bolt is the greatest sprinter in history. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/NOPP

That was the greatest field we have ever seen in the history of the 100m and Usain Bolt made them all look ordinary. After all the smoke clouds he had been sending out about his fitness, now we know that Bolt is in absolutely flying form. When he is in this sort of shape those aren't races he is running in but demonstrations. The speed he was running Bolt would have set off speed traps. The 80,000 people who were there to see it will remember it for the rest of their lives.

Before the Games Sunday night was the hot ticket. People were willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to get good seats and now we know why. I had tipped Yohan Blake before the race because I wasn't sure what shape Bolt was in. But when he is running like this no one can touch him. I make him the firm favourite for the 200m now and I expect he'll go for a world record in it to boot. I'd already say he is the greatest sprinter the world has ever seen but, if he doubles up in the 200m too, winning back-to-back golds in both events at successive Olympics, we'll all just have to bow down in front of him and say "we are not worthy".

It was interesting to hear him say afterwards that the two races he lost to Blake at the Jamaican trials were such a wake-up call for him, "like Blake was knocking on my door and saying, 'Yo, Usain, it's Olympic year, I'm ready, are you?'" When the time came, he was. And that's one of his great gifts, along with all those fast-twitch fibres and long levers. Bolt has got the perfect body for a sprinter but he has also got the psychological game too. For an athlete that's invaluable. You can only ever perform at your best when you're relaxed. Bolt is so chilled out he almost falls asleep on the blocks and it wouldn't surprise me if one day he just fell over sideways because he had drifted off while he was waiting for the start gun.

That doesn't mean Bolt wasn't fretting before the race. I don't believe for one second he went out on that track without any worries. He is a great showman and as laid-back an athlete as we have ever seen on the start line but his stomach would have been churning while he was on the warm-up track, his legs would have felt weak because of all that adrenaline pumping through his body. But he controls and harnesses that energy better than anyone we have ever seen.

I thought Blake wanted it just a little bit too much. He came out of the blocks and started to tense up a little bit straight away. Don't get me wrong, if he had run the perfect race I still don't think he would have caught Bolt but he would have been clear in second place.

He'll learn from that. It is going to be interesting to see how he responds in the 200m. As for Asafa Powell, he says he pulled up because he has a quad strain but I can't help but wonder whether it was just because he was getting his arse kicked in another major final.

The biggest loser in that race was Tyson Gay. I cannot stand Justin Gatlin, who has tested positive for banned substances twice in his career. You wonder how Gay feels about it too, given how much anti-doping campaigning he has done in his time. He can't say anything about a guy who is his team-mate but I know what I'd feel if I was in his shoes – how the hell is that fair? I hope Gay knows that every single Britishathletics fan feels that way.

I have to give a mention to Christine Ohuruogu, too. She's another athlete who knows how to get the best out of herself when it counts.

What a turnaround that was. She produced the goods after two of the worst years of her life. It was only last year that people were talking about whether or not she would retire because she was having such a shocker. So to run the second-fastest time of her life when it matters was brilliant.

I know Chrissie will have mixed emotions, because she was so close to winning gold again, but people will still see her as a hero because of what she has done. And as someone who has come fourth at two Olympic Games, I know that silver is a hell of an achievement. A few of the other British athletes – and I'm thinking about the men's 400m team here – would do well to look at her example.

Like Bolt she is the epitome of an athlete who knows how to perform when it matters most. And at an Olympic Games that is all that counts

London Olympics 2012 -Serena and Venus Williams win gold medal in women's doubles

Serena and Venus Williams after winning gold in the women's doubles on Centre Court. (Julian Finney / Getty Images / August 5, 2012)

LONDON -- Put sisters Venus and Serena Williams on the same side of the court and they simply do not lose when it comes to the Olympics.

They won gold in Sydney, and in Beijing. They made it a tidy three-peat Sunday at the All England Club, beating Czech Republic's  Lucie Hradecka and Andrea Hlavackova, 6-4, 6-4, in the women’s gold-medal match.

That's two gold medals in two days for Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon last month. She dropped one game to Maria Sharapova of Russia in the singles final on a windswept Saturday afternoon.

This was more competitive, obviously, and played under the roof because of inclement conditions. But the outcome never seriously seemed in doubt and the sisters did not lose a set in the doubles event.

"For me, it was amazing to watch Serena from the stands and see her complete the golden slam.  So it's been amazing for us," Venus said. "We've been winning this title since 2000, but it's easier said than done.  We come in as the favorites.  But it's not a given.  We fought hard.  Our opponents played well.  They're very talented.

"We're glad to keep the medal for us.  It was great."

She said forging ahead to the Olympics in 2016 was a realistic possibility.

"With the doubles partner I have, absolutely," Venus said. "But that's what we want. I think nowadays tennis players are seeing that you can play great tennis into your 30s.  I think a lot of people were brainwashed early that you had to quit.  It's really not the way it is.

"By the time you get to this age, you really understand the game, the nuances, you're just getting better.  As long as you can stay healthy enough to play, we stay healthy enough to play, it would be great."

The only Olympic doubles match Venus has ever lost was at the 2004 Olympics in Athens when she played with Chanda Rubin because Serena was injured and did not compete in Greece.

The sisters have each won four Olympic gold medals. Venus won the singles gold at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, and her best Olympics singles finish since then was the quarterfinals four years ago in Beijing.

U.S. women's soccer team annoys some foes with goal celebrations

The U.S. team prepares to somersault after scoring against New Zealand on Friday. (Scott Heppell / Associated Press)

LONDON — The U.S. women's soccer team has unveiled a number of pre-planned goal-scoring celebrations in these London Games.

After scoring against Colombia, for example, midfielderMegan Rapinoe sent a shout-out to former teammate Ali Krieger, pulling a piece of paper with birthday greetings out of her shoe and holding it up for the TV cameras.

In the final match of group play against North Korea, the whole team did "the worm" after a goal. And when Abby Wambach scored in the first half of Friday's quarterfinal win over New Zealand, the players did somersaults in what Wambach said was a tribute to America's medal-winning gymnasts.

With the U.S. set to meet Canada in the semifinals Monday in Manchester's legendary Old Trafford stadium, the whole thing is starting to get on the nerves of some opponents.

"I wouldn't like it if our team did that," New Zealand Coach Tony Readings said. "When teams concede [goals] they're disappointed and they want to get on with the game. But it's obviously something the Americans do.

"It's something I guess they work on in training. We try to work on scoring goals. We haven't got time to work on celebrations. If it makes them happy and they win games, then good for them."

U.S. Coach Pia Sundhage0 said that's exactly what's inspired the dancing. And she has no problem with it.

“We score goals, and you’re happy," she said. "What the players want to do, whatever they do, it has to be fun. If they come up with ideas, that’s perfectly fine.”

But the best celebration the unbeaten Americans came up with was completely spontaneous and it followed the first Olympic goal scored by former UCLA standout Sydney Leroux in the closing minutes against New Zealand.

Leroux, who came on in the 81st minute, broke free up the left wing and banged the ball through the legs of Kiwi keeper Jenny Bindon. She then ran back up the field with a look somewhere between joy and astonishment.

"Best celebration I've seen yet," said Wambach, who has scored in all four U.S. wins. "I don’t care if you talk about cartwheels or worms, she had the most sincere celebration. And it’s because I don’t know if she could believe that she just scored a goal in the Olympic Games.

"For me, it made me emotional because that what’s special about being part of the Olympics. Seeing a kid come in, perform and do something that they didn’t even think was possible."

Afterward, Leroux admitted that the celebration had her on the verge of tears.

"I was pretty excited. To score a goal for the USA is definitely a dream come true," said Leroux, was who born in Canada. "[My teammates] had all come around me and Kelley [O'Hara] was yelling to me 'I'm so proud of you,’ and I almost started crying. And the game wasn’t even over."

Murray sinks Djokovic to earn Federer rematch

Britain's Andy Murray celebrates victory in his men's singles semifinal round match against Serbian's Novak Djokovic at the 2012 London Olympic Games. (AFP Photo)

LONDON: Britain's Andy Murray set up an Olympic revenge mission againstRoger Federer as the world number four booked his place in the final with a 7-5, 7-5 semifinal victory over Novak Djokovic on Friday.

Murray produced a masterful display to beat world number two Djokovic in two hours on Centre Court and the Scot is now guaranteed at least a silver medal as he heads into his first Olympic final on Sunday.

It promises to be an emotional occasion for the 25-year-old, who won the British public's hearts after crying on court following his loss to Federer in the Wimbledon final less than a month ago.

Murray was tearful again following his win over Djokovic, but this time the waterworks were prompted by joy rather than sorrow as he celebrated the latest fine result of an impressive week at the All England Club.


For Murray, defeat in a Grand Slam final has often been the trigger for a calamitous run of results in the past, but the Scot has shown new-found maturity in coping with the heartbreak of losing his maiden Wimbledon final.

Rather than bemoaning his misfortune, Murray has been on a mission since Wimbledon and he arrived in the last four in peak form after dropping just one set in his four matches.

He had lost eight of his 13 meetings with Djokovic, including a five-set classic in the Australian Open semi-finals in January, but there was no sign of any inferiority complex as the British number one earned two break points early in the first set.

Even though Djokovic snuffed out the danger on that occasion with a pair of powerful winners, there was no sign of Murray losing faith.

He kept probing away and the pressure finally paid off as former Wimbledon champion Djokovic tried to take the set to a tie-break.

On set point, Murray produced the shot of the match as he unfurled a scintillating forehand winner that triggered a huge roar and a burst of Union Jack flag waving from the vociferous British crowd.

It had taken 55 minutes to win that set, but there was no time for Murray to catch his breath at the start of the second as he battled to save a break point in the opening game.

When Djokovic earned another break point in the third game, Murray's response was majestic. He produced a perfect drop-shot to level at deuce and then slammed down two unreturnable serves to complete the escape.

Djokovic was mounting a strong fightback and Murray had to save break points at 4-4 and 5-5.

But the Scot was playing with such composure that the result seemed somehow inevitable as Djokovic faltered on his own serve at 5-6.

Murray scented blood and on match point he produced a blistering return that prove too much for Djokovic to handle before the Scot let the tears flow again