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THE HINDU(Madurai): Thursday, 12th July 2001

An all - girl Tamil pop show

They will not only be heard but also seen live giving their best amidst  world class sound and light systems.  Five gorgeous young girls from across the seas are all set to make music lovers by storm with a mind blowing 20,000 watt power stereo.

" The Girls ", an all-female Tamil pop band from Malaysia, is perhaps the first of its kind abroad.  They are not only sizzling and spicy gals who can turn the audience in to ' movers and shakers'.  But also aspiring trendsetters to a blend of Tamil pop music with a South East Asian flavor.

The girls would release their dance-oriented maiden Tamil pop album- Manasukul (in the heart) - at Chennai on August 11 and also set the stage ablaze in Madurai and Coimbatore by repeating the performance on August 15 and 18 respectively.

After bagging the 'Best Female Group ( Rock )' award at the Indian Musical Awards 2000, the five member band is out to catch the attention of Asian youth by expanding its horizon across the continent.

"Manasukul" is an eight -track pop album composed by Ismail which encircled by rock music and Bhangra.  The band includes two Tamil girls. Sharmila Kesavan and Jessica Narayanan, apart from the three Malays - Leina Hangat, Narazimah Mustifa and Zuraidah.

The Big Deal Media ( p) limited, headed by popular small screen anchor, James Vasanthan, would present " The Girls " to Tamil Nadu.

The pop show coming to Madurai is apt in the sense the Temple City has played a perfect and encouraging host for several musical nights and talent shows in the past.  However, all such evenings were either film-oriented or classical.

This is perhaps the first ever mega event with a western outlook and is expected to unleash a sense of musical ' freedom ' on the 'Independence Day' among pop music lovers at the Tamukkam Grounds here.

The Galatta.Com, a portal which already caters for fun loving film fanatics with humour-filmed film reviews and celebrity chat, would click its way to take "The Girls" online.

The Madurai based 'Galatta' Chief Executive Officer, C.R. Venkatesh, feels the guys and gals here will relish the hear warming performances of the all-girl musical extravaganza.

After organizing scores of cultural shows across the State , the Big Deal Media (P) Limited has indeed signed a big deal.

A Chennai based event management concern, the Big Deal has a variety of creative interests.

"The Girls" show in Tamil Nadu is centred around Sharmila Kesavan and Jessica Narayanan, who help other Malays in the troupe with Tamil diction.  The former is a child star who released her first musical album when she was just 12.

The power packed 120 minute live performance with pre-programmed ligt sequences would be telecast by telecast by Vijay TV.

The concert would be held at the CIT Grounds in Coimbatore and Royapettah YMCA Grounds or Film City Amphit theatre in Chennai on August 11.

More information on this event can be had from Big Deal Media (P) Limited by dialing  09841049022.  Details of the online promotions of the concert and its Madurai tour can be had from Mr. C.R. Venkatesh at  09842112222.

So it's time, guys and gals, to book and grab the tickets as soon as theyhit the stands lest you are left out and don't miss watching the music galatta of "The Girls".

The Hindu

Thamizh Internet Ulagam: Monday, July 9th 2001

Thamizh Internet Ulagam

Thamizh Internet Ulagam

THE HINDU : Thursday, 05th July 2001 : By Sudhish Kamath

Star spangled cyber land

Star-gazers have
shifted base... 
To god-forsaken cyber-space... 
Through the windows
of the entertainment
superhighways... 
It's one helluva rat-race.

(Er...Not rat, mouse to be specific). The dream merchants are on a song.

YET ANOTHER spectacle for the eyeballs even before the stars hit the big screen. Sneak previews, interviews, reviews, mp3s, wallpapers, downloads, trailers, promos--you name it and it's all there in the long corridors of cyber Ville.

Film promotion through the web is on a phenomenal high. `Lagaan' set up shop on indya.com. So has the Amitabh Bachchan-Manoj Bajpai starrer `Aks', to be released later this month.

www.lovekeliye.com (`Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega') and www.dilchahtahai.com (`Dil Chahta Hai') are spectacular showcases of the movies coming out of Bollywood. Tamil movies are not left behind at all. Check out this list released by Galatta.com: www.dhilmovie.com,

www.starthemovie.com,
www.maayan.com, 
www.minnale.com,
www.dheenamovie.com,
www.badrifilm.com,
www.ennavalle.com,
www.aandaanadimai.com,
www.shakalakababy.com,
www.mittamirasu.com

The list goes on. Dotcom Infoway, which is maintaining these sites, informs us that sites for much awaited movies including Kathir's `Kadhal Virus', Jeeva's `12B', Cee (I) TV's `Majnu' and `Love You Hamesha', would be launched soon.

It's not just movies that Dotcom Infoway is showcasing. The celebrities gracing cyberspace include Jyotika (www.jothikaonline.com), Prashanth (www.prashanthonthenet.com), Laila (www.laila.com), Madhavan (www.rmadhavan.com), Harris Jeyaraj (www.harrisjayaraj.com), Sanghavi (www.sangavi.com), Pandiarajan (www.rpandiarajan.com), Mumtaaz (www.mumtazonline.com) and Kausalya (Kausalyaonline.com).

Official sites for Vijay, Meena, Monal, Simran, Vikram, Surya, director Shankar, Raghuvaran are all in the pipeline, thanks to Galatta.com. Abbas recently announced that his site (www.actorabbas.com) would be up soon.

We believed there was a market for these sites. We knew that once they are up, the fans would hit the sites. That's why though we sometimes start off free (without charging the celebrities), we soon convince them why it makes sense to have a site. The movie sites are all paid....we are paid to put them up,'' says Deepa Linga Sekar, Content Manager of Galatta.com.

It is basically the desire to know more about the movies and the stars beforehand that drives the traffic towards the sites, in many cases. That is why sify.com plans to have unofficial sites for some of the forthcoming movies.

We have the biggest archive of movie content in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hollywood. We have microsites (not stand-alone sites) of the movies in the news. So when we do it by ourselves, we don't get paid,'' says Suchitra Ramadurai, Channel Manager-Movies, sify.com.

So is there money at all for the people who put up the site? ``Yes, movie sites are definitely where the money is. We plan to get into it soon, because when you couple promotion with booking of tickets, it would work,'' says Anees of clicktickets.com.

Clicktickets incidentally, had worked on putting up sites of Vijay (www.ilayathalapathyvijay.com) and Mammootty (www.mammootty.com) a few years ago, one of the first in the business.

``We even gifted Shah Rukh Khan the domain name when he was here,'' adds Anees. Later Shah Rukh went on to launch www.srkworld.com along with friends Juhi and Aziz Mirza. Many other stars in the North followed suit.

Down south, Maniratnam's Madras Talkies has been using the net for the promotion of its movies, for quite some time now. Kamal Hassan had not only launched a site for his movie `Hey Ram', he had even released a CD-ROM for a press kit.

Whether the film-makers like it or not, all buzz about their forthcoming releases, makes news in cyberspace. Promotional stills are splashed across sites. Even the songs, well stacked in mp3 format are waiting on the net, ready to be downloaded even as the film-makers wonder `Whodunit'?

Thanks to the appetite of the film-crazy netizen, official movie sites are on the rise. Just a matter of time, before the broadband makes way for bigger volumes of stardust to hit cyberspace.

Happy star-gazing.

By Sudhish Kamath

The Hindu

THE HINDU : Sunday, 24th June 2001

' Adults Only' site surfaces on movie portal

The film goers, hoping to chat with their favourite matinee idols, were taken for a rude shock her this morning as the movie portal "www.galatta.com", led to a hardcore adult site when accessed through a private Internet Service Provider (ISP).

The 'Galatta.com' organises 'chat' with leading stars from the tinsel town every Saturday.  Mr. Ajay Kumar, who was the hero of the movie "Ooty" and plays a key role in Kamal Hassan's forthcoming, "Aalavandhan", was scheduled to chat with net-users this evening.

According to 'Galatta.com' Chief Executive Officer, Mr. C.R. Venkatesh, more than 1.5 lakh page-visits are recorded everyday out of which around 4,000 are from Madurai alone.  The foreign site depicting absence pictures on its homepage suddenly replaced the 'Galatta.com' portal this morning, he said.

"Chatting is the most popular part of our website.  This is the fourth occasion when an adult homepage is intercepting into our site by default.  Our advertisement clients and viewers are offended by this", he said adding that the problem surfaced only in Madurai and Tiruchi.

However, the ISP officials when contacted acknowledged the confusion, and said that the technical snag was rectified from Chennai later in the evening.

According to the Managing Director of Plus Point Systems and Software Ltd. Managing Director, Mr. P. Nirmal Kumar, had there been a security breach, it would have caused the problem to every visitor irrespective of his location and ISP.  "The only possibility is that the Domain Name Server (DNS) entry would not have been updated with the local node of the ISP", he said.

The Hindu

THE HINDU : Thursday,10th May 2001: By Saptarshi Bhattacharya

Meena loves to sing. The fans are listening intently.
She is lending her voice to cause of "Kadhalism". That's her second album, which is all set to hit the shelves on July 1. The lyrics are by Pushpa Vasagan and T.S.Muralidharan composes the music. Recording of eight songs for the album was over and one more was being toyed with.

Meena was the Saturday-night celebrity for galatta.com's online chat event. She sang too, a very brief stanza from her already-released album "Pathinaru Vaithinile". Among her latest celluloid ventures include "Citizen" with Ajit to be released on June 1. Besides, she is also cast against Jayaraman in a Malayalam movie, 'Magic Lamp' and against 'Chiranjeevi' in 'Manjunatha' (Telugu). The chat with over a thousand people online is done from a small room.. Refreshing is Meena's reaction, after the hour-and -a-half long event.

She was in virtual splits trying to recollect the high points of the chat. A fan, desperate to catch her attention, even threatened to call her "kollu patti" if she did not respond. And as she left the chat room, there were a string of byes from all. "I would love to do it again" she says, before leaving.

The Hindu

News Today: Monday, 30th April 2001

KUNGUMAM : Thursday, 10th May 2001

Entertainment portal's gesture to handicapped kids

Galatta.com, an entertainment portal based in Chennai has introduced an online charity auction for the dresses used by Kollywood stars.  This auction is meant to help the inmates of Guild of Services, a home for the handicapped children and some money would also be given to the Rotary Club of Madras.

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company, Girish Ramdas told News Today that the auction which started 14 April was gaining a lot of attention for it was first of its kind in India.

He said a several film personalities like Jyothika, Meena, Laila, Madhavan, Surya, Vikram, Raghuvaran, Abitha had already contributed memorabilia to the charity auction and the stars like Rajanikanth and Kamal Hasan would also be contributing.

Galatta.com also had chat sessions with popular film personalities every Saturday and Meena would be the first in the list 5 May.  This portal has almost everything related to movies except for the full movie telecast, Ramdas said and added that the company also has been doing official portals for a lot of movies and personal sites for film celebrities.

He said the company also has five language portals in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, English and Hindi and 55 city portals with all information about the cities right from Kanyakumari to Chennai.

The company has recorded a turnover of Rs 26 lakh for the last six months, he said and added that the main revenue came from advertisements.  Ramdas said though the sites 65 per cent were NRIs and the NRI viewer base has been increasing.

He said the company's aim was to achieve a turn over of Rs 75 lakh for the coming year.  The site had a viewer ship base of more than 50 lakh a month and an average of 8,000 viewers per day.

News Today

Kungumam

The New Indian Express [ CITY EXPRESS]: Friday, April 13, 2001 : By Annie Kurian

Going Once, Going twice...
What do people usually do to celebrate their first anniversary? Throw a party, pop a bottle, give away gifts? Well, Galatta.com the movie portal is celebrating its anniversary in different way. They are holding an online charity auction of memorabilia collected from movie stars of the South India film industry. "This is the first time that such an auction is being held. We thought we'd go in for something different to celebrate our first anniversary", says Girish Ramdas, Chief Operating Officer of Galatta.com
The auction will be inaugurated by actor Prashanth April 14 Jyotika's cargoes and knit-top from the movie Little John, Madhavan's jacket, Abbas bracelet and zippo lighter from his collection and Abitha's sari from Sethu. The proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Rotary Club of Madras and the Home for Handicapped Children, Guild of Service. For those of you who would like to take a peek at the products to be auctioned, the organisers have displayed them at Just Around the Corner on Greams Road. To be added to the collection are Ajith's costume from Dheena, Kamal Haasan's from Aalavandhaan and Madhavan's from Dum Dum Dum. It's bidding time folks!

The New Indian Express

The Hindu : Thursday, April 12, 2001 : By Saptarshi Bhattacharya

Ready for a star spangled auction
MADHAVAN'S JACKET, Jyothika's string cargos and purple wool-knit trendy  top from "Little John", Raghuvaran's favourite guitar, Surya and Meena 
 Caps. Sanghavi's ghagra-choli from the movie 'Rishi', Abitha's kota saree 
 from 'Sethu'- they are all up for grabs. That's what Galatta.com, a movie-based 
 portal, has put up for its members on its first anniversary. An online 
Auction of celebrity items, the proceeds go to Guild of Service and for 
the Rotary Club of Madras. Make a difference in somebody's life with just 
a click, says the promo line. The click, says the promo line. The online 
 bids begin on April 14, "the best possible day", says Girish Ramdas, Chief 
Operating Officer, Galatta.com. The bids will be finalised by end-April. 
Want to have a closer look? They are all lined up at Just Around the Corner, 
on display till the bidding is over. And there is more to come Madhavan 
has promised his "Dum Dum Dum" outfits, Kamal Hassan from "Aalavandaan", 
Ajit from "Deena" and "Poovellaam UnnVaasam" and much more. The bid of 
Madhavan's coolers, for example, will begin from Rs. 2,500.Come Saturday, 
Phrasanth, the celeb guest for the Portal's next weekend chat, will inaugurate 
the auction. The highest bidders can rub shoulders with the celebrity 
whose outfit they bid for, says S.B. Pattabhi, managing partner, Just 
Around the Corner.
By Saptashri Bhattacharya Photo: M. Moorthy.

The Hindu

The New Indian Express [EXPRESS WEEK]: Saturday, March 10, 2001 : By Annie Kurian

A bewildered Maddy tried to keep up with his fans on galatta.com during the online chat, but answering the queries of nearly thousand fans was not easy.  
	
Did you know that Madhavan wanted to be a soldier, and he strongly feels that he would have made a better soldier than an actor?  This was one of the secrets that Madhavan let out to his fans during the live online chat organised by galatta.com at Just Around the Corner last Saturday.  Maddy had a hard time entering his own chat room as there were over 400 fans logged on at the same time.  And once he entered the chat room, Maddy could only shake his head in disbelief at the questions that kept pouring in, barely giving the actor a chance to reply.

'Maddy, are you acting in a Hindi movie?', 'Do you have any kids?', 'Are you losing weight?' - the volley of questions kept Madhavan on his toes.  He did try to answer as many questions as he could, though keeping pace with his fans' was not easy.  He chatted for over an hour about his movies, his wife Saritha who was also present, his dog, and his efforts at losing weight.  By the end of the chat there were about a thousand people waiting online.

But by then Maddy was famished.  He couldn't keep away from the food counter, although he had promised his fans to lose weight.

The New Indian Express

The Hindu : Monday, March 05, 2001 : By Saptarshi Bhattacharya

At home with the Maddy crowd
MADDY ALWAYS wants to ride. He was there on Saturday night, on the Net at Just Around the Corner, a new hang-out spot on Greams Road which opens on Tuesday.

Madhavan was online at eight o'clock and the chatroom of galatta.com was hit by no less than 400 fans logging on for their turn to chat. Maddy, u're so cool.. I like your acting.. U've got a sweet smile.. I'm mad about you, and many more. Well, was he flattered ?

There were personal queries too. Like ``where did you meet your wife'', ``do you have kids'', ``what's your next venture'', ``any Hindi movies'' and so on.

Cool, says the star. ``It was a great experience.'' Enjoyed every byte of it, Maddy says with a smile.

Does Madhavan chat often ? ``Not really. But hereafter, I do intend to come online a lot more often. It is great fun.'' So, no need to lose heart, for those who missed out this occasion.

How did you feel the questions put to you were ? ``Well, they were very passionate ones.'' The likes of ``What's u'r fave song in Minnale (Ans: Vasigara)'', ``Would you act as a villain (depends on the role and the script)''.

The flurry of questions and messages continued but the hour was over in no time.

For those who missed out, not to worry. The whole transcript will be on the Net on Monday. You also can post a message for Madhavan. Just logon to galatta.com.

Just Around the Corner, a chain of restaurants, will turn itself into a celeb. chat zone every weekend. ``It has a filmy ambience and we thought it would be the best venue for all our forthcoming celebrity chat shows,'' said Girish Ramdas of Dotcom Infoway, hosts for the website.

C.R.Venkatesh, CEO of the firm, who coordinated the chat show, said on weekends the chat room is flooded with members for the celebrity chat. So logon to galatta.com and wait for your turn next weekend to chat up Vikram.

The Hindu

The Hindu : Wednesday, January 03, 2001 : By Feroze Ahmed

THIS IS one website actually yielding revenue from an ad-based system 
even as other websites are searching elsewhere. Even as content is looked 
upon as an outdated web strategy, their thrust is on quality information.
For them, the Internet is one big galatta. It is a film-based 
entertainment channel. Its net spreads across most 
districts in the State. Galatta.com might just be
rewriting the script. The website's thrust is on 
filmy fun. ``Some of my team, less than a year 
old, are now experts on cinema,'' says 
Mr. Girish Ramdas, CEO, galatta.com. 
What the site does is package the film industry. 
So you have here the official websites of 
Prakash, Jyotika and others. And Girish wants 
Kamal and Rajini too. They have weekly chat 
sessions with the stars. And ``for authenticity 
sake,'' the chats are recorded on camera. 
Include film spoofs, behind-the-scenes 
goof ups, previews, reviews, gigs and official 
film websites... you have the industry. ``Go to 
any regular search engine and key in `Ennavale',
you will have galatta.com on the top of the list,'' 
says Girish. Which is a key strength for the website. 
So even if surfers do not go to Galata.com directly, 
the film websites are part of the network. Looking for
pictures of your favourite stars, the site's got the 
originals, some from the stars themselves. Want 
screensavers, say of Thenali, the websites give 
them in active mode, music and all. You can even 
have pictures of your stars as the icons. But films 
apart, galatta.com has websites from 
Kanyakumari.com to Singarachennai.com. 
These sport a host of information on 
these places from hotels to tourist spots. 
And all supported by the site. They also have 
games, spoofs, emails and a host of general 
information. ``It's a dotcom that actually works,''
says Girish. galatta.com is having fun.

Data Quest Week Chennai 24 June 2000

Data Quest Week

Dinamalar

P.S: www.aishwarya-rai.com is unofficial site of Ms.Aishwarya Rai & this dot com has been created by the galatta.com team!

India Today Tamil Edition December 2000

Galatta.com was featured on India Today tamil edition. It reviewed the overall essence of our dot com & also mentioned that the dot com should focus on bring out the real galatta essence.

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