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And this is the phone that was ringing in the background.

Shootout at MTV!

U might have heard about this dance/reality show called JHALAK DIKHLAJA. And yesterday the guys from JHALAK DIKHLAJA (no, this is not a plug-in) came to our office - you know, just to talk to us low-life employees about their opinion on our VJ Cyrus Broacha's participation in the show.

Here are some pics we took.

(Vaibhav Modi & Rahul Sarangi + the mic guy)

Chaos

MTV Needs YOU!

Yes, we need you. No, not as a VJ.
We need you to intern with the Digital team. You need to love writing, be a little crazy, passionate about Internet and know how to make coffee.

If you fit the bill and have some money to bribe us, drop a line along with a sample of your writing to editor@mtvindia.com

Wild Weekend?

There is nothing fun at the movies these days. No big releases. No fun movies. Nothing. Nada. Post RGV Ki Aag and then Darling, this week we have low-fi releases like Aggar and Nanhe Jaisalmer.

So we've been wondering what to do with our weekend and what films to tell you to watch. Vaibhav Wankhede has been indulging in critic self-torture for your sake. Read his review of Aggar, Because I Said So and then send Mars bars (his fav, ok no my fav) to the MTV Office.

Here's of list of activities we recommend for your weekend:

1. Watch a DVD of Anand to see Rajesh Khanna kick Big B's butt. In the acting department.
2. Go to a 2nd hand bookstore and get a foreign issue of Maxim. Any year will do. Don't look at the chicks, just read the features. Trust us on this one.
3. Look for Britney's sucky VMA performance on YouTube. Follow this up with a so funny-you'll-laugh your head off episode of Happy Tree Friends.
4. Think all the above is like super boring? Ok Mr/Ms. Adventurous you tell us what to do. See the Comment link? Click on it.

Lastly, if you live in Mumbai, travel by road and keep and eye out for street hoardings then you would have noticed Mia and Cyrus dressed in leather. Well guess what, we seemed to have ticked off the "authorities" and we've had to censor the controversial ad.

To find out why we got spanked, tune in to MTV. OK tune in just 'coz you like to surf. Have a good one. Weekend that is.

Posted by Clyde D'Souza (Promises to watch Scarface) this weekend.

P.S.: Here's what we did with our Webby award.

It's my award!

(from L to R - Simrit, Kevin, Sanjay, Ketan, Clyde & Vaibhav)

Remember the time when our website MTVindia.com went into the protective mode on World Aids Day, and without wearing a virtual condom you couldn't get in? Well we've won the Webby award for that wacky concept.

Looks like Facebook has not only taken over Orkut but also our lives. Everyone here in the MTV office is hooked on the what Clyde D'souza (Editor, MTV Digital) describes as "better than sex".

I went around the office asking people what their fav. Facebook application is and here' what I gathered:

"I like the Superlatives app - it's quite fun to give superlatives like 'Most likely to be creative', 'Most likely to be eating cake' etc. to friends " says Ashish Patil (Head, Creative & Content)

Here's a list of popular Facebook apps in the MTV office and the people who like them.

Nicknames - Kashmira Gandhi (Marketing)
SuperPoke - Sanjay Arora (MTV Digital)
iLike - Hashim Dsouza (TAR, VH1)
Japanese Word of the day - Omkar Sane (Writer)
Graffiti - Harikrishnan Panicker (Graphic Designer, Off Air)
Horoscope - Rishabh Dhir (Shows)
Food fight - Neha Barjatya (Marketing)

For more such pics & videos, join the MTV group on Facebook and don't forget to invite your friends too! Oh and before I forget, Hitesh Motwani is the Mumbai winner of the DIL DSOTI ETC. Contest. Send him a congratulatory scrap on his Orkut profile!

- Vaibhav "Flixster" Wankhede
Content Writer
MTV Online

The Update

OK, we apologise for being a little inconsiderate towards this blog. We were busy scratching our noses and debating about where do babies come from. And now that we've done with cleaning our nose and the debate is finally over (though a stork is still being interrogated) let's get to the point, shall we?

Firstly, thanks for making the Orkut-MTV Youth Icon Community such a big hit. And if you missed chatting with VJ Nikhil on Tuesday, well.. too bad for you! On the other hand, if you like our new VJ Mia (who doesn't?), we've put up her hot new sexy pics for download - go ahead, download those but please don't touch yourself while you look at them.

'Absolutely lame' would be the right word for the new Robin Williams' movie License To Wed - review here. After reading that, you can go take a nap. Then get up, freshen up and get to know about what's happening on Kaleidoscope, the annual inter-collegiate festival of Sophia College, Mumbai.

Don't forget to come back on Friday and we'll let u know for which movie you should book your tickets for - Darling or Dhamaal.

- Vaibhav "status updated" Wankhede
Content Writer
MTV Online

Press Conference @ Office

The above picture may look like it's taken from a war zone, but believe me, it's not. It's rather a wrap-up of what happened today at our office. Today, there was this huge press conference attended by millions (ahem) of people. There were journalists, dwarves, elves and some more journalists. And here are the pics, for y'all to see.

The VJs

MTV VJs and Neeta Lulla

Our new VJ - Mia

Anusha

The Press

Cyrus & Cyrus

Ashish Patil (Head - Creative & Content)

Rannvijay & Nikhil

The Set-up

Now that you've seen the pics, why not take out some time to check out new trailers of Resident Evil 3 and Superbad and get the info on Tom Cruise's new film.

Coming up on Friday: Log on to MTVindia.com to read our movie review of CASH and to watch some exclusive clips from the forthcoming THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. We promise!

- Vaibhav "updating status" Wankhede
Writer - MTV Online