Word: kapoor
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Typical of the new trend is Samit Kapoor, 28, an assistant manager at Exl Service, a call center near New Delhi. Last year Kapoor took a mortgage to buy a two-bedroom apartment, and this year he purchased a car, a Hyundai Santro, for about $7,000. Four times a month, Kapoor visits New Delhi's top restaurants, among them Italian bistro Flavors or Indian-food specialist Bukhara, dropping as much as $40 a meal. In the process, he ran up about $4,200 in credit-card debt, spread over three cards. Since getting married six months...
Thanks to big spenders like Kapoor, Citibank is finding that its target customer is getting younger. Five years ago, the average age of a Citibank mortgage holder in India was 41; now it's 28. As a result, the U.S. bank has introduced all kinds of programs to attract young Indians. Citibank hooked up with MTV to issue an MTV credit card designed to look like a cassette tape. ATMs are placed in locations where twentysomethings work, such as outside call centers. The bank is even targeting the under-18 crowd with a special debit card that allows kids...
...acting style to love stories with Master Vinayak and Ashok Kumar. Chitnis had the art of suffering radiantly: under arched eyebrows, her large, luminous eyes could hold glistening tears seemingly for hours on end, to cascade down her face with joy or agony in the final reel. In Raj Kapoor's Awaara, she was required to age 24 years in the role of a loving wife who is unjustly accused of infidelity. After that, she played mum to the top male stars of Bombay's Golden Age: Dilip Kumar in Ganga Jumna, Dev Anand in Guide, Dharmendra...
...EKTA KAPOOR Bollywood's Star Producer...
...founder of Balaji Telefilms, a soap-opera production company, Kapoor, 27, is the queen of Indian TV. Four top shows on India's leading network are Balaji soaps, and ad rates on the highest-rated programs just hit a record $31,000 for 30 sec. Balaji has earned the prestigious Emerging Company of the Year award from the Economic Times of India...