6th semester Mechanical Engineering- 2011

1   16/5/11   Monday         FN   MG61    Principles of Management

2   18/5/11   Wednesday   FN   ME63     Finite Element Analysis

3   20/5/11   Friday            FN   ME61     Design of Transmission Systems

4   23/5/11   Monday         FN   ME62    Automobile Engineering

5   25/5/11   Wednesday   FN   ME64     Gas Dynamics & Jet Propulsion

6   27/5/11   Friday            FN   ME602   Refrigeration & Air conditioning

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AIRCEL INDIA

Type	Joint Venture
Industry	Mobile telecommunications
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Chennai, India
Key people	Sandip Das, CEO Gurdeep Singh, COO
Products	Mobile Telecommunication operator
Parent	Maxis Communications (74%) Apollo Hospital (26%)
Website	Aircel.com Aircelbusinesssolutions.com

Aircel group is a mobile phone service provider in India. It offers both prepaid and postpaid GSM cellular phone coverage throughout India. Aircel is a joint venture between Maxis Communications of Malaysia and Apollo Hospital Enterprise Ltd of India. UTSB has a 74% stake in Aircel and the remaining 26% is with Apollo Hospitals. It is India’s Seventh largest GSM mobile service provider with a subscriber base of over 51.83 million, as of January 31, 2011. It has a market share of 6.72% among the GSM operators in the country. As on date, Aircel is present in all 23 telecom circles (including Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar & Jharkhand, Chennai, Delhi & NCR, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai, North East, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Rest of Maharashtra & Goa, Rest of Tamil Nadu, Rest of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh East, Uttar Pradesh West) as per the company plans to become a pan-India operator by 2010. Additionally, Aircel has also obtained permission from Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long Distance (NLD) telephony services. It also has the largest service in Tamil Nadu.

3G & BWA

On 19 May 2010, the 3G spectrum auction in India ended. Aircel paid 6499.46 crores for spectrum in 13 circles - the least cost per circle compared to other operators. The circles it will provide 3G in are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, North East, Orissa Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (East) & Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
On 11 June 2010, the broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum auction in India ended. Aircel paid 3438.01 crores for spectrum in 8 circles, the second highest wins overall - after Reliance Communications. The circles it has won spectrum are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, North East, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.It also has 3G spectrum in all these circles.

3G Coverage

Aircel’s 3G service is currently available in the following cities/towns in 13 telecom circles:

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Telecom Circle	State/Region	No. of Towns	Cities/Towns
Andhra Pradesh	Andhra Pradesh	1	Hyderabad
Assam	Assam	1	Guwahati
Bihar	Bihar	1	Patna
	Jharkhand	0
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu & Kashmir	1	Srinagar
Karnataka	Karnataka	1	Bangalore
Kerala	Kerala	10	Kochi/Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Ollur, Thrissur and 4 other towns
Kolkata†	Kolkata†	N/A	N/A
North East	Arunachal Pradesh	0
	Meghalaya	1	Shillong
	Manipur	0
	Mizoram	0
	Nagaland	0
	Tripura	0
Orissa	Orissa	1	Bhubaneswar
Tamil Nadu	Tamil Nadu	1	Chennai
Uttar Pradesh (East)	Eastern Uttar Pradesh	1	Lucknow

†Kolkata is a metro circle and is not included in West Bengal circle, even though it is a part of West Bengal state.

Aircel Business Solutions

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), part of Aircel, is an ISO 9000 certified company. ABS is a registered member of WiMAX forum – both in the Indian and International Chapters. ABS’ product range includes enterprise solutions such as Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks (MPLS VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Managed Video Services on wireless platform including WiMAX.

Sponsorships

Aircel is one of the sponsors of the Indian Premier League Cricket Team Chennai Super Kings. It is also the major sponsors for Chennai Open (the only ATP tennis tournament in India), and Professional Golf Tour of India.

Share holders

Maxis, Aircel's majority stake holder at that time, raised 11.2 billions (USD 3.36 billions) for its shareholders (UTSB), making it the largest IPO in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, Tamil Nadu.

Social Presence

Aircel placed an actual dinghy lifeboat to a downtown billboard. A rope with a sign reading, “In case of emergency, cut rope”, held up the branded raft. July 15, 2009 the monsoon arrived with flooded streets and so did Aircel customer service. The dinghy was cut down and pedestrians were safely transported. What Aircel calls “Corporate Social Responsibility – A Solution”. The company was able to generate positive publicity and show consumers that they care.
Beautification of Anna Flyover has been taken up Aircel for a period of three years, the contract has been awarded by TNRIDC and executed by Chennai based outdoor advertising agency Abra Media Networks. This project boasts of first of its kind lighting solution for the entire stretch of the bridge and many other landscapes to enhance the look of the whole bridge. As far as the utility is concerned, they are building a dedicated toilet for the police guarding the Anna Flyover and the US Embassy. Once this flyover is beautified, Aircel plans to maintain it for 3 years. Aircel tied up with Tamil Nadu Public Works Department for beautification and maintaining of Gandhi Mandpam,Guindy in opposite of Anna University.

Awards & Recognition

Aircel has won many awards for its services. Aircel was honored at the World Brand Congress 2009 with three awards, Brand Leadership in Telecom, Marketing Campaign & Marketing Professional of the Year. Aircel was honored by CMAI INFOCOM National Telecom Award 2009 for, ‘Excellence in Marketing of New Telecom Service’. Aircel had been selected as the best regional operator in 2008 by Tele.net. Aircel was rated as the top mid-size utility company in Business World’s ‘List of Best Mid-Size Companies’ in 2007. Aircel got the highest rating for overall customer satisfaction and network quality in 2006 by Voice and Data.
Aircel is famous for innovative Pocket Internet cards for Free GPRS service for 1day/3days/7days/30days. Aircel become first to introduce Online service to subscribe and manage Dialer tunes. It is first in country to introduce SMS bank/Phone Book/Reminder/Talking SMS.

Competitors

Aircel is the Seventh largest carrier in India. Its competitors are (in order of customer totals):

• Bharti Airtel
• Reliance Communications
• Vodafone Essar
• Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
• Tata Teleservices
• Idea Cellular
• Uninor
• MTS India

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KO - The real king of 2011

Directed by	K. V. Anand
Produced by	Kumar Jayaraman
Written by	K. V. Anand Subha
Starring	Jeeva Ajmal Ameer Karthika Nair Piaa Bajpai
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography	Richard M. Nathan
Editing by	Anthony
Studio	R. S. Infotainment
Distributed by	Red Giant Movies
Release date(s)	April 22, 2011
Running time	166 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Ko is a 2011 Indian Tamil political thriller film directed by K. V. Anand starring Jeeva, Ajmal Ameer, newcomer Karthika Nair and Piaa Bajpai in lead roles.The film released on 22 April 2011 to mostly positive reviews,and will be dubbed into Telugu as Rangam as well.

Plot

Ashwin (Jeeva), a young, energetic photojournalist working for the private newspaper "Dina Anjal", witnesses how Naxalites rob a local bank. He chases them and manages to click photos of the robbers. But he is chased by them and his vehicle gets smashed up. When he tries to escape, he is stopped by a young woman (Karthika Nair) who assumes he is the culprit and helps the robbers to take his camera. However, he is able to secure the Memory Card of the camera and to verify that he is a press photographer. He shows the photos to the police, who identify everyone except the gang leader (whose face is covered by a mask). At his office, he meets Renuka, the woman who earlier mistook him, who is newly joined as Article Editor. Saraswathi (Piaa Bajpai) also works in his office.
Vasanth (Ajmal Ameer), a fresh-young graduate, strives hard to enter the political field. Strongly he is in contests with his rivals who capture the people at the time of elections by giving freebies and money circulation processes. No one cares about Vasanth and his team of graduates, who promise a healthy government to people. Their group name happens to be 'Siragugal'.
Meanwhile, Renuka involves herself in writing a cover story about a politician Aalavandhan, stating that he is forcing illegal minor marriage for him. Flamed by this, Aalavandhan urges into the newspaper office and shouts badly at Renuka who is then fired from her job for bringing down the name of the newspaper. Jeeva now risks his life to capture the pics of Aalavandhan who actually engages in a child marriage. Later the story with the pics is printed in their newspaper and this makes Renuka to fall in love with him. Saraswathi continues to have a crush on him, who later knows that he's in love with her. She unites them both happily.
Vasanthan organizes a political campaign meeting. Ashwin receives a text message from Saraswathi that states there is a bomb underneath the stage. Ashwin manages to save Vasanth, while he finds a seriously injured Saraswathi fighting for her life amidst the riot, but eventually succumbing to her injuries.
Ashwin, through a video clip recorded by another photographer, finds out that Saraswathi is being intentionally killed by someone. He later notices a resemblance between the leader of the bank robbery and this unknown killer, concluding that it is the same person. Renuka, meanwhile, comes to know that Ashwin and Vasanth are college mates. While she asks about this to Ashwin, he says that he's helping wise and efficient men to take up the governance of the state and he has helped Vasanth.
Vasanth wins in the elections taking majority and his party raises to the secretariat. He gives order to the police to release 20 naxals on Republic Day in an Humane Way. Hearing this, Ashwin rushes to meet Vasanth. He finds Vasanth talking to a person. He sees the scar on his forehead and says that this was the person whom he saw in the bank robbery. Vasanth declines his point saying that he has got some offical meeting. After Ashwin rushes to follow the naxals, Vasanth gives command to police officials to clear the naxals down.
Ashwin goes to the hideout of Naxals and manages to get the information that Vasanth is the culprit behind the bomb-blast. The naxal group head, who is injured says to Ashwin that Vasanth played double-game. He angrily confesses the truth that, Vasanth asked him to kill Saraswathi, who found out that Vasanth can do anything for becoming a politician. He transmits the live confession of the leader over his 3G phone with a videocall to Renuka who prepares the final proof of paper with headlines that Vasanth is a culprit.
In the climax is a fight between Special Task Force-Vasanth-Naxals-Ashwin, where Vasanth is killed by a mineblast. Ashwin calls up Renuka and asks her not to publish in the newspaper that Vasanth is the culprit because, if she does then all the members of Siragugal who promises to bring a neat government would be stepping down from power. She deletes the article.

Cast

• Jeeva as Ashwin Jayaraman
• Ajmal Ameer as Vasanthan Perumal
• Karthika Nair as Renuka Narayanan
• Piaa Bajpai as Saraswathi (Saro)
• Prakash Raj as Yogeswaran
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Alavandhan
• Sona Heiden as Smitha Kothari
• D. Suresh as Suresh
• Pattimandram Raja as Jayaraman
• Jegan
• Anthony

Special appearances (in alphabetical order) by:

• Abbas
• Adharvaa
• Anuja Iyer
• Bharath
• Ganesh Venkatraman
• Harris Jayaraj
• Jai
• Jayam Ravi
• John Vijay
• Karthi
• Krish
• Madhan Karky
• Rima Kallingal
• Sanjana Singh
• Sakthi Vasu
• M. Sasikumar
• Shiva
• Suriya
• Tamannaah Bhatia

Development and filming

Initially the film was rumored to have Karthi in the lead role. However, it was later officially announced that Silambarasan Rajendar would play the lead in the film,but was later replaced by Jeeva . The lead female role was initially supposed to be enacted by Tamannaah Bhatia, who was replaced by actress Radha's daughter, Karthika Nair.The trailer of this film was played during Manmadan Ambu and got a favourable response.The film was shot on location in Chennai, Harbijn in China as well as in Western Norway at Trolltunga, Stalheim, Bergen and Prekestolen,becoming the first Tamil film to be shot in Norway.

Release

Ko released in nearly 230 theatres in Tamil Nadu, making it Jeeva's biggest wide release. It is also releasing in multiplexes in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Vadodara with English subtitles to attract the non-Tamil audience.

Reception

This film opened up to mostly positive reviews. Behindwoods.com gave 3 out of 5 and the verdict "A stylish commercial entertainer!"Times Chennai gave 65/100 and stated that "You feel empathy, rage, helplessness, and triumph at every step of the way".Sify.com also gave a positive review, citing that "For an audience numbed by predictable Kollywood potboilers week after week, here is an original offering from KV Anand, a fearless filmmaker who doesn't insult your intelligence. He is able to cater to the needs of both the elite as well as mass audiences, which should be applauded."Rediff.com also gave 3 out of 5 saying that "With its basic plot of politics, it has enough twists and turns to keep you occupied. Best of all are the light touches of sarcasm and humour that make it work. Go for it."
Nevertheless, the film also fetched scattered mixed to negative response. Rohit Ramachandran of nowrunning.com rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stating that "Ko staggers throughout, pretending to take risks and after the first misstep; it's nothing but a free fall, all the way. The funny thing is the free fall isn't a smooth ride either. It hits every protruding rock."National Film Award-winning critic, Baradwaj Rangan wrote that "If someone wants to make a case for the abolishment of song and dance from our cinema, Ko would be Exhibit A." He also went on to state that "Ko is a series of big scenes with no transitions, no segues, no scenes that just stop to smell the scenery." Indiaglitz said that "Racy all through, it is a movie that is worth a watch, if you are really not bothered about logic at certain places."

[Soundtrack

Ko
Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Sony Music
Professional reviews
Behindwoods Rediff
Harris Jayaraj chronology
Engeyum Kaadhal (2010) Ko (2011) 7aam Arivu (2011)

The soundtrack is scored by Harris Jayaraj, who had previously worked with Anand on Ayan.The composition of the songs took place in Macau. During Diwali 2010 a short teaser was released which featured the song "Ennamo Yeadho" which received a high response. Another song, "Aga Naga", featured special appearances by several Tamil film personalities, including composer Jayaraj (see under cast). The album was launched on January 19 2011 in Chennai

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Aga Naga"	Pa. Vijay	Vijay Prakash, Tippu, Ranina Reddy, Priya Subramaniam, Solar Sai	05:22
2.	"Enamo Aedho"	Madhan Karky, Sricharan, Emcee Jesz	Aalap Raju, Prashanthini, Sricharan, Emcee Jesz	05:36
3.	"Gala Gala"	Kapilan	Tippu, Krish, Haricharan, Sayanora Philip	04:55
4.	"Venpaniyae"	Pa. Vijay	Sriram Parthasarathy, Bombay Jayashree	05:25
5.	"Netri Pottil"	Madhan Karky	Naresh Iyer	02:43
6.	"Amali Thumali"	Viveka	Hariharan, Swetha Mohan & Chinmayi	05:50

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கஜினி my most favorite tamil movie all time

Ghajini
Directed by	A. R. Murugadoss
Produced by	Salem A. Chandrasekaran
Written by	A. R. Murugadoss
Starring	Surya Sivakumar Asin Thottumkal Nayantara Pradeep Rawat Riyaz Khan Sathyan Manobala
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Editing by	Anthony
Distributed by	Sri Saravanaa Creaations
Release date(s)	October 14, 2005
Running time	180 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	6.5 crore
Gross revenue	67 crore

கஜினி is a 2005 blockbuster Tamil psychological thriller film directed by A. R. Murugadoss released on October 14, 2005. The film stars Surya Sivakumar, Asin Thottumkal, Nayantara, Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan. It was dubbed and released in Telugu by Allu Aravind in November 2005, and was successful there as well. It was remade into a Hindi film by Murugadoss again, starring Aamir Khan with Asin Thottumkal playing the same role. The Hindi version broke all records and is the fifth highest grossing Indian film till date. The film's concept is an inspiration from Christopher Nolan's Memento.
The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children who were in danger, she is brutally murdered by a gang leader and the entrepreneur himself gets hit hard on the head when he tries to save his lover, eventually leading him into a state of short term memory loss. He is later studied about and helped by a psychology student to take revenge on the one who murdered his lover.

Plot

The story centers on Sanjay Ramaswami (Surya Sivakumar), a rich businessman who owns a cell phone company named Air Voice and the events surrounding his relationship with Kalpana (Asin Thottumkal).
Kalpana, an advertisement model, meets with representatives from Sanjay's company who come to request a business agreement and ends up telling her advertisement crew that she is Sanjay's love interest - after the crew mistakenly thought that the executives were sent by Sanjay to ask for her love. She has never met him, but soon exploits popularity from her "relationship" with him and inadvertently gives an interview for a magazine. Sanjay, who reads the article, goes to confront her. On his way, he catches a fleeting glimpse of Kalpana (whom he doesn't know yet) helping handicapped children to cross a street, and falls in love. He moves on to confront Kalpana at her advertisement studio and is pleasantly surprised to find that she is the same woman he saw a while ago. He chooses to hide his true identity, takes the name Manohar, so that he can get to know her. Kalpana eventually falls in love with him.
Once, while on a train to Mumbai, Kalpana saves a group of young girls from abuse by a group of goons led by Lakshman (Pradeep Rawat).
After a few days, the same goons come to Kalpana's house in order to avenge their embarrassment. Incidentally, Sanjay arrives at the scene and fights off the goons, but during the ensuing fight, Kalpana is murdered. Kalpana never finds out that he is Sanjay. Lakshman then strikes the downcast Sanjay on his head severely with a metal rod. Sanjay survives the blow, but suffers a short-term amnesia.
His condition makes him forget everything that happened every 15 minutes. The only memory he has is of Kalpana's murder, though he cannot remember the murderer. He embarks on a quest to avenge her. Despite his condition, he succeeds in finding and killing Lakshman's men. Chitra(Nayantara), a medical student, takes interest in Sanjay's case and meets him. Sanjay, reluctantly, adds her to his photo collection labeling her as a friend so that she could meet him and talk later. Later, Chitra finds his intention to murder Lakshman and tattles on him.
Lakshman is amused that a man with short term memory loss is trying to kill him. Nevertheless, he destroys all the information Sanjay collected, all his photos and even shaved the tattoos Sanjay had off so that he will forget his quest. However, Chitra finds and reads Sanjay's journal and become sympathetic to his cause. She tells Sanjay who murdered Kalpana.
In the final confrontation, Sanjay fights with both Lakshman and his twin brother and kills them.

Cast

• Surya Sivakumar as Sanjay Ramaswami a.k.a Manohar. Surya plays a rich business, the owner of a mobile company called Air Voice. Sanjay fell in love in Kalpana, but introduced himself to her as a struggling actor, Manohar. Kalpana is killed in a horrible manner and Sanjay develops a special form of Amnesia where he remembers events only up to 15 minutes. To aid his pursuit of revenge, Sanjay tattoos important details on his torso.

• Asin Thottumkal as Kalpana. Asin plays an ad model, who claims to be the lover of Sanjay Ramasamy an successful entrepreneur. When she meets him, he introduces himself to her as Manohar, a struggling actor. Kalpana, showcased as a kind-hearted person, becomes involved in a case when rescues girls kidnapped by Lakshman. Kalpana is killed in front of Sanjay by Lakshman.

• Nayanthara as Chithra. Nayantara is a medical student, who tries to study the case of Sanjay Ramaswamy and his amnesiac problem. She appears throughout the film as she attempts to unravel Sanjay's mysteries and past life and goes places to find more information about the psychiatric patient she wants to meet. Despite initial friction between Sanjay and herself, she later helps Sanjay take his revenge over Lakshman and his twin.

• Pradeep Rawat as Ramdev and Lakshman who kills Kalpana for insulting him and ruining his plans. At the climax, when Sanjay goes to kill Lakshman, he is introduced to his brother. In the confusion, Sanjay is told by Chithra to kill both as a benefit to not just him but to society as a whole.

• manobala as ad-film director

Production

Casting

Initially, Ajith Kumar accepted the role and the film was to be titled Mirattal and also photo session took place but subsequently dropped out. Then the role finally went to Surya Sivakumar who grabbed it and it turned out to be one of the biggest commercial successes in his career. During an interview in 2006, Murugadoss openly admitted that the movie specially scripted for Surya.
Meera Jasmine was the first choice to play the role of Kalpana. But she dropped the project and later replaced by Asin Thottumkal which helped her to establish as the top lead actress in Kollywood.

Allegations of plagiarism

In response to allegations of plagiarism, Aamir Khan noted "Murgadoss had heard about a film called Memento and the concept had really fascinated him. Without having seen the film he went ahead and wrote his own version of the script and screenplay. Having finished his script, he then saw Memento, found it very different from what he had written, and went ahead and made Ghajini."

Soundtrack

Ghajini
Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj
Released	2005
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Harris Jayaraj chronology
Anniyan (2005) Ghajini (2005) Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu (2006)

The soundtrack features five songs composed by Harris Jayaraj. While it was titled Mirattal, Yuvan Shankar Raja was the initial composer. A. R. Rahman scored the Hindi version of the film.

No	Song title	Singers	Length (m:ss)	Lyrics	Description
1	"Oru Maalai"	Karthik	5:54	Thamarai	Filmed in various parts of Tamil Nadu on Surya and Asin, when Sanjay realises he has fallen in love with Kalpana.
2	"Sutrum Vizhi"	Sriram Parthasarathy, Bombay Jayashree	5:19	Na. Muthukumar	Filmed in Switzerland on Surya and Asin, as the second diary flashback of Sanjay begins.
3	"Rahathulla"	Anupama	4:50	Thamarai	Filmed in Chennai on Asin, as Kalpana is introduced.
4	"Rangola Ola"	Shankar Mahadevan, Sujatha	4:26	Kapilan	Filmed in sets on Surya and Asin, when Kalpana is longing for Sanjay.
5	"X Machi"	Mathangi, Nakul	4:12	Vaali	Filmed in a college on Nayanthara as an item song, during which Sanjay is trying to kill someone.

Reception

This film was a super hit and a turning point in Surya's career. The dubbed version in Telugu was also well received and both versions were declared super hits

Remake

The Director of this film also made a blockbuster remake of this film with the same name in 2008. The film stars Aamir Khan ,, Asin Thottumkal ,, Jiah Khan ,, Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan. It broke all records and became the second highest grossing Indian film grossing around 189 Crore

Awards and nominations

In addition to the following list of awards and nominations, prominent Indian film websites named Ghajini one of the 10 best Tamil films of 2005, with Rediff, Sify and Behindwoods all doing such that. The film also featured, prior to release, in "most awaited" list from film websites.

Award	Category	Nominee	Result
2005 Filmfare Awards South	Best Actor	Surya Sivakumar	Nominated
	Best Actress	Asin Thottumkal	Won
	Best Director	A.R.Murugadoss	Nominated
	Best Film	Nominated
	Best Lyricist	Thamarai (Oru Maalai)	Nominated
	Best Male Playback	Sriram Parthasarathy (Suttum Vizhi)	Nominated
	Best Male Playback	Karthik (Oru Maalai)	Won
	Best Female Playback	Bombay Jayashree (Suttum Vzhi)	Nominated
	Best Music Director	Harris Jayaraj	Nominated
	Best Cinematographer	R. D. Rajasekhar	Nominated
	Best Editor Award	Anthony	Won
2005 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards	Best Film	Ghajini	Won
	Best Actor	Surya Sivakumar	Won
	Best Music Director	Harris Jayaraj	Won
	Best Male Playback	Sriram Parthasarathy (Suttum Vizhi)	Won
	Best Female Playback	Bombay Jayashree (Suttum Vizhi)	Won
	Best Cinematographer	R. D. Rajasekhar	Won
	Best Lyricist	Na. Muthukumar (Suttum Vizhi)	Won
	Best Audiographer	A.S. Laxmi Narayanan	Won
	Best Editor	Anthony	Won

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IPL 2011 -- update 3-5-2011

Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Group stage and playoffs
Host(s)	India
Champions	TBD
Participants	10
Matches played	42 out of 74 scheduled matches played
Man of the Series	TBD
Most runs	Sachin Tendulkar (327)
Most wickets	Lasith Malinga (19)
Official website	www.iplt20.com official Facebook page

This season the number of teams in the league went from eight to ten with the additions of the Pune Warriors India and the Kochi Tuskers Kerala. Chirayu Amin is the chairman and commissioner.

Format

With the introduction of 2 new teams, a new ten-team format was created. This new format consists of 74 matches and was introduced as retaining the previous format would result in 94 matches, significantly greater than the 60 matches from the previous season, where teams compete in a double round-robin tournament. The knockout stage was changed to a playoff format. If a match ends in a tie, a Super Over will be played to determine the winner.
The ten teams are divided into two groups of five. In the group stage, each team plays 14 games: facing the other four teams in their group two times each (one home and one away game), four teams in the other group once, and the remaining team two times. A random draw was used to determine the groups and who plays whom across the groups once and twice.
Each team plays the team in the same row and the same column twice, and all others once. For instance, Pune Warriors will play Chennai Super Kings and the other Group A teams twice but the other teams from Group B (Kolkata Knight Riders, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals) only once. Similarly Kochi Tuskers Kerala will play Delhi Daredevils and the other Group B teams twice but all other teams from Group A only once.

Group A	Group B
Deccan Chargers	Kolkata Knight Riders
Delhi Daredevils	Kochi Tuskers Kerala
Kings XI Punjab	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Mumbai Indians	Rajasthan Royals
Pune Warriors India	Chennai Super Kings

Points are awarded in the group stage as follows:

Result	Points
Win	2 points
No result	1 point
Loss	0 points

A four-game playoff stage following the Page playoff system is held after the group stage.
Four games will be played in the playoffs:

• Game A, between the teams ranked first and second in the group stage.
• Game B, between the teams ranked third and fourth in the group stage.
• Game C, between the loser of Game A and winner of Game B.
• Final, between the winners of Games A and C.

The top three teams from the tournament qualify for the 2011 Champions League Twenty20. Due to the new playoff format, the qualifying teams will be the top two teams of the group stage and the winner of Game B in the playoff stage.

Venues

Chennai	Mumbai	Kochi	Kolkata
Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai Indians	Kochi Tuskers Kerala	Kolkata Knight Riders
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium	Wankhede Stadium	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Eden Gardens
Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 33,000	Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 65,000
Mohali	Chennai Mumbai Mohali Kolkata Bangalore Dharamsala Jaipur Navi Mumbai Delhi Hyderabad Indore Kochi		Bangalore
Kings XI Punjab			Royal Challengers Bangalore
PCA Stadium			M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Capacity: 30,000			Capacity: 45,000
Hyderabad			Delhi
Deccan Chargers			Delhi Daredevils
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium			Feroz Shah Kotla
Capacity: 40,000			Capacity: 48,000
Indore	Jaipur	Navi Mumbai	Dharamsala
Kochi Tuskers Kerala	Rajasthan Royals	Pune Warriors India	Kings XI Punjab
Holkar Cricket Stadium	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	DY Patil Stadium	HPCA Stadium
Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 30,000	Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 23,000

Teams and standings

Team	Grp	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
Kolkata Knight Riders	B	9	6	3	0	12	+0.588
Mumbai Indians	A	8	6	2	0	12	+0.582
Rajasthan Royals	B	9	5	3	1	11	−0.145
Chennai Super Kings	B	8	5	3	0	10	+0.247
Royal Challengers Bangalore	B	8	4	3	1	9	−0.052
Kochi Tuskers Kerala	B	9	4	5	0	8	−0.542
Deccan Chargers	A	9	3	6	0	6	−0.070
Delhi Daredevils	A	9	3	6	0	6	−0.262
Kings XI Punjab	A	7	3	4	0	6	−0.398
Pune Warriors India	A	8	2	6	0	4	−0.089

Statistics

Batting

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Balls	Strike Rate	Average	HS	100s	50s	4s	6s
Sachin Tendulkar	Mumbai Indians	8	8	327	285	114.73	65.40	100*	1	2	33	5
Virender Sehwag	Delhi Daredevils	9	9	303	180	168.33	33.66	80	0	2	38	12
Paul Valthaty	Kings XI Punjab	7	7	301	203	148.27	50.16	120*	1	1	34	14
Virat Kohli	Royal Challengers Bangalore	7	7	294	219	134.24	49.00	71	0	3	30	11
Gautam Gambhir	Kolkata Knight Riders	9	9	289	227	127.31	48.16	75*	0	1	33	2

Full Table on Cricinfo

The leading scorer of the league phase wears an orange cap when fielding.

Bowling

Most wickets

Player	Team	Matches	Overs	Wickets	Economy Rate	Average	Strike Rate	Best Bowling
Lasith Malinga	Mumbai Indians	8	31.4	19	5.77	9.63	10.0	5/13
Iqbal Abdulla	Kolkata Knight Riders	9	31.0	12	6.29	16.25	15.5	3/24
Shane Warne	Rajasthan Royals	8	32.0	11	6.03	17.54	17.4	3/16
Morné Morkel	Delhi Daredevils	8	31.0	11	7.00	19.72	16.9	3/18
Doug Bollinger	Chennai Super Kings	5	19.0	10	6.05	11.50	11.4	3/21

Full Table on cricinfo

Note: Economy Rate acts as a tie-breaker if players are level for most wickets.

Tournament's leading wicket taker wears a purple cap when fielding.

Man of the Match Awards

Player	Team	MoMs
Paul Valthaty	Kings XI Punjab	2
Brendon McCullum	Kochi Tuskers Kerala	2
Michael Hussey	Chennai Super Kings	2
Shane Warne	Rajasthan Royals	2
Lasith Malinga	Mumbai Indians	2
Virat Kohli	Royal Challengers Bangalore	2

This page has been updated 5 times.Last updated 3-5-2011

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