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DTDC is a renowned company that provides logistics and couriers throughout the world. DTDC's stand~rnt factor amongst all the other express sen?Jce provide rs in India is its social development based business mode l and stro ng value S)'Ste.m.

DTDC has come a long way since its modest beginning in Bengaluru in 1990, becoming a power brand that has over 5,800 channel partners, 5,500 direct employees and overseas operations in ma jor countries across the world.

lo 2012, DTDC established a joint venture in China. Over 22 years, DTDC has seen an exponential growth in its exp ress business and has become a leading brand and a house.bold name i11 cbe country.

DTDC aspires to emerge as the l eading Express and Cargo D istribution Company in India by 2015. To do this, the y aim co constantly introduce new services and products that are relevant to tl1e needs of their conSlLmers. Heavily invested in technology, infrastructure, brand development and networ k expansion, DTDC has implemented a three-year program involving an in vestme nt of over R s 25 crores in b r and building, and a compl ete upgrade and standardisation of all DTDC ou tl ets. l\fr Chakraborcy was recogni sed by the Indian government for his contribution ro die industrial d evelop menc of die country, by honouring him with the Ut[yog R.itttm award ilirough the Institute of Economic Studies. At DTD C, he is known as "the Guru".

The success of DTDC as a company is attributed to die vision, efforts and forethought of its founder and chairman, l'lfr. Subhasish Chakraborty.

DTDC prides itse lf on i ts unigue value-based business m ode l. They aim co create job prospects as well as entrep reneurial oppormnities for many. DTDC have carved a niche for themselves in the marke t as a company that "builds life" by g iving peopl e from all walks of life a chance. i\!fore than 80 per cent of DTDC's channel partners across l ndia are first- time businessmen, wbo are often under-graduates from under-privileged backgrounds.

As proven by DTDC, having a social pmpose does not prevenc bu siness leadership or threaten d1e financial health of a company.

The company has been presented wid1 numerou s awards and recognitions by the industry including Best Franchisor Award for die eighdi time by Franchise India and the CIO 100 Award, which h o nours development and excellence in IT, for d1e third consecutive year.

DTDC was also named India's Most Trusted Courier Service Brand by The Brand Trust Rep o rt TM - India studr 2013, tha t was published by the Tru st Research Advisory Sh ri Subhasish Chakraborty was conferred the prestigious I nspiration Leader of New lndia award at the Power

Brands Glam Me 2013 eve.nt by PJauman Jvfedia Pry. Ltd., which was held in Las Vegas. Going fonvard, DTD C aims to create strong relationships wid1 all its stakeholders by adding to its values of transparency in all transactions, emphas ising service efficiency and promoting

Subhasish Chakraborty, DTDC's Visionary Founder Chairman

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environrneocal sustainab ili ty by minimis ing pollution and reducing national ,vastage

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Humshakals

STARRI NG: Saif Ali Khan, Ram Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu, Tamnannah Bhatia, Esha Gupta

DI RECTOR: Sajid Khan

Tammanah Bhatia makes so many faces in every frame you wonder if she's auditioning for a film against cocaine addiction while pretending to be in a comedy about three sets of identical characters wackily whopping it up.

Bipasha Basu who plays one of the female misleads sorry, leads, in this comedy of ghastly errors, has gone on record to say she was extremely disturbed by the end-result of this film

So, to be honest, are we. And the end that Bipasha talks about seems to take forever to reach as we watch three grown-up ostensibly evolved actors lapse into a collective state of incurable retardation

Humshaka/s seems to be designed for the mentally challenged. Even they would cringe at the way the two protagonists Ashok and Kumar (Ashok Kumar, gedddit?) are depicted. Moronic and misconceived, the duo seems to revel in crass mediocrity.

As inmates in a mental asylum in London (no less), Saif Ali Khan and Riteish Deshmukh raise the ante for lunacy to a point where sanity begins to seem l ike a state of mind invented to make us believe there is a world, a relatively sane one, outside what comic filmmakers in Bollywood consider to be funny

To be fair, Sajid Khan's new brainwave replete with triple roles for its three male leads, plus a drag act each in the second half which is genuinely funny is as obnoxious in treatment as the slapstick comedies of Rohit Shetty or Anees Bazmi.

I suspect the actors had a wha l e of a time shooting the scenes. And Sajid Khan must have enjoyed writi ng the comedy of mistaken identity especially when the look-a l ikes keep multiplying as the plot progresses But the growth is unstructured. It's l ike supplementary food being air- dropped to famine victims The basic food items are missing What do you do with add - ons?

The comedy, ha ha, moves with the screechy stealth of a choir boys singing