Produced at a cost of Rs 30 lakhs (a huge sum at that time), it has grand sets.
Following his performance against Australia in 2001, the Government of Punjab awarded him Rs. 5 lakhs, a plot of land, and an offer to become a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Punjab Police, which he accepted.
Even by that gauge, a small contractor (1,500 bags) makes about Rs16 lakh (a lakh is 100,000 units) a season and a big one (5,000 bags) up to Rs55 lakh.
He and Lodha are targeting double-income families that earn over Rs. 30 lakh a year ( a lakh equals 100,000 rupees).
(To satisfy increasing demand in India, the country's second-largest auto manufacturer, Tata Motors, is set to start producing a four-door known as the one-lakh car — a lakh is a hundred thousand rupees — that will sell for the equivalent of twenty-five hundollarsllars).
The population of Marriabad has swelled to about 100,000 -- a lakh, or quite a lot, in local parlance.
50 lakh turnover a month, about 600-800 square feet, work on a single shift and are not open on Sundays.
Tata even plans to introduce the "One Lakh Car", an ambitious plan to make and sell a vehicle costing less than 100,000 rupees ($2,300).And this basic part of the car market is not just confined to the emerging world.
Samir Bhandari, managing director at Nomura Singapore, was the evening's highest bidder, with a 24 lakhs, 2.4 million-rupee ($48,200) bid for an hour at the nets with Sachin Tendulkar and an invitation to meet the Mumbai Indians.
The police commissioner of Bhubaneshwar (a small town in the Eastern state of Orissa) told me: 'I hope you live to perform this play for a hundred years, because that's how long it will take for Indian men to change.' In the last five years, we have raised around 50 lakhs (about GBP67,800) for a shelter for battered women in Dharavi (a large Mumbai slum).
It chases them around the districts, totting up the costs they can see and adjusting the candidates' filings by a few lakhs.
