Some Shiv Sena activists irate about derogatory references to Maratha hero Shivaji and the Thackeray family on Google’s popular Orkut web site have been venting their fury on Cybercafes in Mumbai.

Indian media reports say that the Shiv Sainiks have already vandalized some cybercafes  and warned web surfers to stay away from Orkut.

Apparently, the cops in Mumbai and Thane have been visting cybercafes and asking them to discourage their customers to log on to Orkut, a social networking web site.

The student wing of Shiv Sena is supposedly developing software to block access to Orkut.

We bet you have never seen a notice like this at any other museum in the world.

During our wanderings in New York City, we found the above board at the entrance to the Museum of Sex on 5th Ave and 27th St.

We wonder why this warning was necessary.

Do you think some museum visitors in the past may have gotten too excited on seeing the exhibits and tried to….Well, you know the rest.

Disney will team up with Yash Raj Films to make Disney-branded cartoon films with voices of Bollywood stars, according to today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required).

The two companies have set a modest initial target - at least  one animation film per year.

The first movie will feature voices of Bollywood hero Saif Ali Khan and actress Kareena Kapoor.

Disney considers India (along with China, Russia, Latin America and South Korea) as a strategic high-growth market overseas.

The entertainment conglomerate has failed to to make significant headway in the Indian movie segment as it has to contend with a strong rival in the Bollywood machine.

According to the WSJ story:

In India, the stakes for Disney are huge: The Indian population under 14 years old is bigger than the entire U.S. population, and household incomes are rising fast. But for years, Disney simply sold its U.S. movies and television shows to local distributors and broadcasters. Its movies, in particular, gained little traction in the market — a problem also faced by other U.S. studios because of the strong Indian film industry.

The WSJ story said Disney would release its first animation film in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil.

Disney also intends making live-action movies aimed at the market in South India, where Hindi language films are not as popular as in other parts of the country.

As for Disney’s partner Yash Raj Films, the Indian movie company’s last two films Ta Ra Rum Pum and Kabul Express were duds.

Ta Ra Rum Pum was eggregiously bad with an sophomoric plot of a race car driver (Saif Ali Khan) and his family in New York.

Besides movies, Disney’s interests  in India include TV shows, stationery stores, jeans and the Princess line of toys.

Sivaji is finally hitting the big screen on June 15, 2007.

Starring Tamil film superstar Rajnikanth, Shreya and Prakash Raj, Sivaji has aroused high expectations among Rajni fans.

One of the most expensive movies in Indian movie history, Sivaji reportedly cost Rs 60 crore (about $15 million) to make.

IndiaGlitz claims on its web site that it sold over 15,000 tickets for Shivaji in 48 hours.

Besides India, Sivaji was filmed in Spain and the U.S.

S.Shankar is the director and Sujatha has written the dialogs.

A.R.Rahman has handled the music.

Watch this space for the review of Sivaji.

To see the U.S. showtimes of Sivaji, click here.