Simply "Rock On"-Nothing more

+ve

1) Arjun Rampal's wife
2) Farhan Akhtar's Vocals
3) Music .They have a purpose in the movie :)

-ve

1) Farhan Akhtar's Wife ( she looked like a big dumbo)
2) Very predictable story line
3) What was that guy Luke kenny(or whatever his name was) doing? I am gonna die and want to perform on the stage before I die.
4) Westernized Rock and not Indianized( my personal opinion). By Indianized, I dont mean singing in Hindi. There have been English rock numbers by Indian Bands too.
5) Hypocrisy (writing Hindi songs in English)

So overall a chocolaty movie but an effort that should be applauded.
Watched it, went home,slept, started my normal routine next day. But I should have also followed my dreams in between (may be in dreams though)
:)

waah ustaad waah

After watching the movie "Mumbai meri Jaan", I was awestruck on the simplicity of the movie and the intricacies of human thought it portrayed.
Hats off to Nishikant Kamat on coming with such a beautiful spectacle on the celluloid that is simply a treat to watch.

I liked the end of the movie a lot.Not like every other feature where everything is good, hunky-dory in the end and you go home smiling with tears of joy. Well some would certainly say that this is the purpose of the movie. For me movie is not a way to relax. Its a medium, and a very potent medium to make people think. And for my case I prefer the kind of movies that will make me think and could relate it to the real life.

The movie ended on a vey simple note,with a song from the old Hindi movie CID

"Aie Dil hai mushkil jeena yahan,
Jara hat ke, Jara bach ke,
Ye hai Bombay meri Jaan"

With the song in the background and real life pictures of the serial blasts in Mumbai local trains.

The various stories interwined in the feature
1) An IT professional whose sense of paranoia makes him look out for a life better worth living.
2) A news reporter, reminiscent of the current masala news channel, and the way she copes after becoming a victim.
3) A small time Tea vendor who is caught up in a dream world until he is ostracized by the socially affluent class
4) A Police inspector who is seeing his life and his dreams crumbling in front of him but is helpless and cannot do anything
5) An unemployed youth who takes up the cudgel of doing ethnic cleansing on himself.

And a common police inspector on the verge of retirement, who still finds hope amidst this chaos.

I dont think that any ways this movie salutes the so called undying spirit of Mumbai. And I dont even subscribe to this thought. I would define this as insensitiveness or "who even cares" attitude. The bottomline is, I dont care what happens to this world, I have a stomach to feed and I will have to run for my work. Come what may.That is the harsh reality and we dont want to come out of this vicious circle.

Beijing olympics

A spectable that will be emblazoned in the memory for times to come.A sign for the world to wake up and listen to an asian dragon leeping across the horizons and making sure that world notices it.

And Indeed I am lucky enough to have watched this.It would have been a real pleasure had India done the same feet.May be someday we will.

This olympics bought some of the real beautiful moments that will be etched in the memory for times to come.

The best one is the classic singature from Usain Bolt.

Do read this article courtesy rediff which captures 10 of the most beautiful moments from olympics.Beijing Olympics

who's right and who's not?

Well its a much discussed tea table issue. Atleast in our country. Who is right?You or your parents? As far as marraige is concerned, it is very contentious. one can take their personal decisions on any other issue ( career, friends, etc.). No parents object to the same.

So here we are standing at the point in life taking a major decision in life to spend the whole life with a person about whom the parents are not approving.

Now the question is how to decide who's right and who is not?And how can one decide? the most subtle argument is "For a person whom you know for a few moments, you can forget the whole life spent with us".

Indeed very subtle. But there is no fine line dividing the decisions as to who is right and not wrong. Its absolute.Either parents or not.

Something more interesting to read about
Love wrong,Parents right?


Listening to song "In between"- Linkin park

Michael phelps at its best

Watch michael phelps in action

Rise of the Titan

Now this is what I call a bold statement.Do you have guts?

Do you have a choice?

Never thought that anybody would call shots on the world superpower.

Looks like we are again heading for the good old 60's. The same old cold war era.

Value

Read it somewhere on the posts on Abhinav winning the gold medal for India.

What will chinese know about winning gold medal. They are just winning. See what one gold medal has done to us. We know the value of that one gold medal.

Is it?

Salute to one more hero

Who else :- Michael Phelps

The one who is now competing to acheive the status held by Mark Spitz. Article Courtesy Rediff

I believe by the time olympics are over, we see a marvellous genius for generations to come.And here I am witness to history being created.

Only concern remains is that there should not be any doping controversy arising and making a mess of this awesome feet.

Till that time(which I hope should not come), see the genius and his guts to rise up to the challenge each and every time. "Eye of the tiger"

We need heroes

Bravo Abhinav Bindra.

The first gold individual gold medalist from India in olympics.

Bejing 2008

Finally Bangalored

So after the so called heavy weeks workout, the time to chillax was near in form of weekend. So finally decided to land up in the discotheque.One of the very prominent ones in bangalore.

And here we are. The first thing we got to know is there is no doscotheque in bangalore.And drinking and dancing is not allowed.So no more issues.Lets go and chill.Have some beer with good music.Point to be noted is that cops will be sitting inside to make sure everybody adheres to the rules and remain sober.

Now, first thing one must remember is to place an order before 11 PM. and make sure to get your bills cleared before 11.25 PM. and run for cover by 11.30 or you will be wrapped up by the police officials.

So ladies and Gentleman, run for cover. If you somehow manage to miss your dinner by 11.30 PM. Forget it. Go home and cook something.

Viva la Vida bangalore.

WWE

I used to watch it a lot during my school days. Lately I am watching courtesy my friend who puts it on whenver I am there in front of TV.

Yesterday, there was a match between the Indian wrestler , the great khali and another wrestler rey mesterio. Now why this fight was special coz, khali is more than 7 feet tall and a huge built while rey mesterio is just not more than 5.5 ft tall or to be more specific, like any normal human being.

The commentators said something which I liked a lot.

"It's not the size of the man in the fight that matters,
It's the size of the fight in the man that matters".

:)