A GTalk friend from a close friend, even as you are clearing your work email.. While you are enjoying your dinner at a restaurant, with your family, a Banjo alert suggesting that a colleague is within 500 meters of you.. You are making a presentation to your team, and an incoming Skype call rings, even [...]
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The modern day trap: the unified life on the omnipresent device
Posted: April 1, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: device, life, modern man, omnipresent, single, trap, unified
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“Kahaani” Acchi Hai – Film Review
Posted: March 11, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: film review, Kahaani, Kolkata, Satyajit Ray, Sujoy Ghosh, vidya balan
Rarely these days, does a film have packed houses, even on the first weekend. At the late night show on its first Saturday, when I saw a packed house for Kahaani, I could sense two things: that Vidya Balan gets an initial, at least in the aftermath of The Dirty Picture, and that the initial [...]
Removing Dhoni from captaincy: typical knee jerk reactive response!
Posted: January 29, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: captain, captaincy, cricket, Dhoni, dravid, india, sachin, sehwag, srikanth
So the TOI reports in a Sunday Times page one headline story that Dhoni will be replaced as captain of the Indian test team, by Sehwag. And while this is not official news, TOI has been able to get teams and decisions of this kind, right, more times than not. And if they have put [...]
Don’t protest via governments: give the westerners back in their own way!
Posted: January 29, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: americans, britishers, india, jay leno, jokes, revenge
There have been a fair number of recent cases where Americans and Britishers have rubbed the Indian sensitivity, the wrong way. This has come from different quarters. From the funny folks like Jay Leno, the VP Cheney, and then some others. India, with all of it’s secular feelings, needing to ensure that no community, no [...]
Mixed Feelings about Agneepath: Film Review
Posted: January 27, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: agneepath, film, Hrithik, Karan Johar, karan malhotra, katrina kaif, priyanka chopra, review, Sanjay Dutt
** Spoiler alert ** : There is some mention of the storyline here, and if you do not want to get any such hints, and you do plan to see the film, then you shouldn’t read this blog post! I have little memory of the old Agneepath. Except for the legendary dialog that spoke, “Vijay [...]
Don 2?? Don’t you!!
Posted: December 24, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: don, don 2, don2, farhan akhtar, movie, review, shahrukh khan, SRK
The dialog goes, “Don ko pakadna mushkil nahin..” Yes, correct. On the first weekend, at the 7 pm show, the theatre was empty. So yes, it’s not difficult to catch Don 2. Except nobody wants to!! And with good reason.. word has already got out that Don 2 is avoidable fare. It was my mistake [...]
Aapne Thank You Bola Kya?? Are you serious, Retail Employees’ Day?!
Posted: December 12, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: employees, retail, TRRAIN
So did you guys notice this ad today? I had to read it twice to understand that it was all serious. And it was asking us, the paying retail consumers, to say thank you to the retail employees, when we go to shop. Now I am all for dignity of labour and have nothing in [...]
The Dirty Picture: about Entertainment, Entertainment, Entertainment
Posted: December 4, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: film, movie, review, silk smitha, the dirty picture, vidya balan
Here’s an uncharacteristic (for me) Short review of The Dirty Picture: certainly brings alive the Silk Smitha days, Vidya Balan’s got an awesome role for herself and she does well (like she did in Ishqiya), certainly there’s a lot of oomph, story could have had some more depth (post interval, story meanders), awesome dialogs right through. [...]
“Mausam” kharab hone ke kaaran.. this film does not fly!
Posted: September 25, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: film review, mausam, pankaj kapur, shahid kapoor, Sonam Kapoor
Mausam is veteran actor Pankaj Kapur’s first directorial venture. He has delivered some great work as an actor, on television as well as on cinema. And as per perception, he does appear to be a ‘thinking’ actor. As would be the wont for a serious thespian of his kind, over the years, he may have [...]
