Hathi nahin Ganesh hai; Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh hai (It's not an elephant, it's Lord Ganesha. It is Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh.): Mayawati won simple majority in the politically most important state of India (simply because it sends maximum MPs in Lok Sabha) and formed a single party Government in the state after 17 years!This slogan puts in 1 line her entire strategy of getting the extremes of Indian...
Monday, December 31, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A question for Gujrat
I don't know if this is the right time to ask this question, now that voting has finished in Gujrat. This question is to open to not only Gujratis but all those people who believe that Narendra Modi is the right choice for leading Gujrat once again. The most common arguments in favor of Modi are: 1) He is an able administrator who has made Gujrat one of the most developed states of the country...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Movie Review: Dus Kahaniyaan
In one of my previous blogs, I rubbished Ram Gopal Verma (and dutifully got the brickbats as well!) for his recent cinematic outings,but who can deny that the man refurbished the concept of multiple ’viewlets’ in single film, with ’Darna Mana Hai’ and then ’Darna Zaroori Hai’. However both the films were constituted of only thriller/horror stories (ok ok, I know we mocked ’Darna Mana Hai’ as ’Hansna...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Movie Review: Dhan Dhana Dhana Goal
A bunch of part-timers solidifying into a team with sole aim of fighting the 'goras' to save their land. Underdogs beating the champions after the opposition's attempt of breaking the team didn't succeed. Ashutosh Gowarikar's Lagaan? Yes, and director Vivek Agnihotri's latest release 'Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal'. Underdogs-beating-Champions is a perennial theme in the films of sport genre. You always know...
Monday, October 29, 2007
When success is a two-edged sword
This article was originally written for and published on PassionForCinema.com on 27th November 2007: http://passionforcinema.com/success-is-a-double-edged-sword/Some months back I read the book review of 'Orson Welles: A Biography' by Barabara Leaming.I have always known Welles as the creator of the great 'Mars Attack' hoax on radio. This article however was focussed on Orson Welles, the director...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Since cricket is of 'national importance'
Now that the euphoria of victory in T-20 World cup has subsided after losing the One day series against Australia, I think this is the time to raise some questions.If our courts believe that Cricket is such a matter of national importance which made them curb the freedom of private enterprise causing...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Tale of Retail
Finally Reliance has decided to close its Reliance Fresh stores in UP and Orissa and move out. I don't know about Orissa but in UP this step was taken after protests and vandalism at Reliance Fresh stores in some cities. Mayawati Government ordered closure of some stores citing 'law and order problems' and gave the local administration in all the cities to order closure wherever they felt any such...
Monday, September 03, 2007
Chak De! India : The Review
The greatest challenge in reviewing a movie is that when you are writing the review a few weeks after its release, all the choicest adjectives (and expletives) are already taken and you have a dual challenge of not only being honestly critical about the movie, but also ensure that it doesn’t sound cliched! In the case of ’Chak De’, this task is even more difficult,...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
6 Faces of India
60 years of freedom, more than 6000 years of existence! India is an enigma which can't be described in words! 6 images can hardly be sufficient! But they are what my camera captured.India vs BharatSwanky overpriced malls to over-crowded 'wholesale-price' wholesale markets, everything is available for...
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Starved of Ideas!
The biggest Bollywood hit of this year as all media has been informing us is debutant Sagar Bellary's 'Bheja Fry'। Made on a shoestring budget of 65 lakhs, supposedly the film has earned Rs. 5 crore, that is nearly 10 times of the initial investment. No, I am not going to go gaga over, how a 'small, low-cost film' has cracked the code and went on to rake the money while biggies have bitten the dust...
Sunday, June 24, 2007
China's new horror show!
I had always believed that Indian politicians and bureaucrats are most short sighted people in the world but compared to what China is doing, these people have begun to seem like greatest statesmen! I really don't have words to express my disgust over the news of their building a 108 km metalled road to the base of Mt. Everest. And this is nothing else except showing their muscles at the time of 2008...
Friday, May 18, 2007
Hyderabad Diary: Rumors spreading fast!
And taking the form of 'Unconfirmed Reports'! All the companies have issued travel and safety advisories to their employees. Most of the people have left early to avoid traffic congestions.There have been 'unconfirmed reports' of a bus being set on fire in Ameerpet and tension in different parts of the city. None of this is true of course!Central Government has rushed Rapid Action Force in the city....
Hyderabad Diary: Bomb Blast
There has been a big bomb blast in Mecca Mosque near Charminar in Hyderabad. The death toll stands at 6 by now. 14 people are seriously injured. The timing of blast was aimed to get maximum damage as it coincided with Friday afternoon prayers, between 1.30 - 2 pm. An unexploded bomb was also found. The blast has considerable damage to this historical mosque, which is also the biggest mosque of Hyderabad.Old...
Monday, March 26, 2007
An advice to M.J. Akbar (and similar self-appointed-cricket-experts)
Anupam is understandably sore after the defeat (so am I!) and so seems M.J. Akbar (He is a senior journo and editor of Asian Age). But Anupam is a true blue cricket fan who loves, respects and understands the game and its nuances, unlike Mr. Akbar who seems to be just one of those self appointed cricket experts who first praise the cricketers indiscriminately and then call for their heads, when they...
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Titanic 2 - The Sequel - Jack's Back
Woof!!!After you have seen it, goto: http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2006/04/titanic-two-the-surface.h...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Hypocrisy of Indian Media
I don't know if it would have been actually better if ULFA had not called off their boycott of the 33rd National Games being held in Guwahati. Perhaps then there would have been some news coming from Games venue, even if related to security concerns.I am actually shocked by sort of complete blackout...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Mint Fresh Upgrades!
Mint Fresh: Hindustan Times Group launched two new brands recently in Delhi market. Their long-awaited business publication "In Association With The Wall Street Journal", which will be available in Mumbai also, is titled 'MINT'. (The place where they make coins, not the Polo or Mint-O, you moron!) Also...
Friday, January 26, 2007
On This Republic Day ...
The two facets of a Republic: On this republic day, as the news channels beamed images of a resurgent, vibrant and proud-to-be-India-on-camera India amidst news of separatist groups protesting or observing bandhs, the mercury of my dilemma soared northwards. Each time they show these kind of visuals...
Friday, January 12, 2007
Someone save my state. Please!!!
The missing rivers: The saints and devotees refused to take a bath in Sangam this year due to extremely high level of pollution in the holy rivers. What a shame! We are a nation of more than (supposedly) 330 million deities and this is what we have made of two of our greatest and holiest rivers. And the rate at which Gangotri and Yamnotri glaciers are melting, we may not have these rivers for long.Why...
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