Well, i don’t think this film has its heart at the right place. Mixed reactions, to be precise. A film well put together, i must say, … story, actor choices, direction, music, editing, … all above average, outside the 3-sigma level ( can’t resist ), especially the fourth one outside the 6-sigma lim (here i’m [...]
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29 Oct
Rotten egg #2
My second rotten egg jointly goes to – 1. P. Chidambaram, the Indian Finance Minister, for initially putting a brave face and saying large things when faced questions on what the gov is doing to combat the ongoing economic crisis, but at last throwing the towel in and looking all dejected a day before diwali [...]
21 Oct
The Square Root of Three
I fear that I will always be A lonely number like root three. A three is all that’s good and right, Why must my three keep out of sight Beneath a vicious square-root sign? I wish instead I were a nine, For nine could thwart this evil trick With just some quick arithmetic. I know [...]
17 Oct
Rotten Egg #1
Ahoy, the journey begins ! My first rotten egg goes to bollywood choreographer (sorry, i can’t call her a film-director) Farah Khan, for her comment about the nomination of Taare Zameen Par in the Oscars as the Indian entry. According to her, her (or rather Shahrukh Khan’s) Om Shanti Om was a better entry and [...]
17 Apr
Pritam – the (copied) music sensation of India !
Sample this – a music director, renowned for his variety, and a string of hit songs – 1. Ya Ali ( Film Gangster ), 2. Bheegi Bheegi ( Film Gangster ), 3. Shikdum ( Film Dhoom ), 4. Kya mujhe pyaar hai ( Film Woh Lamhe ), 5. Pehli Nazar ( Film Race ) … [...]
19 Mar
Horse of the Water, or WHITE ELEPHANT ?
Yes, I am talking about the warship INS Jalashva, the second largest ‘warship’ to the Indian Navy’s arsenal. How on Earth we still think of ourselves inferior than the powers-that-be, when we claim to be an emerging superpower in the world, with ‘astounding growth rates’? Was it really necessary to buy ship that has long [...]
10 Mar
An alternative ending to the Long Bad Australian Summer, eh?
It’s long been sort of a ‘tradition’ of the Australian team, — every summer, bring foreign team, get them minimal acclimatization, with practice matches against lowly domestic teams, and before they get the hang of things even minimally, they are 1-0 down in the 4-test series against the ‘Gods-of-Cricket’ home team, losing cheaply in the [...]
7 Jan
Dig ‘em up !
The umpires could’ve awarded the match to Australia for Harbhajan’s ‘racist remarks’ on Symonds, … that would be better. Even better, why play matches, we give walkaways, and you win 4-0, you so-called world-beaters, you unsporting gits. Even if Brett Lee declares, “It all ( the controversial umpiring decisions ) evens up at the end”, [...]
9 Dec
Homeopathy, …… we’re still not there
Surely I am not taking sides. Just as ‘once upon a time Biology was termed ‘voodoo science’, now this branch of the so called larger group ‘alternative medicine’ is branded pseudoscience, thanks to some stubborn docs and equally, perhaps more, stubborn medicine-giants. Of course the underlying basics of homeopathy are somewhat ‘holistic’. To the current [...]
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