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Taare Zameen Par Background Music - A Review
"Real" Sense of Identity
Found this nice cartoon on Life's a comic strip
Very Apt for today's generation, What Say?
Trailer of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince out
Hi fellows,
The trailer of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer is out and is looking very promising . Me being a major Harry Potter fan, I was very much excited by this news. So I am posting the trailer here. Post your comments about the trailor about how did you feel the trailer is.
Dhoni Wins the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty hailed the decision. "We are happy Dhoni got it. On two occasions, we felt let down when Rahul Dravid didn't get Khel Ratna and Yuvraj was denied the Arjuna Award. Dravid was in a good form, we had won 16 ODIs on the trot and the team was on a high but still he did not get the award."
Shetty added "What I like most about Mahi, apart from his cricket, is the way he leads and conducts himself. He is a cool customer and never gets agitated. I'm also impressed by his clarity of thought. He speaks his mind even if it may not be seen in the right sense,"
Kudos to Dhoni on this superlative achievement!!!
VOI Winner Ishmeet Singh No More
The 19-year-old singer from Punjab had arrived at Male on the morning of June 29, to perform at a promotional event to be held on August 1. Ishmeet was the winner of Star Plus's singing reality show "Voice Of India" in 2007 defeating another prodigy Harshit Saxena.
He was also recently seen as one of contestants of 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar', a singing reality show on Star Plus and represented the Champions team. He was eliminated on June 20, 2008 from the contest.
Ishmeet's death has plunged the music world into mourning. Lata Mangeshkar who gave him the trophy last year said, "I feel very sad. He'd come to meet me, sang for me, and I had nudged him to pay a little more attention to classical training. He'd told me, 'Mein ek din aapko bahot bada ban ke dikhaoonga' (one day I'll make a big name for myself)"
Farah Khan, one of the judge of Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar said "He was a gentleman, never saying anything bad about any contestant. Once I was having a late dinner in the studio and he sat beside me, sharing my food. He told me, 'You have so many fans. I'd never thought I would one day eat sitting side by side with you.' I still can't believe he's dead."
Playback singers Abhijeet and Alka Yagnik, who were judges on music reality show "Voice Of India", have expressed shock at Ishmeet's death. "It's shocking. It's a cruel thing that has happened to him. I still can't believe it," said Yagnik.
Harshit Saxena, The runner-up of Amul Star Voice of India, said, "He was like a brother to me. I cannot even comment on what has happened. I cannot believe that he is no longer with us."
Gurprinder Singh Sodhi, father of Ishmeet said the event management company had informed the family that the body was expected to be brought to India today. The cremation would be performed in Ludhiana.
My heartiest condolences to him :(
May your soul rest in peace.
Mukhbiir Moneyback offer
Explaining the motivation behind introducing this never-before customer-satisfaction scheme, the Mukhbiir producer Sudhish Rambhotla says, "When we've money-back guarantee for consumers in other business why not in the entertainment industry? This money-refund satisfaction-guarantee has never been done in the entertainment industry in any part of the world. Movie making is like any mass manufacturing business. So why can't we assure quality to the consumer?"
He further adds "So far, whoever has seen Mukhbiir has been riveted. So I'm confident no one will want back their money. However, if they do, they're most welcome to get back the money."
Good going Mr.Producer :)
Hoping that more producers follow you into this scheme :)
Love Story 2050 Review
Finally I caught up with this movie few days ago but now repenting about why did I watch this movie. This is one of the worst movies I have seen in recent times. This movie can be surely made as a case study for testing your patience and I am sure everybody will flunk in that test. After all, it's that rare breed of film that gets almost nothing right — starting from a script that's so predictable, direction that is surprisingly absent, and acting that is so amateurish that you would want tell them to take a course in acting before they try their next film.
The movie kicks off in present day Adeleide where Karan (Harman Baweja) falls head over heels in love with Sanaa (Priyanka Chopra) on seeing her chasing butterflies in a park. The movie then proceeds in the expected manner i.e. guy wooing the girl, doing stupid stunts to make her happy etc. Harman Baweja hams through out the film and tries to ape hrithik in almost every still of the movie, the most used dialogue being "I don't need luck, I have love". After a lot of unbearable childish wooing and many songs later she returns the sentiment, then a trip to his uncle, Uncle Ya's house is also made who is researching on inventing a time machine and like in a normal bollywood movie she dies, gets killed by a speeding truck when she is crossing the road.
Therefore my Ratings for the movie would be 1/5 which is solely for the special effects in the movie.
P.S. Interestingly if you observe the background score in the later parts of the movie, it is highly inspired from Avast! antivirus virus detection tone :)
Teach India
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Time Period: Teach India is looking for volunteers who can participate in the program for 3 months. If you wish to continue teaching, the same may be made possible by the NGO you are working with through mutual discussion.
Type Of Education: A variety of programmes, including basic education, support classes and even story-telling are available. These are all very easy to teach programmes in which simple topics have to be taught to children mostly at primary school level.The teaching would be one-on-one or to small groups of children. The type of programme a volunteer is assigned to, will be decided after assessment by the NGO, keeping your location and time preference in mind.
For More Details, visit the Teach India Website
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Funny Weather Forecast
An Interesting weather forecast done by a person. Check it out
Interesting Comic Strip
Yesterday was just going through my mail when I found this comic strip
I found this strip really hilarious, so I am sharing the strip with all of you guys and gals
State of a Confused Mind
Imagine a traditional fashion show with rock playing background. Ya you guessed it right, these are the right ingredients for a disaster. I told my friend the same and he agreed to it and told me to start afresh. I went searching for songs everywhere, through my collection, on the net, enquired my friends etc etc. Finally I came up with a playlist full of Indian songs suiting exactly to the theme of the show and showed it to him. My friend was overjoyed hearing the songs. He told me that it was awesome and thanked me a lot. I felt happy at his reaction and appreciation for my hard work. But my joy was shortlived as he came back the next day and told me that the choreographer had rejected all the songs saying that the songs are not good. He also added that all other members in the team just loved my music and only the choreographer had problems with it. I told him that it was his wish whether he wants to choose the songs or not. He was in a dilemma as he wanted to choose my songs but could not bcoz of the choreographer. After some days, he told me that he has coaxed his choreographer and managed to add a few songs of my playlist.
Finally the day of the show arrived, I went to see that show, I was particularly curious as to how the choreographer had fit rock and jazz in a traditional show. The show started. The first two round went on smoothly as the lone song I had liked in his playlist and one of my songs were used in it. But when the third sequence started, as I had contemplated, it was very bad to see traditional with Rock background. I thanked god that the show ended very soon. After the customary praise and calculated adulation shared with the fashion team. I went back home that night and sat on my bed. Something was bothering me. I asked myself if a part of me was secretly happy that fashion show was a disaster. Was I happy that a competitor might have erred in his selection? And the truth is, I was happy, and that made me feel sick.
It doesn’t really matter how hard you introspect for that answer, the reality I guess is that it is in human nature to be jealous of someone for his or her success. Here I was, feeling pleasure from a classmate’s imminent pain that his show flopped.
Why is it so easy, so natural for people to feel a tinge of excitement when another person misses the mark with their work? Why does a section of people secretly wish that you fail so that you can be branded as a failure and they succeed. What’s the matter with us?
We are all very competitive in the world so as to establish a mark in the world, and that spirit is exhilarating and bold. But how much more evolved would we be if we collectively took the blame for a flopped idea or a flopped project.
Idealistic, I know. It’s too tempting to relish someone else’s failures, but if we could turn that jealousy into a more acceptable envy, I think we’d could achieve solidarity very easily.
Writers Block
So here is another attempt to start blogging regularly :-)
Let me see how far will I succeed this time...
Appu Ghar- Fond Memories
Appu Ghar, India's answer to the "Disneyland" was closed forever day before yesterday. This place had been a source of delight for every kid in delhi from the year of its inception in 1984. It was the country's first amusement park.
This news reminded me of my many visits to the Appu Ghar when I stayed in Delhi about a decade ago. It was the first amusement park I had ever seen. When I saw it for the first time, I was bowled over by the place. It seemed like I had entered a magical kingdom of sorts with amazing rides everywhere. The pricing though a bit costly (in 1997, 200 bucks was costly), but worth the experience and we could play any ride any number of times. We first took a round of the park as to what and all rides were present. and came back to the first ride. It was the 'Cool Splash', but seeing the queue, we postponed that particular ride and went on with the next ride, which was "Bhoot Bangla". We sat on the ride. I was very excited to sit on the ride. It was pretty good with screeching sounds all over, but the last bit of the ride was very scary, wherein they had kept a huge rock, which would almost fall on you and revert back. My heart was in my mouth in that particular second. I became very excited and went on the ride again.
Next we went to the "Appu cars", another name to popular "Dashing Cars". we checked out the ride while standing in the queue and saw that everyone was competing with each other as who will bump whom the most number of times, with electric sparks on the top of the fence the staff had put. It was the most fun filled ride I had ever sat on. When our chance came, I insisted on sitting alone in a car, my parents relented and they sat in a different car. The ride started and i manouevered my vehicle and accelerated and BHAM! I hit my parents car itself. and then turned and crashed into some strangers' car. I had started loving this ride and felt that the time should never end and I keep crashing my car to other cars.
We planned to have it an another go but seeing the rush at the queue, we backed out and went on with other rides like Giant Wheel, Roller Coaster, Merry Go Round, Appu Columbus, My Fair Lady etc etc. I did not leave a single ride present in the park.
By that time it was evening, we finished all our rides. so we went to the first ride that we had skipped i.e. the "Cool Splash". By this time the crowd had lessened a bit, but still had to wait a good 45 minutes before our turn came. This ride was very innovative, I thought. 8 People sat in a car, it took us up to a certain height in a snail's pace and then turned and travelled straight to a certain distance and then turned again and suddenly, the car picked top speed and it went and dashed to the water pool lying below, leaving us all wet. It was the best ride that I had ever gone. I wanted to go again on the ride but the huge crowd bogged me down. By then the closing time of the park was also near and we left for our home, reminscing on the highly exciting day I had.
From then on, whoever relative came to Delhi to meet us, I made it a point to take them to Appu Ghar with me accompanying them, but it is so sad that it is closing now forever and all these will remain as a thing of past now.
BYE BYE APPU GHAR I WILL MISS YOU!!!
Reality Behind Reality Shows
I was watching TV yesterday. Ads about voting details about either Prashant Tamang or Amit Paul were rampant on the channel. Seeing this I was reminded of an article I had read on the net yesterday. They were saying that due to the system of public voting, all the talented people were getting eliminated due to lack of votes from the public. And Some less talented people were getting to the next round due to huge voting from their respective states. They were questioning the whole system of eliminations due to public voting.They also carried opinions from reputed people about the system. One of the most popular singer had said that "If you remove the power of decisons from the panel present in the programme, sometimes the decision is bound to go wrong". I then thought about these words and felt that those words were so true and thought about the previous winners of similar reality shows and was shocked by the results.
The much hyped Sandeep Acharya (Indian Idol 2 winner) is nowhere to be seen. Debojit (A Saregamapa Winner) won by high voting of Assam people also has disappeared after an average album. Qazi Toukeer and Rooprekha Bannerjee,(Winners of Fame Gurukul) are also not visible at all. Simliiar case being with the Zee TV's Filmstars winners.The only exception being Abhijit Sawant (Indian Idol 1 Winner) whose career is going great guns. But he cannot be added to the above list of winners because he was and still is really talented.
On the flip side, deserving people who were really talented and were eliminated due to lack of votes like Rahul Vaidya, Prajakta Shukre have become famous and their singing career is going great guns. Deepali and Emon recently eliminated from Indian Idol 3 already have started Playback singing career with Anu Malik for a film called'Don Bane Muttuswamy'.Many people eliminated from Zee Cinestars also have done well for themselves on the Telly.
So I feel that,on the long run, talented people win though they are eliminated from the show they were contesting.
But because of all these SMS's, channels and the service providers are making phenomenonal profits. I had read an article about the revenue generated by such SMS's. It stated that 165 millons were earned from Indian Idol 1 alone due to these SMS's and Sony made 50 million of the deal. Literally these people are laughing their ways to the bank due to the support of the people who feel that we should vote to that person just because he is good looking or he is from our state.
Blogging problem
Creating a blog was on the back on my mind for a very long time now,probably 6 months before. All the previous attempts had failed or I was not satisfied with the post I had written. Finally when I made up my mind I thought 'What shall I write about?'. With every subject I took up I could come up with only three or four lines max. That is what 'Starting problem' is I guess. Then I started browsing the net for ideas and started reading other blogs written by people. And finally here I am writing my first post in my blog. The next step was naming the blog. I started thinking about a funky or catchy name for my blog and after a lot of thought being put in the process, I finally came up with this name.