Published by Bombay Addict February 13th, 2010
in Bollywood.
Roshni went in to be critical and came out loving the movie. She ends her post with this message for the Shiv Sena
As I part, a quick word to the popular Shiv Sena: Get Over It. What did you ever think? That you could take the Bollywood gene out of us with your threats to stone us? I don’t think so. In fact, I’ll buy you guys tickets. But for heaven’s sake, spare us.
Drac gives it full-on 5/5
Direction, as they say, is the backbone of every movie. Not even for a second I thought that this film is directed by Karan Johar, you cannot resemble this work of his with any other previous blockbusters given by the same director. Karan Johar had proved himself the Jack of all trades. The direction of the movie embraces you, shows the concern & beautifully teaches you the basic moralities of life.
Rahul gives it 4/5
For Karan Johan (sic), I’ll say one thing, most of his movies have these huge songs with a 100 extras singing and dancing in the background. I wouldn’t say this movie does not have that, but all the songs fit perfectly into the story line. The story and concept is sweet and as I read rightly in some other reviews, sincerely executed.
The Rainmaker gives it 3/5
The surprise of the whole package though is Karan Johar to a great extent. From the days of ‘KKHH’, ‘K3G’, ‘KANK’ Karan has come a long way. But perhaps he has some more way to go and reach the destination that he is headed to [..] Camera by Ravi Chandran is Superb. Music by Shankar trio is a big let down with not even a single outstanding track. Sharbani Bhatija commits the same errors as in ‘Fanah’.
Published by mridula February 11th, 2010
in Activism, Blogging, Media, Photography and Plagiarism.
Times of India pastes a picture taken by Kalyan Verma at its front page, lifted it out of Wikipedia. And before that they picked up a picture taken by PlaneMad. But then what is new!
Published by Bombay Addict February 10th, 2010
in India.
Over at Smoking Apples, Milind is the latest casualty of Apple India’s indifferent service
When the Magic Mouse was launched, I figured it was just a mouse, so it had to show up within a week or two (I remember the Mighty Mouse took three weeks to get here). Friends offered to send me the mouse; I chose to wait, even though it would cost more. How was I repaid? Kept waiting for three months, with no mouse in sight. There are reports of Magic happening at certain stores in Delhi, but the local Apple reseller tells me they must be importing them on their own (smuggling was the word used). I can imagine the plight of those waiting for the iPhone 3GS, but not being able to do anything other than to get it from the grey market.
Published by mridula February 6th, 2010
in Blogging, Business and India.
Shrinidhi is not happy with the sudden changes in the paypal India policy. Neither am I.
The worst thing according to me, is that Paypal has enforced this policy change without any prior notice, any warning and is autonomously back dating the policy and enforcing it on already completed transactions, reversing them and causing huge inconvenience/loss to the stake holders. Ideally they should have announced in advance that From so and so date our new policy will apply, so that everyone could have made appropriate plans.
Published by Bombay Addict February 5th, 2010
in Bollywood, Cinema and India.
Anju Gandhi overhears the conversation of two girls who had recently seen Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Love Aaj Kal
A , “ I don’t understand why did Ash get married to Ajay Devgan, when she was already in love with Salman? Why didn’t she run away from her house?
B ,” how could she? She was forced by her parents and she must have thought about the honour and feelings of her parents. May be she did not want to hurt her parents, or maybe she did not have guts to do it”
A,” that means Deepika (in Love Aaj Kal) was not bothered about her parents. She ran away after her marriage. She did not think about her parents, her husband and her in laws”
A, “moreover why did Ash not go back to Salman when her husband was ready to send her back?”
B,” Arre, she had fallen in love with her husband gradually ( dheere dheere)
Published by Bombay Addict February 5th, 2010
in Culture and India.
Nila-Kantha-Chandra on Calcutta, its intelligentsia and much more:
While the intelligentsia of Calcutta prides itself on being fiercely secular and tolerant, the truth is that most educated Hindus in the city would never have had any substantive intercourse with a Muslim in their lives. And yet they would not hesitate to express their opinion on Muslims, Islam etc.
Almost every one in a typical intellectuals’ gathering – like this one I attended – would be Hindu. yet that is considered to be a citizens’ forum, rather than a HIndu one. But a gathering of Muslim intellectuals would be seen by Hindus as an exclusively Muslim affair, rather than a civic gathering.
Published by sudipta February 3rd, 2010
in Photoblog.
There are some spectacular pictures on the Unaad photoblog, one of which is about the Chamba city in Himachal Pradesh. Do visit!
Published by madhat February 2nd, 2010
in Fiction.
Vinayak Varma writes a charming little short story.
A finger cracked through the eggshell walls of her daytime universe, cracked in and wiggled around. And so it was that the people of her universe turned and stared, its machinery squealed to a brief, annoyed halt. A portal opened up in the room, a new possibility unleashed. A new universe of dishevelment, bringing with it a flowerpot.
Published by mridula January 31st, 2010
in Misc and Society.
Tweeples report of a tweetup from Lucknow.
Now Lucknow, to be honest is really not one of those cites where social networking sites are used by a large part of the population no it is not that way at all. I was not able to convince many people to come to a tweetup and had almost given up but then came this guy Gaurav Srivastava a software engineer, he had kind of dug his heels in and so this first tweetup happened.
Published by mridula January 30th, 2010
in Photoblog.
Not sure about much of the pictures but I wonder if that is the new way to make rotis!
Published by mridula January 28th, 2010
in India and Travel.
Celine reacts to the death of two tigers at Jim Corbett National Park in the last 20 days-
I certainly do not agree with the belief of some egoistic and insensitive dumbasses that a tiger is a magical symbol with mystical power in its organs. Let those same dumbasses experiment with celery or dark chocolates instead or better still, go fly a kite.
Published by sudipta January 26th, 2010
in Art, Health, Prejudice and Society.
Meera thinks that calling someone a “retard” is not so funny when you are at the receiving end, and it constitutes insensitive humour. There is a nice comic on her blog as well!
‘Retardation’ is a condition that people are born with and hence cannot help.
According to me, any casual use of and jokes involving terms such as retard constitute highly insensitive humor.
Not cool at all.
And speaking of insensitive humor, yo-mamma jokes are no less.
Published by Jo January 25th, 2010
in Music.
Sindhuja Bhaktavatsalam has posted a composition of hers in Bindumalini Raagam. Lyrics by her mother and it is a tribute to the rain God. Check it out and let her know what you think.
Published by sudipta January 25th, 2010
in Announcement, Children and Health.
Help eradicate polio from India: join hands with an ongoing venture at www.poliofreeindia.org. Little matching donations, as little as Rs. 10 would help. If nothing else, please tweet this:
Polio Free India – http://www.poliofreeindia.org/. Help with the final push to eradicate polio in the world! #poliofreeindia
Not just including Major General Tanvir Ahmed’s (Pakistan’s Army) picture in an ad by the Government of India, but the Dreamer also questions why there are no women achievers on that collage:
Even if we do accept the Hon.Minister’s explanation, there is something really wrong with this picture, in my humble opinion. The caption boldly asks “Where would you be if your mother was not allowed to be born?” And accompanying it are pictures of four men! The makers of the ad, whoever they are, were broadminded enough to include the picture of a man from a neighbouring country, but for some unfathomable reason were unable to find one female achiever to feature in the ad purportedly for the welfare of the girl child.
Published by sudipta January 25th, 2010
in Food.
If you are a Bengali, you know what the month of Pous (Jan-Feb in the Bengali Saka calendar) means: puli pithe! These are ossum sweets made specifically in this time of the year. Reema presents the recipe along with photos and videos:
One such sweet is the famous Pithe. After many years all the members of my family were together on Sankranti and it was decided to make pithes to celebrate the day. [My interests were solely getting a new thing to blog about and to eat :D :D ]
Pithes are of various types: Ranga alur pithe (made of sweet potato), chandrapulli,puli pithe (made of coconut), gokul pithe and patishapta (sort of pancakes). The recipe I am going to describe is a stuffed kind of pithe, Puli Pithe. Puli basically signifies the shape of the sweet.
Published by sudipta January 23rd, 2010
in Fiction and Personal.
Saurav Mohapatra crafts a beautiful short story which metaphorically portrays his reconciliation with his father over the course of a flight:
The turbulence outside had ceased, but I seemed not to notice. The storm still raged in my mind. It raced with questions I had not even given the slightest pause for ponder in a very long time.
Maybe it was mental fatigue, but I had not noticed when I had fallen asleep.
I dreamt of my mother. I had not thought of her for so many years now. She was the bridge between us, as my father and I drifted apart. She remained the common link between us, a surrogate for the bond that should have been in place between father and son.
Published by sudipta January 23rd, 2010
in India, Politics and Sports.
Madhumita thinks that by excluding Pakistani players from the IPL, the animosity between India and Pakistan has just been prodded further:
Had the Pakistani players being included in the IPL teams, no dramatic progress would have been achieved on the India-Pak relationship. When sixty years of efforts from our various governments couldn’t thaw the ice between the nations at loggerheads, I wonder what good this little inclusion would have done? Maybe, it might have not added more bitterness to the already dissolving ties. But who can guarantee that? I am not writing this blog to justify the acts of IPL bodies or the Indian government. I only intend to enjoy IPL 3. Right or wrong, good or bad, IPL still promises to enthrall its viewers like in the past. We all had thought, that shifting of IPL to South Africa would significantly reduce the viewership of IPL in India, but to everyone surprise, the enthusiasm was way beyond the IPL season 1. Haven’t we heard that everything is fair in love and war? This however is Cricket ;)
Published by mridula January 21st, 2010
in India.
The photo taken by Hobo says it all. Go and have a look.
Published by sudipta January 21st, 2010
in Personal, Society and Women.
Sania Mirza is planning to quit her career after she marries. And Priya questions this:
Why do Indian women even bother starting a career if it’s something they plan to do only until they get married? There are a million other ways women can spend their pre-marriage years—they could volunteer, learn music, start a home business, get a philosophy degree, learn Thai cooking, seek inner peace or do whatever it is that people who don’t believe in a career do.
Published by shantanudutta January 19th, 2010
in Health, India and Society.
States usually would spend tons and tons of money on their politicians, just to keep them “alive”. But he went one step ahead, in his death he has shown us all a path towards immortality. He decided to donate his body for a very noble cause – medical research.
Bibilophile pays a an apolitical tribute to Jyoti Basu, the Communist icon…..
Published by mridula January 18th, 2010
in Fiction, India and Society.
Atul takes a Lakhnavi look (in Hindi) to our attitude towards giving. Read to find out what happens in the story.
Published by mridula January 17th, 2010
in India, Justice and Society.
Sanand talks about a gift he got for representing a fishing community in Maharashtra.
On behalf of the fishing community, we filed a suit for injunction before the city civil court in Mumbai. It was fully granted (with respect to 2 pumps and 2 connecting tanks). Then, the other side went to the High Court in appeal against the said interim injunction.
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