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 [...]
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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; [...]
From Hum Dil Chuke to Love Aaj Kal
Published by February 5th, 2010 in Bollywood, Cinema and India. 1 CommentAnju 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 [...]
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, [...]
The Pioneer’s Kanchan Gupta’s take on Jyoti Basu.
Jyoti Basu spent the better part of his life living off tax-payers’ money — the conscience of the veteran Marxist was never pricked by the fact that he appropriated for himself a lifestyle shunned by his comrades and denied to the people of a State whose fate he [...]
Justice for Rathore
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Activism, Corruption, Culture, Development, Government, India and Law and order. 0 CommentsThat’s what The Diary of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala wants. That and Justice for ND Tiwari, Paneerselvam, Dinakaran..
Me: OK, I think …..I have a solution.
DINAKARAN: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT !!! SIRJI! PLEASE DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME.
I’m the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and was due for promotion to become a Supreme Court Judge.
But the media [...]
Economics and religion
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Development, India and Religion. 0 CommentsBalaji looks at religion’s role over the years
As the dawn of economic revival started in India in 1991, so did the start of the end of Indian secularism. As people started to get more educated, more of them started to believe in religion. they also came to realize that intellectuals like Einstein, Da Vinci and [...]
Memsaab delves into Aamir Khan’s Rancho: (Don’t miss some superb on-set photos of 3 Idiots)
Rancho’s fundamental problem is that he has no flaws. He gets top marks effortlessly, he is wise beyond his years, he is clever. He is too perfect for words, and thus becomes a sometimes obnoxious caricature: his philosophizing quickly becomes preachy [...]
Over at The Indian Muslim Blog, Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan is worried about Amitabh Bachchan cozying up with Narendra Modi
So is it a confused move of his that he applauds a person like Modi, or is it a kind of ‘tasting the water’ theory, which he has adopted in order to see the mood of his [...]
Vijayendra on how he came to believe in God
I decided then, that I wanted to be him. I decided to believe in God. It sounded stupid to me even as I made the decision, but I figured that if deluding myself is what it takes to gain that kind of courage, then so be it. [...]
Darshit likes it
Moreover, big relief is that, Raju and Abhijat Joshi – the writer duo -has taken only bits from the novel and whenever he has done that, it is done exactly same what’s written in the book. Nowhere he has tried to change that. On the other side, most of the storyline is developed [...]
Harshit thinks you should watch it
Overall, Paa, which belongs to Auro, is probably the best movie of the year. It’s big on emotions, good at wit, harsh on media, gives some funny moments, and has imperfect characters who strive to do good. It has negatives but it gives you a lot of positivity too. Go, [...]
Model and actress Lisa Ray blogs about the rare, incurable cancer she was diagnosed with:
I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma on June 23rd. Started my first cycle of treatment July 2nd. Not long ago.
For me, it was a relief to hear what was wrong. The plasma cells in my bone marrow were rampaging, multiplying, squeezing [...]
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Saurabh is impressed
Kaminey is a movie of attitude not a masala film. You have to be very attentive while watching the movie, if you miss a single scene I am sure you wont be able to understand the movie. I must say a well made film, very appealing and surely a candyfloss movie.
GF also thinks [...]
Veteran fund manager, Sandip Sabharwal, believes equity markets are ripe for a correction:
I have been expecting a correction for some time, a correction of the magnitude that i visualised did happen post the Union Budget. Although in value terms it did correct almost to the extent of 15-20% from the top that i had expected [...]
Hasan gives you three reasons to watch it:
There are three reasons why you must catch Love Aaj Kal ASAP – dialogues, performances and music. Imtiaz Ali’s tale of love, then and now is a light hearted and refreshing watch.
Veteran reviewer Meetu can see it over and over again:
If you think you are game for a [...]
More on that Last Stand of Gandhi Photo
Published by July 14th, 2009 in India and Photography. 0 CommentsThis “rare photo” has been doing the rounds on the Internet..
Seems it’s not for real. It’s taken from the movie “9 Hours to Rama“.
More at the Blindboys blog (via Akshay on Twitter)
Veteran reviewer Meetu trashes it
The story got left behind, far behind. What story, you may ask? And a good question it would be. I can’t find a single nice thing to say about a film. Not a line, not one joke. What can you do when the maker’s aim is to make an awful film? [...]
Terror in Mumbai – Dispatches Documentary
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in 26/11 and Terrorism. 3 Comments(Update: The YouTube link was removed due to copyright issues. Channel 4 has made the documentary available on its site, but only for certain geographic areas)
Another Update: The video seems to be available on DesiVideoNetwork. It also seems to have been re-uploaded to youtube (will probably vanish soon). Please note that Blogbharti does not condone [...]
Over at Desicritics, Sumanth calls upon men to question the traditional role of males in society, following the Supreme Court’s recent verdict that the wife is always right.
Men have to take some time out of IPL, workplace gossip, CNBC and International politics, to come down to smaller issues of life. They have to create some [...]
India’s 2009 Election Results – some views
Published by May 17th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Government, India and Politics. 7 CommentsKarthika believes the elections were also a referendum of sorts:
The route to that domestic harmony – at least for now, is the re-election of the pan-Indian, less marginal, more moderate, exceedingly progressive Congress party with Manmohan Singh at its helm. This mandate did not just signal a victory for religious tolerance in India, but was [...]
Getting your Voter Registration Card
Published by March 6th, 2009 in General Elections 2009, India and Politics. 1 Commentis anything but easy as Chhavi found out.
After waiting in two lines (once to receive a “number” – ward? Jaago Re neglected to mention this one) this absolutely rude woman said she couldn’t accept my PAN card as proof of my date of birth (regardless of what their web site says) and if “sir” said [...]
Poetmaster gives it 2.5 stars out of 5, impressed with the acting but disappointed with the cliched end
Technically, the story moves in a rather jerky fashion throughout the narrative – someone likened it to watching a bunch of serial episodes together – and it takes a couple of sequences to get used to.
Yorick believes that [...]
CKunte vs NDTV: In the matter of ’shoddy journalism’
Published by January 29th, 2009 in Blogging, India, Media and NDTV. 6 CommentsFollowing the controversy of blogger Chyetanya Kunte apologising to NDTV for his blog post, Vijayendra writes an open letter to NDTV:
You won’t achieve anything by getting one blogger to withdraw what he typed in the heat of anger. Just like the government of India wouldn’t have achieved anything by blocking one TV news channel.
You are [...]
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