5 in 2

Dear blog,

It is raining outside and I can hear the skies roaring at 23: 45.

I watched five movies in two days. That must be my record.

Yesterday, we watched the 16:10 Rang de basanti show at PVR in SRS mall. Good movie in terms of direction, locales, dialogues and comedy. The director mixed up with the end totally. All actors acted well. Aamir Khan’s artificial Punjabi accent was a put down sometimes or may be I had a problem with it. PVR at SRS mall is better than innovative multiplex at marathalli in Bangalore.

Then, I watched Parineeta dvd. Good direction, good acting, good story-book story, originality- such were its ingredients. Saif Ali Khan and Indian beauty Vidya Balan did full justice to their roles.

The first movie that I watched today was Maine Pyaar kyun kiya. It does make you laugh but unrealistic characters and untimely songs will make you get up and take a break. Sushmita seems to have been typecast into such do-gooder comedy roles until she changes it with her upcoming release Chingari. Salman, of late, has become an essential actor for any david dhawan kind of comedy movie. Save for one or two hits by unexpected directors, all comedy movies these days spring up either from David Dhawan camp or Priyadarshan camp. Read my next paragraph. I don’t know what to write further on comedy.

The next movie was Ek Ajnabee. Arjun Rampal’s role was inconsequential. A very good plot it was, I felt. The characters were not developed completely, incorrect editing and mediocre direction. It could have been better than it was. Vikram Chatwal also figures in the movie. Poultry queen shouldn’t do these kind of roles. Amitabh should stop playing these roles. Enough is enough. He is the most brilliant actor of Indian cinema. He shouldn't waste his time and evergy doing such movies. Amitabh has bagged the filmfare best actor award for his movie Black

The last movie of the day- Apharan. Nana Patekar has bagged the filmfare award for best villain for this movie. A usual Prakash Jha film means as usual a brilliant film. Jha is brilliant on handling any issue related to Bihar. Most of the actors in this film were also present in his film Gangajal. I don’t consider this movie any less than a brilliant movie on mafia-politician nexus in India.

6 more days to go. How many more will I watch?

Adios...

A melodius gift

Last week, a good friend of mine gifted me an audio cd of Rang De Basanti. It was a nice surprise. The songs that I particularly liked are Ik Onkar, Roobaroo and Lalkaar. Lalkaar borrows a part of its lyrics from the famous lines written by our respected late freedom fighter Ram Prasad Bismil- Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil main hai….

Thanks buddy for the melodious gift…

internal soccer tournament-II

Amidst lot of on and off field verbal duel with the opposition team fuelled by a collective rough playing, we won the semi-finals against J A Kixx by 2-1. They were better than us but we kept a good defense and like cricket, waited for the bad ball (read bad defense from their side). Two of our players got injured.


We played finals with a team incomplete yet full of enthusiasm against Real Minnows yesterday . We were loosing by 1-0 in the first half. They scored one more goal in the second half. Their main striker (who happens to be the main striker of our corporate team) shot very powerfully at our goal and our goalkeeper stopped it only to incur a fracture in his hand. A new goalkeeper came in his place. We were left with only 7-8 minutes. I and captain decided that we both should play forward if we want to score. This let up our defense and another three goals were scored against us in succession.

Theirs was a team better than ours but we could have managed a win against them as we did against J A Kixx. Not to mention some members from other teams(not necessarily all team members and not necessarily all football team members) watched the finals from outside making fun of us and throwing volleys of personal comments at us and they seemed more happy than the winners.

All said, I consider it a good feat that we came out second out of thirty six internal teams. Only two of us knew each other before the team was formed.

Another two corporate soccer tournaments are coming up mid of this month.. Hope we win…