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OMG!Oh My God-  It is epitome of how to handle highly sensitive subject without creating controversy. Story of a man questioning very existence of god himself? Filing case against top Religious places? Seriously, no subject could have been more sensitive and dangerous than this, especially in India where Possibility of people’s religious sentiments getting hurt is more than monsoon missing its schedule. The way directed has handled it is simply great. Story starts on slow note, taking its time to elaborate Kanji bhai's (Paresh Rawal) skepticism towards existence of god. Writer/Director combo has made every effort to make reasons for Kanji Bhai's legal battle against god digestible. Doing that they have also succeeded some serious issues going on in society in the name of God. This movie is capable of making even a hardcore religious man to ponder about good and bad things going around in the name of religion. For me that's the greatest success of this movie.

Story - Story of the film is not a path breaking instead its very simple and straight forward. The best agent of a secret service falls in love with a girl and wants to run away from his spy life. Execution - All praise should go to Kabir Khan for this. Story like ETT, though looks simple on a paper, is harder to execute in front of camera. The key part in a screenplay is always going to be the love story part and success of the screenplay going to be hinged upon the way Kabir blends love story in an action film. (And to be honest I was little skeptical about this part) But oh boy! Kabir has handled this key part extremely well.  Agent-meets-a girl-falls-in-love part is handled in an entertaining fashion and quite briefly without compromising the pace of the story. Action Scenes - Mindblowing!!! Never seen before in a Hindi film. And on par with Hollywood films.  Pure treat for action lovers. Music - Well, everybody knows about this as music is out for a month n

It is difficult to handle 2 lead characters in a movie,( just have a look at bollywood multi-starrers for example) so how can someone manage to assemble not two, not three, total six lead characters and that too Superheroes in a single movie and hope for success??? Director Joss Whedon not only manages but does it so brilliantly. ‘The Avengers’ starts with very unconventional way- at least for a superhero movie- with slow pace, building a plot brick by brick,  introducing all characters simplistic way. There is not much over-the-top action in first half(that’s being more than compensated in last half). What keeps audiences interested in first half is strong performance of leads (especially Robert D Junior), lots of humor, and anticipation of forthcoming events. ‘The Avengers’ starts justifying its superhero genre in last half, and till the end it becomes an-example-to-imitate for all future superhero movies. The biggest plus point of a movie is that it allots equal screen sp

This day I would never forget. Rahul Dravid is going to retire is what I was hearing, reading, seeing since yesterday. But I did not want to believe it. My mind was saying ‘yes! This is probably right’ but my heart just could not bear the possibility of not having Dravid around playing, fighting, winning and saving test matches for India. So I was eagerly waiting for today’s press conference, hoping against hope that this conference might be for some different reasons (though my brain couldn’t think of any). But that was not to be the case and Dravid indeed announced his retirement today. Retirement of Rahul Dravid has left a big, very big void in, not only team india but also in every cricket lovers life. I started following Cricket since 1996. And it is no surprise that Dravid made his debut in that year. I still remember that day, I, 7 years old then, watching a live match with all my friends on TV. The match was India Vs Pakistan at Sharjah. That day I first saw

As a big fan of fiction books, it was my wish to read a fantasy fiction book written by an Indian author. But, for many years that wish of mine remained unrealized and unfulfilled. However, few months back out of the blue, I happened to came across a book named ‘Immortals of Meluha’. And oh dear! What a book written by author named Amish Tripathi. The Immortals of Meluha   is the first novel of the   Shiva   trilogy series by   Amish Tripathi. The story takes place in the imaginary land of   Meluha   and how they are saved from their wars by a nomad named Shiva.   It begins with the Meluhan king   Daksha   inviting tribes to stay at his country, one of them being Shiva's tribe. They soon come to recognize Shiva as their fabled savior called Neelkanth , after he devours Somras, a legendary healing potion, which turns his throat blue. Shiva decides to help the Meluhans in their war against the   Chandravanshis , who had joined forces with a cursed group called   Nagas . Howe

****Spoilers**** (Read only if you are the one who have watched the movie or you are the one who don’t mind if someone spoils your party. :D  ) If say, somehow I did not happen to know that this AGNEEPATH movie is actually a remake of old movie of 1980s, I would have guessed it perfectly right after the end of climax fight sequence. Such are the scenes in this movie that follow exact same path of old 1980s movies. Movie starts in a village ‘Mandawa’ showing Vijay’s (Hrithik Roshan) childhood life and his relation with his father and how main villain Kaancha (Sanjay Dutt) murders his father. This part is actually well executed and builds the platform for revenge perfectly. Then movie follows the regular path of how Vijay creates his presence in Mumbai mafia world with the help of Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor), who is apparently the arch enemy of Kaancha, and rise to the power with the only motive of seeking revenge against Kaancha. And blah blah blah…. Now fighting sequences,

Recently i have been browsing through some interesting statistics about captaincy record of Indian captains when palying outside India and I digged out some interesting numbers. Following is the comparison between captaincy records of Ganguly, Dravid, Sachin and Dhoni. I am not considering old stalwards like Pataudi, Gavaskar and kapil because that was totally a different era for India cricket and it would not be fair to compare with modern era. Matches played outside India are only considered S.Ganguly- Matches- 25  Won- 11  Lost- 10 (excluding matches against Bangladesh & zimbabwe  Won- 06  Lost- 09) Achievements - Won a test match (in 2003/04) in Australia first time after 1986/87. Won a test series(in Pak 2004) outside India first time after 1992/93 (vs Srilanka) Won a test match(in 2002) in England first time since 1985/86. R. Dravid- Matches- 17  Won- 05  Lost- 04 (excluding matches against Bangladesh & zimbabwe  Won- 04  Lost- 04) Achievements-

Who would have believed, if told few months back that India would be facing back to back whitewashes? At least I would not have. I find it hard to believe this is the same team which achieved numerous accolades over a last 2-3 years. This team looks like a pale ghost of that team which attained number 1 test ranking and won the world cup. Sport, particularly like cricket, is a cruel thing. Just few days back we were dreaming about attempting a rare series win and subsequently dislodging England from peak of the ranking. After just 10 days of test cricket, we now fear for teams like New Zealand  and Zimbabwe would dislodge us if provided with Fast and bouncy pitches. In just a span of 2 weeks our whole base of faith and beliefs has been challenged. Dhoni, who was thought to be a shrewd captain and supposedly a greatest captain India has ever had, has now become a villain, brainless, clueless captain. (In my personal opinion he was always like that, waiting for things to hap

Fan in me (and in millions of Indians) is disappointed; furthermore fan in me (and in millions of Indians) is angry, anger which has been fuming in there since the tour of England. Why are we disappointed? Yes, because we lost the match and a golden chance to win a series in Australia. But why are we angry? Not just because we lost the tests. Wins and losses are the part and parcels of the cricket, or for that matter, any game. We are angry because the way and the manner of defeats. If you go down fighting, we have no complaints whatsoever. We would be disappointed for sure but not angry or ashamed. If anything we would be proud of fighting spirit on display. But when your no. 8 batsman (which essentially a bowler and should have no business doing batting let alone fighting.) showing more fighting spirit (and better average) than few top order batsmen, you know its not a fighting spirit on display and if anything at all it’s only a spirit of earlier Indian teams which used to succum