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Salman Khan seems to have created a niche kind of roles for himself in the last few years, and what a niche it is!! Wanted, Dabangg and now ready? Loud, brash, over-the-top, unbelievable but a lovable character.. He has started being himself in all his movies now, with the swagger of a star, and limited acting or even dancing abilities! It looks like he has no more concerns for any conventional sensibilities! The new song from 'Ready', Character Dheela, is the perfect example of it. You see the song, and you know its made for Salman!! Fun, total masti and no logic.. ahaa..! What a pleasure to see someone has the guts to just be himself, whatever he is.. and enjoy it totally!! Nice rocking song, totally fun! Go see it!!

Aaaaaah!! Finally a Hindi movie is released! After ages!! Agreed cricket is the nation's religion but so are movies!! And unlike the real religions, these can surely co-exist peacefully! Why then such a drought for so long a time??!!! Anyways looks like the industry has said, cricket (and the IPL) can go to hell, we will start releasing movies anyways!! And so finally, we've got to see a Bollywood offering after so long... Dum Maaro Dum is a thriller set in Goa; following a police officer's war against the drug cartel in the state. Its is a nice movie, past paced with never a boring moment.There are multiple stories in the movie all crossing paths with each other; the vulnerable lovers separated by distance, where the guy gets involved in the drug ring: the police officer with his own memories and demons to fight against: the singer whose ex has been caught in the ring long ago; and the background of the whole story is the beautiful and idyllic Goan setting.. The cha

I guess a movie not in Hindi or English is foreign cinema, isnt it:)? Anyways Harishchandrachi is a Marathi movie on the making of the first Indian silent movie, 'Raja Harishchandra' and of course the start of the biggest film industry in the world. It is such a beautiful and positive movie, its actually surprising! Most of the non-mainstream movies in India seem to focus so much on the depressing aspects of life, this movie would actually qualify as an exception! And it was India's entry to the Oscars in the foreign film category too! As a friend mentioned, he kept waiting for tragedy to strike at any point in the movie which eventually doesn't! Harishchandrachi is the story of Dadasaheb Phalke or Khepla as he prefers to be called while making this first Indian movie. I might have used the words, of the 'struggles' of Khepla to make the movie, but its been shown in such a positive way, that using the word struggles doesn't do justice to the tone of the

How to succeed.... is a musical comedy playing on Broadway currently and stars Daniel Radcliffe (or better known as Harry Potter) and John Larroquette in the major roles.  How to succeed is a spoof on the corporate world, where the protagonist uses a self help book on "how to succeed in business" to make his way up the corporate ladder. His methods are morally questionable, but following those he rises up from being a window-washer to the Chairman of the big World Wide Wickets company.  The tricks used by him include anything and everything, making the right contacts including with the secretaries of the bosses (;-) ), of getting your bosses fired to get their jobs, knowing inside information about people to use as and when required, of trying to find common links with the higher ups and so on... People in the office hate him or fear him and on the way, he ignores the one person who actually cares for him for what he is. The list of what he does is long, and no

We've won it! 2011 Cricket World Cup is India's! Dhoni and team have done it for the country:). After years of watching world cup after world cup and being disappointed everytime, its finally happened! And Sachin finally gets his hand on the elusive trophy. Still can't believe it, still hasn't sunk in.. but its true!! We are the world champions now.. Finally, and after so long...!!! Will remember it for long, we were there when it happened.. Following India through the initial stages, where they struggled many times. But when it came to the big matches, the team stepped up! Australia beaten at Ahmedabad and Pakistan beaten at the high profile match at Mohali. And the final.. cheering and following each ball with waited breath.. ! This is one match, one win our generation will remember!! The unhappiness with Mahela's century.. the lost hope when Sri Lanka made 274.. the panic when we lost Sehwag and Tendulkar too soon.. and then the rocking knock by Gambhir

Limitless is an English  masala  movie (as much masala an English movie can be!!), so obviously I enjoyed watching it:). I guess the most important thing while watching this movie is to have low expectations and not think too much; just assume what they are showing is feasible and then relax and have fun! Limitless is the story of a loser writer, Eddie, who comes across an illegal drug NZT- 48 which increases the activity of the brain to its full capacity rather than the 20% it works at most of the times. So now Eddie can finish writing a book in four days, learn languages in minutes, find anomalies in trading to make millions, outsmart anyone and basically do a lot lot more than what an average person can! And how he makes use of these powers is what this whole movie is about.  His flirtation with the Wall Street, his fling with the law, his escapades from goons and others after the pill and so on.... There is everything in the movie: comedy, action, suspense, thrills. Acti

Sometime back, I came across this article about an MBA woman sarpanch of a village in India and was pleasantly surprised reading this. It made me happy to know that at least some educated youth of the country are actually doing what a lot of us just love to talk about.. Of actually making a difference to our people, and doing something concrete (even in their own small way) rather than just talking about it but then just expecting others to do something about it rather than themselves.. I have too at times thought of doing something like this, something at the grassroot level, but till now have never really done anything.. This story is definitely inspiring to people like me I guess!