Posts from ‘August, 2009’

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra
Directed By: Vishal Bharadwaj
The man who always offers dark, gang-war or politically heavy, full of action movies turns up with another one on those, but with a little twist. This one has a love angle added to it, combined with the good-old Indian double-role theme.

I received this as a forwarded mail but what if stuff like this happened in real life??
LAST WEEK WAS MY BIRTHDAY AND I DIDN’T FEEL VERY WELL WAKING UP THAT MORNING. I WENT DOWNSTAIRS FOR BREAKFAST HOPING MY WIFE WOULD BE PLEASANT AND SAY, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”, AND POSSIBLY HAVE A PRESENT FOR ME.
AS IT [...]

Diffident
Meaning - hesitant in acting, reserved, shy.
Example – Someone with a diffident personality should pursue a career that involves little public contact.

Teenage fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series have sent Wuthering Heights – the favourite novel of the books’ hero and heroine – soaring to the top of the classics bestseller charts.
A new edition of the novel, repackaged in a similar style to Meyer’s Twilight books – black cover, white flower, tagline “love never dies” – [...]

India will occupy the centrestage at the XXII Moscow International Book Fair starting early next month.  The inauguration of the book fair on September 2 will coincide with the five-day state visit of President Pratibha Patil at the invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
As a part of the Year of India in Russia celebrations India [...]

Jaswant Singh’s book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” – that exposed major rifts within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and abruptly ended the senior Indian politician’s 30-year association with the party – has now reached Lahore. The BJP was facing a crisis-like situation as the book hit the shelves in India and the party sacked Jaswant [...]

After a string of long funny stories/jokes, heres something short and witty…
A beggar meets another beggar. A software engineer meets another software engineer. Both of them ask the same question to each other:
” So, which platform are you working on?”

Cast: Amir Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Priety Zinta, Dimple Kapadia, Sonali Kulkarni
Directed By: Farhan Akhtar
Music By: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
So.. okay… well.. um….. oh forget it……
Everytime something like that happens during any of my conversations, the first image that pops up into my mind is Saif Ali Khan on the phone with his girlfriend on the [...]

Tum Ho To (Farhan Akhtar – Rock On)
Beautiful (Jennifer Paige – Autumn in NY OST)
Iris (Goo Goo Dolls – City of Angels OST)
Tanha Dil (Shaan)

I read an article the other day about Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from BJP on ground of his releasing a book which contained his views on the political scenarion during the time of the India-Pakistan partition. Apparently, in his “controversial” book, Singh has been appreciative of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s pre-partition efforts to bring Hindu and Muslim [...]