Aksar

Somehow I like movies where the bad guy gets away with doing the wrong things. And Aksar is one of the rarities in Bollywood in this regard. Most of the villains have to pay for what they do in these Bollywood masala movies.



In this regard, Hollywood is much better. Remember Primal Fear (Edward Norton, Richard Gere ) ?I loved that movie and its Climax. Only to find that some years later Bollywood made a mess of it with Deewanagee (Ajay Devgan, Akshaye Khanna, Urmila Matondkar) where the bad guy is humbled in the end.

Schumi retires

Ever since i started watching formula 1 sometime in 97...I cheered for only one driver and only one team ...they are Micheal schumacher and the Ferrari. I can't imagine watching formula1 w/o schumi on track ..i kno life will go on..
But won't it be strange to cheer for kimi or massa..i dun kno ...

Herez hoping schumi end with a bang..winning the Driver's championship for 06'

Lage Raho Munnabhai

Hi guys,
I saw Lage Raho Munnabhai today. I never thought someone would put the Mahatma's message across in a flim so nicely....Richard Attenberg...u gotta take notes dude.

However watching the movie did incite something else in me...That feeling that the Mahatma erred somewhere..but where???

He followed the path of Non-voilence and speaking the truth, but somewhere he was not as aggressive as he should have been.You have the Raj almost on its knees during the peak of the Non Co-operation movement, but one stray incident at Chawrichawra was a detterent enough for the great man to withdraw it.I can never get a rationale behind this .A few more months and Non co-operation would have got us freedom in 1927..not 1947!!!!!

Also...during the mid-1910's when Britan was in the middle of WW1. Mr. MK Gandhi did not negotiate with the british the way Lokmanya wanted ..i.e complete freedom in return of Indian soldiers fighting for her majesty...andinstead waited for after the warto negotiate..and as expected all Britan offered was some cheap reforms!

Can Aggasi do it?

Thats the question thats been haunting quite a few tennis fans.Andreis on his swansong and all his matches at theUS Open could potentially be his last.On saturday, he came up against Bagdattis, who battled against all odds.In the end ,he broke down physically to hand over andre the win.Andreis gonna comeup against roddik in the 4th round if he gets past teh rookie becker...and then therez Nadal further on. Still early days in teh tournament, but i still feel it will be a nadal federer final

Hi

Just wanted to know whether bloggers is still working or not..looks like its banned by most ISP's but notby mine!

Water water everywhere

Rains have lashed mumbai for the past 5 days ..and it looks like they will continue doing so for some more days...Life is affected badly specially of people like me ...For whom local trains are a lifeline and BEST buses a close friend .

My Colony is flooded..Yesterday I managed To go to office thru knee deep water, but today I resigned to fate and didn't attempt to go.Good for me because later in the day my colony got flooded

.Too much of anything ain't good..and certainly not rain.

ZEE Germans!!

Germany showed on Friday night what Home -Advantage was.In the penalty shoot-out the crowd gave them the momentum that they needed to sail past the fancied Argentine team.Talent was overshadowed by Crowd support.Its a natural phenomenon.
Office is full of Argentine fans and I am more or less the lone German supporter...Hope the frustrated fans keep their emotions in check!!!

The shockof the turnament came when the favourites for the title- Brazil were eliminated by their old nemisis -France!Portugal was one up over England in the lottery

all eyes to thesemi finals on tuesday and wednesday...maythe best teams win!!!!

What a Day !

The match between Fed-Ex and Nadal went to the wire ...Nadal won the 4th set in a tie break...had he lost in the tie break..he would have certainly won the 5th and the match...Alas..he can;t conquer clay and Nadal..Cheers to Nadal

In F1 Alonso won in Britan and Shumi was 2nd..Shumi is still in the hunt 23 points behind ...can he catch up?

India are pounding on the Agony...God knows when Dravid will declare..


And the dutch prevailed over serbia 1-0

Super Sport Sunday

Today is June 11...what a day for sport buffs...

Lets start with Tennis.Not since the days of Agassi and Sampras in the mid 90's has such a famed rivalry taken on the awe of the tennis world.Fed-Ex and Nadal.The 2 best players of the world are gonna lock horns once again , this time in Paris.While Fed is the reigning No 1, Nadal (World No 2) is the master of clay, the surface on which the French open is played. Nadal enjoys a 5-1 win/loss recordover Fed...something none of his other compatriots can boast of...

Moving to formula 1, the British Gp is here.Alonso has taken the pole followed by Kimi and Micheal in that order.Alonso looks unstoppable so far this season, theonly semblence of a fight has been from Ferrari's Micheal Schumacher.Questions about Micheal's future are the major gossiping point all over the Racing world with tranfers being discussed..and no one sure where they will go.Kimi has been a distant 3rd so far, with Mclaren having major reliability problems.Wait for the drama to unfold at Silverstone.

The world cup group stage matches go on ....and it becomes more interesting as the days go by

And finallywe have the rejuvinated Indian Cricket team playing in the 2nd test at St Lucia.Sehvag has set the pace with a almost Run-a-ball 180 and the visitors finished at 361/4 yesterday...lets see whats in store for Dravid and his Men today.

Back in Mumbai

Convo is over and so are the best 2 years in my life so far....GIM goodbye..i will miss u.

What lies ahead is MUMBAI.Yes I am back in the city of dreams ... joining my new job ..lemme wish all my batchmates the very best in life