One year passed by.....

Well today is the 23rd day of Feb and its been a year since I worte a blog post! I have 7 unfinished review posts and I am lazy! yes I am lazy to complete them up! Reason?? Oh come on I DO NOT ask me to do that :P I have so many that I can write a thesis on 1001 reasons on not writing a Blog post in a year :D

Ok some of you might ask "Dude you havent written any thing since a year! why the F*** are you writing one now? We've lost interest!" and I have an answer ready too.....(plz refer my above line about 1001 reasons....it applies here too). What?? you want the cat out of the bag? Na....I hope u aint serious! Oh come on don't force me! ahhhhh well ok the reason is that I am such a random person that the word random becomes a random understatement!!! :D phew....Happy?

All that I did in one year? the list is long and I don want YOU my "precious"(yeah right) readers to get bored(as though I am writing it for you! gah!). So in one year I have done nothing great that I can get padmashree or the booker prize (well if chatwal can I too can). After 20th feb the last time I wrote something(Yes I am proud of it!!!), loads of stuff happened in life! I better write it in points so that it is easier for you to read :)

Here are the great events that took place in the last one year in order of the month!

But hey before YOU read you should read this Disclaimer( to avoid controversies you know! I do not want to be misquoted later considering my popularity :P )

DISCLAIMER: All events in the following list are true(as far as I can remember and havent doctored them in my mind). They have been censored to an extent considering a family audience and also all characters here are living and are in no mood to kick the bucket. For any queries please contact me here itself because I do not have a lawyer :P



Event 1(FEB): Had a major F*** up with my real good friends Shreyas and Avinash.....but then everything got settled.

Event 2(MARCH): Bro got engaged and saw him really happy(after all he had found his "perfect lady" and bhabhi found her "perfect man"......awww what a love story!)

Event 3(APRIL): none!

Event 4(MAY): I went to Bombay....damn sorry MNS Mumbai after like 14 years! Yeah I felt like Lord Ram....(not exactly....I felt like Lakshman....Bro went there after 14 years too so he is Ram) went there for a week....had fun,saw Jalsa and Prateeksha felt awesome n came back with a crush......(only for it to be Vetoed down :'( *sob sob* ) \

Event 5(June): Exams......dreaded exams....but then Avinash suggested that we go for a vacation to his place Kalimpong in the North eastern part of India and I was lucky I got permission at home and on June 24 we left for Kalmipong all excited! It was an all guy trip.

Event 6(July): All high on the best trip we had we returned to college on the 16th of July. shared all our experiences with everybody all through the month.

Event 7(August): Nothing great happened....I just had the chance to visit the East again and now to Kolkata to shop for Bro's wedding! Again after a decade. Had fun. Did nothing. :D

Event 8(September): It was booooooring.

I hope you guys arent getting bored here. Please bear with me there are things about October,November,December and January 2010 to written :P

Event 9(Oct): October 1-7 got to get close to my first love Theatre when I was given a chance to attend a national level theatre workshop at Ninasam(heggodu). Ujwala and Me were chosen to attend it and I cannot forget all that I learnt. Rest of October went in getting screwed by my teachers for bunking a lot in that semester.\

Event 10(Nov): Bro was to tie the knot on Nov 19th and I made a literal....literally LITERAL flying visit! I had my practical exams before the wedding and so flew to Bombay after them and flew back to Bangalore on 20th to write an exam that afternoon. Apart from that did live tweeting from the wedding too.

Event 11(Dec): With my exams coming to an end....I got an other jolt that changed my life for ever. We i.e. Shreyas,Ujwala,Savitha,Madhuri and Me got chosen among 50 gangs that were chosen for MTV GANG NEXT which is happening all on FB. We got free Corbys, and loadsa other goodies. (for more info check out www.mtvindia.com/gangnext and join our fan page on FB by searching for "King Lights")

Event 12(Jan): January yayyy! The month I was born in. January started off on a rather high note. All things were going my way but I celebrated my birthday by sleeping! Can you beleive that? It was a sunday! And for those who do not know when I celebrate my birthday it is on the 24th of January -_-

And well now almost through Feb and I am doing a Play! finally after a break of 4 years! Will let you know more on it later :)

Also if you have read all through this post I bet you are going to throw rotten Tomatoes,Eggs and stuff on your screen. Do it! mera kya jaata hai! Your screen will go for a toss. :P

So I now take leave and promise to write regularly so that you don't have to go through this torture. Till next time...Ciao readers :)

Love ya all

Delhi 6-Review

The most awaited movie of the year Delhi 6 finally released today after much speculation about that the release was to be postponed because of a few problems. But finally we have it here.

After Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra's Rang De Basanti which was a runaway hit and which also managed to connect with the youngsters, with Delhi-6 he tries to strike chord with the ABCD's.

THE STORY
The movie starts off with Waheeda Rahman,Abhishek Bachchan,Tanvi Azmi and Vijay Sarkar at a hosiptal discussing about the illness Waheeda has and the number of days she might live. With this she makes a decision that she wants to go back to India, Delhi. The place wher she lived most of her life and die there. With her son not agreeing with this decision of her's, Roshan (Abhishek) decides that he would take her to India. Roshan has a muslim mother and a hindu father, who refuses to step on Indian Soil.

On arriving at India, he is fascinated by everything there! the people,the traffic,sweets, the media's sensationalism, everything. The News Channels he sees on the airport are reporting cases of the very famous unsolved mystery of the century i.e. the case of the Monkey Man! The news presenter like any other crazy case files presenter shouts through the mike saying "In logon ne ek kala bandar dekha! Aisa Kala Bandar jo Kale Rang ka hai!! " etc.... leaves you gasping for breathe! Once home and after the tearful welcome by old neighbours Supriya Pathak,Sheeba Chadda, they are all ready to go witness the Ram Leela. Which was claimed to be the most important part of the movie. The kidnapping of Sita by Ravan is the scene going on and it is interupted by the organiser to welcome the local MLA who tries to pull off a Uma Bharti by her hindutva words! Rishi Kapoor who plays Ali Baig in the movie is Roshan's godfather in India and helps him throughout through thick and thin, also revealing that he once loved his mother but could not express his love for her.

The story moves on with the Monkey Man becoming the main plot of the story. Everyone across delhi and all the news channels are shown giving the highest importance to it. Also different people have different stories and logics on how the monkey man looks and how he jumps around with springs in his legs! Also at one point Pavan Malhotra says that the Monkey man moves around with a mother board on its body!! :O amidst this confusion about the Monkey man, the heroine, Bittu(Sonam Kapoor) is shown as a girl who wants to live her dreams but is scared of her hitler father OmPuri. Her life is compared to Masakali the dove her father has,which cannot fly because its wings have been clipped. Also she is forced to see all kinds of guys as her prospective husbands. Her dialogues are minimal which is quite a disappointment.

As the days progress, the monkey man menace reaches its peak and the monkey man attacks Delhi-6. He takes away the jalebi wala's goat, and also steals most of his food items from the shop. This leads to another and this issue takes a political turn when a "Baba" who speaks english along with hindi accuses the muslims there that they had destroyed a temple and built a mosque. Roshan is a confused person and doesnt know what he is supposed to do, because at one point everyone was together like one family and at the other he sees the muslims jalebi wala's shop is destroyed by Pavan malhotra, who once was his best friend because of the riots. And also he is not let by the "Elders" of the area to enter a temple his Dadi wants to visit because he has a muslim mother.

How life takes a 360 degree turn, and what happens in everybody's life forms the climax of the movie.

What works for the movie:
The story is simple ,new, and it works. The dialogues though cliched aren't so bad that you would want to run away. Before the interval the movie is fast paced and we get a sneak peek into everybody's life and how everything works in Old Delhi and post interval the main plot is revealed. Also a proper mixture of cmedy, drama, tragedy make it work

What doesn't work for it:
Some scenes in the movie, i.e. when everybody is on their way to Agra to see the Taj, seem like scenes from the scenes from the 50's because it is all shot in the studio and you can easily figure out that it is a cut an paste. Also i fail to understand is photo's taken from a mobile which has a 3 mp camera, produces pics of the quality of a DSLR. And some pics are of sonam wher she is atleast 50-60ft away from Abhishek and he gets great pics. :O

Why you must watch it:
You must watch it for performances by Vijay Raaz as the Haryanvi Cop, Abhishek Bachcan, Pavan Malhotra and the "Kala Bandar".

Rating: 3.5/5