Archive for April, 2008

Someone made a statement somewhere, sometime back.
“We are the toughest competition for the other seven teams. Why one team at a time-put all the seven teams on one side and see how the Knight Riders battle it out against them”
That, the someone is Mr. Shahrukh Khan is no surprise as he is used to make [...]


Picture this: A family being slaughtered by gunmen (in a straight homage to The Searchers) in a breathtaking sweep of landscape and a lone kid is alive after his family has been gunned down. The villain is contemplating whether to shoot the kid and one of his assistants says “What are we gonna do about [...]


I got this ppt today from a friend with the subject “Increase your life span” and the ppt had a lot of beautiful women doing a nice strip at ease for me and exposing their gravity-defying assets. The theory which he put forth is you can elongate your life span by 10 minutes if you [...]


On the Sunday after the annual sports quiz (organised by Hyderabad Quiz Club and hosted by yours truly and Nitish) when the pangs of hunger were at their peak we decided to go for a mega thulp. I had earlier called Nitish to my place early morning to run through the questions and we had [...]


This has to be the grooviest music video ever made in India. From the movie Gumnaam (1965) this awesome video also appears in the cult hit Ghost World where Thora Birch dances to the tunes of ‘Jaan Pehchaan Ho’.
The lyrics is by Hasrat Jaipuri!!! music by Shankar-Jaikishan and sung by Mohammad Rafi.
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India has been represented on screen by many auteurs. From Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir (The River) to John Glen (Octopussy) and the latest being Mira Nair (The Namesake) and Paul Greengrass in The Bourne Identity. Apart from this there have been over a zillion movies made in India.
Yet, it took the quirky but brilliant Wes [...]


Although some characters are fictional, some are not and any resemblance to anyone living or dead is intentional.
For the uninitiated:
Parallel universe: A self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own.
Suspension of disbelief refers to the willingness of a person to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or [...]