My life has taken a total reverse turn, due to lots of (pending) work, my sleeping times have been changed to day time, I have started working whole nights and half of the day…I try to sleep for atleast 8-9 hours but rest of the time I have to spend in front of my laptop. For last 3-4 days I have been sleeping at 6 AM in the morning…damn what’s happening to me…

I hope things get sorted out by end of this week….

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August 14, 2006 |
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A technical post after a very long time I guess. I think this post should save this blog from being a movie review blog haha.

I have been playing around a lot with this CMS called MODx recently. I knew about this CMS for quite sometime but for some reason I was stuck with TextPattern but now recently when I got a requirement to develop a site with some advanced options and features, I decided to try MODx and I must say, it is one of the best CMS I have ever tried.

Earlier I was a fan of TextPattern, actually still I am. But now Modx takes a top place in the list. This CMS needs more of understanding of the system rather than just logging in and pressing the new post button. It might not be as friendly as joomla but it is surely a rock solid CMS with lot of flexibility on the design and coding part.

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August 13, 2006 |
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Every friday, a new movie, few we want to miss and few we don’t. Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (KANK) was one of the movies which I was eagerly waiting for. But sadly it was not worth waiting for the movie. This was first Karan Johar movie in which half of the theatre started leaving before the movie ends; people just started leaving!!! (How can you expect people to wait for 3.15 hours just to see the crappy end?)
The people had lot of expectations from the movie and infact the movie could have been a good movie but few things just did not work well and in the end, everything got screwed up.

Let me start with the brief idea about the story.

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August 12, 2006 |
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Okay, one more week, one more review…. I just returned from the movie kindergarten…oops it’s Anthony Kaun Hai?. Few gujju family with kids made me feel as if I was in kindergarten. The kids were playing all around haha

Okay, the movie story…

Raj Lalwani writes (rediff):

The story, told mostly in flashback, revolves around Champak Chaudhari (Warsi), who prefers to call himself Champ and specializes in forging documents. He is on the lookout for a box of diamonds hidden by Raghu (Raghuvir Yadav). What follows is a series of twists, some predictable and some not so. Along the way, Champ encounters a rather cliched villain called Lucky Sharma (Chetan Hansraj) and an idiosyncratic detective (Gulshan Grover), apart from the expected love angle brought in by Jiya (Minissha Lamba).

The film has a multi-layered narrative, with Champ explaining his side of the story to hit man Master Madan (Sanjay Dutt).

The movie has it’s own plus and minus points but it keeps you balanced and does not bore you much. The movie has few really funny scenes too. From the beginning of the movie, it keeps you thinking, who really is Anthony. Sanjay Datt has nothing much to do but Arshad Warsi carried the movie very well. You can really see good qualities of an actor in him. He can do serious roles, comic roles and a loverboy too..very good role and acted very well.

The music of the movie is kind of boring, I personally hated it….

btw I really loved the photography and the hotel room where Arshad Warsi and Sanjay Datt were staying….and house of Minissha Lamba too…

Okay, let’s sum it up…

Story: Different story but gives you feeling of mix of various movies (may be english movies) but overall a good concept 

Acting: Arshad Warsi rocked, very good acting, Sanjay Datt had very little to do but he was good and is always good….Anusha Dandekar was kind of bad…Minissha Lamba, not bad…not bad…she looked very cute… Raghuvir Yadav…he did his part well…nothing great….rest of the star cast was OK!

Music: BAD except 1 song, which was featured in the end…

So stars? 2.5 out of 5, worth watching it once….

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August 6, 2006 |
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