Okay, this is gonna be a quick post as I am running out of time.. I reached the place bit late.. (all because the sleepless night haha).. reached at around 11.30 AM or so… was not so comfortable in the beginning as the sessions were not kind of going as they were supposed to..
No, I am not talking about the management, I am talking about the guys who were on the center stage.. for example, someone had a session on security of the blog. Some security guy was talking about it.. when I first heard about it, I quickly rushed in the room thinking there will be “interesting” thing about security there..
The guy started off with importance of latest version software and all.. I was hoping the session to go bit more in detail about the person just played around there only and did not explain what all can be done if the blog is not secured.. I was actually hoping for some kind of live example.. but nothing of that sort was illustrated. Actually, couple of guys from backseat tried to divert the discussion somewhere else, and infact it worked too.
Okay, time for another session.. some guy spoke something about how to blog successfully. (some blog system and all that..) but he failed to be on the point, he was more into, what is required to run a successful blog instead of showing how to do it. (Yea, I know, he did say about some 3 options but that was not enough at all)
Then there was some session on Podcasting, I did not attend the whole session as I personally found it bit not my types..
Okay, then we had a lunch break.. great food.. I must say..
So after the lunch, I was hoping for some better session and actually we had couple of good sessions.
The first one was from some Sulekha.com guys (who were claiming to be normal users using Sulekha as blogging platform). They were trying to explain how blog helps to make friends on the net but I guess it did not work. They got lost in themselves and left everyone confused. haha I remember, I was looking at Tarun with that funny look, saying what is happening man.. haha
Okay, then we had a session on Hindi Blogging, it was pretty good.. liked the guy.. nice topic.. we discussed about the advantages and disadvantages of blogging in regional language and all. It was pretty good.
Then Karmveer came forward and discussed about how he makes 53K USD a month from 200 odd websites.. (Yea, the guess is right.. all those non human sites and all) That session was actually good… we had a good argument over TLA and all.
Then we had a session from Tarun, I missed half of it due to an urgent phone / hunger call.. haha Also discussed some stuff with couple of SEO guys out there..
Okay, I got back and Tarun’s session was still going on.. it was actually very interesting, he spoke about personal blogging and all. It was more of a discussion than the session.
Ok, the last session, it was by 2 SEO guys, If my memory goes in the right path, their names were Ashwin and Mani. They had a good session but again, I personally felt, the were more into what is SEO rather than explaining how to do it. But yea, we had a good discussion there too.
I guess, that’s it. Met few net friends and Blogcamp friends.. Aseem, Amit, Tarun, Hitesh, Sakshi, Meetu, Brajeshwar, Mehul and Nishit.. loved it, had a good fun. Much better than Pune Blogcamp that we had last year..
Great work and three cheers to all the organizers.
Update: Oops, just realized that, it was not a quick short post anymore…. Okay, gotta run.. wifey is waiting…
Sorry, guys posting about Holi late.. can’t post Holi Hai as the day has already passed and my stupid host was down for more than 10 hours today.
So, did you guys celebrate Holi? Till yesterday I was all excited and jumping for Holi but last night some urgent work kept me awake till 9.30 AM in the morning today. So, all the josh gone down but suddenly around 11 AM, friends dragged me out of my bed.. and the result was?
haha..
Megha who was more excited than me, got up at 7.30 AM today.. (haha she is a lazy ass like me, wakes up around 9 AM) and she was the first one to be there at our building terrace.
So, here is the pic of newly wedded couple..
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Looking great right? haha
Wanna see after effects of Holi?
Yea, my face is still pink.. Megha managed to wash off the colors but I could not.. (Don’t have her post-holi pic)
Anyways, wishing everyone a very happy Holi. I am sure everyone had a rocking Holi and if you have not celebrated this time, do not miss it next time..
cheers
Deep
First of all sorry for keeping away from the blog.. These days my business is keeping me tight with the work so do not get much time to blog or write movie reviews. But I guess it’s matter of few days.. Anyways, without wasting much of time, let me directly move to the storyline.
Synopsis from official website of race:
A gripping, multi star thriller, RACE is the story of two brothers Ranvir Singh [ Saif Ali Khan ] and Rajiv Singh [Akshaye Khanna], who live on the edge of life. Their business is horse racing and their beat the fast track. Winning is their birthright and danger their sport.
Set against the high flying social fabric of modern South Africa RACE about betrayal and greed, intrigue and revenge. Even love comes laced motive with a motive. The stakes are too high. Double them and you have the perfect grounds for perfect murder. What was the game? Who held the ropes? The glamorous model Sonia [Bipasha Basu], whom Ranvir loved or the beautiful secretary Sofia [Katerina Kaif], who loved Ranvir. The sudden appearance of Inspector Robert D’ Costa [Anil KApoor] and his dumb and sexy assistant Mini [Sameera Reddy], depends the plots into a gripping tale of drama at its best. With the brothers pitched against each other who will win? The one who plays to win or the one who plays to defeat?
The first half of the movie is made very well, you don’t get bored or anything as such but the 2nd half was kind of weak, specially the character of RD (Anil Kapoor). The director made him do all stuff that Karamchand used to do. A stupid secretary, eating fruits all the time (Karamchand used to eat carrot) etc.. but this package came with stupid double meaning jokes too. This did not go well with me personally. The director also tried to put gray shades in Katrina’s character in 2nd half which I personally think was a bad choice. Come’ on let her learn the acting lessons properly for the normal characters first. I just hated her in the song Touch me Touch me.. I really didn’t understand why she had to go through all the pain of seducing Saif and all, she doesn’t look good doing that kind of stuff.
Ok, let’s talk about other areas of the movie. Action scenes were handled well, though car race sequence in the end was kind of stupid. Now a day’s PC games have more logical scenes than the one they were showing. Really liked the car blast scene in the first half. Cinematography was pretty good, loved the way South Africa was shown. On the music front, couple of songs were good but sadly those were copied from some Indonesian / South Asian songs. (Pehli Nazar Mein and Zara Zara Touch Me) – Credits goes to Itwofs.com
On the acting front, Saif was good, Akshay was better, really liked the way his character was shaping up throughout the movie. Bipasha Basu was in kind of confused state of mind al the time. Katrina was at her worst. Anil Kapoor was not so good. Sameera Reddy should say final good bye to films. Johny Lever’s 5 minute role was very good. I really want to see this guy in more A grade movies.
So, in short the movie belonged to lead actors, Saif and Akshay. (Moreover to Akshay) It is worth watching one, good package of drama and thriller (Yea, with logical ending).
So, it is worth watching once, not necessary to watch it in theatres only though. I give it Rating: 
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On the business front, I think it should do well considering no good releases happening next couple of weeks.
I was waiting for this for a long time and finally we have BlogCamp in Mumbai.. It’s going to be on 29th March 2008 at IIT Powai.
So, get yourself registered here: http://barcamp.org/BlogCampMumbaiStyle
See you there then..
If you see something bad coming on your way, learn to kick it off.. in my case, it is the bad phase.. had kicked it earlier, came back.. again kicked it.. came back.. I guess, the game is not gonna end so soon but I won’t stop trying and kicking it.. after all, every beginning has an end and this thing is just about to end..
