I was supposed to be sleeping at this hour but can’t stop myself from praising this movie. My head is almost spinning… not in so good health but again.. I just can’t stop myself.. coz I want everyone of you to WATCH this amazing piece of work..

The movie is about a boy (Aamir) who grown up in Kabul and moves to US with his father.. (after Russian attack in 1978).. the movie basically goes through many phases..

First one shows his childhood, relationship with his father.. best friend (who was servant at his house) and how few things affects his relationship with his best friend..

2nd phase shows more about father and son relationship..

3rd phase shows how Aamir goes back to his roots, Kabul.. what makes him go there again.. (the place he never wanted to visit again)

The movie also throws great light on Afghanistan way back in 1978 and in 2000.. it shows the freedom, the purity it had.. and way back in 2000, it shows how Talibans made a heaven.. hell..

I was really moved by many scenes of the movie.. not even a single word spoken between two persons but the expressions say it all.. it just shocks you…

The movie was nominated for Oscars and was very well acclaimed by critics. It is basically based on a novel written by Khaled Hosseini.

The actors were simply fantastic.. specially the child actors.. special mention for Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada (Hassan in the movie) and Khalid Abdalla (Aamir).. Khalid was fantastic in United 93 too.

I would strongly encourage you to watch this movie and post your views in the comments..

Some of the important links:

- IMDB Information
- Official Site
- Kite Runner banned in Afghanistan

The story is pretty much straight forward, an Indian ex hockey player (Kabir Khan played by Shahrukh Khan) who decides to coach Indian women’s hockey team for the world cup. But the task is not easy, the 16 girls are from different states and they do not have skills to play on International level. The movie shows, how Kabir Khan, tackles every situation with a different approach and succeeds every time.

Okay, let’s talk about the actors. Well, apart from Shahrukh Khan and few side kick actors, most of the actors were acting for the first time. I would not say those were actors, it was all like as if they are getting trained in real life and people are cheering for them. The introduction scenes were just hilarious. Even the goals in every match made people clap and cheer. After a long time I was getting the feel of Lagaan. But the only difference here was, people were cheering for our national sport, Hockey not Cricket. And that too for the women’s team.

This movie has got the power to change the outlook of people towards Hockey. Apart from the promotions on the TV and everywhere, I think the most beneficial promotion for the movie will be word of mouth publicity. 

Let me give one quick example of this, till yesterday evening, I had a negative mind set for this movie and I was just telling everyone that, the movie is all gonna be same stupid story of Shahrukh making a bad team won the world cup (and actually it is about that only) but when one of my very good friend Ashok (he also writes movie reviews - his review) sent me message saying, the movie is 5 on 5. I was like shocked. I called him and he told me, the response was totally unbelievable. So i decided to buy the tickets, the guy at the ticket counter also told me that movie has got very good response. So now, this was the power of word of mouth publicity, it did what promos could not do. I went for the movie and I too SMS’d Ashok saying, it is definitely 5 on 5 material.. So this way movie is surely going to pickup very well.

Okay, I won’t let this review become story about my personal experience.. haha

So, to sum it up… on the acting front, Shahrukh Khan deserves all the clapping, perfectionist, a real coach…amazing actor… then comes, all the 16 girls, with the special mention for characters, Preeti (Segarika Ghatge), Komal (sorry, no idea about the actor’s name) and Bindia Naik (Shilpa Shukla).

Apart from acting, direction by Shimit Amin was superb, he placed everything at the correct place, leaving no room for the mistakes. I don’t remember any scene in the movie which was unnecessarily added. Cinematography was impressive too. (Specially in Australia). The music was kind of OK but couple of the songs were pretty impressive. (The title song and Maula Le Le Meri Jaan).

So in short, I really enjoyed the movie and I rate it Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (I want to give it 5 but not giving purposely.. :) )

The movie might not become a blockbuster but this is surely going to create some ripples in the Indian Hockey scene. 

A DEFINITE MUST WATCH.

The movie is about Deepa Kapoor (Vidya Sinha) who is in love with Sanjay (Amol Palekar). Deepa leaves for Mumbai for the job and she gets to meet her ex-boyfriend Naveen (Dinesh Thakur) there. Now this makes her life difficult. On one side, she wants to be with Sanjay.. who gave her everything and loves her madly. And on the other side, her past, Naveen for whom she still has got soft corner. She finally makes the decision. But to know more, get the DVD and watch it.

The movie is mainly focusing on the actress, Vidya Sinha than the actors. The whole story roams around her. Director has done very good job showing 2 sides of the Deepa’s mind. On the acting side, Amol Palekar was excellent as usual. (haha, He is one of my favorite actors, after all) I personally liked the scene when Sanjay goes for the movie and incidentally Deepa is also there in the theatre. The whole scene was just too funny and natural. Vidya Sinha suits perfectly for the role of Deepa. Saree clad woman, always looking at her best. All the actors were infact so natural.

The best part of Amol Palekar (or Basu Chatterjee) movies is, they make movies based on real lives of people. There is no one with million dollar property nor anyone with super power to fight all villains. Their movies are simply about people like you and me. And that is what makes their movies evergreen. You always enjoy to watch them anytime.

Okay, to sum it up. The movie is definitely a worth watch.

I would rate this movie: Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

I will let Channel4.com handle storytelling

DK (Shah) and Indu (Azmi) Malhotra and have a perfect life. They love each other, their work and their children. They have great friends and are much in demand socially. This comes to a dramatic halt when DK receives a telegram from an old school-master who tells him that the woman he had a brief affair with nine years ago has just died leaving their son, Rahul (Jugal Hansraj) in his care. Indu is, needless to say, less than happy about the idea. The family struggles to deal with the situation and its implications.

The most amazing part of the movie is, the expression of the characters. You can feel the pain just by looking into eyes of Rahul. The expression says it all, no words needed. One of the very touching scene would be when  Rahul hurts his hand and runs around in the house shouting for his Mom (who is actually no more), he stops near Indu and realizes that his mother is no more. Indu looks at him in anger and shouts, I am not your Mummy. Weeping Rahul silently hides his hand. Just superb, very touching scene. There are many other touching scenes in the movie where you ask yourself, what is the fault of the child?

Acting by Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi is just A Grade. Hats off. Jugal Hansraj shines as Rahul. DK and Indu’s daughters were impressive, specially the younger one.

The music by RD Burman is of top class. Everything was just perfect, be it direction (Shekhar Kapur) Dialogues (Gulzar), Music or Acting.

I know I am praising this movie so much but it is certainly worth all the praise. Certainly a must watch.

I would rate it Rating: 5 out of 5 stars No scope of giving anything less than 5.

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The drama is about how a doctor cures a patient with mental disorder, gets married to her and how our society makes that person mentally ill again. It tried to show  how society is mainly responsible for this, we generally call the person pagal or mad but we do not ever try to see other side of the coin and that is where we lack and make things worse. The person with mental disorder needs a human touch, feelings rather than keeping her in a locked room and on medication all the time.

The story is based on true life incident which had happened in Gujarat few years back. The drama is pretty old, infact it ran packed houses for 15 years and they discontinued it because it was affecting the lives of the actors. Playing role of mentally challenged person is not that easy I guess. Sujata Mehta in the role of Ratna (Mentally challenged person) was just too impressive. Hats off!!

But now the same drama is back again. I watched it at Birla Matoshree, I think next Sunday it is going to be at Bhavans

It is a must watch for Gujju people.

I just finished watching this movie on my PC and I must say..the movie is one of the best films by Deepa Mehta…

The movie is all about Widows and how do they live…the story takes back to 1938…starting with a very touching scene…

The family is going somewhere in a cart, the kid is enjoying in her own world, someone is trying hard to keep one person alive…the kid has no idea about what was happening, she was happy with her sugarcane…

After sometime…her dad comes and tells her…”You are Widow now”…the kid surprisingly asks him “For how much time?”

This was one of the touching scenes of the movie and then the movie adds array of touching and shocking facts which we never knew…

The girl Chuiya is sent to widow house to stay with other widows…the world where Widows do not have life…they starve for food, they cannot enjoy with other people…and they turn to prostitution…

The movie throws light on exploitation of widows by rich brahmin people….the movie also tries to show the love between Narayan (who is educated) and Kalyani (who is widow)…but the main aim of the movie was to show the exploitation on widows by other people..how they were dragged to prostitution….

I found this movie perfect from all point of view, music (only songs) by A.R.Rahman was just too good, the background score of the movie was also very good….

The movie was shot very well..I just loved the colors and great cinematography…just amazing…

On the acting part, Sarala (Chuiya) and Seema Biswas (Shakuntala) were the best…specially the kid Chuiya…

So in short, if you are serious movie lover, then you must watch this movie…the movie is already out on DVD in US and other countries except India, I guess. So if you are in India and want to watch this film..then there are many other ways to get this great movie ;) 

I have called them few times with the queries and surprisingly they solved my queries in less than 1 day. (Mostly instantly)

Where in case of my earlier bank ICICI, I had to call them, explain the stuff and in the end I hear a sweet voice saying we have noted down your query and someone will get back to you within 24 hours. Then some of them emails asking for details, whole process takes more 2-3 days and the end result? Most of the time queries remain unsolved…

Where here with UTI, I give details to the person in call center, she checks the stuff and tells me what exactly went wrong and they will try to fix it at that time itself.

The good example would be yesterday’s example, when one of my client’s cheque had not cleared for more than 5-6 days, I called them up, gave the details about the cheque, I waited for couple of minutes and got the reason why the cheque was not cleared, they assured me that they will fix the issue from there on my behalf and cheque will be cleared in 2-3 days.

So in the same case if it was ICICI then they would have definitely asked me to email them the details or fax them some stupid letter requesting to clear the cheque..

Apart from the customer service I really liked the banking service also. Unlike ICICI you do not have to give permission letters to activate funds transfer and all. (In ICICI current account, you need to send them letter to activate funds transfer for ICICI to ICICI, ICICI to other banks, ICICI current to ICICI savings account etc…)

And you do not see any surprise charges in your account too. In my ICICI they used to charge Rs. 50 monthly for funds transfer and some other extra charges per month. But here there is nothing like that, they charge Rs. 17 (Rs. 15 + Rs. 2 tax) for every UTI to non-UTI funds transfer and that’s fair enough.

I have got much more facility then my ICICI account, I can pay my card bills, telephone bills, mobile phone bills etc.. from my UTI account but with ICICI there was only option to pay credit card bills nothing else. (I guess they would have asked me to send few more letters to activate bill pay services)

I am running my account flawlessly without any issues where in ICICI I had to call their customer support for many issues and was fed up with them.

So moral of the story, if you are planning to open a current account then I would strongly suggest UTI Bank.

There are no flaws in the movie, the story is also good but it misses the sensational scenes which were there in Gangajal.

The movie is about relationship between politicians & gangsters in Bihar and how gangsters kidnap people in Bihar with full support of police officers & politicians. They have succeeded to show the reality to people, they way gangsters live in jail, the way they keep the police in their pocket. Acting wise everyone was perfect, the movie is filled with strong actors like Ajay Devgan, Nana Patekar,Mukesh Tiwari etc…so it is very difficult to find flaws in the acting.

Few scenes like how gangsters handle their network from jail are really impressive. The scene when Ajay Devgan enters the jail is also really good…(the way all police officers salute him etc..)

So overall the movie was very good and you must watch it in theatre only.

Read more info about movie on: IMDB, Movie’s official site

Now MTNL comes in the picture here..I am currently using MTNL Triband at my office and am very satisfied with the net connection, no downtime at all, very decent speed…since there are no problems with the net so you do not need to call their technical support also…at least I haven’t called them till now…

I applied for Home also just now (DSL NU Plan), which gives 500 mb monthly downloads and from midnight 12 to morning 8, no download limits…

This one has restrictions for downloads compared to my old connection but it is good for me since I wont be at home in day time and in night I will have unlimited bandwidth for my movie and music downloads

And the good part is, I won’t have to face these local guys anymore…those bustards can’t even talk properly…the lady at their customer support desk is always sound like an a*****e and never answers properly…their manager talks as if he is some prime minister…in short they all suck…

So today when I decided to get the connection, I was kind of lazy to go to MTNL exchange – fill the form and apply for it…so I just called their helpline number, 1500 to find out whether they accept registration on phone, online or not….and a bomb…she took my details and told me that, your net connection will come in 3-4 days

Now that’s what I call, a super fast and super cool thing….MTNL has approved a lot and it is a very good sign…

I hope they come up with unlimited download plans….

So my suggestion – If you are not going to download much or can wait for night for downloads then go for MTNL Triband..it is far better than these local cable net guys…

Short description about the movie from IMDB:

A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous situation.

It is a movie which should not be missed (I am gonna keep that DVD for myself )