A very good movie got stuck because of cheap, dirty Indian politicians….that’s what comes in my mind when I think about the movie Water. The local politicians did not let Deepa Mehta shoot the move in Varanasi and did lot of hoo ha…but finally the movie completed but it could not get released in India…not even Music too…..

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…

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I switched my company account to UTI Bank few months back. (Earlier I was with ICICI) I must say they rock; very good bank with great customer support.

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.

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I watched preview show of Apharan today and I must say, the movie is definitely worth watching BUT at the same time it is not as good as Prakash Jha’s other movie Gangajal.

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

I wasted my morning in fighting with my local cable net guy (Globcast.com Mulund - provides ExattNet connection). I got an email from them saying from this month they will charge Rs.50 extra as “maintenance charges”. Their net connection goes down daily for 1 hr approx (that’s what happening for last 3-4 days), their customer service is pathetic and they charge me Rs. 990 for 256kbps unlimited line.

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…

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I watched the movie Hostage on DVD today, amazing movie…specially the guy, Mars (Ben Foster), damn good acting..even the kid Tommy (Jimmy Bennett) was very impressive…

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 )