Okay, so the season 2 of Big Boss starts today.. this time it’s not on Sony but it’s on newly started channel called Colors (Network 18 – CNN-IBN guys)

So, without wasting time.. let me give you idea about the contestants..

1. Ketki Dave – Theatre actress who became popular with her role in Kyonki Saas Kabhi Bahu Thi.

2. Zulfi Sayed – He was there in some movies and music videos. Pretty bad at everything though.

3. Monika Bedi – She was featured in the movie Haseena Maan Jayegi Jodi No. 1 (Thanks Tejas for pointing it out) but became more popular because of her linkup with gangster Abu Salem.

4. Raja Chaudhari – Never heard about the guy? Well, he was husband of Shweta Tiwari (Kasauti Zindagi Ki) He became popular after his breakup with her.

5. Rakhi Tandon – Known for her role in Hum Paanch. But disappeared after that.

6. Rahul Mahajan – Son of very well known politician Promod Mahajan. But again, did nothing nothing great the personal front.

7. Sambhavna Seth – I seriously don’t know her. But Google search on her name showed me some revealing pictures.

8. Ehsaan Ahsaan Qureshi – Standup comedian who also acted in flop movie, Bombay to Goa or something. He was participant in Indian Laughter Challenge 1.

9. Aleena Wadia Elina Vadia Alina Wadiwala – Sorry guys, don’t know about her at all. I am not sure if I have spelt the name correctly or not. But she looks GOOD. 21 year old girl. (Thanks Ruby for the correct info)

10. Payal Rohatgi – Another flop actress / item girl. She was featured in some B grade movies and some item songs. BTW she is Rahul Mahajan’s girlfriend too.

11. Debojit – Television show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’s winner.

12. Ashutosh – MTV Roadies 5 winner. It should be fun watching this guy. He was great in Rodies.

13. Sanjay Nirupam – A politician. I have no idea what is he doing here. He should be serving public… haha but there is a Hindi saying “paisa bolta hai..” (Money matters)

14. Jade Goody – WOW, this one was a real surprise She was in Big Brother with Shilpa Shetty and came in light for her racial comments against Shilpa Shetty. It’s gonna be fun watching her.. interesting..

So , that’s it guys.. 14 guys..

So, overall, most of the participants are flopped guys or they do not have much work in their hand (are less known). (Like season 1). But this time I think contestants are less bitchy ones.  So far, Rahul Mahajan looked more desperate to meet girls, Ketki Dave was speaking more in her so called English “accent”.

Let’s hope that the show works..

The show is aired on Colors at 8 10 PM daily.  (Will confirm the timings soon)

Yes, it is my India’s birthday today.. no matter how much I hate the things in India but I am still proud of my country..

Happy Independence Day…

JAI HIND

Okay, OK, I was wrong.. I was wrong to expect anything from Yashraj movie. I was wrong to have some kind of hope in this movie. But yaar, it wasn’t that bad too. Too confusing? Hell, yeah.. it is.. 

So, let’s cut the crap and move to above things in the review part..

Well, the story is pretty simple.. A young guy, who falls in love with 3 ladies at different time.. 1st, when he was in HSC.. (1996), 2nd when he started working with a company in Mumbai (2002) and 3rd.. when he moved to Australia..

So, what’s the story in it? haha, The guy breaks heart of first 2 girls so badly and he never realizes it.. but now, 3rd one breaks his heart and then.. he realizes how it feels.. he feels the pain..

So what will he do now? haha… Do I need to say it? Go figure out…. (It’s not so difficult to predict the whole story)

Okay, review time..

The movie started with a guy going back to his flashback.. and taking us to Switzerland where he had fallen in love for the first time (with Minnisha Lamba).. these guys tried to show us that it was actually 1996..but somehow I felt, the actors looked lot more older than those 18 year olds.. they tried to act cute and all… but to be frank it did not work with me..

2nd story was in 2002, with Bipasha Basu.. the guy was shown working for Microsoft’s gaming section.. (I don’t know how they managed to get Gears of Wars poster in 2002 though) Okay, now here.. the guy looked younger and Bipasha looked older.. it was kind of mismatch.. but here, there were few comedy scenes and the performance was much real.. specially Bipasha’s.

Now, year 2007.. the guy is in Sydney.. meets Deepika Padukone.. there was some kind of spark between Ranbir and Deepika this time.. may be they are real life couples so they can do things better? I don’t know all that but their chemistry worked well.. I really liked Deepika’s acting, her character was very different from other girls..

Okay.. now, the movie was quite ok in the first half but as it reached interval… the whole movie became very predictable and it turned into one of those common movies that we had seen in late 90s or whatever..

So, all mixed things..? hmm.. there were few great things in the movie too. The music.. great music.. really loved the songs.. cinematography was SUPERB.. really loved Switzerland, Australia and Italy.. fantastic stuff..

So to sum the things up.. on the acting front, Ranbir was pretty good.. though he was kind of over the board in first story but overall.. good acting. Minnisha again, she went overboard like Ranbir in first story but later it was all good.. Bipasha.. despite of looking bit older in front of Ranbir.. she was the best of the lot.. I really loved her acting.. Deepika was good..actually, she did not have much to do.. I think Bipasha got the best role..

The movie could have been made much better, in terms of execution, story etc.. basically, the concept of 1 guy falling in love with 3 girls was great but the way it was turned out was bad. They could have made it thorough romantic comedy movie rather than adding some drama and all. But again, that’s their call.. from the viewer’s point of view, I feel, the movie needed better execution and modification in the story.

So, overall, the movie should do better business than Salman Khan starrer God Tussi Great Ho.. (As we don’t see any promotions or hype for that movie) Few people might like the movie and few might not. It should get mixed reactions.

I would give this movie Rating:

Watch it on weekends.. you might like it..

Ok guys, I am not sure whether this title would be perfect for the post or not but yes, it is related to spammers and it is related to vBulletin.

Today, few hours back, while I was working, I got few mailer daemon messages with bounced back email details. Found, a user sending out spam messages. I just went to the forum and banned that user.

Now, when I checked the number of online users, I got quite shocking figure of around 75 members, it soon increased to 100+ members within few seconds. This was kind of shocking considering there was nothing important on the site around this period.

After checking few things, I found that all the users were actually sending out personal messages and the bounced message was one of them. (Soon more bounced mails started flowing in)

So, the first question came in my mind was “Is it a Hack?” To be frank, I panicked for sometime as I was in middle of some important work and this thing came up.

I quickly, made the forum offline to avoid more spam messages and secondly, I disabled PM option for all the users. (Usergroups  - Usergroup Manager – Select the usergroup and edit - Set PM limit to 0)

Okay, after this, I opened a support ticket in vBulletin member’s area and started digging out their forums to get more info over it.

So what did I find..?

Well, for last couple of month, there is some spam bot (script) playing around  vBulletin based forums, checking the usernames for weak passwords (mainly the users with password same as the username) and then the spam bot logs in using those weak users and sends out spam personal messages.

By default in vbulletin there is no option to check for weak passwords, so first you need to jump to vbulletin.org forums and download this plugin called: Password Security Tools and install it.

This plugin will check for existing usernames with weak passwords (Incl. the ones with password same as username), reset their password to a random string and email them the new login details. And this plugin also prevents new registration with the weak password too.

So, moral of the story is.. if you see something like this in your forum, do not panic, install this plugin and clean up the mess. But make sure you have shut down the forum before doing anything.

1800 prints, Akshay or Katrina present at almost all the events happening around the world. Radio stations promoting the movie like crazy. These guys even bought some movie reviewers to give 4 stars. (Read: Taran Adarsh) So, is it worth so much of hype? Well, this review is gonna help you to find it out

OKay, so the story.. well, there is nothing great in the story, started well but the whole thing stopped in between and like a blind man walking on the streets, the story also jumped here and there..

Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) is someone who always wants to help people but unknowingly things go bad all the time and due to this all the villagers plan to kick him off from the village. So, they make a plan and send him to Australia to bring back the don Luky Singh (Sonu Sood) to their village as don’s parents are not able to live without him. So? Well, our happy singh happily goes to Australia, lands in Egypt by mistake first though.. falls in love.. reaches in Australia.. and tragedy.. this Happy Singh becomes the King.. the Don.. No, nothing serious out there.. all fun.. And the same typical love triangle and all starts..

Okay, I guess, that was enough to give outline about the whole movie.So now, let’s move on to the review.

So, how was the movie?

Hmm.. it started off with array of bad scenes.. atleast first 10 minutes were kind of boring.. then it became pretty impressive till the interval. Akshay Kumar was superb, few comic scenes were just way too good. (Specially the fan one.. I am still laughing over it)

2nd half is more of typical stuff.. something what we see in other movies.. bad guys trying to become good guys, some love triangle and all that crap… but again, few of the comedy scenes were just superb.

Let’s cut the crap, tell me how was it in simple words?

It was a strictly OK movie, but there was lot of scope. Execution was really bad, many unnecessary scenes. (e.g. blind girl scene was simply stupid, couple of songs were also not needed) The movie was at it’s best in comedy scenes but it all messed up when they added some emotional stuff… though they tried a lot to put in comedy flavor in the emotional things but somehow it did not work.

In short, the movie was like a bumpy ride, sometimes it was at very high and sometimes it was at very low.

Akshay Kumar simply rocked.. After Shah Rukh Khan, this guy takes the place.. he can make any bad movie a hit.. (We have seen that in Welcome) Katrina Kaif was OK, she looks very cute though and simply gorgeous in Teri Ore song..(Looks great in that black saree) Om Puri was good, Sonu Sood didn’t have much to do but he was perfect for the role. Javed Jafri was OK, few of his scenes were very good but there were pathetic scenes too. (Specially the dancing moves one towards the ending) I think, everyone knows that he is a good dancer.. no need to show him dancing in all the movies. He should simply stick to his character. Rest of the starcast was good.

Music was pretty good, 2-3 songs were very good, Teri Ore takes that first place.. evergreen romantic song. The title song by RDB and Snoop Dogg was pretty good too. Cinematography was top grade, great locals.

Direction was OK, like I said earlier, many things could have been improved, many unwanted scenes could have been cut. Also, the movie needed a good Editor, some of the songs were simply bumped into the scenes.

Okay, so overall, the movie was pretty ok, nothing great. I would rate this movie Rating:

But I am sure this movie is gonna be a superhit or even a blockbuster. Aam Janta might love it and it will have a good business abroad and in Punjab. (Specially UK)

So, if you wanna have some caramel popcorn and Pepsi, then go for this movie and enjoy the popcorn.