There you are, didnt I say that we need to focus on alternative fuels?! Petrol is going to be Rs.3 more expensive or if they arent rumours, prices could go up by more than Rs.10…and despite all this there is simply no talk and more importantly any efforts towards ’something’ that can replace petrol. I dont know, I really have a feeling that somethings fishy…I mean there is more oil out there than what is being reported or these oil companies (in association with automobile manufacturers) are keeping something secret…something which will eventually replace petrol for good, something that is there in abundance and hence wont earn these oil cartels as much money as a petrol-driven world can. I am not ready to believe that there is a shortage of oil, shortage of fuel and no one’s doing a a thing about it. People say solar energy will be the next big thing but havent we been hearing this for years now. All the solar powered vechiles available for commercial use are quite lame-they dont match the performance given by petrol engines. There is definitely something which we should know and which is being kept away from us. What do you guys think?
August 10, 2007
I hardly have any words…!!!
That raised bat is a big middle finger raised to England! Yipeekiyay m**********s!
Come one, come all…and post your choices abuses, cheers!
August 2, 2007
Well, well, well-here I’m, back again! Don’t know how many times have I re-started my blog and left myself with another ‘opportunity’ for another restart! Hopefully this time around it keeps going on and on and there are no more…err…restarts!
Have quite a few things on my mind and will have a go at each one of them, ek ke baad ek. Let me begin with Sanju baba aka Munnabhai…the guy’s been sent in for a good six years…Munnabhai chale America? Yeah right! For six years and he’ll surely get a green card by then! Hmm, six years is pretty long, man…wonder what Circuit will do…move to Dubai? Naah, not Dubai, its out of fashion now! Pakistan is the most happenin’ place on the planet! Its the place to be! Ask Dawood or even Bin Laden, they’ll tell you! Moreover the government there will happily deny of having even heard of your name, ever!
I say Sanju baba should not appeal to the Supreme Court. It will be a complete waste of time; his ofcourse! Why not simply, you know, accept it…I got myself in a royal mess, I accept it…now I pay for it…I mean I don’t pay anyone, anything! Sheesh, that’ll make things worse! I’ll serve my time, get out and start all over-again! And do the same kinda roles over and over again and get paid tons of cash for it, cheers!
By the way, don’t you guys think, his life is worthy of an autobiography or somethin’? I’d buy it. We don’t read many good books in India but who knows, Mahesh Bhatt or your pal Sanjay Gupta might actually make a movie outta it. Ram Gopal Varma? Oh puhleese! He has lost it…that RGV thing…don’t make any movies, man-not as a director, not as a producer! Take a break, a long one and watch a lotta DVDs and come back with ‘new’ ideas!
Man, I thought Abdul Kalam would be back as pres…for the sake of the ignorant few-Pratibha Patil is our new pres and the 1st lady to occupy the seat. That ignorant few-bit was necessary…quite a few believe Sharad Pawar or even Jagmohan Dalmiya are at the helm! Gettin back to the issue, I think the pres post should be given to someone who’s famous and respected for the right reasons. Patil came from nowhere to win the race. Kalam was the ideal man. Sonia Gandhi obviously ‘placed’ Patil to be able to make good use of that President’s rule thing in some non-Congress ruled states (U.P. very likely, whadaya think?) and other lil’ powers the Pres enjoys. No use of talkin now…she’ll be here for five years now…by the time she leaves, Sanju baba will start counting his days too…sigh! 
We drew and how! We won and (ohmigod!) how! You guys watchin’ cricket or not?! For God’s sake, India thrashed the English (and for a change didn’t manage to grab defeat from the jaws of victory!). The batsman had their part to play but for this one we i just have to give the credit to the bowlers, especially Zaheer and RP! Zaheer, clearly was in the zone while RP bowled absolute rippers! This guy has developed a liking for KP. And I think the criticism showered on Sreesant was a bit too much. I don’t think he bowled that bad an I don’t think that the beamer was deliberate. The ball slipped from his grip when he was trying for a yorker. The ‘jellygate’? Aww common Zaheer! Such incidents bring a lil much needed drama in cricket and as long as they keep inspiring you to take fivers whats the problem?! I say keep them comin’!
To think of it, it really isn’t fair to call us bad tourists now. Since the change of the millenium India have won 16 away-tests. That means we are second to Australia who comfortably sit at the top with 26 to their name. England? 14 wins…ha! And before I close a few words for the English supporters at World-A-Team.com…Up yours man!
March 30, 2007
Aah! It still hurts…! Before anything else I’ll wish myself a happy birthday…so a very, very, very happy birthday Pranshu (why, thank you so much)! May all your wishes and dreams be fulfilled…by yourself 
I dunno if it’s the fad these days but here at AICAR you get your ass whipped…on your very own birthday! Mine was, I guess, more than just ass-smash. I am cutting the cake, wondering, ‘Ha! So many people here to wish me good, they love me, don’t they? Or love to hate me…?’ My doubts vanish, hopes demolish…as the very immediate future turns into the present…lots of crow-like voices sing the happy birthday song…Thums-Up & water poured over me…the cake was to be eaten right? Well, it’s my birthday, I get the cake and get to eat it too…and the lil’ facial that follows…and then, like all my distinguished, decorated and accomplished predecessors I am escorted to ‘the khamba’. And before you know anything you have stinging blows, slaps and all other verbs of inflicting pain raining on your thankfully covered bottom! What do they call it? Birthday bums? Yeah right! This one right here looked more like an attempt to murder!
You guys made hay when the sun shone brightly (and spared the rod when it was hot ). But it ain’t sunny weather always. It was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it?! Well, well, well, I have had my share…and now you all face the music…for the next 364 days! Mr.Debabrata Dash aka Bapu, I’m gonna kill you and this is one of those rare promises I intend to keep…be afraid…be very afraid…mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
P.S.- Err…umm…hmm…when is Jaimeen’s birthday…huh?!
March 25, 2007
Sigh…It gets even more depressing for the cricket fan in me…first we lose to Bangladesh
and now outclassed by the Lankans. Its so frustrating…like nobody cares at all. Millions were on the Indian team and now its all gone-thats all they care about, their money…Cricket as always is on the back burner. Dunno what was all the hype about. A layman would have told you that the team didnt look ready…for anything. Yes, their makeup was in place and they made sure it stays that way. Cant believe players of the caliber of Dravid, Tendulkar, Ganguly will end their careers without a major tournament win…And someone like Laxman will never get to play a World Cup…wtf was he left out? Only Dravid and him can bat on difficult pitches…and why was Ramesh Powar left out? Harbhajan isnt a really wicket-taker these days…Powar can take wickets and make a few quick runs…anyway…so whats next…Dravid has a couple of years in him but I dont see him leading the team in the next world cup…who’ll take over? Sehwag? Yuvraj? None of the two are very dependable…and what about Chappell? He’s contract is awaiting a renewal and I hope he’s sacked…naah he isnt the deal…would have loved to see his brother take the team under his charge…or Woolmer…
Damn you Pakistan Cricket. You killed him. Yes you. Its certain it was a murder and I’m pretty sure theres foul play involving the team and the PCB authorities…there just has to be…Woolmer took a very big risk when he chose Pakistan to coach and damn he was wrong this time…they didnt deserve him…or anything good for that matter…damn Woolmer will be missed…he was one of the big-4 in the cricketing world whose opinion made sense to me…Woolies gone…
If India are in deep shit, Pakistan have flushed themselves down the commode and probably are stuck some place very difficult to get out of. Pakistan Cricket stinks. They couldnt make any good of the best there was. They fucking killed him. Woolmer never got the Pakistan he wanted…was always a deputy to Inzi. He had big plans for them. And they had some plans of their own…for him…sinister plans…fucking bastards. What a waste…
December 30, 2006
That is one more chance squandered. Sigh! But we deserved it. You can’t leave everything to chance. Even the weather gods had enough of the lackadaisical approach of the Indians. Except the bowlers and a few batsmen the rest just didn’t want to apply themselves. Jaffer and Ganguly should never ever be selected to play for India again. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Jaffer playing that shot he played to go back and warm the benches. What was he thinking? I think he has been given enough chances to prove himself. Thanks but no thanks Mr.Jaffer. Indian Domestic Cricket is where you belong and just….stay there! I hope Ganguly’s bhakt-jan now know why he should hang up his boot…Except that fifty in the 1st test, what has he done right? Today it seemed as if he was trying all different shots to get out to…thankfully for everyone Ntini ended his misery and he did to the entire Indian top-order. Ganguly, I’m sure will make to the third test as well but I don’t want to see him ever again after that. Jaffer has had his chances. Its time Gambhir gets a look in. And I’m praying he makes good of it. He’s talented enough to make the grade. All depends upon how well he applies himself. Pathan has been sent back and if it weren’t for the way Jaffer has performed, Sehwag should have been made to accompany the Baroda-all-rounder. As has been said earlier by many its not scores he’s getting out on, it’s his dismissal-his inability or reluctance to learn from them. What can one say to such a player? Don’t care if India lose the next few matches or pre-maturely crash out of the world cup, DROP SEHWAG! He is a player Indian Cricket needs and if he cant take it upon himself to correct his flaws then its time others ways are used to set the wheel in motion. And just when Tendulkar seemed to be getting his groove back, these umpires can’t get one decision right! Poor Dravid. He would surely have bailed India out if it hadn’t been for them. Happy to see Laxman bat the way he should be. Am not a big supporter of the idea that he should be in the ODI team but considering the way things are, he should be made the vice-captain of the limited overs side! Chappell needs to speak to Dhoni and make him realise his importance in the team. Dhoni batted so well for the forty he made and then played that horrible horrible shot. A lil more perseverance and he can be as good as his idol-Adam Gilchrist, if not better. Kumble-Sreesanth-Zaheer are doing it just right. So guys keep doing it! VRV isn’t ready for int’l cricket. He wasn’t exactly setting the Ranjis on fire either. Made it here just on his pace. Hopefully Munaf will be fully fit to replace him for the Cape Town test. Would have been very wrong to have Ishant Sharma here in SAF. Let him learn the ropes first. RP Singh would have been the right choice. But more than anything else, the tourists have to get their attitude right. It’s the last match of the tour. Pretend it’s the very last one of your lives. Give it your all. Make it an event to be remembered (for the right reasons that is!). Common India, dikha do…please, please, please!
December 28, 2006
I had a lot of time to myself before I joined AICAR Business School for a PGDBM course and I ‘utilised’ this time by watching a lot of movies, a lot of good movies. Hmmm, ok let’s just say it was a mixed bag. And that helped. Helped me to separate the goodies from the trash. This experience really opened my eyes as far as movies are concerned. The ‘turning point’ I would say was ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Had read a lot about it in the papers and on movie websites. It didn’t interest me. I went for it nevertheless, wondering why was it being discussed so much. Am glad that I saw it…Good script, good acting and great direction.
Not many people, unfortunately, go through this ‘eye-opener experience’. They are served with trash and they gobble it down, again and again. Had seen the trailors of ‘Phir Hera Pheri’ and ‘Dhoom-2′ some time back and they really looked good. Sadly the actual movies weren’t half as good as the trailors. Though PHP had some one-liners which would make you smile Dhoom-2 couldn’t even do that. And both movies are guilty of taking their audience as infinitely dumb. Or maybe they are so…atleast that’s what the box-office records of these movies suggest! Hera Pheri was one of the best comedies to ever come out of Bollywood. Niraj Vora tried his best to emulate the original and has, in my eyes, has failed miserably. PHP is non-sensical, just like the kinda movies Govinda did a few years back. Yes the music is good but for that you don’t need to watch the movie. Dhoom-2 is just for those who cant have enough of Hrithik Roshan. No, his acting isn’t great. There isn’t anything in the script anyways. But yeah he looks good. The music is a huge let-downer and that’s about it. If cheap toilet humour is what you are looking for you have PHP. If you wanna see great bodies in great locales D-2 is for you. Story-wory kuch nahi. Lots of masala…pheeka masala!
October 29, 2006
Shane Watson just hit a four off Munaf. Australia are 50/0, 200 still away but I can already see them in the semis. So its gonna be the first time in 31 years that a team from the sub-continent fails to make it to the last four of a major tournament…damn the sub-continent! Its India whom I’m worried about. We havent beaten Australia since Jan-2004! Not beaten them in a do-or-die match since 2000 when Yuvraj Singh blasted his way into int’l cricket. Not had a successful run chase against them since 1998, when Sachin was on top of his game (the two back to back hundreds in Sharjah, remember?). India are going down. Nothin’ seems to be working…
Dunno what Chappell-Dravid are upto…They are not being able to motivate their players. Sehwag is getting out in the same manner, again and again. Tendulkar once again looks unsure about his job-whether to attack or defend. Yuvraj-Dhoni are sitting pretty on their last year laurels. Kaif is the usual himself. All this is rubbing on the others too like Raina. Pathan is very very very confused. The team management seem to have got all the living fast bowling greats to speak to him. And excess of anything is bad, especially advice. RP-Sreesanth have lost their touch. Harbhajan is ineffective. He’s never been the same bowler after that amazing 2001-series against the Ozs. Performers like Kumble and Ramesh Powar either dont make it to the team or have to stay content with carrying the drinks and warm the benches. The team is in shambles and the tour of South Africa is next…! They’ll murder us!
Well, we cant carry on like this forever. I mean, the South Africa tour is an important tour and the 2007 WC is just 10-11 months away. Somebody do something, QUICK! I am always in favour of the shock treatment. It always works for us, I mean have a look at Yuvraj and Laxman. Throw them out of the team for sometime and bring ‘em back later. They always come back as better players. One who needs it bad is Pathan. He needs a break. It would be hard on him and the team but we need Pathan to get away from all the madness, think about his bowling-alone and spend a lot of time in the nets. The way our batsmen are going about their job there is simply no way we will make any impact in South Africa. So instead of completely destroying a talent like Pathan’s why not simply rest him. I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again-Kaif doesnt deserve to be in the team. Not only he isnt good enough he also isnt growing as a batsman. One has seen Yuvraj and Sehwag grow in stature but Kaif seems to have stagnated after that wonderful knock against England in the Natwest trophy finals. I’d like to see more faith and confidence shown in Raina, Shikhar Dhawan, Robin Uthappa, Gambhir. Laxman should be reinstated in the team for his experience and class, atleast for the SAF-tour. Harbhajan too needs a kick on his ass. He isnt getting the wickets. Powar for the time being is India’s best offie. And he can bat too. Wonder why is he being ignored…Kumble should be brought back too. He’s in form and effective and easily makes more runs than Bhajji. So what if he’s 35? He’s getting the job done, isnt he? As for Dhoni, I can see him slowly getting back in form but just to make sure, get Dinesh Karthick as the extra wkt-keeper for the SAF tour, just to add a lil’ pressure. The quicks? Munaf is doing his job. If only he had a lil’support from the other fast bowlers…Sreesant should get to tour SAF. RP Singh? Nope. He needs to go back to the drawing board and sort out his faults. Agarkar? A big yes. We would need two more quicks. Would like them to be Punjab’s Gagandeep Singh and Bengal’s SS Paul. And if Chappell really wants to experiment and try out some youngsters, he should have a look at Haryana’s Joginder Sharma. He has played a couple of ODIs, can bat and bowl. Dinesh Mongia should also make it.
Ok, so now the Aussies are 111/1 with Shane Watson consolidating his position at the top of the batting order. Australia are scoring at over 7 runs an over! The ICC Champions trophy is over for India…so my loyalties now shift to NZL and WI. Hopefully one of them will lift the trophy. Chappell must ofcourse be watching the match but his mind must be wondering whats in store for him and his team…
October 20, 2006
The first movie I saw in a theatre, as far as I can remember, was Subhash Ghai’s ‘Saudagar’ at Pune’s Westend theatre. Was in there after some 15 years and could hardly recall anything. My school bus used to pass by it and I remember myself, face pressed against the window, carefully reading the movie’s name on the hoarding outside Westend, wondering why Hindi movie names were written in English! Quite strange were the movies taglines too. One I’ll never forget is ‘Dil hai ki maanata nahin’s one-a journey into a women’s heart. I didn’t quite understand it then, still don’t!
Anyways, the movie which marks my return to Westend and watchin’ movies in theatres was Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Don’. And what a huge let down it was. A weak screenplay from Farhan Akhtar and to top it all, SRK’s performance falling flat on its face. FA’s story idea was good but it wasn’t translated into an equally good screenplay. A thriller is supposed to keep you at the edge of your seat throughout its runtime and ‘Don’ doesn’t do it, at all. FA has improvised on the original Salim-Javed script (which was ‘inspired’ from a Hollywood B-movie ‘House of Secrets’). You are all excited to see SRK as the Don, awaiting some kinda spectacle. 15 minutes into the movie and you’ll start wondering what the heck are your doing there, this cant be the movie you were waiting for. At most you can call it a lil’ better than plain boring. It’s just not masaledaar enough. I’ve said it earlier and I’ll say it again; I liked FA’s story but definitely not the screenplay and the execution. SRK gives it all to Don but he ends up a distant, a very distant second to the Big-B. He goes completely over the top when playing Vijay. And he looks old too. Priyanka Chopra looks like a million dollars (especially in the ‘Aaj Ki Raat’ song) and her acting skills are getting better. Nothing exceptional but she sure is on her way to join the A-list comprising Rani, Priety and Aishwarya. Isha Koppikar cant act. Same for Arjun Rampal. Good looks and voice and that’s it. Om Puri and Pawan Malhotra are wasted. But Malhotra should be doing more such kinda movies. Not much in there for him as an actor but he’ll get recognition, and slowly ‘n’ steadily the good roles will trickle in. Boman Irani rocks! I’d say he’s the star of the show, the new villain no.1 of Bollywood! Pawan Malhotra should go his way. BTW, FA ended the story with a sequel in mind. So if only somehow Don becomes a hit! But then I am bad at guessing BO results. I still cant understand how ‘No Entry’ and ‘Biwi No.1′ became such huge hits!
Still interested in watching ‘Don’? I think it would be a better idea to go out and rent the original AB-starrer. Will be worth the effort, time and ofcourse money. So forget about FA’s Don, DONt watch it!
P.S. Paanch and Black Friday have been by censors and the courts and will release before the end of the year! Anurag Kashyap has begun working on his new movie-No Smoking. Saw Dhoom-2’s trailor during the intermission. Didn’t like Dhoom-1 so am not really looking forward to the sequel. Kabul Express looks interesting…even Guru. But the ones I’m waiting for are ofcourse Paanch and Black Friday!
