what the ME thinks!

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!

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!