DhoooOOM Dwitiya

DHOOM II - ***1/2

Movie was all in all good but not excellent enough.
1st star is for all the stealing sequences which were mind boggling.
2nd star is for Hritik's acting skills which have certainly improved a lot from what he did in Main Prem ki Deewani hoon (which as a matter of fact was a horrible movie with the same star cast minus aish).
3rd star is for all the stunt scenes that are above the imagination of indian cinema although they are somewhat death defying but still then you will enjoy a lot watching them being performed by Indian actors.
Another 1/2 for Bipasha in her bikinis....muuuah...she looks as stunning as always

One will surely enjoy the movie if he doesnt apply his mind on whats going on. Just sit back, have a popcorn pack and just watch it.
Songs are well made as expected from Pritam but he can do much better than this.

1. Dhoom title track: with heart throbbing dance performance by Mr. A (hritik). Sounds kool too
2. Dont touch me: Average song with Abhishek, uday and bipasha
3. Crazy kiya re: Most popular song of the movie performed by Aish
4. My name is Ali: Bipasha and Uday again....this song really sucks although sung by Sonu nigam
5. Dil Laga: Everybody is in here...the last song of the movie

The action sequences are so to say crazy enough. If you apply a little amount of logic, everytime you ll ask the same question "How is this possible?". Sequences are although stolen from holyywood movies yet looks better than Koi Mil Gaya.
There is a special appearance of Rimi Sen also who is the wife of Abhishek in the original movie. While she looked pretty and sexy in that movie, here she is shown as a pregnant woman who is carrying the wrong deeds of her husband Abhishek.
Looking at uday for a sec will spoil all your excitement. He is as horrible as he always is. Starting from his dialogue delivery to expressions. Never was a time when his expressions had changed in the entire movie. Its the same when he is happy, its the same when he is fighting with the villains, its the same when he is wooing Bipasha
Bipashaaaa.......She is damn good. Especially when she comes in a bikini. Everything related to her was perfect. Her figure, her two-piece color combination, her accent, her style, her change in styles as a Rhio resident and an Indian police officer, her kuchi-puchi dialogues (thats exactly how she wishes her sweet home). Big fans of aish can also forget her and hook their eyes on bipasha for those moments. Although she didnt get much of a scope amongst all other big-star cast but she did made her presence felt.
There were rumours before the release of the movie that Aish can be seen in a two-piece bikini but that time never came and i was convincing myself by the fact that the movie has been censored and the aforesaid scene has been cut. After all nobody can afford to show Aish in bikinis for a 60 rupees ticket.

Abhishek must have felt fire in his ass when her soon-to-be-wife (as propagated by the media and news channels) was passionately kissed by his competitor Hritik. The next day newspaper published Abhishek's statement on who performed well in the movie dhoom and his answer was "I think Uday has performed great. As far as Hritik is concerned who am i to comment." Tough luck chote B

DHOOM-II : Prelude

Dhoom II was released this Friday and watching it was a very tough job. One because none of the multiplexes launched it and two, the theatre it was screened at was so difficult to find that we wasted more than 1 hr to find it.

In faridabad, after the introduction of PVR chain, everybody totally erased the names of the film theatres and the funda of Balcony and AC-box from their minds. The people staying here have got their pockets stuffed with money. Be it buying a property worth not less than 75 lakhs or new car not smaller than Honda city every alternate year, they are at the top. Due to some controversy between the multiplex owners and the distributors of the movie, it was decided to go for launching it in smaller theatres and if the movie goes hit then the distributors will charge more money from the multiplexes. Thats the funda i could make out for now. Moreover Yash Raj is too very confident that the movie will certainly be a hit.

So, there is this theatre called Satya Palace in Faridabad and god knows where it was. Me with my friend Ranaware (aka the maratha), were discussing and blaming all the multiplexes and decided to go for the movie in the local theatre for the evening show 6-9 pm. For this, we had to leave our house by 4 or so to find the place where it was. Had our matinee show of Bas Ek Pal and he was watching the match while i fell asleep. At around 7 pm, Ranaware woke me up and said "chal saale madrjaat, movie nahin dekhni".
I was like "what movie, abhi to dekhi humne"
"Abbe Dhoom.....subah to baat kiye the"
"Well yeah, but i guess we werent serious dude."
"bhak sala, ab nautankibaazi band kar...saala sau aalsi mare honge fir unhi ki g**nd se tu pada hua hoga...Ab Uth"
It took me a lot of effort to stand up. It feels great now-a-days to sleep with the cozy blanket in this winter season and yesterday was when the lowest temperature (9 degrees C) recorded. Put some clothes on and grabbed a bike.
Boy!! it was some chillness outside. My tooth were creating all sorts of noises while colliding with each other. My legs were pressed hard with the fuel tank of the bike to make it stable. And Ranaware sitting in the back, was the happiest man at that moment. He always feels happy and laughs aloud when his friends are in trouble. But he was embracing me and making me feel awkward. I mean its okay if a girl is sitting in the back seat with her hands around you. But when its a man, it just gets out of your mind when you see ppl driving around you are staring both of you with a crooked look. We were asking all the pedestrians where we might find Satya palace. Somebody told that its in YMCA, god knows what it is.

We again asked a pan-waala where can we find YMCA, and he told go straight, turn to your left and after a couple of streets turn to your right, there you can find Satya Palace. Hell!!! How did he know that we were searching for the theatre. He said that he has been doing this for the last two days and its not a surprise that you are also searching for the same. Go and enjoy the movie.

Finally we reached it. Its been ages that i have been to such a place before. I mean Bhubaneswar has got lot better screens and well decorated local theatres although there are no multiplexes there. We reached there by 8:30 and the show was at 9pm. Lucky to be just in time!!

Ranaware stood in the queque for the ticket while i was parking the bike. When he came back he showed me the ticket. I dont know from what angle it was looking like a ticket. It was just a piece of plain paper

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night show
2 seats Balcony
Rs 120/-
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yeah!! that was it....I was literally shocked " abbe 60 rupaye ki ticket? AC bhi hai kya yahan?" "Dont know yaar...just hope that it has got cushioned seats"
We were waiting for the show when we saw the posters of the movie on the wall. It said:
" Bambai se seedha prasaran ki jayegi. Power katne mein bhi film chalti rahegi"

Ranware was like "WTF!! yahan power bhi jaati hai" "koi nahin dost!! ab aa gaye hain to dekh ke hi jayenge chaahe kuch bhi ho jaaye"

The minute hand struck 12 and bingo!! 9pm....Time for the show....and we went inside..

Just for the sake of writing!!

There were times when mother used to say to her child "So jaa bache so jaa, warna gabbar aa jayega!!" How cruel was that?? Mothers didnt realize that they are making their kids afraid of a thing, however fairy it may be. Its been said that kids have the purest form of mind among all humans. If its made filthy with the words like fear, terror and scourge from the beginning, i believe that future generation will be as hopeless and useless as it is now. All the credits go to the mothers that Gabbar was referring to in sholay.
Heard sholay is being remade with the then hero Amitabh playing as the role of Gabbar equipped with all the latest gadgets. I wonder how the dialogues would be! It would be really exciting to watch such a movie because I liked the new DON a lot over the older one. Similar case goes with Lage Raho Munna-bhai and Phir Hera Pheri. Dhoom-2 which is released yesterday and is all set to go booom but the problem is the PVR chain is not launching it in their audis. Moreover i dont have that much tempo to watch such a well-marketed movie in a local theatre. Its a kind of thing that comes naturally after getting a hefty salary with no options to dispose the money off.
And yeah!! I lost my full day access to internet today. These systems department bastard gotto know from somewhere that m using it all day to download songs, writing blogs, and orkuting. I dont understand that there are many biggies sitting in the RnD center who are using throughout the day in checking the stock market out. I mean if you look at any of the monitors of these biggies, you ll surely find www.icicidirect.com opened in it with their eyes hooked at the screen, hands on the mouse clicking the refresh button twice in a sec and their rotating chairs fixed at the lowest level so that they wouldnt be visible to anyone from their cubicle. This SUCKS a lot!!!

Horrifying Wednesday night!!

After watching a demoralizing episode of Indian Cricket collapse, i went to sleep at around 12:30 or so. And i must say i was in deep slumber because my eyes were paining like hell coz of continuous watching the computer in official hours and then sticking my eyes onto the tv the shole evening as well as night. Apparently nothing was of any importance as india lost the match.
A strange thing happened in the middle of the night. At around 2:04 am in the night, i was woken up by my call. Some bastard get this awkward time to call. Couldnt he wait for another 5 hrs and would have contacted me in the morning. Or he could have made it 2 hrs back when the half of Delhi is partying. I knew people who do these kind of mischiefs but i was helpless as i couldnt keep my mobile on a silent mode because that is the only thing i depend on for my morning alarm. Switching it off would take away all the messages and important calls that a boy should have in the middle of the night with the opposite gender. Anyway, that doesnt matter matter here coz m drifting away from the topic. Well, when i picked up my cell and looked at its screen, it was saying:

02:04 am
calling.....
+401


Options Reject

This was the exact content of the screen i gotta see in my cell. I was literally terrified. Who is trying to contact me now....What kind of a number is +401. Does it exist? As a matter of fact, its been a famous saying that "Asheesh Maharana ko kissise bhi darr nahin lagta except bhoot/pisaach/aatma stuffs". Does it belong to one of things that i fear so much. Tangled in these questions, i didnt picked up the phone. Placed it back underneath the pillow and slept considering it to a bad dream.

Today morning i just checked if that was a dream or a reality. To my utter surprise, the number was still there in my missed call list. I was literally pissing in my pants. Phew!! that was a terrible experience.

Cricketing Bastards !!

Have you ever felt a pain in your ass which is so hard that you feel like breaking your Sony television in a single shot?

Yes!! Thats the kind of pain i felt yesterday when India lost to South Africa by 157 runs. It was hard to believe but the truth is India is as unpredictable as storms in Hawaii islands. Dont go by the simile that i used because i m very poor at it but try to understand the emotions of a heartbroken and diehard India fan. Many times i think of changing my favorite cricket team and make Autralia the one. But you see, the 'deshbhakti' doesnt allow me to do so. Even if India is 35 for 5 wickets chasing a score of 250 or so, I still have some amount of hope that we would be able to make it. Dhoni can hit a century or Agarkar can....even my expectations are high with harbhajan, Zaheer and Munaf Patel. Miracles happen all the time in cricket and may this is the time when india can make one. But whenever i think so that, india doesnt make upto my expectations. Forget about me, its the same case with all the India cricket lovers.

Its high time that Indian players should stay away from all extra-curricular activities of ramp-walking, endorsing brands and playing kho-kho. There should be rule that if any cricket player is found marketing for any brands, he ll not be taken in any matches be it international or its domestic. There should be a clear cut demarcation that either a player should play which is what he is supposed to do or he would do modelling if he is good at it. Both shouldnt go hand in hand. If i were made the BCCI president, i would have made this rule the next day i get appointed. There is a lot of money in cricket itself that its players dont have to look for any other source of income.

Bastards they spoilt all the night sleep which led to my late arrival in office.

Hilarious situation

It doesnt happen to everybody in their whole life. Neither did i expect it coming nor did i believe what i was seeing and listening to.
It was saturday night when our gang (gang of boys) decided to go and watch the movie "James Bond - The Casino Royale". It was totally a new experience for me as i hadnt seen any of the bond movies. Even this whole month, Star Movies is telecasting all 20 bond movies every night at 9pm but i didnt have interest in sci-fi movies that much. So have literally skipped all of them till now. Just for the sake of watching a movie and killing time on a weekend night, i was in the scheme.

Movie Review: ****
Yeah you heard me right. I would give it a 4 stars out of 5. Thats because, i was watching it for the 1st time and frankly speaking i was hooked up to my seat all throughout the 2.5 hrs. Couldnt even think of answering to nature calls which was turning me crazy during the last few minutes. The 1st 15 mins action sequence is the best one that i expected from this movie. My mouth was wide open speaking "Maaaaaaaaadhuri...ye kya tha???" Comes the 2nd half, movie becomes a bit slow due to some weird poker game that was our of my comprehension but loved the way it was played. Will try it once in my life when i would have money at my disposal. There was a new concept of torture which would be as thrilling to see as someone hitting on ur balls pretty hardly. Although as my friends say that Daniel Craig didnt do as Pierce Brosnan used to do but he is marvellous in his own way. More action than just fucking around with different whores all the time.
This made me to watch all the bond movies coming in Star movies everyday. Yesterday it was time for James Bond - Octopussy. It was pretty old movie and most of the sequences were shot in India Kabir Bedi and Amritraj as actors along with the double O seven - Roger Moore

Well i forgot to mention the event that shook me for a second and i got habituated to it afterwards. There was a scene in the movie, where Bond was being seduced by a semi-clad girl. You know where most of the 'things' are visible to naked eye. Everybody was silent and lending their ears to the sounds coming and sticking their eyes on the big PVR screen. There is this family sitting in my front row. Father (35 yrs of age), mother (32 yrs of age) and their little girl (8 yrs old). Suddenly the girl speaks out "Mummy, ye kya ho raha hai." " Mummy, in logon ne kapde kyun utaar diye". I was like stuffing my hands into my mouth so that i dont make any noise while laughing my tears out. So inspite of concentrating on the sensuous scene on the screen i was looking at the mom and dying to hear her reply. Mom said "Beta, ye lo popkorn khao. Pepsi pi lo beta nahin to gale mein lag jayega". And she lifted the girl and made her stand facing away from the screen. I guess, if parents dont help their children to learn these kind of things they will look for someone else to make them understand or even worst, they will try out themselves to figure out what they have seen in the movie and what is in real. And there lies the root of all problems. Anyway, I cant erase this event very easily from my so called flash memory. Nice experience

Bike mania...!!

Its been three months or so i have been thinking to buy a bike. The options were:

1. Bajaj Pulsar 150cc: Nice looks. Black variant looks awesome. Rs 58000/- only. Mileage of more than 50kmpl. What else do u need. Only drawback is that its now common. Every now and then you can find this bike on roads or in parking spots.
   
2. Bajaj pulsar 180cc: Marvellous structure. Black variant with black rims is the best one. Rs 61000/- only. Mileage of more than 40
3. Bajaj Avenger: 179cc engine. Comfortable for long drives. Looks great on healthy people. Rs 65000/- only. Mileage of more than 40
4. TVS Apache: 150cc engine. launched in competition against Bajaj Pulsar 150. Great looks. Great variety in colours and comes in handy Rs 57000/-

And this was the data that i collected 3 months ago when i decided to have one of them. But people around me suggested to wait a little bit so that the new pulsar comes into the market. And when it came it gave a all new sensation to bike riding.

Bajaj Pulsar 150/180 comes with digital display which shows you the gear you are operating in. The tail lights have been modified which gives it a sportive bike look. As far as the changes in internal features are concerened, i m not aware with them. Pulsar 150cc is now priced at Rs 61000/- and 180 at Rs 63000/- with mileage being the same as it was previously. So, i am totally confused which one to choose from. Options have died down to only two bikes: either Pulsar 180cc or Avenger. Lets see whats in store in future.

Kaahe ke waaste??

Kabhi kabhi hum apne seat pe baithe sochte hain,
Kaash apna boss naa hota aur na hote ye kaam.
Kaash ki hor roz party hoti daaru aur sutte ki,
Kaash ke har jaam hota dosti ke naam.

Jindagi bhar miss to karte rahenge woh college ke din,
jab life smoothly chalta tha, naa koi tension ke bin.
Humne to aadat hi daal rakhi thi aish karne ki,
kisko kya pata tha ki future mein ayenge eise bhi din.

Mere bhawishya wakta ne kaha ki jindagi mein rise karoge,
jab dekha usne ujwal rekha haatho mein hamare.
Aaj bhi gar woh mil jaaye kahin to kopche mein le jayege usse,
lagayenge do haath raseed ke uske gaalo par,
aur chhin lenge sau rupaye aur barah aane hamare.

Kaahe ke waaste ki humne engineering,
kaahe ke waaste karte rahe proffesoron se fighting.
Kya mila image hamara kharaab karke,
koi sympathy to dikhaye but that will be also in writing.

Is corporate world ne ek bahut hi gandi chiz sikhayi,
"Kissipe bhi bharosha naa karna mere bhai."
Kabhi jab hum apne aks ko dekhte hain bathroom mein lage shishe par,
fir ek khayaal dimaag ko hila ke jhakjhor daalta hai,
"Kya ye wahi asheesh hai jisne ab tak sabki batti lagayi"

Voice of a helpless resident and a future murderer

Whenever i go back to my home from a hectic office work schedule, i relax on my cozy bed watching all kinds of crappy tv shows starting from saas bahu ki kahaniyan to story related to army officers, flop films of 1980-1990 era to romantic english movies which i love the most, from illogical game shows to tantalizing fear factor. from my all time favourite Tom and Jerry on cartoon network to god-knows-what-the-heck-of-a-news channel. But if i get time from doing all these, which is apparently 2 hrs a day and thats when the power goes off. Yes!! Faridabad is sucha horrible place to live in. Even smaller cities have got 22 hrs power supply if not 24. But here, from 7pm-12pm, there would be exact 2 hrs when the whole sector i live in stays in dark. The time is also fixed: 7pm-8pm and 10pm-11pm. If you do a little bit of calculations, it would come that in a span of 5 hours, power doesnt stay for 2 hrs ie 40% of the time my sector lives in dark. So estimating for a whole day, it would come like 9.6hrs of power-cut in a day. Fortunately i dont live in my room during daytime and fell asleep unconciously after 12 midnight so as not to tolerate this kind of insanity of the govt. Sometimes i wonder why Faridabad has been included in the NCR which is National Central Region that comprises of Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and Faridabad. Yes!! that might be a reason why Faridabad is counted last in this list. Even there is a rumour that whenever there is shortage of power supply in the top three cities of the list, faridabad becomes the victim all the time. Transfer all the power from this small place to the biggies because they are the heart of India and they sudnt be in dark for a second. Forget about the poor and helpless people living in Faridabad. Sometimes i feel like shooting a bullet in the legs, sorry but i said two legs and the right arm, of the Chief minister or whoever controls this place so that he wont be able to go to his office for signing those bloody documents.

Blogspot changed??

Well, after such a long time i visited this blogspot site and came with a mood that i ll put a blog today. But ooola!! this site has totally changed. Asks for gmail acount, the new templates are mind blowing and good enuf than the older ones and hope that there are some more features that i ll get to know after being aquainted with it.

Anyway, reasons for not blogging for such a long time:

1. Didnt have much time to do it
2. My projects were on a fast tract....so didnt get much time to blog
3. Was not getting much time for surfing. As a matter of fact, in our company one gets access to internet only from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm everyday which is totally consumed by checking mails and orkutting. Result being, didnt get much time to think blogging
4. Been out of station and roaming all over india like hyderabad, mumbai and bangalore for the whole last one and a half month which resulted in lack of time to blog
   

All in all, as you can see, in a nutshell, i didnt get time to blog and now i get to realize the reasons behind it. Nice start Asheesh!!