Filmy 2008

I am a film buff and enjoy any good to bad film, however I can do very well without action and horror dramas. 2008 has been a year of firsts. It also happens to be the year where I discovered the fun of watching online films in the comfort of four walls on my bed with food, pint of water and snacks alongside. Online films can be paused as well as can be enjoyed with cooking, cleaning and even sometimes with work. Even better is that one can sleep and continue even discountinue, depending on the quality or mood. And all this without the pinch of having paid for it or the struggle to reach a theatre.



This works well with most Bollywood films where the brain can be switched off, but I was taken by a surprise several times. Some films were excellent and could be enjoyed even with a compromise on picture quality and just acceptable sound. I am listing down few films that I really had fun watching.

1. A Wednesday


2. Aamir


3. Dasvidaniya


4. Oye Lucky ! Lucky oye


5. Mithya


6. Rock On


7. Ru-ba-ru


8. Via Darjeeling


9. Jaane tu ya jaane na


10. Sorry bhai

Ofcourse there were few huge disappointments as well

1. Yuvraj


2. Dostana


3. Singh is King


4. Tashan


5. Mission Istanbul


6. Thoda pyaar thoda magic


7. Jodha Akbar


8. Bachna ae haseeno


9. Kismat connection


10. Love story 2050

Ohhh I am feeling good ! I thought it will be a struggle to list the same number of films in both the lists but the bad ones were as easy to list as the good ones were.

I am yet to watch Rab ne and thankfully it does not excite me enough. Ghajini is a film that I would like to watch as its an action film and I am not too keen to see Aamir's eight packs on big screen.

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Christmas reflections

These pics were taken in High Cross, Leicester. It is a shopping mall and a huge part of it is covered with a glass structure. I had an excellent time admiring the Christmas decorations and capturing them on camera was an interesting experience.

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News channel skit

A friend forwarded a hillariuos news channel skit which has also been put up on youtube.com. It is fun and a must watch. One of the actors is an old friend and this group of actors are better entertainers than the actual news anchors.




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Interesting Mistakes !

Click on the pics to view them closely and see what has been called interesting. The effects are due to camera shake in Leicester, City Center. The place was beautifully decorated and well lit for Christmas celebrations.
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Oye Lucky ! Lucky oye!

This film is as interesting as the tittle is. Oye Lucky is director Dibakar Banerjee's second successful attempt after much appreciated Khosla ka Ghosla. A film like this proves that there are no camera or edit tricks required for entertaining people. It's just a matter of good research and script combined with brilliant acting.

Oye Lucky is a comedy film with a strong message ( watch the film for message), it manages to keep the viewers focus in place. The edit is rough, which makes the whole the story looks like a real one. Best thing about the film is its consistency in the tone in which the dialogues are delivered, it irritates yet entertains at the same time. The feel of the film is very North Indian just like Khosla ka Ghosla and looks like the director is well aware of Delhi.

Most people must have already seen the film by now, but I strongly recommend it to those who have not, as this is the first film I could watch twice online, in the past one year.
ENJOY !

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S(F)unday

Perfect Sunday or Funday as I occasionally used to call them in India literally used to mean a summery sunny morning/afternoon setting. I used be be lying on the sofa looking at the clear blue beautiful sky, with dazzling pink bougainvillea flowers blocking my view. Thinking about various things and also nothing most of the times. To make this picture perfect, some sparrows and a squirrel used to jump around in the balcony in search for water and food. They were my best weekend friends.

Sundays in UK can be fun with friends and specially if one doesn’t hope them to be sunny. Food of course tops the priority list. But the comfort of being home is always absent. The weather conditions are pitiable! It’s dark, windy and cold. The pigeons here remind me of DDLJ where Ambrish Puri says, 'yahan ke to kabootron mein bhi apne desh jaisi baat nahin hai'. I feel like one of the birds SRK refers to,that lost her way and came to an unknown land and now remembers home amidst the new world.

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Sydney = Romance

Thanks T for this beautiful postcard. It actually added to my list of firsts, this happens to be the first postcard I have received in UK. I hope to see Sydney soon to share my experience with you.
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Mumbai happened for good!

This is what I feel about the whole episode. The attack was certainly different in many ways than what India has seen before. Terrorists taking the sea route and using hand grenades was definitely different. But the best of all things were the hotels that were targeted. In most previous attacks it was always the poor and middle class who died in train blasts, Sarojini Nagar blasts and many others. The rich continued to live in luxury, sometimes also participated in talk shows of channels like NDTV. But Hotel Taj and Trident are not visited by poor people.

This attack was the first of its kind to target the rich Indians as well, who talk about the spirit of people to move on and live, but they will now understand what it means to move on. I hope the rich will use their power and influence to the best to pressurise authorities in India to get active and stay alert at all times. Specially the Mumbai film industry and the big business houses who talk all the time but never come up with serious stuff as they take their security for granted.

Thanks to terrorists for Mumbai attacks because from time to time it’s important to wake up people in deep sleep. Now it is the same India for all rich and poor, a terror state, which can encourage unity between different classes in the society for common good.