jane kahan gaye woh din?

Every good thing no longer how good it is comes to an end!
You all have heard this one and may be it is the most valuable lesson of life. But I am not here to give a philosophical lecture on it but mourn the fact that finally Dhoni has lost the MIDAS touch. Remember when he mushroomed into the cricketing arena, it was all about him and his "Midas Touch". Somehow he could pull of every trick in the Hat and get the results we wanted. He pulled out T20 WC, TEST NO. 1 ranking and most important of all, THE WORLD CUP Itself (not counting IPL and Champions League Title). In the APRIL of 2011, he was almost bigger than the GOD himself. (talking about devo ke dev Sachin Tendulkar ji).  
But came the horrible summer of 2011, when the fall began. Indian team traveled to England only to be served as roasted duck to the Englishmen's Fancy Breakfast. We massaged our ego with defeating poor shadow of West Indian Team (Had Gayle been in that team who knows what the result would have been). Then came the big one, India Down Under ("India Down Under", so true and so ironical).
Lets not discuss the lack of leadership, poor performance of batsmen, pathetic attitude on field of the Indian Team but ponder about this Million Dollar Question; Has Dhoni Lost his Midas touch or the law of averages just catching up with him (till Jan 2011, Dhoni had not lost a single Test match). This is  a question that selectors really need to tackle. They might need the help of Arindam Chaudhary (who now has an opinion on every topic {yes he has beaten Mahesh Bhatt}) or may be Baba Ramdev (who now has not only opinion on every topic but also a solution). As an ardent Cricket Fan, I just pray Dhoni gets his Midas Touch back and Sachin gets his 100th 100 (more on that on my next post).

 

Bollywood melodrama ka THE END ??

Hi guys, i am making a comeback (yet again). First of all thank you to all the visitors who actually visited the blog in last 4 months (there were some 100 of them {YES! I WAS SHOCKED TOO}) even though there were no updates.  In spite of a lot of encouragement and requests I just did not feel like blogging again till today when I saw the movie “LUV KA THE END”. I guess it’s safe to say that India has got its 1^st teen flick. The movie is made under new banner Y- films from YRF and if you see the above animation, you will know its totally youth oriented. Kudos to Yash Raj Film for leading this change, or should I say Chain of Movies. There was another trailer of Y-films “Mujhse FRAANDSHIP Karoge” which also looked like a nice teen flick in pipeline.

I dun think I’ve much 2 rt abt d mvie coz its not smthing that will b lik’d by d critics (n me is self pronounced critic) coz its out n out teen flick with no sense or story. D only msg it has that its fresh n it speaks d new lingo of Gen-X. Respect for d Director Bumpy (from Roadies fame).

Movie has its loopholes but I loved it for its freshness. This movie creates new genre and I am sure we will see a lot more of such movies specially for people like us who watch Star World all the time and wonder when India will start making such popcorn flicks. Actors are actually teenagers and it’s high time we don’t have to see Amir as college student, with all due respect to him.

 F.N. – I went for this movie on Friday 10.15 pm show and the hall was just half full but surprisingly there were hardly any youngsters. The hall was filled up by middle aged couples and family. After the show most of them seemed to like it and funny part was when I heard some middle aged couples comparing their children to the characters in the movie.  LOL !!

Apt Climax -- Perfect ending ...

Finally we come to the close of the “Cricketing Bonanza”. A part of me is really sad as I will sincerely miss the absorbing cricket that was displayed. The result at the end of the series:

India draw the series with SA at 1 - 1

Eng win the Ashes 3 – 1 (hopefully by time you are reading this)

For India this is almost the best result that it could have hoped for (at least I did before the series and that’s what I mentioned in my blog earlier). Some would say that we had a great opportunity to win the series on 4^th day of the 3^rd test but the way Kallis played on 4^th day, SA did not deserve to loose the match either. May be the difference between the 2 sides was actually just Kallis.

This series was always about Chin music, our batsmen versus their bowlers. I guess India has shown that we have the resilience to fight it out in the extreme conditions. Shewag and no. 6 (Raina and Puajara) were quite disappointing else everyone contributed in every which way. Sachin was majestic, VVS was special, Gauti was responsible, Dravid provided resistance (could have been better), Dhoni was reasonably good. Also one thing I want to mention is that more than 50 % of dismissals were to good deliveries which showed that India has the grit to fight.

To win series abroad we need pacers who can take 20 wickets in seaming and bouncing tracks. We are in desperate need of fast bowlers. In the hind sight, I feel the selection of the squad was not great as we just did not have any one to replace Ishant. Also imagine what would have happened if Zaheer was not available for entire series. So who is a better team between SA and India? Definitely with SA favourite to win the series and India performed better than expected, the answer would be India. (People in SA will not agree but then no one from SA read my blog so who cares). India has retained no 1 status for now but testing times are just round the corner with series against West Indies and England at their respective homes. We have some time and I hope we can find a good bowler by then.

Coming to Ashes, I am so glad that England have won the Ashes and not just retained it. They have been dominant over the Aussies through the series and this is a very fitting result. Australia will take some time to re group and come back. England are marching up the ladder and I am quite sure by the time India play England this summer it will be again the battle for the top spot.

Will be writing through the WC11 and till then hopefully no more blog on cricket.

SUKH KE SAB SAATHI

These are the few days when you love your work. This is the time when you feel it’s a good choice that you are doing what you are doing. I am talking about me and my writing profession (ref: http://rajatsfunnybone.blogspot.com/2010/09/om-ganeshaye-namah.html , where I had self proclaimed to be a writer). Anyways, enough of me for now. Ah! I know you don’t get to read enough of me and want more and more but kya kare professional hazard you see, I can’t write about me. So where were we? (I was surely in Sathwa Aasman).

RICKY PONTING – R.I.P. (Ricky Immodest Ponting)

When I saw the clips of Ricky today only one thing came to my mind.

To be sung along with following lyrics:

Original lyrics:

MODIFIED LYRICS:

Sukh Ke Sab Saathi Dukh Mein Na Koi

JEET KE SAB SAATHI HAAR MEIN NA KOI

Mere Ram, Mere Ram Tera Naam Ek Saacha Dooja Na Koi

MERE SACHIN, MERE LAKSHMAN TERA NAAM HAI SAACHA DOOJA NA KOI

Jeevan Aani Jaani Chhaaya Jhoothi Maya Jhoothi Kaya

CRICKET AANI JAANI CHHAAYA JHOOTHI CHHAKKA JHOOTHI CHAUKKA

Phir Kahe Ko Saari Umariya Paapki Gathri Dhoi

PHIR KAHE KO SAARI CAREER-IYA 39 CENTURIES KI BOOJH DHOI

Sukh Ke Sab Saathi...

JEET KE SAB SAATHI...

Na Kuchh Tera Na Kuchh Mera Ye Jag Jogi Vaala Phera

NA WARNE TERA NA HAYDEN TERA TAB KAHAN SE TEAM JEETE-RA 

Raja Ho Ya Runk Sabhi Ka Ant Eksa Hoi

MCGRATH HO YA GILLI SABHI KA CAREER ANT EK DIN HOI

Sukh Ke Sab Saathi...

JEET KE SAB SAATHI...

Baahar Ki Tu Maati Phaanke Man Ke Bheetar Kyun Na Jhaanke

TEAM SE TU SLEDGING KARWE UMPIRE KO BHI UNGLI DEEKHAWE

Ujle Tan Par Maan Kiya Aur Man Ki Mail Na Dhoi

WORLD CUP PAR MAAN KIYA AUR 3 ASHES KI HAR AB DHOI
Sukh Ke Sab Saathi...

JEET KE SAB SAATHI...

Finally the Mighty Aussies have fallen and the cricketing world is really celebrating. In one of my earlier Post (http://rajatsfunnybone.blogspot.com/2010/10/aswathama-hato-naro-va-kunjaro.html), I had written about the Aussies fall and why the world loves taking pot shots at them. What is really amazing is that now Australian Media is also R.I.P.-ping Pointing. Ricky has been nothing but arrogant in his entire career. This arrogance has been the artifact of the Australian Team’s success. Though he has contributed to the Australian Team’s Dream run for last decade but it’s mostly been a team effort. Now with the big guns gone and young talent not playing to its potential the tables have surely turned.

People are gunning for his captaincy but I feel he should remain captain and play. I may sound anti-nationalist by saying this but hear me out. He still has best captaincy record, so with a few more loses that will even out. Also with a few more loses, his ego will be “massaged” in the perfect way. Play or no play, Captain or no Captain, I will say that keep on the R.I.P.-ping coz “I AM LOVING IT”

P.S. - I would like to add that like a true Indian supporter I am ecstatic with the Indian Team’s victory but the official word is “SHHHHH” else I will jinx the win and the series. 

30 Die Khan

It’s the 24^th night and the world is partying. What did I do? I went to see Tees Maar Khan so that I could write a blog for you. Its 3 in the night and I am writing the review for you. Please do read it (if you have a life {unlike me}, then I do understand you would have a 1000 things to do in this festive season, so its ok.)

Now let’s talk about TMK. Hmmm and after even more hmmm, I would say that I was slightly disappointed with the movie. This is coming from me who is probably the most tolerant guy when it comes to comedy (I even ventured and saw Bombay to Goa {the one with all the stand up artists} in the cinema hall {yes it is one of my 3 mistakes of my life}). Movie was okay but with Farah Khan, I did expect a lot more. I do remember the comedy in OSO was really top notch.

In today’s time when there is a debate for what audience is the movie made, TMK’s 1^st half exclusively caters to the lower stall or what we call the masses, lot of eestyle, loud costumes, totally random flow of sequence, sudden jump to songs and lots of pelvic and busty thrust. (Yeah! In this movie Farah has invented a new step busty thrust). This half is quite enjoyable and kind of set the tone for the 2^nd half.   

The 2^nd half goes a bit slow. Just when you start to enjoy the life and meanness of the con man, suddenly the director decides to do “daku bana devta” (term inspired by KKKG’s ‘Poo bani parvati’). In all hindi con movies, the hero must have a heart of gold and must have a reason to do what he does. So in order to justify the hero, movie takes a slow turn. But to the credit of Farah Khan, she did not overdo it. Now let’s come to the climax.

The acting of Akshay Kumar and Khanna were really good. Akshay Khanna has never seemed so smooth in a comedy in spite of doing quite a lot of them. Akshay Kumar can do such roles in his sleep now. But he was not the actor who had to put in least effort. Katrina almost played the real self in the movie. She is a HOT bimbo trying to act in the movies. She shows up in the sets only to vanish for ‘make-up’. She delivers a dialogue or two and does a bit of over acting before breaking into a dance sequence.

Oh! If you are wondering why I did not write anything about the climax in the end of the above para, it is because I am yet to decide what, where and when was the climax. The movie ends quite abruptly. During the last half hour (can’t say the climax as I don’t know what was the climax), there was a robbery scene, followed by a court room scene, followed by a movie premier scene. Last scene was about the revenge that was actually built up in these 3 scenes but the revenge scene just ends before it starts. Irony is that it’s a Farah Khan movie and both the direction and editing of this movie is really sad. Movie ends with a song “people like happy ending”. Farah signs off the movie in her signature style of showing all the cast and crew of the movie in yet interesting way.

So the verdict? What? Are you really hoping that I am going to give stars and pronounce a verdict like a film critic?

I am not giving any verdict but I would just leave a food for thought that I firmly believe that the humour in movies which are not made as out and out comedy have better comedy than ones which are made as out and out comedy