Agneepath.....Remade

So basically it's not a review rather a late review, of late I havent been able to catchup movies and this time also it was
only a conicidence that I saw Agneepath(remade)...
I somehow dont relate to the concept of getting inspired from others or getting the inspiration to do something new from something that is already done.
But then I was left with no option than to see this so called INSPIRED version of the original classic by Mukul Anand.
The movies has the same baseline as the original with the story here revolving around a few lesser characters than original and that's for good only.
I wish the director/producer would have made it without songs but then we wouldnt have got Katrina dancing to the tunes of Chikni-Chameli,
apart from that none of the songs made any significance to the story, so the songs were a bit annonying for me.
The surprise and best part of the movie was the negative/devilious avatar of Rishi Kapoor who revisited this negative genere many years
after Bol-Radha_Bol.
Another good thing about the movie is Sanjay Dutt, you will be amazed by his diaglogue dilevery which looks so natural and effortless.
He alongwith Rishi Kapoor are the only things that people will remember from this remake.
The dialogues given to both of them are good and the years of exprience that they have is visible in their dialogue dilivery.
There is nothing exceptional about Hritik or his portrayl of Vijay Chauhan, he has tried to do it his way but the problem is that
we remember the original Agneepath for Vijay chauhan not for Kanchacheena, so in that way I was disappointed.
Oh.... I forgot Priyanka Chopra, but I can understand that at times people have to do favour to friends, that could be the only reason for
her signing a film where she has nothing to do and besides that the story didnt need her.
So it's a well made remake and the ghosts of Yash Johar and Mukul Anand wont haunt the
If you havnt seen it yet watch it only for Rishi Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt.

ONE YEAR AT POLARIS......AND COUNTING..

So finished one year at Polaris this month.....and waiting for appraisl...hahahaha
But somehow I don't get the feeling like I have spent an year and probably the reason behind it is the haywire work routine of my project.
There are many things that I want to write about the previous year, but if I write those stuff it will look like my farewell speech..
So can only say that it was fun(most of the times) being at polaris for an year.
Lets c what 2012 has in store for me.

TOO ANGRY WITH BABA RAMDEV

It's been a long time since i wrote about something.....reason being that i write only when i feel to speak about something..
and in the past 6 months there was hardly anything that I felt writing about...
This time it's the so called "BABA/SWAMI" Ramdev....who has made me angry....
This fellow has a good motive of bringing the black money stashed in the swiss banks and of exposing all those people who owns it.
I will go a few years back down the memory lane when he got all the cheif minister's of all the states in India together
on one stage which happend for the first time in the history of India for the inaugration on his Patanjali Yogpeeth .
He was not a billionaire And to establis the yogpeeth he had to accepted the donations from so many of these same people/ministers.
What makes me angry is that dint he know about all these ministers wrongdoings?
How did he forget about the various court cases of various charges against all these so called donors/ministers?
I accept the fact that charges are not always true...But we all know about the law and order in India.....and how screwd it is...
Where the hell had his ethics gone while accepting the donations from all these people?
Dint he know that many of these people sitting on that podium are the one who have churned out poor people's money?
Still he accepted the donations from them at that time.
Now when he wants to bring all those black money back to India those same people are against him, and why they should not be?
It's just the policy of CYA (Cover Your A**) that everyone of them is following.
How can he expect the government to support his cause when the same goverment has so many corrupt politicians....and who
for sure has put their black money in those swiss banks.
In it's counterattack now the government has started to malign his image by trying to find issues against him , which makes
me really happy and I will be happier if he somehow is found to be guilty somewhere and put behind the bars.
At one point in time I liked him because of the work he was doing for people to make them healthy.
But at this point in time my problem with him is that if he himself is ethically not correct, how can he expect something good
from a completly unethical government........

A new beginning..............

It's a new beginning for me, and the feeling is really great.
Finally I achieved what I dreamt of 2.5 years ago.
I still remember the day when I ran away from my BPO job without knowing what I was doing and what I wanted from life.
I consider myself really lucky that at that time I decided to get into ORACLE.
And even luckier that unknowingly I got into ORACLE DBA.
And again even more luckier that things really started come in place one after another, ofcourse I have worked hard to get things in place for me.
I had to close the chapter of SQLSTAR to open the new chapter of POLARIS...
It's the start of a new chapter, which again I want to enjoy thoroughly like I did at SQLSTAR.
It's been a week and one thing I have observed that there are new things to be learnt everyday.
At times I get amazed when I see the whole team working, there is so less time to think, the brains run faster than a Ferrari.
I find myself like a novice in front of them....
At times I think I may not be able to do all these things...work like them.
But then it reminds me of my starting days at SQLSTAR..
And then I assure myself that it's just a matter of some time and some hardwork required and then I will be like one of them.
AT this point in time Life's looking good & exciting & challenging
and I am ready to face it, enjoy it.

Last Batch…Last Few Days…….

So I just finished my last batch with sqlstar, but I am glad that my last batch was a corporate batch at capgemini.
I always felt that it would be great to go for training in corprates, and yes now after handling one I can say dat it definitely is a great feeling.
I was a little anxious on the first day but then from the second day I suppose I started enjoying it and had a good time. The participants were good, they dint give me a hard time , so all was well.
I got only couple of days left at sqlstar and I want to enjoy it, the last couple of days with some great colleagues.

RAAJNEETI

I am so thankful to Prakash Jha for making this movie, the reason being that it has helped me so much to come out of the misery of kites.
After a long time there's a movie with such a nicely woven storyline, dialouges with so much impact, characters that you can connect to, the background score which is a perfect match for such a story and above all the value for your money.
I must say that Prakash Jha has done a really commendable job in bringing together the characters of Mahabharata in today's time and what better way to show it all through the dirty indian poltics.
At this point in time I must compare the two filmmakers in current time who believe in making realistic movies on various issues.
First one being Prakash Jha(Gangajal,Apharan etc...) and then Madhur Bhandarkar(chandne bar, Page 3, fashion).
What puts Prakash Jha a notch above madhur Bhandarakar is that with Prakash's movies people connect far better than Madhur's movies and the reason behind that Prakash's movies are far more easier to understand.
Within the first 5 minutes of watching the movie I knew that I am not mistaken by going for this movie.
The thing that I liked most was that even though I knew what is going to happen next
(because of my familiarity to Mahabharata) the story and the charater portrayl had the ability to make me tied down to my seat for almost three hours.
The way Ranbir Kapoor has acted ,it shows that acting runs through his blood.
He has completly overshadowed every other actor in this movie.
What you would like is that he has acted through his face , just by looking at his facial expression you can figure out what he is thinking and is going to happen next,you can't help but just get awed by him.
Although I felt that Ajay Devgan had nothing much to do but he again justifies the role of a new age Karna, another thing about him is that these kind of roles are the one which belongs to his domain and suits his appearance on the screen, I have said it time and again that he is the only few actors who can act just through their eyes, he just doesn't need a dialogue for so many scenes.
I do feel that Katrina's role was not justified or I would say that the hype that was created regarding her role did not fulfill my expectations as there are very few scenes with her in the frame.
Nana patekar, plays the role of 'solution provider' Krishna with so much sincerity and ease that only a seasoned actor like him can do.
Arjun Rampal has definately improved as an actor and what impresses him is his screen presence, the appearance that you can't ignore.Althogh it was evident that he found all those 'theth' hindi lines difficult to say.
As for Manoj Bajpai it was a tailor made role for him and he has made full justification to it.
I have said a lot of goody-goody now some letdowns.
A few of the scenes and the dialogues looked ridicules which could have been the strongest scenes like the scene where Ranbir(Ajay's as well) goes to meet Ajay Devgan, the scene in which Arjun Rampal and Ranbir's girlfriend Dies, I couldn't find the grief that someone goes through when their loved one's are murdered.
Another scene where Ranbir shoots Ajay Devgan, I dint find the emotion/anger that Arjun in Mahabharta had towards Karna/Duryodhana for killing them.
I am mentioning these few scenes which should have been the one what I call
'Movie-maker/movie-breaker' scenes.
With all these UP's and a few Down's it's a must watch and it deservs a ****.

Kites....Pleas fly away

Such a big letdown it was ...........
The first thing that I coluldn’t understand and failed to find a single reason why it was named kites .
There’s no relation between the name of the movie and the story (Is there any story at all ?)
I dont have anything positive to say , because there was nothing that I liked or connected to throughout the movie.
How can the roshan's make such a terrible movie and expect it to be a launching vehichle for Hritik in hollywood, it's the worst film that Rakesh roshan has made till date.
What surprised me was how can Rakesh roshan and Anuraag basu go so horribly wrong.
It seemed that Anuraag basu forgot the basics of storytelling while directing the movie.
The story credit goes to Rakesh Roshan but it's the director's job to make a script look like a movie , which I know he is very much capable but this time he really goofed it up.
I can’t believe that this movie is a brainchild of people who has made movies like ‘karan-arjun’,’koi mil gaya’,’gangster’,’life in a metro’ etc…
Hritik is looking the best till date but hell I dint pay to look at his razorsharp body or the much hyped bare back of Barbara Mori .
Barbara definately looked hot and it was a good change for the Indian audience to see a different face on screen.
At the same time I don’t know what Kangana was doing(actually the same goes for all the actors).
I have been scratching my head to find to write something good about the movie and the only thing dat was somewhat average in the movie is the picturisation in bits and pieces.
Two songs that has been topping the charts fail to impress miserably in the movie.
The songs suddenly start playing irrespective of the scenes.
Even Hritik has tried his hands at singing and its better if I don’t comment on it.
So at the end I could only say that the whole family has gone wrong in their work.
And sorry I really cant rate this movie.