A new program called "Mr & Mrs TV" was launched yesterday on the Sony entertainment channel. It's a game show involving various TV celebrities and the various rounds include dancing, acting, mimicry etc. But what made this program so special to me is the news that my dream girl, Sonali Bendre, is one of the two judges, the other one being the renowned director, Madhur Bandarkar. So as anticipated, I was in front of the idiot box by 9 PM. She's great. She seemed to put on little weight but she was the same beautiful and graceful lady I've seen some years back. Will put up some pics of her soon.....
Added on 26th March
I was telling something in my post about Sonali being a bit chubby. But yesterday, when I saw her again on the same show(it runs 4 days a week), I was scowling at myself "Satish, are you blind?" She was my very own dream girl and as divine(sorry to use this word but divinity can b attributed to beauty as well) as ever.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Race
It’s been quite a few days since I wrote the review of any movie. Not finding any topic good enough to be posted on my blog, for the time being, I’ve decided to write the review of the recent movie I’ve seen, Race. Race is directed by the famous director duo, Abbas and Mustan. Not many people know that this name indicates two people as the name appears in the titles as Abbas-Mustan. These guys are the best directors of thrillers in Bollywood and gave us the genres like Khiladi and Baazigar.
Enough of all the hype surrounding the directors, let’s get back to our review. It’s the story of two brothers, Ranvir (Saif Ali Khan) and Rajiv (Akshaye Khanna). Ranvir runs the family business and is fond of horse races. He even has a stud farm, aptly named “Stallions”. We were shown that this guy is a talented businessman. On the other hand, Rajiv is an alcoholic, who wakes up in the morning to take a beer instead of a bed coffee. Sophia (Katrina Kaif) is the secretary of Ranvir and secretly loves him. On the other hand, Ranvir is in love with an upcoming model, Sonia (Bipasha Basu) and they both are yet to express their love for each other. Just when things seem to be going on well, Rajiv sees Sonia for the first time and falls in love with her, not knowing about his brother’s love. He promises Ranvir that he’ll give up drinking if he gets to marry Sonia. Ranvir loves his brother more than anything else in the world and decides to give up Sonia for the sake of his brother's future. But Rajiv breaks his promise as soon as he gets married to Sonia and a steamy affair between the old flames, Ranvir and Sonia, starts. Suddenly, a fool proof plan is made and a fool proof murder is committed.
At this juncture, a new character, Inspector RD (Anil Kapoor) and his dumb secretary(Sameera Reddy) comes in to investigate the murder. From this point on, the race starts. Sometimes, the race is between your brains and the writers’ brains (my personal feeling).
Race, as the title suggests, is a racy thriller. You get to see a new twist every few minutes, although most of these twists and turns are predictable. Just as “too many cooks spoil the broth”, I felt that all these twists made the movie a li’l bit boring. The performances are great. Saif does justice to his role and is the show stealer, almost. There’s a popular notion that Abbas-Mustan always bring out the best of Akshaye Khanna, which they did even in this movie. Anil Kapoor does make you laugh quite often, as a fruit-eating police officer and provides the much needed laughs in the thrilling movie. The damsels are good enough and I can bet that the front-benchers might go only for the sake of Bipasha Basu. She’s oozing with sex appeal and portrayed well as a seductress. Katrina Kaif is fragile, as usual and puts up a novel performance in this movie. But I was surprised to see her dance so elegantly in one of the songs as I was under the impression that she’s one of the worst dancers of Bollywood. Sameera Reddy is passable, as her role doesn’t require much acting skills except looking dumb.
The music is great, with some foot tapping numbers. The photography is one of the best in recent times and the action scenes are sure to make you sit on the edge of your seat. I give my rating for this movie as 3.25 out of 5.
Enough of all the hype surrounding the directors, let’s get back to our review. It’s the story of two brothers, Ranvir (Saif Ali Khan) and Rajiv (Akshaye Khanna). Ranvir runs the family business and is fond of horse races. He even has a stud farm, aptly named “Stallions”. We were shown that this guy is a talented businessman. On the other hand, Rajiv is an alcoholic, who wakes up in the morning to take a beer instead of a bed coffee. Sophia (Katrina Kaif) is the secretary of Ranvir and secretly loves him. On the other hand, Ranvir is in love with an upcoming model, Sonia (Bipasha Basu) and they both are yet to express their love for each other. Just when things seem to be going on well, Rajiv sees Sonia for the first time and falls in love with her, not knowing about his brother’s love. He promises Ranvir that he’ll give up drinking if he gets to marry Sonia. Ranvir loves his brother more than anything else in the world and decides to give up Sonia for the sake of his brother's future. But Rajiv breaks his promise as soon as he gets married to Sonia and a steamy affair between the old flames, Ranvir and Sonia, starts. Suddenly, a fool proof plan is made and a fool proof murder is committed.
At this juncture, a new character, Inspector RD (Anil Kapoor) and his dumb secretary(Sameera Reddy) comes in to investigate the murder. From this point on, the race starts. Sometimes, the race is between your brains and the writers’ brains (my personal feeling).
Race, as the title suggests, is a racy thriller. You get to see a new twist every few minutes, although most of these twists and turns are predictable. Just as “too many cooks spoil the broth”, I felt that all these twists made the movie a li’l bit boring. The performances are great. Saif does justice to his role and is the show stealer, almost. There’s a popular notion that Abbas-Mustan always bring out the best of Akshaye Khanna, which they did even in this movie. Anil Kapoor does make you laugh quite often, as a fruit-eating police officer and provides the much needed laughs in the thrilling movie. The damsels are good enough and I can bet that the front-benchers might go only for the sake of Bipasha Basu. She’s oozing with sex appeal and portrayed well as a seductress. Katrina Kaif is fragile, as usual and puts up a novel performance in this movie. But I was surprised to see her dance so elegantly in one of the songs as I was under the impression that she’s one of the worst dancers of Bollywood. Sameera Reddy is passable, as her role doesn’t require much acting skills except looking dumb.
The music is great, with some foot tapping numbers. The photography is one of the best in recent times and the action scenes are sure to make you sit on the edge of your seat. I give my rating for this movie as 3.25 out of 5.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
A to Z tag
These days, I can think of nothing to update my blog. So thought of hand-picking a couple of popular tags. One of them is the popular A to Z tags. Find my writeup below.
A - Aamir Khan.
The only contemporary actor in India whom I adore.
B - Birthdays.
I never knew when this interest started for me, but even now, I call all my friends on their respective birthdays to wish them.
C – Chocolates
My sincere thanks to the person who invented them and made my life easy. I always have lots of these in my fridge and even yesterday when I went for window shopping with a friend, I bought Dairy Milk fruit & nuts, M & M’s and cookies with chocolate chips.
D – Drives
This is the perfect stress buster. I love going on long drives but I prefer bikes to cars, though.
E – Enthusiasm
I always have this nag to learn new things, whether useful or not.
F – Family and Friends
I can never live without these people. A majority of my salary is spent in International calls only…. :(
G – Gadgets
I always had this small interest on the latest gadgets and I take pride in what I flaunt.
H – History
I love to read this in a peaceful environment. I feel just as if I was on a time machine(that too for free).
I – Independence
I feel living life is purely different than living it independently. I just love my independence. Right now, I’m staying alone in my flat too.
J – Jokes
I love these particularly, if they are cracked with a good timing. My chest always expands a couple of inches whenever I hear people say that I’m having a great sense of humour.
K – Kids
I had a lot of kids as friends. The fact that there is no impurity in their hearts makes their company more desirable than that of grownups, at least for me.
L – Love
This is something which I always crave for and which I always got in meagre quantities.
M – Money
I hate this THING as much as I can but still I feel that without this, we can never get recognition in life. This THING has replaced the importance of RELATIONS in many hearts.
N – Neo
Love this character from the Matrix trilogy
O – Old age.
Somehow, I’m scared of this. Maybe, this is because of the bitter truth that we had to depend on others for something or the other, in this age. This completely contradicts the above “I for Independence”.
P – Politeness
I was asked by many friends about how I can be so polite even to the rudest of the people. Maybe this is mantra for success.
Q – Can’t decide anything abt this letter.
R – Rajesh and Hema Srinivas
These are the two people who were always with right from my 9th class. We studied together only for two years in school and were living far from each other. We never had any differences between us which made many people envy our friendship.
S – Sonali Bendre
She’s one girl/woman, whom I believe to be the perfect. I simple love her (don’t ask me the reasons why).
T – Travel
Love this lot. Always had this nag to see new places and experience new customs. Got to cover at least a dozen countries in the next few years
U – Unique
This is what I like to see in people: their own uniqueness.
V – Villages
I simple love these places for their simplicity. I always cherish all those moments spent in my grand parents’ place. My idea of a dream vacation is to visit the European country sides.
W – Whisky
I just love this one, if taken in proper quantities. There are some “g”lassmates of mine who like some others like brandy, beer etc but my vote is always for this.
X – Xinthe
Don’t ask me the meaning of this but this is the Indian company which I’m representing here in Bahrain.
Y – You
I wish to thank “you” all for giving me the required support to keep myself happy and content with the life at Bloggerville.
Z – Zombie
Most of the times, nowadays, I’m living the life of a zombie in many aspects. Mainly, office life has been something like this as I’m not getting the much needed interest in work. But forget about the life as a zombie, I like watching films involving zombies as you can laugh your hearts out because of some of those stupid scenes.
Anyone who's interested ccan take up this blog. I don't like to tag others and become a victim of their anger... ;)
A - Aamir Khan.
The only contemporary actor in India whom I adore.
B - Birthdays.
I never knew when this interest started for me, but even now, I call all my friends on their respective birthdays to wish them.
C – Chocolates
My sincere thanks to the person who invented them and made my life easy. I always have lots of these in my fridge and even yesterday when I went for window shopping with a friend, I bought Dairy Milk fruit & nuts, M & M’s and cookies with chocolate chips.
D – Drives
This is the perfect stress buster. I love going on long drives but I prefer bikes to cars, though.
E – Enthusiasm
I always have this nag to learn new things, whether useful or not.
F – Family and Friends
I can never live without these people. A majority of my salary is spent in International calls only…. :(
G – Gadgets
I always had this small interest on the latest gadgets and I take pride in what I flaunt.
H – History
I love to read this in a peaceful environment. I feel just as if I was on a time machine(that too for free).
I – Independence
I feel living life is purely different than living it independently. I just love my independence. Right now, I’m staying alone in my flat too.
J – Jokes
I love these particularly, if they are cracked with a good timing. My chest always expands a couple of inches whenever I hear people say that I’m having a great sense of humour.
K – Kids
I had a lot of kids as friends. The fact that there is no impurity in their hearts makes their company more desirable than that of grownups, at least for me.
L – Love
This is something which I always crave for and which I always got in meagre quantities.
M – Money
I hate this THING as much as I can but still I feel that without this, we can never get recognition in life. This THING has replaced the importance of RELATIONS in many hearts.
N – Neo
Love this character from the Matrix trilogy
O – Old age.
Somehow, I’m scared of this. Maybe, this is because of the bitter truth that we had to depend on others for something or the other, in this age. This completely contradicts the above “I for Independence”.
P – Politeness
I was asked by many friends about how I can be so polite even to the rudest of the people. Maybe this is mantra for success.
Q – Can’t decide anything abt this letter.
R – Rajesh and Hema Srinivas
These are the two people who were always with right from my 9th class. We studied together only for two years in school and were living far from each other. We never had any differences between us which made many people envy our friendship.
S – Sonali Bendre
She’s one girl/woman, whom I believe to be the perfect. I simple love her (don’t ask me the reasons why).
T – Travel
Love this lot. Always had this nag to see new places and experience new customs. Got to cover at least a dozen countries in the next few years
U – Unique
This is what I like to see in people: their own uniqueness.
V – Villages
I simple love these places for their simplicity. I always cherish all those moments spent in my grand parents’ place. My idea of a dream vacation is to visit the European country sides.
W – Whisky
I just love this one, if taken in proper quantities. There are some “g”lassmates of mine who like some others like brandy, beer etc but my vote is always for this.
X – Xinthe
Don’t ask me the meaning of this but this is the Indian company which I’m representing here in Bahrain.
Y – You
I wish to thank “you” all for giving me the required support to keep myself happy and content with the life at Bloggerville.
Z – Zombie
Most of the times, nowadays, I’m living the life of a zombie in many aspects. Mainly, office life has been something like this as I’m not getting the much needed interest in work. But forget about the life as a zombie, I like watching films involving zombies as you can laugh your hearts out because of some of those stupid scenes.
Anyone who's interested ccan take up this blog. I don't like to tag others and become a victim of their anger... ;)
Monday, March 17, 2008
A small poll...
I've observed in the Bloggerville that most of the bloggers are females. Then I started feeling a bit bad about my fellow male bloggers and decided to find the reason why. So now, you've a small poll.
What do you think about the gender of bloggers in the Bloggerville?
1. Most bloggers are females. If you select this option, please specify why do you think that females are blogging more than males?
2. Most bloggers are males. If you select this option, please specify why do you think that males are blogging more than females?
3. Abey Satish, are you blind? Or is there any reason why you are visiting only blogs of female bloggers? Never ask these stupid questions again.
Your usual co-operation is highly appreciated.
What do you think about the gender of bloggers in the Bloggerville?
1. Most bloggers are females. If you select this option, please specify why do you think that females are blogging more than males?
2. Most bloggers are males. If you select this option, please specify why do you think that males are blogging more than females?
3. Abey Satish, are you blind? Or is there any reason why you are visiting only blogs of female bloggers? Never ask these stupid questions again.
Your usual co-operation is highly appreciated.
And now a shit story....
Hey, wait. Don't give my blog that disgusting look. This is just about my li'l aquarium. And in the end, I need some suggestions too.
Pets were never a part of my life. But I've this soft corner for an aquarium for quite sometime. Having decided to buy one last month, I was lazy enough to postpone it all these days. Finally last week, I bought a small one with two gold-fish and two unknown fish. You can see that in the picture above.
When I bought the so-called aquarium, the guy told me that if I buy an air-pump, I need not change the water for some 15 days. Otherwise, I have to change the water every day. For me, this sounded like a warning rather than a suggestion. So I bought one immediately. The guy at the shop also suggested me to feed the fish only once a day.
So far, so good. Being a kind person(really??), I started feeding the fish twice a day with some fish food available in the market. After two days, I found that the colour of water changed and the water looked as if it's freshly brought from a sewer. It's the same next day too. I thought that something might be wrong with the food. But now, the water is changing colour in a few hours itself. So my mission last weekend, was to observe this change closely.
It was then that I recognized, to my horror, that my fish are shitting too much and this is causing the colour to change soon. I observed this for a couple of days more(spending lots of hours in front of this aquarium) and found the same reason. Now, can anyone suggest me a better way to keep my aquarium clean, other than suggesting me to take the fish to the rest room and say "Ok, my dear fish. Now that I've closed my eyes, you can shit."??????????
Hunting Party
Saw this movie last night. This dialogue reminded me of some interview, with a war journalist, which I read long back.
A cameraman of a journalist reporting war says this about his work: "Being this close to death and being this alive, is completely addictive".
After hearing this, I wanted to become a war journo
A cameraman of a journalist reporting war says this about his work: "Being this close to death and being this alive, is completely addictive".
After hearing this, I wanted to become a war journo
Friday, March 14, 2008
This is not the country I loved......
These days, I’m getting scared to watch the Indian news channels. The news in those channels is making me think whether this is India or some barbarian country. I am writing this article because of the following two pieces of news:
1. One ten year old boy was burnt alive by a marriage party today somewhere in Delhi(as far as I can recollect). Let me get into those details. Some persons from the groom’s family, allegedly, got drunk and were travelling in a car recklessly. They hit a ten year boy who’s riding his bicycle. The boy pleaded them to give him the money needed to repair his bicycle and the persons in the car took hi away with them. Later the boy was burnt alive by them at a farmhouse.
2. A girl in Mumbai was living alone as her parents were working overseas. This girl was addicted to drugs and high society life. But she was not having the required money to fulfil all her needs. So she expressed her love towards a guy. This guy was happy enough to get a girl friend and started spending all his pocket money on her. He was buying her gifts, refilling her mobile talk-time etc. Suddenly this girl met another boy and slowly she was inclined towards the second guy(?). She wanted to lose the first guy and disappeared for a day or so. Then she lodged a complaint with the police saying that the first guy kidnapped her and “played with her body” for about 26 hours. The police arrested the guy but was suspicious about the complaint. Slowly they gathered all truth and arrested the girl and the second guy.
All these recent news is making me doubt whether this is the country “I love so dearly”.
1. One ten year old boy was burnt alive by a marriage party today somewhere in Delhi(as far as I can recollect). Let me get into those details. Some persons from the groom’s family, allegedly, got drunk and were travelling in a car recklessly. They hit a ten year boy who’s riding his bicycle. The boy pleaded them to give him the money needed to repair his bicycle and the persons in the car took hi away with them. Later the boy was burnt alive by them at a farmhouse.
2. A girl in Mumbai was living alone as her parents were working overseas. This girl was addicted to drugs and high society life. But she was not having the required money to fulfil all her needs. So she expressed her love towards a guy. This guy was happy enough to get a girl friend and started spending all his pocket money on her. He was buying her gifts, refilling her mobile talk-time etc. Suddenly this girl met another boy and slowly she was inclined towards the second guy(?). She wanted to lose the first guy and disappeared for a day or so. Then she lodged a complaint with the police saying that the first guy kidnapped her and “played with her body” for about 26 hours. The police arrested the guy but was suspicious about the complaint. Slowly they gathered all truth and arrested the girl and the second guy.
All these recent news is making me doubt whether this is the country “I love so dearly”.
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