Of Blah's and Blu's

Jun

Raanjhanaa

More Cuts than what the director would have called for

#Spoiler Alert: Don't read this further, if you haven't made the cut yet - I mean watched it yet.

Raanjhanaa in 1 line

3 wrist Slashes and Two Deaths later, Women on top

Raanjhanaa in 1 paragraph

Boy stalks girl, slashes wrist. 8 years later - Boy reminds girl of wrist slashing,fails to impress - goes on to slash wrist once again. Girl loves guy 2 but when marriage cant happen - Girl slashes wrist, Guy 2 gets beaten up - dies. Guy tries to make peace with girl - Fails. She gets him killed. And the girl lives happily ever after.

Is that there is all?

Oh No! Good music presented in a bad way. Some parallel tracks - including friendship and politics - college to state. Some Great character actors.

Jun

The IQ Boot camp

(Didn’t know what the IQ Boot Camp is, let me Google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=IQ+BootCamp )

The India Quotient Boot camp came to an end with the Demo Day on 8th June 2013. Almost 2 months of learning, building, re-doing, and fire fighting, improving and finally showcasing.

Apr

A crisis nobody can afford!

Not the Students. Not the industry. Not the nation.

More than half of India's population is under the age of 25. With a burgeoning population India needs to find employment for the millions of graduates it is producing through its malfunctioning assembly line, which is how our current education system can be best described. The India growth story is built around the benefit of a young demographic.

Jan

Tandoori Murgi and We

I wrote this few weeks back but didn't post because I didn't want to. Now that the world is subjected to moronic statements made every day by self-proclaimed miracle workers and desperate politicians who want to get their 30 seconds of fame, to hell with responsible statements...

Dec

I wonder why???

Looking up into the sky

I simply wonder why?

I feel so wretched and wry,

Cant understand why u cry

This is not how we wanted it to be

Nor did we want to face this misery

Is there something that you can see?

I just don’t know what it can be

I feel so down and low

Deep inside is a big hollow

Plenty reasons that I can’t follow

All these intricacies, can’t I just swallow?

While I walk down the memory lane,

Don’t know why I feel this pain?

I feel so dry in the rain,

It just drives me i

Sep

Scam-a-song

Every Mantri Ghotala Karta hai

(much inspired by the new airtel ad: http://tinyurl.com/3qg9c89 )

Jaise seaming wicket par Dravid batting karta hai,

Vaise har koi mantri ghotala karta hai

Koi 2G spectrum me jhol kare

Koi market me food ki shortage kare

To koi animals ka chaara kha jaaye

B’cos har ek mantri ghotala karta hai

Kabhi faujiyo ke kafan ki chori,

To Kabhi roti kapda makan ki story

Vote ke badle, note de jaaye

Ya ballot box ko hi utha le jaaye

koi chup-chaap se, koi shameless

Jun

Shaitan - the Review

Not a scary /painful experience, neither a heady concoction. Just an entertainer.

Shaitan is the best film I have seen in a long time, NOT. For that matter, neither is the plot edge-of-the-seat stuff that keeps you hooked on from the start to finish. In terms of an approach or treatment too, it has nothing fresh to offer. For Indian Cinema has been introduced to this RAW, EDGY, HEADY and irreverent style by the same school of filmmakers. There are flaws in this film all right.

Apr

StoryTelling

I lost my dad when I was 3 and don’t have any stories to share about ‘How my Dad had that twinkle in his eyes while narrating the 1983 win story.’ But a lot of things I didn’t know I will ever need in life were provided for. This story was one of them. Little did I know that My Chacha, My grandpa and My Uncle(Maternal aunt’s husband) had checked against this very 1983 win story in the ‘Rohan’s upbringing list’ and lest I forget, they never got tired of narrating this story one more time.

Jun

Cynic-‘isms’

Observation # 1

I just spotted an outdoor ad sometime back on a bus stand outside the British Council Library.

May

The wierd ways of Indian selectors

If Guru Greg has laid down a rule that any Indian cricketer willing to represent India should at least be good in two departments of the game... then one person clearly should not be in this team – Romesh Powar.

Until yesterday I thought the shoddiest and laziest piece of fielding I had seen in my life was from Sourav Ganguly. In a match against Sri Lanka, he ran from Mid-on escorting the ball past boundary.