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312 days ago
This one is a great movie with superb actors especially the children. I particularly liked the youngest actor who played the role of Jamal, and the scene where he jumps in the shithole to get an autograph of Amitabh Bachchan. The movie reminded me of Salaam Bombay, some of the scenes were superbly shot and are not too common in Hindi movies. To me the movie was perfect but for one thing and that was the grey shade of Anil Kapoor as a host. Why was his character portrayed to be so hostile towards the chaiwala on stage? It didn’t matter what he did back stage, like misguiding Jamal in the bathroom about a question or handing him over to the police etc. In reality no host would be allowed to ridicule a participant on the basis of his financial status. There have been actual instances where people like an auto rickshaw driver or coolie have come on shows like KBC, hosted b y Amitabh, Shah Rukh, or Salman. I believe the movie could have been made with Anil Kapoor acting with ...
400 days ago
One of the best written articles on Sachin Tendulkar ........by Suresh Menon......read on! In November 1989, a London-based writer came to the Indian team's nets in Karachi to seek out a player he was told had the "best on-drive in the game". That player, Sachin Tendulkar, was 16 and yet to play a Test, but he already had his future mapped out - by others as much as by himself. Anything less than the most centuries and the highest aggregate in international cricket would count as failure. Nearly two decades later, when the inevitable has come to pass, fans may be merely satisfied rather than overcome, and even quite blasé about it. If it was ordained, where is the surprise? Such is the tyranny of inevitability. It throws a veil over the hard work, the physical toll, the mental strain that have gone into the making of a record-breaker. Of the 19 batsmen who have scored more than 8000 runs, only five have held the highest aggregate record, only three have played ...
521 days ago
"Paradise on Earth" goes an old saying. I never imagined that i would see Kashmir of all the places, but once i did ...the place is etched in my mind forever. My brother-in-law's (Chinmay) best friend (Vikram) was getting married in Jammu and so my youngest sister (Sahana) and Chinmay planned the trip and asked me, my wife (Ashwini), mom (Shanta), my other b-i-l (Venu) and my other sister (Sowmya) to join, 7 of us. Initially the trip was just for the wedding to Jammu but later Sahana and Chinmay insisted that as we have come so far, we should go to Kashmir, and not every day we would travel this far together. Some of my relatives including me were apprehensive because of the insurgency, but then we had to give in because Sahana and Chinmay wouldn't listen, but thanks to them ...it was the best experience of our lives. It was early December and we knew it was an off season trip to the valley, the tourist season was the summer. I had not seen snow before ...
528 days ago
Gujjars fighting for a scheduled tribe status, IIT Delhi expels 12 SC students for poor academic performance, St. Stephen increases its christian quota to 50%. We all know that there is a way other than reservation to uplift the poor. I find it ridiculous that any community should demand a particular status just so that it can have reservations for its people in schools, colleges and jobs. The point is to eradicte caste based differenciation and uplift the poor by providing financial aid and access to institutions. Students get admission but not the books....strange but true. The Idea phone add was cool which had Abhishek Bachchan ....can be used for national integration :), "na koi thumia na koi purmi"
528 days ago
I think India has to address certain customs and practices like the dowry and caste system. These practices are not just prevalent in the villages but also in the metros, there are very few communities in India that don't give or take dowry though the Supreme Court has banned it. When you say that it’s okay for a person in India to take a loan for his daughter’s marriage because it is his responsibility, i think more often than not the loan is for the dowry. In the Hindi movie Swades, there is a scene where the farmer has taken a loan and is unable to repay because of drought and the landlords do not provide him access to water from their wells or pumps. When he wants to do something other than farming to repay the loan he is not allowed because he is from a particular caste. I am sure in real life a lot worse happens. I also think that because of the caste system people now want to be known and belong to the backward section just so that they ...
