From my fav reviewer....

Below is an article from my favorite reviewer , the main reason i still check out rediff.. Rajasen's blog. Loved the piece so wanted to share it

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‘Paanch rupya.’

The dent in the kevlar was roughly the size and shape of a five rupee coin. It was also nearly a crack, and placed where it was, two inches inches below the heart, would be fatal if not for the added fortifications to the chest and rib areas. Even if the shell didn’t find its way past the midnight-shaded armor, the risk of trauma injury was too high. Through the frayed latex, he rubbed the almost-hole thoughtfully with a gloved finger while considering the plan of attack.

He was on the nineteenth floor, by the window. He couldn’t help looking outside, at the sea and the monument beside it. It would have been a lovely night, but for the stench of gunpowder and corpses, and a fog of despair cloaking the Gateway. He took a step inside, his eyes adjusting to the darkness. His boot immediately stepped into something wet, a macabre puddle splashing viscous fluid onto steel-toe.

He fished out a candle-sized stick and snapped it roughly with his teeth, even as his left hand undid a length of cord. The bright neon-yellow glow from the stick instantly illuminated the scene: first his teeth, and then the room. The first body lay two feet away from him, next to the writing desk, whole except for the head. He closed his eyes for a second. Not in silent prayer, but, his fingers flicking a button near his temple, to turn up the infra-red. There’s only that much neon can do, he thought wryly, tucking the yellow stick into his belt, alongside the oval buckle.

He stepped forward towards the bed and looked at the other body. Female, in her fifties. In the red tint of the eyewear, the neon of the stick and the pool of crimson she was lying in, her cotton nightgown was the colour of death: noone could tell what it originally used to be. Powder blue, he sighed, rebuking himself for watching all that sensationalist news coverage. ‘War,’ the bastards on TV called it, giving these nutjobs such a spotlight. An empty Kalashnikov shell clattered near his feet. And there were footsteps outside the door.

He stopped cold, as did the steps. The corridor was dark as tar, and in one swift jerk of the wrist, the yellow tube flew out of the window like a boomerang, right into the jaws of the ravenous city. There hadn’t been any firing for several minutes, making the prevailing silence a dominatingly still one. Convinced he heard a safety-catch being taken off, he crouched to the ground. His breathing slowed, as, he imagined, did his potential assailant’s. He let the cord slip out of his hand as he inched towards the door, slow as the blood seeping through the carpet. He reached near the door and calculated possible scenarios, all featuring the element of surprise. His hand crawled up to the doorknob, gloved fingers wrapping around the brass, when suddenly the door was thrown open, and his left hand pinned to the wall.

His right hand moved quickly towards a switchblade in the belt, but a boot caught him in the jaw. He looked up into the shaking nozzle of a machine gun held by a sweating young Sikh in black-cat outfit. He let out a sigh of relief even as the commando swallowed hard, looking in all the world like he’d seen a phantasm. ‘Who.. Who…?’ The lad stammered as he smiled and reassured him. ‘Yes. And I’m on your side,’ he said in broken Hindi. Usually it took more convincing, but here the soldier withdrew the gun and yanked him to his feet, giving him an awed once-over. He stopped the youngster from apologising, and shook his hand as the still-shaken boy briefed him on the current situation.

They stood in the corridor and waited. There had been sounds in the room five doors down from them, he was told. He handed the soldier his blades, explaining how much more effective than a gun they prove to be, in a compromised-space situation. Young Hartej listened intently, before suddenly glaring and hushing him. There was a crack behind him and he whirled around, barely in time to see a silhouette appear in the corridor unleashing white sparks of machinegun fire in their direction.

His jaw dislocated as soon as he hit the ground. The crack would have been loud in the silence instants ago, but was muted by the current crossfire. He’d been shoved roughly to the ground by Hartej, who was now literally on top of him, covering him on all fours as the firing got louder. He could feel the young man’s shoulder recoil shudderingly even as his arm stayed unwaveringly steady. The infra-red let him see another silhouette pop out behind the first one which was now falling, and he tried to warn the soldier. It was unnecessary, the youngster having already tossed a grenade with flawless accuracy.

It was over. He had never felt more helpless in combat. Or more relieved. Save for the crackle of walkie-talkies confirming the final target, silence resumed. Only this time, it didn’t feel like the air was holding its breath, but like it had finally exhaled.

He rubbed his paining chin as he stood alongside Hartej at the same nineteenth floor window. The soldier tried to stop him, but, ignoring many protestations, he stripped off his belt, gloves and the rest of his blades and handed them to the boy. Then he insisted young Hartej sign a slip of paper. ‘A reciept?’ the confused Sikh asked. ‘An autograph,’ he smiled. He told him that there would surely be more blood, and more sickening, cowardly attacks on the innocent, but that he wouldn’t be needed around. ‘You guys have it covered.’

He jumped even as Hartej gasped. He leaped from the nineteenth floor, eagerly ogling the magnificent, impossible city as he plummeted past the windows. He waited a good ten floors before unfolding his titanium-dipped fiber wings and gliding to a shadowy landing. Gotham needed him, India didn’t. And he really must come back in civvies sometime.

~
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http://rajasen.wordpress.com/

Loha

.... and we worry about captain and Bala Krishna

Rehman with Akon.

Check this video of 'beautiful' by Akon , c what happens at 2:15 of track:



PS: This video is a bit out of sync, but I couldn't find a better video which has embedding enabled. Just search in youtube for a HD video.

Yeh Dilli hai mere yaar!!

what a waste.. a nice idea butchered with horrible screenplay.. this is documentary/musical/fictional piece rolled into one and ended but being nothing, the movie as some wonderful scenes (like the ram leela scenes, the cow scene , climax etc etc) if looked seperately but they just don't gel right from scene one. The whole movie has bits of songs with couple of dialogues sprinkled in between. The best part of the movie is the picturization of 'dil gira dafatan'. One the the best song picturizations i have seen till date. Everybody acted well except abhishek who looked lost all through the movie .. (actually he is supposed to look a bit lost as he is an NRI but he looks too lost not sure when to use an american accent and when not to and what to do in every scene he is in ) Sonam has nothing to do except to look gorgeous and dance with the pigeon and their love story is the most ridiculous part of the movie , remaining characters are all well acted but unfortunately they are too many with none getting enough screen time to make an impact. Its a good idea gone waste, i think Aks was a better movie than this. Only good thing about the movie (ofcourse other than Rehman's music) is its short .. less than 2 and 1/2 hrs but then again try to show the warmth of chandichowk as microcosm of india and to use the wonderful soundtrack may be this movie needed to be a bit long and may be thats what missing here!!!

Bollywood gets the taste of Parkour

That's definetely not abhishek jumping :)

Gulaal - Get Blown Away

'Mere paas Maa Hai'

Luck By Chance

Luck by Chance is fun.. everything spot on.. direction , screenplay,actors and cameos everything about the movie is good, ppl are divided about the climax but i just loved the way it ended.. the end shot is inspired from Natalie Portman shot from 'Closer' which was good too... a fun movie .. watch it for Rishi kapoor, Dimple,anurag kashyap and Hrithik they leave their mark in the small roles they have , farhan is perfect int he imperfect struggler role and for konkana this is walk on cake.. Zoya rocked in her debut...a must watch!!!

Seven Pounds

Imagine... a hollywood movie inspired from a dialogue from a telugu movie... that too a pucca masala movie... that too a chiranjeevi movie.. but not a chiranjeevi dialogue ... 'oka pranam tesa - oka pranam posa level ayyipoyindi' .. remember this line??? 'MutaMestri' villian dialogue... thats the story line of seven pounds.. Take 'Tere Bin'/'Ela Cheppanu' (telugu version) movie and change it a bit to summarize the dialogue above and boom u get 'Seven Pounds' the worst movie in the career of Will Smith...

10 nominations for slumdog!!!

You heard it right!!!! 10 nominations for slumdog millionaire out of which 3 for rehman (best score, 2 best songs .. saya and jai ho). Looks like rehman is going to walk away with atleast one oscar on feb 22. Best thing is there are only 3 noms in best song category out of which 2 are for rehman so guys what are the chances :).... fingers crossed till feb 22nd

Yeh Delhi hai meri yaar.... Bas Ishq Mohabbat pyaar

outsourcing..... other way round... welcome to bollywood!!!!

Mazakali mazakali...

Masakali mazakali ....... damn.. forget abhishek, forget rakesh omprakash mehra, what the hell forget ar rehman.. sonam kapoor is enuf to drag u to the theaters...... thoda thoda matak-kali matakali

Delhi -6 promo rocks......

Mithunda with 8.4 rating IMBD!!!!!

Yes you have read it right!!!!! a Mithunda's movie has an 8.4 rating on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497915/

Before getting flabbergasted read the comments and other info on the page :) . Looks like we have competition to palanati bramhanaidu....

Rab ne Banadi Jodi

Sharukh rocked as Surinder Sahni and sucked bigtime as Raj ( naam tho suna hoga).. he hammed his way through this character and as the plot itselt is insane and wafer thin, aditya did not know what to do in second half, especially how to end so he ended up leaving the second half to 'Rab' to end the movie.. To sum it up, First half was enjoyable but second half sucked

For GodFather fans

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/moslive/article-1091227/How-shot-The-Godfather.html?ITO=1490

Slumdog Millionaire Complete OST

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/hindi_bollywood/s/movie_name.10198

Rehman - Slumdog OST

listen with max sound in good speakers

Hye Guzzarish!!!!

Guys check out the music of Ghazini (not the tamil/telugu one.. hindi one.. aamir khan starrer)... it rocks big time!!!!!!

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