Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
A tragic cloud of sadness rests in some corner of my heart... I just read this news a few minutes ago...
Multi-talented entertainer, writer, and author Sidney Sheldon has died at age 89 of complications from pneumonia.
To think that just this morning, as I woke up and was making tea, standing there waiting for the water to boil, suspended in that vacuum of zero-ness ... when a thought slid in "Sidney must perhaps be the most read fiction writer in India, from the US,... atleast he must have been during my college days, a decade and a half ago..."
Strange. And a few hours later, I sit here reading the news of his passing away. Though such things do happen ...
Posted in Movies, TV etc., News Catch, Superhit Posts | 2,040 views | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Britney Spears did it and was caught on camera. Now it's Shamita Shetty's turn. While Shilpa, her elder sister is setting Britain on fire... Shamita seems to have started something in Bombay...
According to Midday
At a recent filmi function, Shamita Shetty unwittingly ended up doing the same thing (went commando - without the underthang)... The actress too went commando, flashing pretty much everything to click-happy photogs!... Shetty’s photo has also made its way to the internet, where such pictures usually turn up, prompting many clicks and several more ‘tsk-tsks’
Here's the famous picture:
Why the hell is Mahesh Bhatt smiling devilishly? Did he know?
Posted in Bollywood | 37,101 views | 26 Comments »
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
[ Click here for Chapter 1 ]
Dear Me,
I hope and sincerely pray, my dead body forgives me, before it melts to dust. I have caused it pain and suffering whilst it was warm and had a heart that beat. I succumbed to it's endless desires that it knew not the consequences of. But I did. And yet I perished at the feet of each desire, that raised its head from a slumber sleeping inside a house... my body... that now lies here on the floor... cold, shrinking and decaying before me, as I wait next to it... waiting for someone to recognize me... and take me where I'm destined for...
For You would know not of ...
Posted in Fiction, Other | 1,107 views | 3 Comments »
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Background story:
Don Dawooz lives in Mumbai, posh area that is hidden behind Mumbai's coconut trees. Perfect hideout. Police jeeps, police vans, police bicycles and police handcarts go by Dawooz's house but can never see the house because of perfect covering and shelter provided by those coconut trees.
But wait... only two people know where Don lives. Politician Ma'am Mamtoz and Commissioner of Police Mr. Satkeloz.
But there is an other honest, forthright, upright, all right Police Inspector RanDuckoz who wants to end Dawooz's terror reign. And thus starts war between RanDuckoz and Dawooz.
Dawooz is losing. Frustrated he picks up his Sidekick brand mobile phone and climbs one of the coconut trees to get the network signal, so he can dial a ...
Posted in Bollywood, Movie Reactions | 1,171 views | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Dear You,
It was not my remotest of intentions to have been telling you about a subject that would turn your day bluer... your night darker... But you and I are stuck in this void, an emptiness in our vacuum... a boredom that stretches and yawns and sits between us. I'll merely try to extinguish this yawn as I sit waiting for the gates to open and let me in...
For I'm dead and waiting for my 21 grams of mass to be whizzed away to a destination that I am unaware of... today I shall know if there is heaven or if there's a hell... if there's a Devil or whether there's a God... and as I ...
Posted in Fiction, Other | 1,290 views | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Home renovators looking to bring life to the smallest room in their home now have the chance -- with a toilet that doubles as an aquarium. The Fish 'n Flush is a clear two-piece toilet tank that replaces a standard toilet tank, with a see-through aquarium wrapping itself around a conventional toilet tank. (Yahoo via Handout/Reuters)
The report furthur quotes Devon Niccole, marketing director of California-based designer AquaOne Technologies Inc. which has just started to selling the tank "We wanted to develop a product that had a dual purpose - to serve as a proper, fully functional toilet and also as a source of entertainment and conversation,"
So is this all... ahem SAFE?
Apparently yes... According ...
Posted in News Catch, Technology | 1,340 views | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
What's the commotions about?
Shilpa Shetty is acting on a reality television show in UK called Big Brother.
FUCK! Is that that ALL???
No... the commotion is about Shilpa Shetty getting bullied and being slapped with Racist remarks on TV right in front of the public.
Holy Shit! Do Tell!!!
According to this report...
Some viewers believe Shilpa Shetty's being picked on by fellow housemates Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara because she's Indian...
... Jade's mother, Jackiey, repeatedly referred to Shilpa as "the Indian" while she was on the show and made a fuss about pronouncing her name correctly...
When Shilpa tried to console Danielle after Carole Malone's eviction on Friday night, the girls were unimpressed.
"She makes me feel sick. She makes my ...
Posted in Movies, TV etc., News Catch | 3,800 views | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Just stumbled up Hritik's picture as "Emperor Akbar" in Ashutosh Gowarikar's "Jodha-Akbar"... must say he fits the look... that's how my brains have always visualized Akbar as, with a bit of an influence from Amar Chitra Katha Comics...
Got the image from Jahan's blog, which in turn seems to have been downloaded from a site called hritikrules.com...
First look is really good. Good feeling. Now if someone can take Ashutosh's hand and give him correct guidance in the editing room... this period film could just turn out to be a good one indeed....
Posted in Bollywood | 6,508 views | 20 Comments »
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Vidhu Vinod Chopra is back... but is he? He's never been able to impress the audience in "ANY" of his movies post Parinda. And Parinda was released in 1989. That's almost seventeen years, since he made anything of significance... well he almost came close when he was making "Mission Kashmir" for which Anurag Kashyap was writing the original story.
The initial story had "very little" of Hritik Roshan. But then while the movie was being made, "Kaho Na Pyaar Hain", Hritik's debut film was released. It was a super duper hit. And of course there was no place for "very little" roles. The story of "Mission Kashmir" hence was turned, twisted and modified. It now became "Hritik in Kashmir"... Anurag, ...
Posted in Bollywood | 2,314 views | 4 Comments »
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Now much has been said, punched, forced, viewed, counter viewed on the recent released "Guru". It's a different fact that now after the Abhiwarya engagement, Guru is no longer being talked about anywhere... ofcourse until the box office reports come out.
But since everyone has written about "Guru"... right from the "I-get-to-write-internet" blogger to the one who is more outrageous than Mr. Taran Adarsh... the ever sleek and hidden Mr. Subhash K. Jha, it wasn't worth taking the time to write about Guru.
So in short I'll say this. In Guru, I found Ratnam to be at his mediocre best. Which means he has made an absolutely jolly good movie, by Bollywood standards.
But if we look at "Guru" against a ...
Posted in Bollywood, Movie Reactions | 1,610 views | 7 Comments »
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
And so it is done... after months and months of rumors, speculations, temple visits, denials, diplomatic answers, pada-yatras etc. etc. etc... the ever beautiful Aishwarya Rai and the carrying the Bachchan mashaal forward in Bollywood - Abhishek Bachchan are
F I N A L L Y and O F F I C I A L L Y ------
E N G A G E D.
An initial report on the event can be found here at Rediff.
Yes... rediff goes a step forward and starts calling the couple in Hollywood style - Abhiwarya (oz please note: It is not just filmmakers that are "influenced" by Hollywood... but media now has joined that queue)
And it seemed to have been destined.
After being seriously ...
Posted in Bollywood | 1,325 views | 3 Comments »
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Time to move... it's getting to heavy, too problematic, too many crashes, too many cleanups, too much stress trying to keep the thing from falling apart... been searching for a new place... email people I know... calling people I know... a new home is needed... and at the earliest possible...
Oh Wait... in case it's caused any confusion... Looking for a new home not for me... I'm fine where I live (as of now)... It's for Desi Train and PassionForCinema...
The hits are mind boggling and my host is tearing his hair... he wants me to move on to a dedicated server plan... costs through the roof... he's a bit pricey... but that's because the service response time is 5 - ...
Posted in Friday Masala, Life Flava, Technology | 1,173 views | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Alrighty, so sexual favors are taken for granted in the movie industry... but when this article at Samachar.com (temporary link) starts talking about it coming close to hinting names of who they would be... I couldn't help but put this here on apun ka DT... Any guesses who these sex hungry people in Bollywood may be??? So I decided to put the entire article in here... with my questions/comments in parenthesis and in bold... not sure if any of this is true or it's a just a fiction of the writer's imagination who wrote this while shagging with Ms. Rosy Palms in his bathroom...
Where have all the virgin heroines gone?
So what's 'cocaine' in Bollywood? I don't think too many ...
Posted in Bollywood | 2,635 views | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Trust Apple to throw you off whenever you think "this is it" or "we can't go no further"... Engadget is covering the CES... and is hot on Apple's trail covering the Apple guys by the minute...
I'm stumped by what they have just found about 2 hours ago... will this be a revolution in phones, just like what iPod was in music...
Apple announces the iPhone...
Yes dear reader. The iPhone has deleted the buttons off the phone... it's all touch screen from now... Specs? According to Engadget...
Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that's frickin' thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor ...
Posted in Technology | 1,681 views | 13 Comments »
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Johnny Gaddaar spikes my interest. It comes from the man who impressed me a lot (and I mean a LOT) with his directorial debut... "Ek Haseena Thi"... Sriram Ragahavan is back with Johnny Gaddaar...
Just found the article on IndiaFM which details what the movie is all about...
JOHNNY GADDAAR revolves around a gang of five men, the eldest [Dharmendra] over 60, the youngest [Neil] in his 20s, who face the bright prospect of making a fortune through what seems to be a simple exchange of contraband for money on a train. However, one of the gang members gets killed before he can make the exchange and the money he was holding, disappears.
What follows is a ruthless search for the thief ...
Posted in Bollywood | 4,303 views | 13 Comments »
Sumeet, can’t remember the tune. I know it was...
Now I remember. Thanks Satchit!
