Rab Ne Bana De Jodi

Rab ne Bana de Jodi is an utter crap movie, yet another from the Yash Chopra stable. It has no story line, too many dialogues, absolutely slow paced and ham handed acting from Shahrukh Khan, possibly his worst.

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace must surely rank as one of the worst Bond movies of all time. A convoluted story of Bolivian coup makers, corruption and a dead-pan Daniel Craig make it a most boring movie. A bond movie without car chases, gadgetry is no fun at all. Only saving grace being Olga the Bond girl. Maybe the next Bond is a girl..

Oye Lucky....

Oye Lucky.... is an enthralling story of a small time burglar from a small town India, who continously evades the police with his ingenuity. Played delectably by abhay deol with three in one role by paresh rawal and sundry other small town cops, families etc. Oye Lucky is a delightfully watchable film.

Maharathi

Maharathi is a Hitchcockian type thriller, a plot which evolves all the time and keeps the viewer on the tenterhooks as much as the central protagonists, which were paresh rawal and boman irani with a delicious cameo by tara sharma, who plays the role of a sleep walking bumbling budding architect. Edge of the seat stuff.

Hello

Attempted to watch the Hindi movie "Hello" based on Chetan Bhagat's title "one night at a call centre". Had to give up within 20 minutes, it was utterly boring stuff

Shivaji - The Hero

Watched the Tamil movie, Shivaji, the Boss, starring who else, Rajnikanth. It is a mind bending kind of movie, with typical Rajni stunts interspaced with Tamil Afro pop, inane dialogues, Crouching Tiger type stunts, gravity defying, law of physics redefined mad movie which only Tamilians can afford to be aghast at.

Gurgaon

Been to Gurgaon mid-week. As compared to the hype, the city did not impress me at all. Roads were horrible, there is a permanent dust bowl in the air, there is no visible public transport system and I am told the sewerage system is virtually non-existent. So much for the emerging cities of India

Goldfish Have no Hiding Place

James Hadley Chase thrillers have remained with me for the past more than 20 years reading them intermittently. I finished yet another thriller "Goldfish Have no Hiding Place". It is a typical fast paced murder mystery with a lot of drama in it.

"Cruelly Murdered"

Just finished reading "Cruelly Murdered" by Bernard Taylor a true account of a sensational murder that took place in England in 1860. That with the sad upbringing of the killer, unsolved nature of the crime, her subsequent remorse, confession, living in jail for a full term of twenty years and her after-jail work for the downtrodden made for good reading.

"Riding the Ranges"

Just finished reading "Riding the Ranges" by Bill Aitken, a Scotsman who has made India his home for the last five decades. He has ridden his motorbike across the Himalaya and Sahyadri ranges, two most important mountain ranges in India. It is an easy read book of his travels to places like Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, the Deccan, Western Ghats and the various small towns dotting the Himalayan landscape. As a travelogue, it is a different kind, since it is undertaken on his motorbike, so he has dwelt some time on the motorbike related problems while travelling.