One of the highly paid/respected actors of Hollywood, Tom Cruise movie M .I-4 made more noises in India because of Anil kapoor rather than movie itself. Well probably the producers of M.I-4 would have the same thing in mind when including an Indian flavor in an action packed movie. Anil kapoor got the fame, when he acted as the  host of KBC replica in Oscar Winning Movie ‘ Slum dog Millionaire‘

For sure Die hard Tom Cruise fans must have been waiting for this movie and this movie delivers all the action.  the fourth edition of  Mission Impossible series, Ghost Protocol is superior to the other films in this series because it is packed with some good stunts. The three major stunts which i liked are

   – a break from a Russian prison

    – a hazardous climb up the tallest building in the world in Dubai

    – a  fight in an  multi-storey car park

The whole story of the movie is “The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his new team to fight it out to clear their organization’s name”. Just enjoy  the 133 minutes movie in a theater to feel the action.

I feel Anil kapoor fans should not get disheartened on seeing his role in this move. As the new’s on social media platform is “Mission to Search Anil Kapoor“  impossible. But i feel as an actor when you move into any new industry you get small roles. It makes business sense to be get a small role in popular movie rather than lead a non  popular Hollywood movie.  Enjoy the action of all the actors in movie and  hopefully we get MI-5.

Simple but effective Message

Simple Cafeteria

Simple Full Moon

Simple Spirit of Game

Abhishken Bachan aka Charlie is the brainchild who acts as Chartered Accountant but a street smart thief. Charlie (Abhishek Bachchan) and Riya (Bipasha Basu) are co-thieves. Raj (Aftab Shivdasani), a friend of Charlie is killed by the Russian mafia. Raj left a CD for Charlie to watch which contains gold. Then the story moves on to how Charlie and his team steal the gold.

Positives

- Good polish/finishing to the movie

- Bollywood copying style is unique. Definitely the songs by which bollywood is famous, are worth whispering

Negatives
- If you have watched Italian Job and then watching this movie for first time, your guess on the next action are sure to be wrong

- I feel diagloue delivery of Anil kids needs to be improved

- Bollywood directors also need to think today audience has smart and not dumb. During climax the gold is being taken away by molding three cars made of gold, however, when they switch cars inside warehouse (from the cars with gold bars and the new car made of gold) there is no time to mold gold bars and make cars.

Commonalities between 2 movies
- Color of Car
- It is robbing gold

Wondering what is the climax of movie : Well as usual the robbers loose and hero wins. Charlie had a mole in his team of players. the mole and the villain are killed, Russian mafias do not get their gold,  Johny lever makes English men speak Hindi dialogues and Charlie team gets gold molded into car. Wondering how it happened. Watch the movie once and decode the puzzle.

Worlds 2 biggest democracies seems to be fighting a battle on different grounds. But both seems to be a raging a battle online. On one side we have governments and on other side we have companies. Most of these companies fund the elections/political parties but have voiced their opinion against SOPA/PIPA. Not to forget the common men who are supporting the companies .

Wondering what is SOPA ? Below is a youtube video which explains it

Today(18 Jan 2012) a daylong blackout was declared by Web’s most popular and influential sites to protest the proposed SOPA and PIPA antipiracy bills. Some of the supporter where  Wikipedia , google etc

I posted some snaps at http://post.ly/4ta2V

The momentum has largely shifted away from the legislation. Several key legislators have backed off (the House has stalled on SOPA mid-markup but is set to resume next month; the Senate is mulling a cloture vote on PIPA as early as next week, but several key senators, including bill sponsors Orrin Hatch and John Boozman, along with Marco Rubio, Roy Blunt and John Cornyn, have turned against it; and the White House announced major opposition) and Internet activists are declaring a victory.

But still it is not over.  Some provisions of the Stop Online Piracy Act  and Protect Intellectual Property Act could potentially re-make the ways music is listened to, watched and traded online should Congress re-visit the legislation or pieces of it. On the other side another democratic country India is stepping up scrutiny of Internet postings and mobile communications, even as it held at least six meetings with companies in 2011 to weed out provocative comments and help prevent discord between religious groups. India’s Information Technology Act of 2008 gives Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal the authority to order portals to block sites and requires companies to designate a point of contact for receiving those government requests.

With such legislation around, Internet freedom seems to be at risk. One  understandable risk for the government i see is the 2011 storms. The Arab world revolution will go down in history as one of the first mass-revolutions to make an active use of the internet. The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria have all made use of the internet as a tool for passing information and organization. Bloggers have been at the heart of making sure that what happens in these places becomes known around the world. With such massive changes resulting due to Internet, i am sure politicians will think ways to stop.

But  over a longer term things should be seen on a holistic perspective. Blocking the freedom of internet is not a solution. I hope all of us will exercise Blogger Responsibility and win our freedom in a democratic manner.

Symbole of Peace : White

Peaceful River Side

Peaceful and Beautiful Surroundings

Launch of Seal Play

Launch of movie

Launch Of Shark Attack

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I chose Christmas as the day to watch Don 2 rather than first day. I read couple of reviews (Masand and my friends) and got a mixed response. Well the review will not stop me from watching the movie, because i have a die heard sharukh fans at home. Besides sharukh movies are good entertainment at least once.

With all the hype surrounding Ra – One, i  had higher hopes  but was disappointed with the actual movie. So my disappointment was somewhere  stopping my mind. It is always wrong to compare  2 movies.  After coming out of the movie, i felt Don -2 is an entertainer. Paisa Wasool (Means Money invested in ticket is worth the movie)

We decided to watch the movie in 3D(we had no other choice since this was the last tickets available). But 3D was worth watching.

The whole movie revolves around the plan of looting euro printing machines from deutsche bank in germany. But for planning this Don needs his old foe (the inspector whom he put in jail in Don1). Next half an hour the movie revolves around Dons planning and execution of release from the Jail. In the process he also come to know that his aspirations of becoming Don 1 in europe is not liked by the existing drug leaders. The european drug lords plan Don execution but Don escapes and understand the new threat.

In the remaining part of movie, Don execute his plan of robbing a world famous bank with the help of police. Don leaves behind no clue .  Wondering how Don manages to rob a bank with Cops?  Well this is the main climax in the movie. In the movie after the robbery when cops were called to catch Don by his own men, i smelled something fishy and though it was Dons plan but my friends did not agree. But in the end i won. The climax is nicely planned.

Strengths of Movie

- Sharukh one liners in the movie ‘Get Out. Please’ / Don Ka intezar to Gyarah mulkon ki police kar rahi hai(11 nations cops are waiting to catch Don) / Par Don Ko Pakadna Mushkil hi nahin Namumkin bhi ha(Catching don is not only difficult but is also impossible) / Don ka dushman ko ye baat hamesha yaad rakhni chahiye ki Don kabhi kuch nahin bhoolta (Don enemy should always remember  that don never forget anything)

- Exotic locations

- Songs are good

Something i felt could have been different

- Wondering what made Don done a duplicate mask (of hrithik roshan) and also use a duplicate voice(hrithik roshan own voice). In the actual movie, the place where Don used the mask nobody would have recognized his face.

- I felt lara dutta could not do much justice to the role she was given

- Techie look of Kunal kapoor or that character could have been enacted better

At the end, sitting here i can write my view since this movie is made for an audience. Irrespective  i felt Sharukh has puller another entertainer in 2011 for his fans. Don – 2 has been a  long awaited movie. Priyanka role in movie though looks small is impressive and well executed. Priyanka takes a bullet to save Don’s life [ Producers are trying to show that Priyanka (called as Wild Cat by Don) has a soft corner for Don though she claims in the movie that she does not have it ]

At the end the movie shows Don driving a bike with number plate as DON – 3. I personally felt DON – 3 might be tough, but hopefully producers will be make judgment incase anytime the movie becomes a reality on table( a ready blue print). Enjoy the movie.

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The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Sun between Clouds

Cherry pressed between home made muffin

Unexpected vistor stuck between Rain and Window