Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Harini and Shreya Ghoshal

Liked the song 'Piya bhole ... ' song from the movie 'Parineeta'.
The female-lead of the movie Vidya Balan also looks beautiful!
Thought, the way Shreya Ghoshal giggles and sings is similar to tamil singer Harini.
The giggle brings in a good-dose of innocence to the song!

Harini and Shreya Ghoshal with their quick-giggles and the heavy breaths while rendering songs have manufactured quite a few hit songs.

Note: Kartik - what do you think ? - email me or write what you feel in the comments section!

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

London Blasts

Why all this hype when London is bombed and no hype when some remote town was bombarded with missiles in Iraq or Afghanistan?
This inconsistency really irritates me.

Look at BBC or CNN crying that London is bombed and casuality as 100, when a similar happening in any third-world country is hardly mentioned inspite of the huge casuality. A natural-disastor like Iran-quake or Asian-tsunami will go also go unnoticed.

NDTV with its 24 X 7 channel is also aping its western cousins quite-well! Every channel have their own prefixes for NEWS i.e 'cnn news', 'bbc news', ' 24 X 7 news', 'sun news' etc., funny how news programme and the news-items are getting prefixed with the 'channel name'!

The Interpreter and War of the Worlds

The Interpreter

Ordinary movie!

Fast-paced movie, but with a rather silly plot!
Nicole Kidman kind of overacts!

One could draw parallels with this movie and the recent happenings in Africa. White-men getting kicked-out, child soldiers, western democracy influencing opposition in that country, dictator getting abused everywhere for his excesses etc., - except for the child-soldiers part the dictator seems to bear a resemblence with Robert Mugabwe(Zimbabwe's Prime Minister).

The role which was played by Roshan Seth in Mississippi Masala is more realistic than the role played by Nicole Kidman in 'The Interpreter'


War of the Worlds:

Ordinary movie!

A boring Spielberg movie.
Dont think Tom Cruise could probably repeat with a performance like 'Jerry Maguire'!