India's official entries to Oscars always surprised me. God knows what are the touch points in their selection. Here is the look at last 10 official entries to Oscars and it's nice to see there are 2 Marathi movies :-)
2000 Hey Ram - If Gandhi is the only name that could bring us to Oscars, then Hey Ram was the perfect choice. Kamal Hassan ever confused rendition of 'Vaishav Jan toh' never had potential to make it big at Oscars.
2001 Lagaan - Oh what a masterpiece. In spite of being shamelessly crazy about Lagaan, I thought the Simple tale of Amelie (French movie nominated in same category) had much more life than Lagaan in it.
2002 Devdas - An over the top melodrama that was highly overrated in India. If Nitin Desai's art direction was the criterion, then Devdas had a great chance to get away with Oscars.
2004 Shwaas - Oh, this movie missed the final 5 by whisker and stood 6th in ranking. My personal favorite and something that brings lump in your throat every time you watch it.
2005 Paheli Why, why....I mean why?? Sending Paheli to Oscars would remain the mystery of Indian Cinema, specially in a year where we had a tailor made Oscar entry BLACK. Now I am not a great FAN of Black either but it was definitely better than Paheli.
2006 Rang De Basanti - RDB is as Indian movie as it gets, something a wee bit tough to digest for Academy awards jury. No wonder it did not make it to final 5.
2007 Eklavya - The Royal Guard - Now we have to get out of western image of India...something that is royal, extravagant and Majesty making it to Oscar stage. Devadas, Paheli and Eklavya were not even a good movies with Indian standards.
2008 Taare Zameen Par - Aamir's honest efforts, perhaps just not enough to move the juries.
2009 Harishchandrachi Factory - Oh what a heart warming story of Father of Indian Cinema. There was nothing larger than life about the movie, and perhaps that's what the USP of it. Sad but could not make it big in Oscars
2010 Peepli Live - I am really hopeful about Peepli Live, it has the another typical INDIAN image [Pather Panchali & Slumdog Millionaire fame] but suspect that may be English subtitles would kill the charm of Peepli.
Wishing Peepli Live all the best for the Oscars!!!!
Thursday, 30 September 2010
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Thursday, 23 September 2010
Autoshapers - 1
I am a big of webcomincs, it's real fun, most of the links I have been following are so damn witty, sarcastic and full of black humor. However can't resist myself to get my hands on it.
Now please note that it has been made with autoshapes, available in MS Office Excel...to give a blind eye to the drafting and concentrate on content.....wait...not for today! It's just for intro...
So present to u.........taaatdad....drumroll!!!!!!!!!!!!
AUTOSHAPERS!!!
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Denial 2
"Mohammad Asif caught with a bag full of cash"
"It's his sister's wedding, he came for shopping. he was carrying so much money for that"
"Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman butt are involved in spot fixing"
"no, they are not!"
"More than half of Pakistani Team involved in match fixing"
"Well they don't get to play in IPL"
Well Pakistan Cricket Board suck too
"It's his sister's wedding, he came for shopping. he was carrying so much money for that"
"Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman butt are involved in spot fixing"
"no, they are not!"
"More than half of Pakistani Team involved in match fixing"
"Well they don't get to play in IPL"
Well Pakistan Cricket Board suck too
Denial
"the condition of games village is filthy and unlivable"
"no games village is fine and will be ready by the time games start"
"10 out of 32 towers in games village are still not ready"
"We are right on track with the schedule"
"Foot over bridge collapse could have hurt the athletes"
"It was not only for athletes, it was for common people as well, we have set an inquiry commission "
"the rooms are unhygienic"
"there are different standards of hygiene for us and for them. something that is clean and hygienicb for us may not be clean for them"
"you put entire nation in shame"
"there is nothing to be ashamed about"
KALMADI & Co. you suck
"no games village is fine and will be ready by the time games start"
"10 out of 32 towers in games village are still not ready"
"We are right on track with the schedule"
"Foot over bridge collapse could have hurt the athletes"
"It was not only for athletes, it was for common people as well, we have set an inquiry commission "
"the rooms are unhygienic"
"there are different standards of hygiene for us and for them. something that is clean and hygienicb for us may not be clean for them"
"you put entire nation in shame"
"there is nothing to be ashamed about"
KALMADI & Co. you suck
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
I do care
I do care about....
My readers (because you are WORTH it and they are very few ), 1411 tigers left (bacause I really think that Tiger is the sexiest animal ever existed in the world), Cream Biscuits, Rakhi Sawant's reality shows, Democracy, Marathi movies, repeat runs of Friends episodes, marathons, Green initiatives, IPL cheerleaders, Freedom of speech, chat dishes, gtalk, Internet Connections, Sachin Tendulkar and his records, Coffee vending machine in my office pantry, Mumbai Hyderabad bus fare, Rehman's Music.
My readers (because you are WORTH it and they are very few ), 1411 tigers left (bacause I really think that Tiger is the sexiest animal ever existed in the world), Cream Biscuits, Rakhi Sawant's reality shows, Democracy, Marathi movies, repeat runs of Friends episodes, marathons, Green initiatives, IPL cheerleaders, Freedom of speech, chat dishes, gtalk, Internet Connections, Sachin Tendulkar and his records, Coffee vending machine in my office pantry, Mumbai Hyderabad bus fare, Rehman's Music.
Monday, 20 September 2010
I care a damn...
Now that I am not going to earn a penny out of blogging through AdSense and moreover they have categorized me in Unacceptable Site Content I really care a damn about it...so I will blog and blog my a** off
That reminds me to rant about rest of things that I dont care about ....just the way you (readers) don't care about this post.
So here it goes: -
Commonwealth Games, Fairness creams for men, Pakistan Cricket Board, Spell bee, Herbal tea, Hindi news channel, MS Dhoni's endorsement contracts, Shahrukh-Salman rivalry, chivalry, Rupee symbol, agla Indian Idol,
Air fares, Dabaang's box office collection, Bihar Elections, Twitter, Mutual Admiration Society, Aamir Khan's marathi, Valentine Day, Cartoon network
Next time will tell about things I care about.....
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Just the day after Google declared content on my post as Unacceptable , I have completed 3 years in blogging, as I go back in archives, I have found the content has got lamer..but nevertheless I am still blogging....here is the whole post saying why do i blog....and below one is the FIRST ONE ever published...not here though!!!
“You never care for the things that comes to you so easily”
Is that true? 1st July 2004, I got placed in one of the largest IT firm in India. The aptitude test was piece of cake and the interviews were cake walk, quite easy rather unbelievable that I was employed before even starting my last year of engineering.
Jay Ho Campus recruitment! Jay Ho SPCE (My College)! Jay Ho Mumbai University!It was so easy and I so was happy, what followed after that was not exactly comes into a category of happy or easy. It says that we s\w professionals use Copy, Cut , Paste operations very often. I learned that even before joining the office, when I was Cltr X-ed(cut) from my home town and Ctrl V-ed (pasted) on various locations. My first attempt to write a blog, just to speak out the places I happened to visit on my professional journey.
Attention:
All the characters in this blogs are real. Any resemblance between you and the character is not coincidental. I may have met you sometime and I generally don’t forget that person. My 24 months journey started from Pune, then to Hyderabad and all the way to Seattle In this ride I met so many people some made their appearance here and some are still in my heart. We will start with Pune first
Day: 8th August 2005
Location: Mumbai Amit’s (My schoolmate) house
Aseem [My collegemate and Pune roommate] and I decided to meet at Dadar station at 5.30 a.m. to catch Pragati Express for Pune. Surprisingly train arrived at time and not very surprisingly Aseem didn’t turn up in time. It was awful watching your train passing in front of you. Then I called Aseem, guess what? That was wake up call for him. He arrived at 7.15 a.m. at Dadar station. Soon we caughtNeeta Volvo, quite comfortable and 4 times more expensive than the railway fare. The only advantage they show movies in Volvo and movie was “Mumbai Express”, my Mumbai , Aamchi Mumbai….there are thousands and thousands of people coming to this city daily, to make their dreams come true, and here I am, one, born and brought up in Mumbai is going away from it. What’s wrong with my qualification? my profession that wont allow me to stay in my city, with my folks? Why there isn’t a single IT campus in the economic capital of this country? My thinking express started but soon got derailed because of Aseem’s snoring. He is from Srinagar, from there he came to Jammu then to Mumbai and now in Pune. May be I was overreacting; this change may not be that bad. Anyhow Pune is just 150 KMs away from Mumbai and with the express way like this I can cut that distance within 3 hrs. Let’s give a try, after all there isn’t anything else I can do now. So Pune here I come.
Pankaj from Bihar, Aseem from Jammu, Samsher from Kerala and MeMaharashtrian. My Pune apartment was the perfect example of national integration. All three of my roommates joined Cognizant just a week before me, professionally they were senior to me and quite enjoying there time at workplace.
Day: 23sept 2005
“80 Rupaye lagtil “ I was supposed to report at 8.30 and here is stubborn puneri rickshaw driver asking for 80 bucks. I have been warned by my experienced roommate that I shouldn’t offer more than 35. But that fellow was as firm as a wall, finally agreed for Rs.75 [that’s the best I could manage]. So finally I entered into Wipro arena at 8.20 am. Registered my name at entrance and got the EMPLOYEE pass.
After all the slog of 22 years, all the torture and the agony called engineering finally reached to the stage where I can be called as an employee. Working for the richest Indian’s organisation and probably the third largest IT firm in India, I was one amongst the 40000 employees of Wipro Technologies.
“You never care for the things that comes to you so easily”
Is that true? 1st July 2004, I got placed in one of the largest IT firm in India. The aptitude test was piece of cake and the interviews were cake walk, quite easy rather unbelievable that I was employed before even starting my last year of engineering.
Jay Ho Campus recruitment! Jay Ho SPCE (My College)! Jay Ho Mumbai University!It was so easy and I so was happy, what followed after that was not exactly comes into a category of happy or easy. It says that we s\w professionals use Copy, Cut , Paste operations very often. I learned that even before joining the office, when I was Cltr X-ed(cut) from my home town and Ctrl V-ed (pasted) on various locations. My first attempt to write a blog, just to speak out the places I happened to visit on my professional journey.
Attention:
All the characters in this blogs are real. Any resemblance between you and the character is not coincidental. I may have met you sometime and I generally don’t forget that person. My 24 months journey started from Pune, then to Hyderabad and all the way to Seattle In this ride I met so many people some made their appearance here and some are still in my heart. We will start with Pune first
Day: 8th August 2005
Location: Mumbai Amit’s (My schoolmate) house
And the journey begins…..
Some mails can change your life. Wipro campus manager dropped a mail in my inbox stating that my training will be in Pune for 40 days and then will get posted to Hyderabad.
Hyderabad???? I literally screamed. What’s wrong? What is there in Hyderabad apart from two Mirzas [Sania and Diya] .Why they want me to work there and that too after completing my training in Pune?
“No way!!!!” I reacted rather overreacted when I read that mail. Amit bursts into laughter imagining me in lungi and gobbling Biryani. [That was our first impression about Hyderabad]. Soon I cracked the news at home. Aai Baba reacted exactly the way I thought of. Aai came up with her takiya kalam “whatever happens, happens for the good”. but i was in no mood to accept this Geeta Saar. Baba was quite cool, he asked me “Is there is any way to get your posting in Pune?” I assured them: “I will certainly try”…. I had 40 days in my hand. That was ample time to make some jugaad. I mailed, I phoned even approached personally alas no luck. I have to go to Pune and then to Hyderabad.
Some mails can change your life. Wipro campus manager dropped a mail in my inbox stating that my training will be in Pune for 40 days and then will get posted to Hyderabad.
Hyderabad???? I literally screamed. What’s wrong? What is there in Hyderabad apart from two Mirzas [Sania and Diya] .Why they want me to work there and that too after completing my training in Pune?
“No way!!!!” I reacted rather overreacted when I read that mail. Amit bursts into laughter imagining me in lungi and gobbling Biryani. [That was our first impression about Hyderabad]. Soon I cracked the news at home. Aai Baba reacted exactly the way I thought of. Aai came up with her takiya kalam “whatever happens, happens for the good”. but i was in no mood to accept this Geeta Saar. Baba was quite cool, he asked me “Is there is any way to get your posting in Pune?” I assured them: “I will certainly try”…. I had 40 days in my hand. That was ample time to make some jugaad. I mailed, I phoned even approached personally alas no luck. I have to go to Pune and then to Hyderabad.
Day: 20th Sept 2005
Location; Dadar Station
Time : 5.30 a.m.
Aseem [My collegemate and Pune roommate] and I decided to meet at Dadar station at 5.30 a.m. to catch Pragati Express for Pune. Surprisingly train arrived at time and not very surprisingly Aseem didn’t turn up in time. It was awful watching your train passing in front of you. Then I called Aseem, guess what? That was wake up call for him. He arrived at 7.15 a.m. at Dadar station. Soon we caughtNeeta Volvo, quite comfortable and 4 times more expensive than the railway fare. The only advantage they show movies in Volvo and movie was “Mumbai Express”, my Mumbai , Aamchi Mumbai….there are thousands and thousands of people coming to this city daily, to make their dreams come true, and here I am, one, born and brought up in Mumbai is going away from it. What’s wrong with my qualification? my profession that wont allow me to stay in my city, with my folks? Why there isn’t a single IT campus in the economic capital of this country? My thinking express started but soon got derailed because of Aseem’s snoring. He is from Srinagar, from there he came to Jammu then to Mumbai and now in Pune. May be I was overreacting; this change may not be that bad. Anyhow Pune is just 150 KMs away from Mumbai and with the express way like this I can cut that distance within 3 hrs. Let’s give a try, after all there isn’t anything else I can do now. So Pune here I come.
Pankaj from Bihar, Aseem from Jammu, Samsher from Kerala and MeMaharashtrian. My Pune apartment was the perfect example of national integration. All three of my roommates joined Cognizant just a week before me, professionally they were senior to me and quite enjoying there time at workplace.
Day: 23sept 2005
Location: Kaspate Vasti (Pune)
Time 8.00 a.m.
“80 Rupaye lagtil “ I was supposed to report at 8.30 and here is stubborn puneri rickshaw driver asking for 80 bucks. I have been warned by my experienced roommate that I shouldn’t offer more than 35. But that fellow was as firm as a wall, finally agreed for Rs.75 [that’s the best I could manage]. So finally I entered into Wipro arena at 8.20 am. Registered my name at entrance and got the EMPLOYEE pass.
After all the slog of 22 years, all the torture and the agony called engineering finally reached to the stage where I can be called as an employee. Working for the richest Indian’s organisation and probably the third largest IT firm in India, I was one amongst the 40000 employees of Wipro Technologies.
Wipro Technologies Pune Development Centre… 40 days 40 nights and Nightmare
3 towers, one administration block, 1 cafeteria, Tennis & basketball court that was all about Wipro PDC (Pune development centre) but quite trendy campus compared with neighboring Infosys and Cognizant. Just like any other IT firm’s training program, Wipro started with soft skill training called IMPACT. A bunch of 75 engineers picked up from all over India have been introduced to Platinum training space. Ice breaking sessions, role plays, and small presentations all have been taken to make us comfortable and conducive to the professional environment.
Day: 29September 2005
3 towers, one administration block, 1 cafeteria, Tennis & basketball court that was all about Wipro PDC (Pune development centre) but quite trendy campus compared with neighboring Infosys and Cognizant. Just like any other IT firm’s training program, Wipro started with soft skill training called IMPACT. A bunch of 75 engineers picked up from all over India have been introduced to Platinum training space. Ice breaking sessions, role plays, and small presentations all have been taken to make us comfortable and conducive to the professional environment.
Day: 29September 2005
Location: PDC
Some days are special in your life, no matter where you are. 3rd day of my professional life was perhaps the most pleasantly surprising. My training instructor came that day with a vanilla cake. And yes that was for me, while introducing myself I mentioned about my birth date. She remembered that. My new colleagues were wishing me. It says in professional life there are only colleagues and rivals but no friends. Is that true?
In the evening I took my new roommates to Ice cream parlor. We gulped an entire family pack in less than 10 min. My place in Kaspate vasti was rocking, it was quite near to the campus, really cheap and had terrace with a water tank on that. I and Pankaj spent hours there talking, discussing or just sitting quietly. On my birthday night I was there …alone, thinking, life is changing, it’s moving, hope for betterment, I may not be with my people on this birthday, but even these people could be mine, could be……
And they cracked the news: We are Testers
U know, there are two types of people in the software world? One Developers and others called testers. I didn’t know this till the moment our training coordinator cracked the news in Platinum. our batch were put into testing domain and all the janta from IT and CS backgrounds were very apprehensive about that. They thought they have been betrayed. But I was more worried about the another news, to cope up with training deadlines they cut down our Saturday offs. That really hurt me. It was a masterstroke and all the anger burst on our training coordinator but he proved his metal, “All the strategic decisions are taking place at Bangalore” he has the stereotype answer for our every question. Bangalore people were in no mood to stretch our weekends. Anyhow the training sessions were as boring as I thought of. With the topics like C, C++, JAVA, PERL we cants expect anything else. For a mechanical engineer like me it was totally different field and I have already started feeling the heat. That’s it. So now, here I am at unwanted location with totally inferior profile and without any Saturday off.
In the evening I took my new roommates to Ice cream parlor. We gulped an entire family pack in less than 10 min. My place in Kaspate vasti was rocking, it was quite near to the campus, really cheap and had terrace with a water tank on that. I and Pankaj spent hours there talking, discussing or just sitting quietly. On my birthday night I was there …alone, thinking, life is changing, it’s moving, hope for betterment, I may not be with my people on this birthday, but even these people could be mine, could be……
And they cracked the news: We are Testers
U know, there are two types of people in the software world? One Developers and others called testers. I didn’t know this till the moment our training coordinator cracked the news in Platinum. our batch were put into testing domain and all the janta from IT and CS backgrounds were very apprehensive about that. They thought they have been betrayed. But I was more worried about the another news, to cope up with training deadlines they cut down our Saturday offs. That really hurt me. It was a masterstroke and all the anger burst on our training coordinator but he proved his metal, “All the strategic decisions are taking place at Bangalore” he has the stereotype answer for our every question. Bangalore people were in no mood to stretch our weekends. Anyhow the training sessions were as boring as I thought of. With the topics like C, C++, JAVA, PERL we cants expect anything else. For a mechanical engineer like me it was totally different field and I have already started feeling the heat. That’s it. So now, here I am at unwanted location with totally inferior profile and without any Saturday off.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
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My Dream Team for Big Boss 4
As BIG BOSS remains to be my most favorite reality show, I would like to see below mentioned characters in BB-4. We have heard of many dream team....here are my top 10 team members for this season of Big Boss
- Salman Khan - Frankly I would love to see him IN the house than OUT, for the sole reason that no matter how much you hate him, he is fun to watch.
- Viveick Oberoi - Because he has nothing else to do outside.
- Aishwarya Ray - Just to add some sex appeal, what else you though of??
- Lalit Modi - Give the poor chap break from 1000 pages long explanations. And I kind of like the way he speaks in English
- Shashi Tharoor - Modi inside Sunanda outside, sadist me took a shot and Shashi Tharoor should enter in Big Boss house
- Ajmal Kasab - State sponsored hospitality continues in Big Boss's house and he is quite used to CCTV cameras as well. And honestly I want him to suffer.
- Raj Thackaray - How can I miss him. For some, he is the Big Boss
- Abu Azmi - Now, I would love to see his daughter in law (Ayesh Takiya) in show, but she missed the top list by a whisker. However this fella can add spice...Yes he can!
- Mahesh Bhatt\Arnab Goswami - Now there is tie between these two. They are so much alike, someone who has opinion about everything and anything.
- Koena Mitra - To add spooky factor in the house, and some find her sexy too.