Cricket...

  Its cricket & only cricket around for the last few weeks. Be it the news paper, internet,blogs or office cafeteria discussion. 

  The IPL might had been shifted to SA for some reasons, but it didn't have any impact on the way we are crazy about this game. Two matches almost everyday was a party time in the begining, especially during weekends. The organisers made it more interesting by having the necessary ingredients. The ZooZoo adds made it interesting and made even even non-cricket lovers to have a glance of the TV during IPL matches. The fake IPL blogs & fantasy cricket added the spice as well. In some extent it had a healing effect on recession for many!!!

                                         But as the saying goes, everything gets bored after sometime.After 2-3 weks of continous cricket, the charm slowly went down. 6 hours of cricket everyday slowly derailed the day to day life. The real IPL fight between our politicians was missed to a great extent. The movies, songs,rumours in bollywood ..all took a backseat. The cricket was  too much that the real fun in life was lost.

                                                             Finally when the second year of extravagance was over, when we were returning to our normal life, when economics & politics again became the subject of discusion, there I see that the T20 worldcup is going to start from next week...Ohh god , what can I say...  But atleast it would be late night party  this time.. :)

                          

Slumdog Millionaire = Iqbal = Swades...

With golden globe, 10 Oscar nominations , this Indian Hollywood movie is currently creating news across the world. I didn't want to miss this Oscar nominated movie & decided to be one of the first to watch it. I made sure that I get Into the "Millionaire" & not "Cororepathi" screen.
The movie is well above the masala movies bombarded by Bollywood. even though the climax is nothing exceptional, the first half has been superbly portaried with atmost reality which shows the real picture of mumbai slums.The child artists as the slum boys has been wonderful & no words are enough for the excellent background music from Rahman. Overall, It has been a movie which can be rated as one of the best movies I have watched ever. Still, there are some un answered questions which came into my mind when I came out of the screen.For me movies like Iqbal , Swades had been motivational & inspirational than slumdog. These movies also has all the ingredients of Slumdog except that it has been directed by an Indian, except that these movies didn't export hungry poor India. If Slumdog deserves a Oscar nomination, I feel these bollywood movies also do. What do you think?