IPL 2.0 and Yusuf Pathan

Boom! IPL 2.0 has hit our TV screens harder than Yusuf pathan hits sixes. Its amazing how the transition from saas-bahu sops to cricket (in the fast lane) took place. Now every one talks about cricket, right from my wife (who actually is not a cricket buff) to my colleagues to my mother in law. Sometimes i actually get amazed by her knowledge of the game. Talking about cricket, yesterday i saw a nail bitter between defending champs Rajasthan Royals and our daredevils from Delhi. On paper, Rajasthan are absolutely a no match for Delhi. But things are often quite different on a cricket field vis-a-vis on paper. And that was again proved yesterday. Rajasthan were completely down and out at 60 odd for 5 wickets, and in walked Yusuf Pathan. Goodness gracious, this lad can bat! He hammered 62 of 30 deliveries with 6 sixes, won the match with 9 balls to spare (and thats half a life time in 20-20 cricket). Hitting Daniel vettori (Arguably the best left arm spinner in the world) for 32 runs in two overs in not a joke. And yes who can forget the super over against KKR, needing 16 runs to win, Yusuf smashed 6, 2, 6, 4 in a ajantha mendis over, won the match with 2 balls to spare (and thats a life time in a super over). Its incredible, Irfan and yusuf are sons of a maulvi earning a meagre 1200 bucks a month. I announce the arrival of the next big thing in Indian cricket - Yusuf Pathan - My man of the tournament so far!

Life is Beautiful!

I saw one movie this weekend called "Life is Beautiful". Heard a lot about this movie from my wife. Laughing in the face of adversity is the best way to triumph over it. This is a sentiment I share with Roberto Benigni, director of Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella) the only movie to ever make me laugh out loud and leave me with sad tears in my eyes.

The film has two parts to it. In the first part Benigni, who plays Guido, a waiter working for his uncle who owns a hotel in Italy. He keeps bumping into Dora. By staging an elaborate (and humorous!) series of events Guido rescues Dora from marrying the town clerk. Life appears to be going fairly well for Guido even though Mussolini has just signed a pact with Hitler to implement his Nazi policies with regards to Jews.

Flash forward five years later and we see Guido owning a bookstore he manages with his wife and son. It's almost the end of World War II, but that makes the position of Jewish-Italians all the more precipitous. One day, the Germans come to take away Guido and his son. His wife, not being Jewish, chooses to go along.

Right from the start, Guido takes a huge risk by treating the whole exercise as a joke. He explains to his son that they've just bought tickets to take part in a contest to win a tank and humorous explanation for the happenings around and to them in the German concentration camp.
The emotional ending (Where Guido dies in order to save his son in the German concentration camp) is all the more powerful because up till the end, we do not know what is really going to happen. This is the kind of a movie I've waited for a long time to be made and in my view deserved the Oscars for all the categories it was nominated for but didn't win.

No caste system plss...

A thought crossed my mind..and that was something very sensitive...still remember one guy who got 1 mark out of 1000 in a pre-medical test got through the test just because he belonged to a particular caste..i am not against reservations though..a small percentage should be there for upliftment of the unfortunate ones..however reservations should be based on economic criteria and not on caste, as is the case in our country..wonder what will happen to the patients who will go to the guy, who becomes a doctor after getting 1 mark out of 1000, and also wonder people propagating for reservations would go to this guy for the treatment of themselves and their families...i live in a country where u cant get thru a good school or a college if u dont belong to a particular community..thats ridiculous...really fear for the generations to come...

Filmi tag

Here's a reply to a tag by vijay!

1.Total number of films I own on dvd/video :
Ans.4
2.The last film I bought:
CC2C (Absolute disaster, threw it in the dustbin sfter 17 mins, later saw my land lord's dog playing that CD, guess it belongs there only)
3.The last film I watched:
Barring CC2C, Slumdog millionaire
4.Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me:
Masoom
Golmaal (old one)
Anand
Forest Gump
Erin Brokowich
5. Tag five people :
Don't want to tag anymore people, i have realised something after being tagged

Satyam shivam scandalism

Well, the middle one in red blazer is Vijay!

Seven Things & "I"

Seven things i plan to do

1.get my career on the right track

2.repair my bathroom tap

3.travel to north east India

4. buy a scissor since i usually use my teeth

5. Dieting

6. sleep less

7. be good to others

Seven things i cannot do

1.Dieting

2.sleep less

3.Control my words whenever i see himesh

4. like upen patel and dino maurya

5. stop watching cricket

6. be disciplined

7. smile at someone when i dont like that person

Seven things i say a lot

1) Shit

2) Kutte

3) Uncle

4) Beta

5) arre yaar

6) @#$%

7) hmmm

Seven things i miss

1) Family

2) Old friends

3) my college

4) Feedo (my dog)

5) Childhood

6) Kebabs from lucknow

7) Playing cricket

Some questions some answers

1. If your lover betrayed you, what would your reaction be?
I would forgive if she genuinely loves me and comes back...
2. If you can have a dream come true, what would it be?
very simple..just want to spend my lifetime happily with the people i love...
3. Whose butt would you like to kick?
Obviously the person who tagged me with these questions..
4. What would you do with a billion dollars?
Nothing.
5. Will you fall in love with your best friend?
Never...
6. Which is more blessed: loving someone or being loved by someone?
being loved
7. How long would you wait for someone you loved?
till that person gets married
8. If the person you secretly like is attached, what will you do?
nothing
9. If you could root for one social cause, what would it be?
Child welfare..it pains me to see small kids working
10. What takes you down the fastest?
Cant get the question
11. Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?
I dont know where i will myself tomorrow..ten years a long time
12. What’s your fear?
to lose my loved one's
13. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
very crooked
14. Would you rather be single and rich or married and poor?
rich and married
15. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
open my eyes and yawn
16. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously who will you pick?
the person who loves me
17. Would you give all in a relationship?
yes indeed, if its the same on the other side as well
18. Would you forgive and forget someone no matter how horrible a thing he has done?
depends
19. Do you prefer being single or in a relationship?
Who likes to be single..definitely in a relationship but with the right person..
20. List of 6 people to tag:
Vijay Mehta
Garam Bheja fry
Twisted DNA
Greatbong
Abhinav
dont know the 6th one