I am pro-reservation in a few areas:
Train and Air tickets
Movie tickets
I believe in having reservations about making friends with murderers and rapists
Restaurant reservations are a big help
Also, I am generally a reserved person
In spite of being pro-reservation I have close friends, (especially a certain Icecandyman) who are Aunty-....er Anti-Reservations. Needless to say, these guys haven't watched Da Vinci code and Fanaa yet. Lucky bast****!
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Monday, May 29, 2006
Afternoon Fantasies
A.T. Cross, the manufacturers of Cross pens, demand royalty money from Christians, for usage of their brand name.
*inspired by a maharashtrian cricket great
*inspired by a maharashtrian cricket great
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Movie Watch
Fanaa - Worth one watch if u have nothing else to do. Only for Aamir's charm in a few portions of the first half and Kajol's elevation of frames in certain portions of the second.
DaVinci Code - Murder. Stay away. Tom Hanks is Bad. No chemistry between Audrey Tautou and him. Silas is as menacing as a white skinned 70's masala movie thug. Everyone is miscast.
Only Ian McKellen saves a few scenes with his presence.
Ron Howard had A Beautiful Mind once.
DaVinci Code - Murder. Stay away. Tom Hanks is Bad. No chemistry between Audrey Tautou and him. Silas is as menacing as a white skinned 70's masala movie thug. Everyone is miscast.
Only Ian McKellen saves a few scenes with his presence.
Ron Howard had A Beautiful Mind once.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Fanaa Preview
Aamir plays Aamir Sohail a failed cricketer turned guide in Delhi.Kajol plays Fann, a kashmiri girl with a scandinavian sounding name.
In a dramatic meeting sequence, Aamir smashes a ball for the first time in his life for a six, but the ball slams into Fann's head and she turns blind.
Nobody sees this happen, not even Fann:) , but all the action has been caught accidentally on someones mobile camera. [product advert]
Aamir is booed by everyone cuz he has been playing with kids, not like michael J though. He has only been playing cricket. What MJ does, I hear, is just not cricket.He gives up cricket for good and becomes a guide. He is good at his job as he has been a big(even if he is a small man) Dev Anand fan for Ever. {As an aside, no one has figured who the elusive Ever is, or what Ever's connection is to making people Dev Anand fans or the general scheme of things, ever. Often people have been frustrated at the very mention of this mystery by reacting sharply "WhatEver!"}
Back to the movie:
So Aamir becomes a guide.
He does very well at it and soon has hordes of people booking him on for a tour of Delhi [ Including 18 Italians who want to be taken to a deli, who are sorely disappointed ] On one of his tours there are 3 or 4 troublemakers who are out to make, well, trouble [why make trouble and not chewing gum is anybodys guess] .
When Aamir, grandoisely, tells people at the Red Fort that what they are looking at is the Red Fort, the troublemakers holler 'Why Red' ? [this slogan was picked up by an ad agency copywriter, who goes on to make the 'Gimme Red' campaign. He reasons that if people were today asking the question 'Why Red?' they would soon want 'Red', just like it has happened with several other things. For example: Email, Flying Returns, Pets, Health Food, Yoga, and to a certain extent among some sections in India, sex ]
Aamir handles these troublemakers with ease by urging them to make trouble elsewhere, the Narmada Bachao Andolan or at the Plachimada Coke agitation. This done he gets back to describing the wondeful history of the Red Fort. His History channel like discourse elicits periodic oohs and aahs from the crowd [this is more so due to a horde of mosquitoes and in part because of a french nymphomaniac]
Fann, meanwhile, wanders into the Red Fort since she takes a couple of hundred wrong turns, and ends up walking into the guide and his group of tourists. She askes Aamir, " Char pav aur do dozen ande dena. Kitna hua? "
In a moment of cinematic brilliance and of love at first sight, Aamir replies, " Kitna nahi. Pyaar hua hai mujhe " Fann immediately falls in love with Aamir thereby proving the proverb, Love is Blind. [ It is another matter that she thinks he is the neighborhood baker who she had set out to meet, and sees great potential in turning the bakers brilliant pav into a money spinner, or a money fast bowler, if you will have it that way]
The remainder of the story is pretty simple. It is revealed painfully slowly that Tabu[who plays Taboo, a world famous board game manufacturer] owns the camera that has recorded how Aamir smashed the ball that made Fann blind. To recover the camera, Aamir disguises himself has a terrorist, though in threatening letters to Taboo, he mispells this as Terrowrist, owing to his days as a wrist spinner.
Finally he wins a game of dice and Taboo gives up the evidence.
By now, Fann has left Aamir for the real baker, who drops a whole heap of flour on her head, but in a large tin. The impact restores Fanns' sight, though she is an absolute sight with all the flour over her. As she opens her eyes to the the world again, Aamir confronts her with the evidence, saying he intended to destroy the tape, but has decided to confess instead. This melts Fann's heart and she has to be treated for cardiac arrest. The baker dies getting her to the hospital, while Aamir, who is famished eats up all the pav in his bakery.
It all ends happily as Fann inherits the bakers' fortune and Aamir does not have to pay the baker for any of the pav he ate up. Fann marries Aamir and becomes Fann. A...... FannA.
Ps: The movie is called Fanaa and not Fanna, due to numerological reasons. Dejaan Baaruwaala and Munita Senon where consulted.
In a dramatic meeting sequence, Aamir smashes a ball for the first time in his life for a six, but the ball slams into Fann's head and she turns blind.
Nobody sees this happen, not even Fann:) , but all the action has been caught accidentally on someones mobile camera. [product advert]
Aamir is booed by everyone cuz he has been playing with kids, not like michael J though. He has only been playing cricket. What MJ does, I hear, is just not cricket.He gives up cricket for good and becomes a guide. He is good at his job as he has been a big(even if he is a small man) Dev Anand fan for Ever. {As an aside, no one has figured who the elusive Ever is, or what Ever's connection is to making people Dev Anand fans or the general scheme of things, ever. Often people have been frustrated at the very mention of this mystery by reacting sharply "WhatEver!"}
Back to the movie:
So Aamir becomes a guide.
He does very well at it and soon has hordes of people booking him on for a tour of Delhi [ Including 18 Italians who want to be taken to a deli, who are sorely disappointed ] On one of his tours there are 3 or 4 troublemakers who are out to make, well, trouble [why make trouble and not chewing gum is anybodys guess] .
When Aamir, grandoisely, tells people at the Red Fort that what they are looking at is the Red Fort, the troublemakers holler 'Why Red' ? [this slogan was picked up by an ad agency copywriter, who goes on to make the 'Gimme Red' campaign. He reasons that if people were today asking the question 'Why Red?' they would soon want 'Red', just like it has happened with several other things. For example: Email, Flying Returns, Pets, Health Food, Yoga, and to a certain extent among some sections in India, sex ]
Aamir handles these troublemakers with ease by urging them to make trouble elsewhere, the Narmada Bachao Andolan or at the Plachimada Coke agitation. This done he gets back to describing the wondeful history of the Red Fort. His History channel like discourse elicits periodic oohs and aahs from the crowd [this is more so due to a horde of mosquitoes and in part because of a french nymphomaniac]
Fann, meanwhile, wanders into the Red Fort since she takes a couple of hundred wrong turns, and ends up walking into the guide and his group of tourists. She askes Aamir, " Char pav aur do dozen ande dena. Kitna hua? "
In a moment of cinematic brilliance and of love at first sight, Aamir replies, " Kitna nahi. Pyaar hua hai mujhe " Fann immediately falls in love with Aamir thereby proving the proverb, Love is Blind. [ It is another matter that she thinks he is the neighborhood baker who she had set out to meet, and sees great potential in turning the bakers brilliant pav into a money spinner, or a money fast bowler, if you will have it that way]
The remainder of the story is pretty simple. It is revealed painfully slowly that Tabu[who plays Taboo, a world famous board game manufacturer] owns the camera that has recorded how Aamir smashed the ball that made Fann blind. To recover the camera, Aamir disguises himself has a terrorist, though in threatening letters to Taboo, he mispells this as Terrowrist, owing to his days as a wrist spinner.
Finally he wins a game of dice and Taboo gives up the evidence.
By now, Fann has left Aamir for the real baker, who drops a whole heap of flour on her head, but in a large tin. The impact restores Fanns' sight, though she is an absolute sight with all the flour over her. As she opens her eyes to the the world again, Aamir confronts her with the evidence, saying he intended to destroy the tape, but has decided to confess instead. This melts Fann's heart and she has to be treated for cardiac arrest. The baker dies getting her to the hospital, while Aamir, who is famished eats up all the pav in his bakery.
It all ends happily as Fann inherits the bakers' fortune and Aamir does not have to pay the baker for any of the pav he ate up. Fann marries Aamir and becomes Fann. A...... FannA.
Ps: The movie is called Fanaa and not Fanna, due to numerological reasons. Dejaan Baaruwaala and Munita Senon where consulted.
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