So, it begins

First of all! Who the fuck got the “dishoomdishoom”  username and its variations on blogspot, and they don’t use it! Sir (or Madam), you should be bitchslapped!

So I don’t know why am I writing this blog, perhaps I just need to keep writing. Haven’t written in ages, apart from why food inflation in Pakistan is such a bitch when it comes to gaussian assumption of residuals… bah! Also, my grammar sucks! Chaddo jee!

Anyways, so I am your typical lahori munda, a bit “burger-ised,”. I am the AFC crispy burger according to this. I’m living on the east coast, doing god knows what. I think I’m being deported soon. Note to self: upgrade the “About Me” section in 6 months. Also, I think I let my alter-ego do the taking over here. Perhaps it might help the shrink a bit.

And yes, don’t expect greatness. I revel in mediocrity… and some of that Bollywood. And yes, “Kashmir Hamara Hay”. Kidding. Perhaps. Maybe. No! Mostly, I shall talk about ….. I guess music… and… films… and what if Katrina and Kareena make babies together.

Anyways, The weekend is here, and Ishqiya is releasing this weekend! I’m excited about the movie because Salman Shahid is playing a baddie.  Would like to see more of him. Also, I’m in love with “Dil To Bacha Hay Jee”!! (UF!!UFF!! UFFF!) I’m curious to see how it pans out though. Had been disappointed too much recently by Bollywood. The question remains, should I spend $10+$10+$5 to see the movie, or utilize my torrent-savvy skills. We’ll see, I suppose.

And for weekend listening, I recommend

Even though if the only merit of the video were Humayun “The Stud” Saeed chasing various attractive women of the Pakistani TV (Maria Wasti, Resham, Mona Liza (!) [who is Himesh Reshammiyya's next c0-star], and the really pretty women from the Fuzon video), I would have watched it. However, the song is awesome. I’m not a big fan of the latest Sufi bandwagon on which everyone is trying to get on, especially because of the impetus by the indian record labels. However, the veteran Saieen Zahoor hits back, with some help of Waqar Ali (!!) I love it, and it will be on repeat over the weekend. See me get bored with it, in the next post.

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Saagar

Saagar was a classic Bollywood movie released in 1985. It was Indian Official nomination to Oscars in Best Foreign Film Category. Dimple Kapadia won Filmfare Best Actress award and Kamal Haasan won the Filmfare best actor award for this movie.

After Mega Block Buster Bobby, for the first time Dimple Kapadia and Rishi Kapoor were featured together in this movie only.

Ravi (Rishi Kapoor) a rich business man move from USA to Goa. He falls in love with a small restarant owner Mona (Dimple Kapadia). She also agrees his love. Raja (Kamal Haasan) is an ordinary middle class guy who is in love with Mona from many days. He never expressed his feelings to Mona.

Who wins Mona finally is the story. this triangular love story has broken many Bollywood Box Office records.

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Rocket Singh (Movie)

Click the Link to Watch: Rocket Singh

Click the Link to Watch: Rocket Singh

Artists: Ranbir Kapoor, Shazahn Padamsee, Sharon Prabhakar, Prem Chopra, Mukesh Bhatt

Review: The movie will begin once the foreign advertisement ends.  Don’t forget to download the soundtrack.

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Only time i detested the sight of Deepikas legs

Patriotism is a word we very often come across since the days we learn our a for apples and b for balls. For sake of political correctness, our history and social studies are replete with tales of patriotic tales of some of our revered heroes. For the sake of pure literary analysis, patriotism is bathed in paradox. A word that derives its origins from the word father and yet, it  is defined as love for motherland. I don’t know how to define patriotism in words that satisfies me leave alone some inadvertent reader of this post. But bowing before the kiss principle “Keep it stupid and simple” – I can safely say many a stories, many a videos raise goosebumps in my heart. Probably those are distinctly observable patriotic heartbeats of my life.

For any Indian to have grown up in the doordarshan age, “Mile Sur mera tumhara” is no alien permutation of letters. It was a collection of notes that somehow struck a chord in our heart.In my first years of life,i understood very little of what was not spoken in Assamese. So, my earliest memories of this song was waiting for the single sentence that I could understand. As a juvenile who was yet to reach his teens, I could not draw any deep philosophical meaning of the joy I got from watching this song but as self acclaimed wise 23-year-old, I guess this video was my first realization of my being a part of the mosaic called “India”.

Having dwelt on my beautiful memories of the “original mile sur”, it goes without saying that I feel a kind of ownership over this song. I feel my life is incomplete without this song.For last few days, there was a lot of screaming about a new “mile sur”.  I was looking forward to it and my hopes were ignited by the new version of Vande Mataram released on India’s fiftieth Independence Day. For the people who cry a lot about religion, this song was revamped by a muslim.

Some hopes are created only to be crushed, some aspirations remain aspirations forever never finding the strength to crossover to the real world. My first glimpse of this video at you tube filled me with rage. The first image was of “Vodafone” and “zoom”. By no distortion of reality can both be labeled as national icons. icons that define the new resurgent India. But staying true to the truest interpretation of the word “trailer”, this new mile sur had more assaults on my memory in store. The next image that really dealt the death knell on the coffin of my hopes was of deepika padukone in skimpy one-piece enjoying some water-fall. To give a brief background of me morally I am an average IITian. I am all for more open society. If there is fan club making sex compulsory in movies, I would be among the first to promote it. I lament that I am ,soon, going to be  a 24-year-old virgin. Normally any sexy girls legs and more of anatomy are something i crave for. But when one looks forward to feeling proud of being an Indian, somehow lust and patriotism do not mix well. The rest of the video was watched with rage and contempt with  a single-minded dedication to pick more loopholes. I gave up for i found only 2 moments that made me feel proud of my citizenship. One was Bhupen Hazarika, i had ulterior motives for it for I am a Hazarika and it does not harm to your ego to share the surname with the most famous person born in your homestate.Second was Abhinav Bindra. I would only use one line to lament the lack of Sachin,Rathore,Malleshwari,Murthy,Kalam and IITs,IIMs and the overdose of bollywood for it deserves no second line.

To sum up I will quote one of my juniors “missing Rakhi Sawant”, well I say i missed her only in physical representation in video, to me the entire video smacked of the antiques that have become a part of the antiques we associate with her.

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Moon Named After Shahrukh Khan

Artists: Shahrukh Khan

Review: The following is an article about the International Lunar Geographic Society naming a crater after Shahrukh Khan (Source: NDTVcom).

The King Khan of Bollywood must be feeling over the moon these days and quite literally so!  According to sources International Lunar Geographic Society, a New York based organisation, has named a lunar crater after Shah Rukh Khan.

The crater is located on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility and is the largest of the four Arago craters, positioned directly south of the main crater.

Apparently, the crater was named after SRK on his 44th birthday in November last year, but it has now been approved by the International Astronomical Union following a spate of petitions from SRK fans worldwide.

Shahrukh now joins the list of eminent personalities like C. V. Raman, Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha after whom craters have been named.

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Aamir- No recipe for success

Image by European Parliament via Flickr

Aamir is one of the top actor of the world after giving three super hits in three years Tara Zameen Par, Gajini, 3 Idiots. But Aamir Khan said that he don’t has any recipe for acting and to make movie successful. He added that he has no idea that how people like his acting and movie. His movie 3 Idiots has earned around Rs. 240 Crore, and it successful movie of the 2009.

Aamir said in Corporate Award function that he don’t have any recipe for acting. He discussed in the conference that this his there business to do some thing different for there fans and to look different every time. At last he said I just get involve in the character and emotionally attracted to the script.

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Veer (2010)

Cast : Zarine Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff and Salman Khan

Director : Anil Sharma

Running Time : 2 Hours 50 minutes (approx)

Rating : 1 out of 4

Release Date : January 22nd 2010

Veer is the story of, well, Veer, who is a Pindari (a warrior clan) and his journey of love and battle against the British! There I am sitting in the movie hall, minutes before the movie starts, expecting full fledged battle scenes, epic war sequences and so on.  3 Hours later, there I am nursing my damaged brain.  Never, ever, trust the trailer of a movie.

The movie opens with the Pindari clan helping out a rajput maharaja, win a battle.  The Pindari, do their job well, but the maharaja, instead of rewarding them, kills them and that ignites a revenge plot between Pindari clan leader Prithvi Singh and the maharaja.  Fast forward to 25 years or so, the young son of Prithvi Singh is, Veer.  Veer, future leader of the clan, is sent to London for studies.  I am not sure if much of studies happened, but Veer does get a hair cut and fall in love with this hot girl.  No guesses as to who’s daughter she is. She is, as fate happens in all Bollywood movies, daughter of the maharaja.   Yep! So, Mr.Veer returns to India, and 1 ½ hour later, he is dead!  However, he dies, after making sure that the maharaj is killed and the Pindari have got their revenge.

Seriously, man, how could they do this? The movie opens with a really good train hijacking sequence.  Then, Anil Sharma screws up everything by ending the hijack with a tame a eye contact between the leads! Then, there is a decent battle scene as well, in the first 5 minutes, and was I disappointed, when I found out, that, that is the only battle in the entire movie!  The hard hitting opening is followed by endless, father-son drama scenes, boring songs, romance scenes and more boring songs.  The ending where Veer dies is just against reasoning.  I think Sharma re-shot the ending where Veer might have survived, so as to get some sympathy votes from the audience.

There are questions galore in my head as the movie progressed.  I will never understand what is Sohail Khan’s role in the movie.  Why is he even in the movie?  Is the movie a epic war movie as promised by the promos and publicity? (It is not because I counted about 10 minutes of battle scenes) Is the movie about love and romance? (the love arc of the movie is filled with scenes other love movies, and executed pretty ordinarily) Is the movie a comedy? (which is why Sohail Khan is there, but I do not find him funny at all).  It actually breaks my heart to see all the glorious production design (very well done when showing the 1920s Rajasthan and London) go total waste.  With such a huge budget, what could have been.  I think the whole movie is a missed moment of awesome.  Totally depressing.  Instead of Veer, they should have just called the movie Love Story 1920!  At least, Love Story 2050 was so bad it was good.  Veer, is just not to be.

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