Girl in Human Sling Shot !!!
August 30, 2007 by Shanker Bakshi
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Chak de India !!!
August 30, 2007 by Shanker Bakshi
Filed under Ramblings
Look at this!!! Man, I believe Bollywood is going thru a makeover from last couple of years. Movie making has now become a corporate endeavor. Scripts, visualization, conceptualization almost everything has been changed from its former stereo type love, romance, dancing around the trees and usual family drama.
Now its talking about every topic and touching every issue which some time before was never so easy to adopt. Life in a Metro, Traffic Signal, Krish, Lago Raho Munna Bhai, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Salam Namaste, Phir Mélange, Omkara, Gandhi My Father, Apne, Rang De Basanti are few films with offbeat and different subjects which were impossible to touch a few years before. The logic which they give you behind this is, that subject like Aids, Gandhi, and living relationship were considered to be vary bold and not believe to be accepted by Indian audience easily and more over these were not measured to be commercially viable.
Chak de India is talking this to further promises that Bollywood wants to make to its viewer. Its not only entertaining Indian spectators, its now going overseas market, south East Asia and off course to Europe also. So it has now started catering on a broader kaleidoscope. Chak de India although is a story of a women’s hockey coach Kabir Khan which give a new hope and aspiration to all girls to fight to win the Olympic gold medal.
The movie is said to be on a offbeat subject because hockey is no longer popular in India now a day. It’s the game cricket which is obsession of the youth of this country.
Well all eyes are Bollywood now. Hope it will give us more beautiful and out of the ordinary movies in the years to come. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Are they real Criminals !!!
August 30, 2007 by Shanker Bakshi
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These are the most common scene on Indian television news channels, hundreds of police men around Sanjay Dutt and Salman. Sanjay going in and out, Salman witness the Hawalat twice. A big question arise are they the real criminals, I feel there are some other more serious crimes and criminals. According to a very recent report, India has lost more lives compare to any other country except Iraq.
More then three thousand lost their life to terrorism. Madhu Chowdery writes in his blog in sulekha.com India has since 2004 lost more lives to terrorist incidents than all of North America, South America, Central America, Europe and Eurasia put together. All of these vast swathes of the globe lost a total of 3,280 lives in terrorist incidents between January 2004 and March this year. India alone lost 3,674 lives over the same period of three years and three months. In yesterday’s edition of TOI, in our front page lead report on the Hyderabad blasts, we had said that terror groups have left India with perhaps the highest number of civilian victims of terror.
















