A R Rehman – A True Magician

For me a magician is the one who can do something amazing and unbelievable and someone who can win hearts by his work. A.R. Rehman, one of the best music composers the world has ever seen, is a true magician who has won millions of hearts with his music. I was 5 years old when I first came under his spell. Then one of his best works, Roja, was released and I used to go crazy singing the songs without even understanding the lyrics. I have grown up humming his songs from Roja, Bombay, Rangeela, Taal, Saathiya to Rang De Basanthi, Guru, Jodha Akhbar, Ghajini and now Slumdog Millionaire and Delhi6. Best thing about his music is that he comes out each time with a completely new,different and excellent piece of work.

His music gets even better when he sings for India. His songs like “Vandemataram……”, “Bharat Hum ko jaan se pyaara……”, “Desh mere Desh mere……” and “Swades” still make every Indian feel proud of his country and throw in loads of patriotism. He even used his music for social causes with songs like “Pray for me brother” which is an initiative by the A.R. Rahman Foundation to collect funds for the UN Millennium Development Program aimed at eradicating poverty by the year 2015. His latest song “Jiya Se Jiya” is a tribute to the terror hit city of Mumbai and spreading the message of embracing everyone irrespective of their religion, region or language.

And today he stands tall above every one in the world holding the golden lady in hand making India proud of his achievements. Though he deserved the Oscar long time back, this has come at a right time for him and for India when he is at peak of his career and when India is in a hurry making its mark on almost everything in the world.

Let’s hope that this maestro gives us even better music in future and win more accolades all over the world.

Mr. Time !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm......... it took me more than a month to make my next post on this blog and I have many reasons to support it… biggest of all is Mr. Time !!!!!!!!!!........ now let me introduce u 2 him… he is d most punctual person in d universe…….. he never stops ….. he never stops 4 anyone…… doesn’t matter u r as rich as Mukesh Ambani or as poor as Lehmann Brothers……. Mr. Time has his own way…….. n hence he is d most wanted person in everyone’s hit list.

And I strongly feel he is extra punctual when it comes to me…….. may b even u feel d same…… now how can some one find time to write a blog when time isn’t with u…….. Tricky rite?…… but that’s d way it is…………

Fight Back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After facing a shameful defeat in the 1^st test against Sri Lanka, Team India fought back to win the 2^nd test. The whole team faced the ire of Indian media after the 1^st test and may be that helped them giving a good performance in the next match.

Starting from the toss everything went India’s way. After winning the toss, Kumble elected to bat first and Delhi Daredevils openers proved their captain right by giving a good start to India. Sehwag went on to score a double century, fifth of his career. In this process he broke many records. This was the 11th consecutive hundred he had converted into a 150-plus score. He also became the second Indian to carry his bat through, and passed 5000 Test runs. But all wasn’t good for India. When Sehwag was busy punishing the Sri Lankan bowlers, other batsmen were giving away their wickets to Mendis & Co. None other than Sehwag, Gambhir and Laxman performed well. The Three seniors failed to contribute to the scoreboard. As a result India scored 329 in their 1^st innings with Sehwag scoring 61.09% of those runs. As Sri Lankans came on to bat, Harbhajan Singh gave an exceptional performance with the bowl claiming 6 wickets. Lankans ended 1^st innings at 292 thanks to captain innings by Jayawardane.

With a lead of 37 runs behind them Indian openers came on to bat. They continued from where they stopped. They both went on to score half centuries. Gambhir again proved himself a good opener for India by scoring a 50 in both the innings supporting his Delhi teammate. The Three seniors failed again in the 2^nd innings at 269 giving Lankans a target of 306. innings. Team India ended their 2

This time Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan joined the party by taking initial wickets. Harbhajan completed his 10 wicket haul for the match by claiming 4 wickets in the 2^nd innings. India defeated Sri Lanka with a huge margin of 170 runs erasing the bad memories of the 1^st test.

Thus India leveled the series 1-1 making the last match at Colombo an interesting one.

The Worst Week in the History of India !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The week that started from 20th of July 2008 surely deserves to be the worst week in the history of India. The start of the week wasn’t as bad as the end though. It started with news of the UPA government trying to buy MPs to gain majority in the crucial trust vote scheduled on Tuesday the 22^nd. All the news channels had a busy Sunday hosting Seniors Political leaders for debates on the contemporary issues like Indo-US Nuclear Deal, The trust vote etc etc…… Then there was news of BSP leader Mayawati emerging as a strong contender for the post of PM. There were never expected handshakes, between many political biggies including Maya-Chandrababu Naidu, Maya-KCR, Maya-Left, etc etc….. The telangana leader KCR suddenly became the most important person. At the other end the government was busy pleasing small parties with crucial 2-3 MP votes. In this process, government was trying to do the ugliest thing it had ever done. Manmohan Singh & Co were flattering a Criminal…… JMM leader Shibhu Soren, who was removed from Union Cabinet for being convicted in a Murder case. Unbelievably the Manmohan Singh & Co were ready to give back the Criminal his Cabinet ministry in exchange of his some 4-5 MP votes. Now don’t you call it Ugly, Hmmm?.... That was how horrible the Sunday was.

Coming to the 2nd day of the week…. The Parliament was scheduled for a debate on that day, prior to the crucial trust vote on the next day. That debate in the Parliament was more or less same as the other previous debates. BJP leader L.K. Advani left no stone unturned in pointing out inabilities of the government in solving several public issues. There were also other small MPs, not missing this chance and putting their point in the Biggest Temple of Democracy, the Indian Parliament. It was another busy day at the office for the Speaker of the Parliament, Somnath Chatterjee. He was at his best, stopping MPs from interrupting their colleagues and using his trade mark humour to stop them. Though there was also a small good news for India, as it witnessed the entry of its youngest MP into Parliament. Ajanta Sangma, at 27 took oath as MP, following footsteps of her father, P.A.Sangma. And that was the 2^nd day of the week.

Here comes the most dramatic day of the week. I woke up by reading the newspaper headlines saying “WHERE’S THE PARTY TONIGHT”. The historic trust vote took place was scheduled on this day. The voting was after completion of the debate though. The speakers in debate today included the Congress’s young and dynamic Rahul Gandhi, BJP’s Shanawaz Hussain with his “shayaris”, Yerran Naidu from TDP and more. There were few “special” MPs from different jails of India. Trust vote gave a Delhi tour for jailed MPs like Pappu Yadav, Shahabuddin, Atik Ahmed and more. Then in the afternoon while debate was going on, came the shameful part of the day. Three MPs from BJP showed the currency notes claiming that they were given to them by SP leader Amar Singh to vote in favour of the government. They also accused a Congress leader Ahmed Patel for attempting to buy them. Flashing of currency notes by them was shown in all news channels and it was viewed by whole India bringing shame to the Parliament. Some opposition leaders then demanded to cancel the trust vote, but they weren’t successful in doing that. So the trust vote took place as per schedule and the results were out. Manmohan Singh emerged as a winner. Leaving the citizens of India confused, not sure about the “fairness” of the voting process. The day ended with celebrations in the UPA camp and with highly embarrassed Parliament.

Wednesday saw speculations by many political analysts and economists predicting economic reforms by the government after the departure of Left parties from the government. BJP and other opposition parties took actions against all those MPs who cross voted in favour of the government. TDP found two culprits in its own party. The SENSEX finally went up with the speculations of economic growth. The speaker ordered probe into the “Cash for vote” scandal which showed MPs flashing money in the Parliament. Opposition parties demanded a thorough enquiry in that issue while Mayawati and Left parties were busy discussing the formation of the Third Front.

Thursday was more or less same as Wednesday. Apart from the political bad news, India was facing many other problems during this period. Many South Indian states were facing the fear of drought with no sign of monsoon even in the month of July. Hyderabad witnessed power cuts of about 4 hour per day during this period. The Hindu Saints performed ‘Yagna’ and Islamic clerics conducted prayers on the river bed both with the same aim but different methods.

Friday saw the Silicon city, Bangalore witnessing a terror attack by some unknown terrorist organization. There were altogether about 8 low intensity blasts occurring within a span of just 12 minutes. It was just another attack where innocent Indians were targeted by coward terrorists. The blasts killed 2 people and several other were injured. It came as a shock to all citizens of Bangalore. The Home Minister Shivraj Patil was ready with his same old after attack speech regretting the incident showing no signs of a strict action.

The Cowards struck again on Saturday. This time the target was Ahmedabad. There were about 16 coordinated serial explosions. The blasts killed about 45 people and injuring several others. Cowards again targeted innocent woman and children. The city of businessmen came to a stand still. Intentions of the terrorists were to repeat riots similar to the “Godhra riots”. But their efforts were too small in front of the courage shown by Ahmedabadis……. Kudos to the spirit of both Banglorians and Ahmedabadis…… in short kudos to spirit of Indians. But that wasn’t the end of bad news for India. This time it came from something different from the previous ones. The much loved Indian Cricket team gave the finishing touches to a bad week. They shamefully lost to Srilankans….let me put it this way…… Indian batsmen, best players of spin in the world, lost to two spinners from their neighbouring country. The Ahmedabad Blasts overshadowed this shameful loss and this helped them avoiding the anger of the Indians.

Hmmm……… I didn’t knew I would end up writing so much about a single week. So, thanks to Politicians and Terrorists, this has to be “The Worst Week in the History of India”………. If not worst …… it deserves to be one of the worst……..

Indo-US nuclear deal and the ugly Indian politics

They say politics is an ugly game. And the current events in Indian politics are good examples to prove it. The controversial Indo-US nuclear deal has exposed the ugly part of Indian politics. First let’s have an overview as to what exactly is Indo-US the nuclear deal and the controversy surrounding it.

The Indo-US nuclear deal is an agreement between the two countries which has lots of ‘Dos and ‘Don’ts for each other with more number of ‘Don’ts for India. I think you might have understood by now that with this deal US has forced many restrictions on India. The deal is a document with many pages in it, so it’s difficult to describe it in a blog post. But in short, it is an agreement under which, US will supply nuclear fuel to India, which can be used by India for producing electrical energy (as its demand is increasing). But US is not giving away the fuel just like that. It is making sure that India doesn’t use it for making nuclear weapons. As per the agreement India cannot produce or test a nuclear weapon as it did in the famous Pokhran nuclear test. This is what exactly the deal is in short.

Now coming to the Indian politics, the political parties have different opinions about the deal. The Congress party and the other UPA allies (except Left) which are part of the government are supporting the nuclear deal. The BJP and its allies are partially supporting the nuclear deal. But here comes the big problem. The left parties (communist parties CPI, CPM) who are always against the US are in no mood to support the deal. They feel India is compromising its National Security by going with this deal. Whereas Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh is very desperate about signing the nuclear deal. Now, as the government is depending on the left parties for staying in power, the left parties are threatening to withdraw support in the parliament which will result in departure of the UPA government if the government goes ahead with the deal. In such critical situations, the Samajwadi party from Uttar Pradesh is offering the much needed support to the government.

From the above lines the Indian politics in this topic atleast seems to be very neat and clean. But this is why it isn’t so. The Samajwadi party (SP) which is trying to be a friend with Congress now, was its biggest critic jus few days back. Both the parties leaved no stone unturned to blame each other on various issues both state level and the national level. They did the same in the last elections in Uttar Pradesh, resulting in the victory of a third party BSP lead by Mayawati. The Bachans who are a family to the SP leader Amar Singh were always targeted by the central government lead by Congress. The finance ministry was always behind Big B and his wife serving one notice or another. Then Amar Singh used to spell fire for Mrs. Gandhi and Congress Party. He always had harsh words for the Congress party attacking Mrs. Gandhi personally and so did the latter for him. In short they were bitter rivals few days back. But now, they are pretending to be “BEST FRIENDS”. Nobody who follows Indian politics had ever thought even in their dream that this would happen. Again this isn’t new. They did it last time in 1999 and again parted ways. This is how ugly Indian politics is. Amar Singh who once had a problem with the Indian citizenship of the Italy born Mrs.Gandhi, is now very happy helping her party pass the nuclear deal. He is now very much comfortable with his new friends. And coming to the Left and Congress who were “BEST FRIENDS” just few days back, are now suddenly finding many defects in each other. This is just an instance showing how things can change in Indian politics overnight. Now why shouldn’t I call it ugly, Hmmm?

Review- Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na

Hmmm........ to start with....... i xpect that u r already humming songs of this movie........ For starters......... this is an Aamir Khan production and music is given by one and only the legend A.R.Rahman........ the leads being Imran Khan and the gorgeous Genelia.......... Imran got a good break and y wont he........ for he is the nephew of Aamir khan........ I wont spoil ur suspense by tellin u the story....... but let me tell you y u should watch dis movie..........
I have to first talk abt the story........... the story is not new 4 u guys ......... But the way it was told deserves one watch in the theatre............. the storytelling was very good and most important....... IT WAS VERY CREATIVE........it takes u on a ride............ Adding to it is the awesome background score by our favourite A.R.Rehman......... he again dida very gud work............and if u like humour, this isnt a bad one 4 u ........
All those who r eager to know about the acting skills of the new comer Imran khan....... I would jus say........ HE IS HERE TO STAY.......... he has surely taken actin classes from his uncle....... n according to few female frnds of mine, he is gud looking.......u can keep many xpectations from him in the near future......... Comin to the actress Genelia......... u wont find her 'so' sexy or gorgeous in dis movie........ But again she scored with her acting...... she has that special thing in her acting which won many hearts in her last big hit in telugu "Bommarrilu".........
So overall......... if ur age is between 15-30.......... U have to see it......... its a nice one to hangout with ur friends on a holiday........... So njoy bacha......... i was lucky 2 catch it on 1st day !!!!!!!!!!!

Proud of my bro..........................

The one 1st from right standin is my bro................ THE HYDERABAD HEROES.....................