No Entry - An Analysis

The world can be divided into two pieces - those who love No Entry and those who dont. Me and Bubai fall in the first category, the rest of the human race falls in the other, i guess. I have tried promoting the movie to people of multiple profiles - my cousin, close friend, drinking partners, father in law, brother in law - flopped miserably everywhere. Amazing....considering the fact that me and bubai had to stop the bloody CD for 15 minutes so we can go to different rooms and laugh alone...at one time it became a survival issue man! So the question is...why is it so? I am somewhat of a film buff..bubai is NOT..so what got us together on this point? Bubai is divorced..i a not (as yet, but almost getting there)..could that be it? Do people in bad marriages see the point? I need a second opinion..my list of readers....koushik, loky, vikas, vivek...watch the movie and answer my questions..till then...na na na na na na na na no entry..

A Vicious Cycle

Have decided to abandon my son to pursue my career aspirations. For those who know me, its been 5 years since I took this step. Anyway..the point is I tried to make it up by taking leave for 10 days and spending time with my son. It backfired; he is so used to having me around that now that he is not leaving me for a second. I am dreading the day when i will have to break the news to him that I will be going away for a long time...I guess i am rambling...but thats what you are here for right??

Duets

Two Aricles

Read a couple of articles today that pissed me off quite badly. The first was about Indian soldiers crossing the LOC and helping Pak soldiers rebuild bunkers destroyed in the recent quake. I mean how utterly ridiculous can a nation become? I can understand the Khans of Bollywood and Indian ghazal singers talking crap about our ‘brothers across the border’. After all they have movies and CD-s to sell and it’s a big market out there. But the bloody army? Have these bloody arseholes forgotten the treatment meted to our POW-s? The bodies of the Kargil jawans are still fresh in their graves, Sukhbir has recently been sentenced to death and here we are promoting brotherhood and solidarity. Get real guys! This is not a hindi movie.

The second article was about Sachin’s inclusion in the forthcoming series. The selectors had just the day before made a positive statement by removing Ganguly from the captaincy and asking him to prove his from in the Duleep trophy prior to being selected as a batsman. It was a good move. No one should take the blue lightly and it should be everyone’s duty to give 110% for the country. The next day the selectors chose a guy who has been out of any form of cricket for 6 months and whose performance against the B and C side of Indian cricket was 12, 5 and 22. So what’s the message selectors?

Two Professions

There are 2 professions in India that require no skills, qualifications or ability. One is being a politician. I wont go into that because politics bores me to tears. The other is being a sports commentator. I realized this when Mr Charu Sharma explained to the viewers what was wrong with Sachin’s technique after he was dismissed in the last match of the Challenger series.

Two Series Captaincy

Dravid was made the captain of the Indian cricket side for 2 series. I failed to grasp the thinking that went behind this decision. If you had a new boss who you knew would leave after one month do you think you will work for him seriously? Is it that people have given him rope to hang himself so that after he fails Sachin can be made captain? I have a sneaky feeling that’s exactly the strategy. In the last match of the Challenger, the Indian Senior captain Kaif had a fall and limped off the field. Sachin took over and for the rest of the match the commentators went gaga over each and every decision he took. Mr Sharad Pawar, if you want Mumbai to become the centre of Indian cricket once again, I am sure you can find young, talented, enthusiastic youngsters in Mumbai to back and draft into the team. Leave Sachin alone. Let him toil on, score 20 more centuries and retire with an unbreakable record.

Missed a great chance!!!!!!!

To rub the faces of many an expert and couch critic's faces in the shit of the aussie cricket team...i had meant to make a post after the ashes..first to write about what an incredible series it was..and second to flip the bird at the entire media who were having an absolute orgy flinging mud at the aussies. There is some saying in some language in some country that goes something like 'when an elephant falls the ants cheer' or something along those lines. That was what I felt at that time. An ashes defeat in 18 years and all these arseholes (70% have never played cricket above the local neighborhood level) nodding their heads and talking about the end of an era and crap like that. What these experts should have thought about was if it was any other team facing this current english side, the result would have been 5-0. England were incredible (and not just Freddie) but the way the depleted, injury ridden, out of form (heard about law of averages?) aussies fought was absolutely incredible. Remember the 5th day of the last match? The english side just needed a draw, they were 2 wickets down in the second innings and about 100 0dd ahead, when warnie came and took 3 wickets and the entire stadium shat in their pants. The so-called staid, cultured, sporting english cricket spectators were jumping wildly and cheering no balls, leg byes, anything...and if it was not for Pietersen's innings..who knows?

Anyway, yesterdays game has shut up a lot of people. The others who are still talking..shut up and enjoy the super series.