"96 Minutes" & "Paan Singh Tomar"

I saw two movies on this weekdays. One is English movie "96 Minutes" and another one is hindi movie "Paan Singh Tomar".

     "Paan Singh Tomar" is an average watch. It is purely based on true story that happened in India. It's all about the youth who joined army to serve country. He will be loyal at what he does. Once Army's Physical trainer will punish Paan singh for coming late to the crew after holiday. Trainer will order Paan singh and couple of guys to run 10 rounds with their bag as a punishment for coming late. This guy will run hard and complete 10 runs within few minutes of time, where as, others struggle with their slow run. Trainer will be surprised at the way Paan singh finished and he order yet another 10 rounds. Army's Higher officials see his talent of Athleticism and He will be rewarded as the sports personality in Army. The Sports trainer in Army conducts the practice race of 5000 metres, where Paan singh finish 1st ahead of Sports trainers son in law. Hence sports trainer will request him to opt out of 5000 metres to gain good relationship with his son in law and express his concern with Paan singh by saying to opt out of 5000 metres and promise him for the national level athleticism. Paan Singh finishes top with a record as a National Champion and also finishes 1st in Asian meet. Later on he'll retire from his athletics after few years. After that, He'll feel unimpressed with local police who support the Goonda politics and denies Paan singh's legal complaint against the Bhawar singh, who will bluff him by denying the land. Thus, the different era of Paan Singh come to begin. He will rebel and fight against the police by making his gang strong in his region and later on he will become a threat to democracy and finally, he will be killed in police encounter at last. Over all, Film is 1 time watch. The script will bore you at few parts and more ever, it is a long movie of more than 2 hours. If you are fan of Irfan's acting, Go for it. He has given his best to the movie.
 

   "96 Minutes" is the dramatic genre movie, which is very well written and directed by Aimee Lagos. I havent heard the name of director before watching this movie. If you love dramatic thriller movies, then dont miss this movie. This movie uplifts you in the direction part. I'm really impressed with the direction, Mentioning it again and again because of my excitement about that. The director narrated story too well with a great introduction of the plot and how he link them at last is excellent. I can easily say that Director is the real hero of the movie. Even the characters are simply superb. Dont expect much fun, comedy in this movie. It's a serious movie, which is all about individuals emotions, sentiments, heart. The character of 'DRE' played by Evan Ross is extremely good. He's the man of moment in the movie with his sheer emotions and tears. He'll drive you away throughout the movie with his brilliant acting. All youngsters have done great job for their characters in the movie. Initially, They will show story of each individual and later on they will link up with each other and watch for them, where they will end up. If you are going with lots of fun, make sure that you will get distracted by movies sentiments. At the end of the movie, You will definitely find the reason for the success of star cast & their acting, that's none other than Director. Go for it, strongly recommended.


Yours lovingly, 
       Raj

Hot Summer with cool mornings in Shimoga

                Here comes the hot hot summer season in India. Shimoga is known for its moderate weather right from the past. But that was on the past. These days from last 5 years or so on, Shimoga city has been developing fast and we can say Shimoga is now the most developing city in Karnataka. After Yeddyurappa crowned in as CM, Shimoga has been rewarded a lot of new things i.e., Road widening, double roads, tarring of roads, Amending the new generosity to Shivappanayaka Circle(A.A Circle), New Shivappanayaka Market, Under pass in Shivappanayaka Circle for the pedestrians to cross road easily, Commercial Complex in the old market area, that is in B.H Road, I.T Park in Machenahalli, Airport in Sogane, International Stadium's approval in Navale, Ranji Cricket happened in JNNCE Engineering college, Top Educational colleges such as PESIT, Ayurvedic college and many more. The city is well improved and proved to be the best in Tier-2 cities of Karnataka. That's the finest stuff for the local people. But the way they have done, we should feel regret.
               
               Shimoga has been in developing stage, where as the nature's call is changing slightly. Slowly, it lost it's natural look. The way government has done to raise the city's infrastructure can be called as harming of nature because they have preferred Deforestation, which may be the cause of the climate these days. They had cut bunch of big trees for road widening. That made Shimoga to lose its beautiful humidity in the city year after year.

            I woke up at 4-30Am in the morning today and I couldnt go for regular jogging because authorities are renewing the Nehru stadium's track into synthetic. Hence I preferred walking in our own premise, that is in our garage at 5-30 Am in the morning. It was fantastic climate, felt too cool and thought what rubbish people are talking. People around here are telling that temperature is 40 degrees and it is too much. But those should get up early in the morning and need to feel the climate. That's natures glory and we need to stick to it and move on. :)

THE MALNAD REGION ALWAYS ROCKS DURING THE EARLY MORNING.


Yours lovingly, 
       Raj

Anshuman Mishra and his admirable BJP- What went wrong?

           Anshuman Mishra, NRI based businessman was the loyalist man of BJP, right from 1990's. He admired the leadership of Atal Bihar Vajpayee and was fund raiser for BJP till March 2012. Murli Manohar Joshi was Anushuman's godfather in BJP. Anshuman Mishra funded for BJP top leaders during Loksabha election. He even produced the proof for that. Even few snaps of him with top BJP leaders were the clear proof that he had a good relationship with BJP.
         

         Murli Manohar Joshi actually promised the NRI business tycoon that he will bring him to the politics and give right post at the right time. So, Anshuman Mishra waited for his days, but furious at last over Senior BJP leadership.

         Anshuman Mishra intended to file his candidature for Rajyasabha seat which is to be held on March 30th, 2012. Internally, BJP National President Nitin Gadkari and second generation BJP leadership supported his nomination. But the real concern was about Senior BJP leaders, who were unhappy about his nomination under BJP slammed the President for choosing Anshuman Mishra from Jharkand, saying that they need clean candidate to represent Rajyasabha.

         The top leadership met to review this decision which involved Ravi Shankar Prasad, Anant Kumar, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Yashwant Sinha and others along with Nitin Gadkari. They decided to dump Anshuman Mishra in the election by voting against him. This led Anshuman Mishra to withdraw from Rajyasabha poll.

        Later on, Anshuman Mishra was furious at BJP's top leadership and slammed L.K Advani & other top leaders for respecting the thoughts of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. And he told openly that senior members of BJP, who are above 80 years should retired from the party rather than admiring Jinnah.

       After that, He told frankly in CNN-IBN's India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai that he was fund raiser for BJP and funded for many top leaders including Narendra Modi, Murli Manohar Joshi and many others. But denied when the chief correspondent Bhupinder Chaubey asked whether there was any relationship with Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Anshuman told that , "He never raised the fund for the great man Vajpayee". Even Anshuman Mishra hinted that PAC(Public Account committee) Chairman, Murli Manohar Joshi sought him to make him to meet the functionaries of companies involved in 2G scam.

       Anshuman Mishra, even told clearly that Murli Manohar Joshi repeatedly approached him for the funds during 2004 and 2009 Loksabha elections. He also told that there is clear evidence if BJP leaders deny it. Phone call records are one of it.

      Finally, I can say that Anshuman Mishra was saddened by the way BJP treated him by ignoring his nomination for Rajyasabha seat. Hence,  he was furious and may be the anger brought out the truth or might be false allegations, since he didnt find his turn easily. When media persons asked Murli Manohar Joshi, He told that "The entire allegations made by Anshuman Mishra was fabricated" . When Anshuman Mishra was questioned, whether he's going to turn on his support to Congress now and raise the funds for them, he told that, "There is no question of supporting congress. I have always supported Right wing politics".

      This is India, We cant believe what is going on around. It's unfair to judge who is right and who is wrong. After all, Politicians are politicians with their dirty politics.

 Yours lovingly, 
       Raj
 

Kar'NATAKA' Politics- Udupi-Chikmagalur LS bypoll

         BJP ruled Udupi province for last 17 years. After D.V Sadananda Gowda, Ruling party CM's resignation to the Udupi-Chikmagalur Loksabha seat, The atmosphere was electric that BJP are going to win the LS by-election with good margin as the seat was vacated by the existing CM of Karnataka. Even there were 4 out of 5 MLA's from Chikmagalur and even the same scenario was in Udupi as well. Then the count goes to 8 MLA's were from BJP out of 10 in Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency.
           
            BJP decided to place Sunil Kumar, who lost the Karkala assembly election against Gopal Bhandary as the CM's successor for the MP seat.
         
            Congress had kept faith in their loyalist and fielded Jayaprakash Hegde, who lost the last LS election in the same province against the existing CM Sadananda Gowda with just margin of 27,000 votes.
       
           JDS filed Boje Gowda to contest the bypoll and expected a decent fight with the top two National parties. They even told that people are expecting change and Uttar Pradesh Assembly election changed phase of the country by electing the regional party- Samajwadi Party.
           

             
              BJP candidate Sunil Kumar was basically a loyalist of Eshwarappa and Ananth Kumar. Frankly speaking, his home turf Karkala people themselves voted him out. I think BJP took a risk of fielding him  as the LS candidate for Bypoll. Sadananda Gowda also joined his hands with Eshwarappa at that time to cement his place as CM of Karnataka, where Yeddyurappa was giving him a threat to his place after his high court judgment stated that he's not guilty. Remember Yeddyurappa, himself crowned Sadananda Gowda as CM during his bad time to ignore Eshwarappa's loyalist Jagadish Shetter(At that time). But things are changed as of now, Jagadish Shetter is associated with Yeddyurappa's gang these days. That's all drama can be happen in so called KarNATAKA.

               In the mean time, BJP's internal rift went to the peak, where there was two parties within the party, that is of Yeddyurappa's loyalists and Eshwarappa's loyalists. Poor Sadananda Gowda ought to be associated with Eshwarappa to keep his CM post. He was not having any other option. Yeddyurappa was furious that he only made Sadananda Gowda as CM, but not game and his plans are really changed. So, He didnt even went close to campaign the crowd either in Udupi or Chikmagalur. He wasnt bothered about the results as his intention was to claim the top job again. That made BJP's reign of holding strong Udupi region collapsed in a bigger way.

                After the poll, Eshwarappa told the press conference that Sunil Kumar is going to win easily by 40,000 votes margin. But irony is Jayaprakash Hegde won the Loksabha election of Udupi-Chikmagalur region by more than 45,000 votes. JDS were out of reach. They were not even close to reach 1 lakh vote where as Congress got 3,98,723 votes, BJP ended their bad campaign with  3,52,999 and JDS managed to take as low as 72,000 votes and were out of race from the initial stage.

                   

              Finally, I can say BJP's internal rift caused the loyalists to vote against the party. The rift between Yeddyurappa and Eshwarappa-SadanandaGowda led the Congress victory. Even I must say that Jayaprakash Hegde's  'CLEAN IMAGE'  helped Congress a lot than Kannada actress Ramya's campaign.
Ramya is flying high that her first campaigning brought her glory. But More than Congress and Ramya, More than Congress idealism, Jayprakash Hegde's individualism,clean image and character got more votes and made him to work even better in the party.
             
I always love to see this kind of guy like Jayaprakash Hegde to get Central Minister post rather than Mallikarjun Kharge or Dharam Singh. He is more loyal and sincere than anyone else in the Congress party in Karnataka..

WELL DONE PEOPLE OF UDUPI-CHIKMAGALUR FOR ELECTING JAYAPRAKASH HEGDE
AS THE M.P. IT'S PEOPLE'S VICTORY!!!


Yours lovingly, 
       Raj

ASIA CUP 2012-99% Job done, 1% caused the way for Bangladesh

Asia Cup, which is previously known as Sharjah cup If I'm not wrong. It's a fantastic tournament in Asia so far right from the 1990's. Asia cup is in fame just because of arch rivalry of India and Pakistan. But, Here is the change in this year's Asia cup. Asia Cup 2012 is really known for the Rise of Bangladesh and its dominance over World's top cricketing nations. Bangladesh started the Asia cup encounter by losing to Pakistan in a cheap way. I'm not blaming Bangladesh, but admitting it might have won the game. It just threw away the opening game. They started well, but lower order collapsed badly chasing 240 and odd runs and lost by 21 runs.
I must say, the opening game against Biggie Pakistan gave them lot of confidence. Bangladesh bounced back in their next match against Indians by chasing huge total of 293. That chase against World Champions boost their team morale. MOM Shakib Al Hasan told confidently that they are going to beat Srilankans in next match to secure final berth to grand finale. On that occasion, everyone thought "Oh boy, Come on!!This is not gonna happen against Lankans, since Malinga- The Slinga, alone can handle Bangladesh. " But, Believe me, In the next match against Srilankans, Shakib proved what he said. We can say "Man of words". They again won against Lankans to knock Indians out and they qualified for finals. And again Man of the Match went to Shakib Al Hasan.
This is really a great experience for Bangladesh to knock out two World Cup finalists i.e., India and Srilanka in Dhaka. May be, Venue was in Bangladesh. But, Indians were Lions in Subcontinent & ofcourse, Lambs in abroad. Here comes the new SHER, i.e., Bangladesh. As per me, they deserve to crown as Asia cup Champions.

Unfortunately, In Grand Finale of Asia cup, Bangladesh lost to Pakistan by just 2 runs in a thrilling encounter in unbelievable style.
Yet again, Shakib Al Hasan contributed 68 runs with bat and 2 wickets in bowling. MOM went to Shahid Afridi for his economical bowling and striking 32 runs with good strike rate. The Real MOM was to be given to Shakib. However, the winning team got credit.  Bangladesh had given their everything to grab the trophy but as i said 1% mistake at last caused the 99% effort they had put. May be, lower order gave their best but they were helpless.
At last, Pakistan won the Asia Cup trophy, but true champs were Bangladesh, who won many Cricketing fans hearts. World cup finalists truly need to learn the way the Bangladesh team bonded with each other. Hats Off Bangladesh, WELL DONE! At last Bangladesh's youngsters cried and Shakib tried to relieve them.

Yours lovingly, 
       Raj

Ugadi- The new year of India

Today is Ugadi in India. Literally, Ugadi is celebrated as "The New Year" as per Hindu ritual. Ugadi is actually derived from the word "Yuga" & "Adhi" . I guess it's Sanskrit term, not sure whether it is associated with Sanskrit or Hindi word. But It's meaning is Yuga means era and Adhi means Beginning. Formally, It's Beginning of the new era.  In Karnataka, they will celebrate it with Bevu(Neem leaves) &Bella(Jaggery). Remember, Bevu and Bella are Kannada words, which means Neem leaves &Jaggery. Most of the people will have Neem leaves with some sweet done with Jaggery . According to Hinduism, Life is a mixture of Bitterness & Sweetness. So, People will have both on the Ugadi occasion to tackle the bitterness and enjoy the sweetness of beautiful life.
Here i wish everyone, a peaceful year ahead with lot of joy & happiness in life and may god bless you to be strong and tackle the bitter part of everybody's life. HAPPY UGADI!!!!

Yours lovingly, 
       Raj

Muamba's recovery & Bolton's miss him!!!

Bolton Wanderers face a difficult return to the pitch on Saturday following Fabrice Muamba's collapse and any player not feeling up to it will be excused, manager Owen Coyle has said.

The Premier league side host Blackburn Rovers in their first match since 23-year-old Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest during last weekend's FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham Hotspur.

"I wouldn't ask anybody to play in these circumstances if they weren't in a position to do so," Coyle was quoted as saying on Bolton's website (www.bwfc.co.uk) on Thursday.

"It will be a difficult game of football because all of our thoughts will remain with Fabrice.

"The players love Fabrice and whoever takes to the field at the weekend will be doing all they can for him and Bolton Wanderers."

Coyle said he had spoken to the midfielder's family and they wanted the league match with Blackburn to go ahead as well as the Cup tie, which was abandoned at 1-1 just before halftime. It has been rescheduled for March 27.

"Spending the time I did with Fabrice's father Marcel and his fiancee Shauna, they felt that Bolton Wanderers as a club had to go and play their games, and that's what we'll do," Coyle added.

Coyle said Muamba had a steady night in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital, where the player has been since the incident.

Muamba is conscious and able to talk. Doctors said on Wednesday that his life was not in danger now.

Yours lovingly, 

       Raj

Fabrice Muamba's Cardiac arrest :(

This is the bad thing to be happened for any player in the field. Fabrice Muamba suffered Cardiac Arrest on the field during F.A Cup semi final clash between Bolton Wanderers Vs Tottenham Hotspurs.

GET WELL SOON!, FABRICE MUAMBA!!! He is really a BRAVO because his heart beat stopped for almost 78 minutes. But he regained that at the end of the day. Thank god!!!!! Our prayers will be always with him. :)


Yours lovingly, 
       Raj

My first blog experience

Hello everyone.
    Its me Rajesh here as a blogger. [New task and refreshing thing for me!!]
    This is my first try to write some blog writing. Let me be regular to this blogging. I must admit that I always love my emotions to write rather than expressing it in voice mode. Rather than saying Silence speaks more than words. I can say "Writing speaks more than what you communicate through your voice". I'm really a fan to write more than speak. Hence I always love Twitter over Skype. I'm huge fan of Twitter anytime because it will make us to express our way of thought in tiny sentences i.e., just within 140 words.
Even I should say this blog stuff is really new to me. Let me see, how it works since I've been more addicted to Twitter and small format than this big thing. Anyways, It's a nice experience and I hope I'm going to continue blogging my thoughts as much as I can

Thank you Blogger.com for allowing me to share all my thoughts from this day. Here i go, Hope this will stand as my next best friend, other than Twitter. :P :) . I guess this habit will remain for ever.


Yours lovingly,
       Raj