Our "Sabse Tez", "24x7" news channels...

I was not knowing the name of Major Manish Pitambare until I read that mail. It made me think.

The body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, was cremated with full military honors at Thane on Wednesday. This was the news on BBC that day. Manish Pitambare fought for us and he laid his life for our country, and instead of publishing this news our news channels were busy in something else.

Those so called "Sabse Tez" and "24x7" channels were paying there salutes to Sanjay Dutt by trying their best to prove his innocence. And to support their mission "No Bhai Sirf Munna", they were interviewing the great Salman Khan. Now the whole world knows what kind of person Salman is. To add to this, Amitabh Bachhan was remembering the relationships between Bachhan and Dutt family. And was proud enough to say that Sanjay is a good kid. He is like a elder brother to Abhishek. By the same time, Sanjay Dutt was ruling all news chammels. His love towards his daughter, his prayers in temples were shown in such a way as if he is the only person who cares for family, who looks after the children, who offers prayer, puja.

The worst thing is, there was not a single Indian news channel who was interested in Major's news. He killed Hijbul Mujahiddin's most wanted terrorist Sohel Faisal. Leading the operation he lost his life and other four were injured. We see it everyday. Celebrities, politician are always there in headlines. They even show some crap incident of someone trapped in main-hole and how he is been helped to come out of it. Our parliament discusses Greg Chappel's comments , Shahrukh Khan's KBC. When there are some riots, they even don't think of the consequences of the news which they are spreading.

One thing is clear, media is no more a formidable, unbiased pillar of democracy. Like everything else it is also sold .

I am proud of you Shahid Major Manish Pitambare.

Hail the gunners

Gunners did it again. Last time they said that it was Adebayer's sheer luck. But Persie and Henry showed Manchester United their real place.

Rooney's stunning header put ManU ahead but that wasn't enough to take them through. Indeed, that goal was a class act. And there was absolutely no chance for Lehman.
ManU 1 - Arsenal 0.

But ManU's celebrations were ended when Persie came with a superb equalizer. That was such an athletic performance. At the last moment, Persie managed to push it in the nets.
ManU 1 - Arsenal 1.

By the time three of ManU's player were "rewarded" a yellow card.

The rivalry continued till the extra time. And finally when about one minute was remaining, gunners had a treat. Thierry Henry's brilliant header turned the tide towards gunners.
ManU 1 - Arsenal 2.

Right said, Arsene Wenger , Henry is back and hungry.

Arsenal had a great comeback. After lagging behind by one goal, the came up and crushed Manchester United. They showed up the skills for which they are widely known,
TOTAL FOOTBALL.

GURU

This was a long awaited movie. I had more expectations from this one, because it is inspired from the life of Dhirubhai Ambani. A package of typical Mani Ratnam's touch and Rehman's melody. Throughout the film, we never loose main storyline. Of course, there are some places which could be reshaped. e.g. instead of focusing on Madhavan and Vidya Balan , they could have made the last court-appearance more interesting and exciting. Also there are some songs (like the one which Abhishek and Aishwarya sing after she gives birth to her twins). And in fact, the way Abhishek pleads in court and wins the lawsuit against him is more dramatic than realistic. He simply doesn't prove to the court instead he runs through a kind of public speech and that's it. But I guess, we need to grow up in order to accept some see real-whacky-shaky courtroom arguments on silver screen.

Rest is fine. Abhishek once again proves that he has a potential to be a good actor ( when he works with a good director) . Madhavan is decent enough in his small role. Aishwarya and Vidya Balan didn't get much footage. And last but not the least, Mithunda , after a long period, we could see him doing a good role. (Remember Agnipath ? )

DOR

Yet another brilliant piece of art. Nagesh Kuknoor has proved it many times before Dor. These days, we hardly see 'acting' in movies. Especially when we have those model-turned-actors/actresses all over , we should not expect some great things happening. But Nagesh has put forward a masterpiece and proved what difference could a connoisseur director make with a seemingly simple script. Gul Panag, Alisha Takiya were superb. And as expected, wonderboy Shreyas Talpade was awesome.

The locations were simple yet rich. No show-making, no jazzy Hollywood style flicks. All that flows is a pure creation, a melodious music and great dialog-delivery.
Indian audience is "famous" for their movie-tastes. But this time, Nagesh got accolade for his creation. Let's hope that this creativity and originality continues in Bollywood. Definitely, Dor is there in my Hall of Fame movies and Nagesh, you are too good...

Keep making these kinds of Great Movies...