Raaz could have been more 'soulful'

Though bollywood have seen an entire decade of horror films from Ramsay brothers, the time Raaz-1 came it worked due to skillful handling of the subject and strong justification of fear.

However, audience are much more mature and intelligent now as they have seen a lot such scary scenes and incidents, and therefore the expectations from Raaz-TMC is sky high. Does it meet the expectation?, Does it scare the light of you?? Yes it does, but in installment.

A painter (Emraan) who paints a Super model- Kangana (whom he has never seen before) facing problems, wants to save her, as this time he has painted her dead! Now the only way she can come out of her near death accidents, is to find the truth behind it. This at the cost of her boy friend( Adhyan Suman) who host a TV show Andhvishwas and do not believe in her.

Mohit builds up the scary atmosphere well enough, taking in consideration the now intelligent audience, but fails in the pre-climax flashback part, as it is weakly written and not much convincing. It lacks the 'soul' here!

Performance of Emraan and Kangana is top notch. Adhyan has his fare screen space and is super confident.

On the whole Raaz-TMC will definitely become the first Hit of 2009 in terms of its production cost and recovery, as it has good music, good acting and splendid story presentation.

Stories with sad ending, have very little space in Bollywood!

I rarely see movies with dark ending, being acclaimed by the viewers. Here is one such movie which may set trend for other movie makers to pursue such topics, but again, as I said, I don't personally like movies with sad or grey ending.

I believe Aamir Khan must have known this fact and therefore payed more attention to exploit his body and looks.

Speaking, about the film I feel, Aamir has given top justification to the role he played here, but the action which always goes with emotions is the strong point of the film.

Still, you wouldn't love the lovely hero-heroine to be separated, and therefore may not be satisfied with the films dark end.

You would have loved to see the reaction of Kalpana( Asin) when she would have known that Sachin(Aamir) is (Sanjay Singhania), instead the film continuous on its main subject of revenge to kill Ghajini, leaving no scope of surprise in the end.

I also feel, they should have also shown Aamir die after he kills Ghajini, as Ghajini had almost hit him with iron bar (again) very brutally, which would have carry forwarded their grey subject.

The film, remake of Tamil Ghajini, has Aamir all over it. Even a very good screeplay for Asin, after Basanti in Sholay. She speaks more than Aamir! Jiah plays her part well.

There is nothing much a viewer can take back except pain, sympathy and sorrow for the lead characters, and this, I feel is not good, seeing all the gloomy scenes going around in the country. In short, Ghajini is a film that may give you short term memory loss to forget it and move to more cheerful stage.

Tuhje Dekha...

Tujhe Dekha,

Fir Koi Tujhsa Naa Dekha...

Thoda Jiya,

Sang Tere Par Umda Jiya...

Tera Hua,

Mohabbat Main Dil Tera Hua...

Kam Thi,

Lekin Wafa Teri Kam Thi....

Jo Meri Naa Ho Saki,

Dil Se Dil Jod Naa Saki...

One more.... pls

Wafa Ka Yeh Tune, Mere Kaisa Sila diya
Anjaam Dil Lagane ka, Kyun Bura diya?

Wajah koi teri is be-wafaai ka?
Kambaqt Ruswai Ka Tujhe Koi Bahana Naa Mila

Ek Aisi Bana Shaksiyat...

वो तुझ में छुपी है कहीं
वो तू ही तो नहीं कहीं???
एक ऐसी बना शक्सियत
जो हो जग में सबसे हसीं

जो भीड़ में भी हो तेरी
अनेकों में भी हो अनोखी
एक ऐसी बना शक्सियत
जो मिसाल बने सबकी

पाने पर जिसके कोई चाह ना रहे
उसे महफूज़ रखना ही एक काम रहे
एक ऐसी बना शक्सियत
जो और किसी के पास न रहे

एक ऐसी बना शक्सियत... राजेश राजगोर

Nokia's Leadership Challenged!

It was not long time ago when Nokia was undisputed market leader in cellphones. But over a period of time when products like Sony, Samsung, Virgin and others entered the market, the competition became stiff for all cellphone companies.

However, it became relatively easier for others to gain new customers as Nokia began to lose its hard-gained reputation, with its own carelessness.

Nokia handsets are now increasingly showing defaults. This is clear form the lines you see at the Nokia Care Centres. Also they, despite good efforts, lack in after sales services.

Take the E.g. of Nokia 5310 handset. I bought this piece in august 2008 and within 2 months of use the piece started showing sign of fault. After twice giving it to the Care Centre, they were unable to solve the issue of it getting frequent hang and switch off.

This has really disappointed me and I am sure that there are several others like me, who would have gone through such difficulty after spending huge!

Now, I have given the handset for the 3rd and final time to the care centre, lets hope, Nokia saves its brand name, or else there are sevral companies out in the market to challenge Nokia's Leadership!

'History repeats Itself!'

Some one has very rightly said, that history repeats itself, and when history is good enough who would not like it to be repeated. When Abhijeet Sawant became the winner of 1st Indian Idol the whole nation was crazy about him. He almost instantly rose to fame and super stardom after winning the title and Rs. 1 Crore.

He also went on to become the 1st runner-up in Jo Heeta Wohi Super Star on Star Plus. However, what Abhijeet Sawant couldnot do, to win both the titles of the game show, was splendidly done by the 'Gaanv Ka Chora' Ashutosh Kaushik.

Ashutosh 1st came to fame after winning the Mtv Roadies 5.0 and soon became the youth hero. However, He surpassed Abhijeet's record and became the only person in the Indian reality show history to win two titles of two leading game shows in one year!

There were several other reality shows between 1st Indian Idol and Bigg Boss 2, but what set Abhijeet and Ashutosh apart from them is that they were themselves on the show and that is what connected them to the masses, who felt that they are one of us.!

So both the incident show us the 'rags to riches' story and conveyed us that truth, simpicity are still the factors for anyone's success! Also strongly sustained was the belief, History repeats itself!