***1/3 Aligarh is a dark, brooding and tragic tale of Professor Ramchandra Siras who was suspended for being Gay and his subsequent efforts to get back his lost Respect. The movie is shot with a sense of foreboding which will keep you engrossed in the tale despite not being a racy fast paced T20 type…
Month: February 2016
Should we change the name of Aligarh to Harigarh?? :)
Aligarh, the movie, is under stiff opposition from none other than the Mayor of Aligarh. Those who have been keeping a watch on the Manoj Vajpayee starrer would know that this is a widely acclaimed movie based on the life of the AMU professor Ramchandra Siras who was suspended from his job because of his…
Suresh Prabhu’s Railway Budget 2016….. Dull and Boring??
Railway Budget 2016 While everyone is fighting over Smriti Irani’s dialogue delivery speech, not many have paid attention to the Railway Budget. Amidst the whole Nationalism/Anti-Nationalism debate Suresh Prabhu managed to get away with presenting his Railway Budget. Here is an attempt to present the Budget highlights while trying to avoid the numerous rhetoric involved….
Smriti Irani’s Best Performance Ever :)
Smriti Irani has been dominating the news for the last two days. Apparently, she is trying very hard to push forward a defence for the HRD Ministry. However, her defence falls flat on many levels. All she has managed to resort to, in those 40 minutes, is deliver a well rehearsed and well dramatised speech….
B.S. Bassi: Setting New benchmarks in Policing
The Delhi Top Cop B.S. Bassi has been doing somersaults every day. I really haven’t seen one person do so many flip flops on one single issue. According to him, Kanhaiya Kumar has been arrested based on Video evidence which has been received by the Delhi Police. Without going into whether they were doctored or…
#BJPCountsCondoms
Gyan Dev Ahuja, a BJP MLA from Rajasthan has gone on record to say that “JNU students use 3,000 condoms every day and dance naked after 8 pm” Since I have never been a part of the JNU, I cant really vouch for this but I do feel rather sad that I went to Pune…
Jat Agitation Proves : “Jiski Laathi Uski Bhains”
The Jats have been agitating since the last few days demanding Reservations for themselves. Their logic is quite brilliant too. They want reservations because …. wait for it …. Everyone else has it. So its a typical Indian mentality of “I should have it if someone else is having it and if I dont have…
Dear Modi ji: Blaming imaginary enemies for your own faults is a sign of Paranoia
For the past few days I was wondering what was going wrong with our country. Just in the matter of a few months we had the Pathankot Terror attack. Then we had the Jat Agitation which claimed 10 lives and injured 150 people and cost 100s of Crores to the states and the center in…
Stop Falling for the Tricks of the Hate-Mongering Brigade !!!!
The JNU doctored videos case should teach us something. Just in case, you are not aware of this. The videos which showed Kanhaiya Kumar shouting Anti-India slogans have been deemed as FAKE and doctored by a team of Forensic experts. All those people who were outraging over Kanhaiya Kumar shouting Anti-National slogans should…
Neerja……..A Movie Review
**** There are some movies which take real life incidences and turn them into a commercial enterprise and then there are some which do absolute justice to the real incidence. Neerja, by Ram Madhvani, is a brilliantly made movie about Purser Neerja Bhanot and the Pan Am Flight 73 hijack of 1986. Ram…
JNU Strike …. A Mismanaged Fiasco? Or a Deliberate Strategy?
It was 1995. I was a young student back then in Pune University. The University ammended the ATKT rule reducing the number of papers one could carry forward to the next year. We called for a strike. My first strike and I took a very active part in it. The strike…
CM Fadanvis’s wife loves Gold Chains pulled out of thin air…..???
Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, has suddenly got himself into trouble. This time because of his wife, Amruta. Apparently, Amruta Fadanvis went and visited a Saffron clad Baba, who whipped his hand and produced a Gold Chain out of thin air !!! He gifted this chain to Amruta, who bowed down and…
The Desi Cracked Pot 