Monday, December 13th, 2010

Movies Blog: Reviews

Band Baaja Bajao! There Is Hope For Un-Good Looking Guys!

There's something about big, boisterous Punjabi weddings that makes you want to get married. Usually, this phenomenon happens when you are young (read: stupid) and have just been to a mad Punjabi wedding where you ended up bhangra-paoing with this really super cute person of the opposite sex, , even as the DJ blared 'Kala Chashma', 'Main Nikla Gaddi Leke' and tracks from The Best Of Himess Reshammiya.

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Movies Blog: News

Female-o-phobia: A story of Women, Fear, and Social Awkwardness

Let me put it out there once and for all: I'm scared of girls. I don't remember being physically abused by a hot chick while growing up, but perhaps playing the slave husband in ghar-ghar sessions as a kid scarred me for life. I also have no sisters - real, cousin or make-believe. At one point of time, I used to believe that God didn't give me a sister because he wanted to give all the girls in this world an equal opportunity with me. Over the years, through first-hand experience, it became pretty obvious: I was badly mistaken.

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Movies Blog: News

Love And Fraandship In The Time Of Facebook

Relationships are tricky in real life. Real life is already complicated in understanding what the hell girls and guys mean when they say something. For example, girls say 'yes' but they mean 'no'. Similarly, guys say 'Yes/No/Maybe' but they mean 'I want to have sex'. Thankfully, there are enough experts, from Dr Mahindra Watsa to Ashmit Patel, to help us understand what it all means.

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Movies Blog: News

We Are Like That Only

I've met a bunch of funny people in my life. Not funny 'ha ha', but you know, funny Bappi Lahiri (not as fat or as shiny though). But I think, at the time I met him, K was the funniest person I had EVER come across. It was not just his 'I'm so hip hop' walking style, which he could pull off as much as Dolly Bindra can pull off 'I'm human', but also his English, which was like a cross between Kangana Ranaut's English and Shiamak Davar's Hindi... with Upen Patel's accent!

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Movies Blog: News

Stay !@$%!#$^!$#, Stay Raw

Any guy who has studied in an engineering college will surely vouch for me - studying in an engineering college is tough. In fact, even a Chetan Bhagat will vouch for me (And may also say I haven't credited him for this thought). And it's tough for a guy not just because of the fact that he's landed in a place where hopes and dreams come to commit suicide and where there are more girls with moustaches than guys, but because he has seniors. Seniors, who have had time to REALISE this, and now want entertainment. And as most guys would vouch for me again - that entertainment is US.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Movies Blog: News

How A Condom Saved My Life

For a guy who had boundary issues with human beings in general (till the first girlfriend happened) I was always aware about AIDS. Thanks to TV, movies and, ummm, my mother's women magazines lying around carelessly, I remember being curious about 'condoms' as far back as the time when puberty hadn't hit. And in my ever-insatiable quest for knowledge (also, without knowing any better), at the age of 11-12, I ended up asking my mother what 'condom' meant.

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Movies Blog: Bollywood

No, We Can't Be Friends, Please Die.

Break Ke Baad may not be the best film to have come out this year (that's because HISSS came out this year), but Deepika Padukone elevates it to a must-watch for two reasons. One, she is a GODDESS and we love her and worship her dimples and wish our girlfriends looked just like her!!!!!!!!! And two, her character in the film is EXACTLY how girls, who all boys hate, are. Fondly known as, 'b**ch'.

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Movies Blog: Hollywood

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of Harry Potter 7

Harry Potter, the boy who lived... long enough to spawn 7 books and 8 movies and third-class jokes like 'Hari Puttar', is alive again on the cinema screens. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I is in theatres now. So is Harry Potter Aur Maut Ke Tohfe. For those of you who still haven't seen either of the movies because you think you are all grown up now and are too cool to watch children's films (Hermoine is 18 now! Yay!), well, here's the lowdown on what you are missing:

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Movies Blog: Bollywood

Grant them a merciful death, instead

Disclaimer #1: The following two lines are not sarcastic, funny, or insulting in any way... In Guzaarish, Hrithik Roshan asks for mercy killing because he's been paralysed for quite a while. Complete respect to Hrithik Roshan for portraying a paraplegic, and even more respect to anyone who's suffering from the same.

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Movies Blog: Bollywood

Forget Sheila! There Are Many More Jawani Deewanis!

EVERYONE and their grandmothers have heard 'Sheila ki jawani' by now. In fact, the grandmothers have heard the song more carefully, since they are the only ones who have that name these days (a big shout out to Sheila Dixit!). Which begs the question, WHY is 'Sheila ki jawani' shot on Katrina Kaif? More importantly, how could your name be 'Sheila, Sheila ki jawani?!' What kind of a surname is 'Ki Jawani'? (No offence to our Sindhi friends if we are being ignorant here!) How could anyone have a surname like that?!