Reviews

For a change the movies I have watched and the books that i have bought and read have turned out to be surprisingly very good beginning with

Mumbai Meri Jaan : A typical slice of life movie woven around the serial train blasts in Mumbai. Typical characters , cliched even but not completely typical or cliched. Sickeningly sweet in bits , the movie is still acted out very well and has a semi realistic story. And of course to hear at the end yeh hain BOMBAY meri jaan still pleases me.

Rock On : A movie that tries very hard to be Dil Chahta hain and doesn't succeed but is still very watchable and has a new look cast which has acted decently. Completely predictable but a polished execution and a friends apart coming back together for a competition story keeps your attention. Th music with its silly lyrics(kyon aasman hain neela , paani kyon lagta hain gila??) has a very authentic feel to it and you cant help but sing along. And it looks like Farhan Akhtar is always associated with quality products (I also just saw Positive on youtube).
Oh and I almost forgot , a first in Hindi movies(well except for Ardh Satya), there is a character who is named Shetty and who isn't a gangster. Will wonders never cease?

Star Trek : The Original Series : Season 1 : I remember Star Trek as this action packed , ultra cool sci fi adventure series that we eagerly looked to watch every week on doordarshan. It comes as a surprise then to see almost no action, William Shatner hamming all the time, great special effects which consist of tilting the camera to show the enterprise shaking, and a toy model of the starship every time it goes through space. Spock is not Spock yet. But the episodes are still charming and I still love seeing them because it's still better than the stuff that gets put out these days.

Jon Stewart on Comedy Central : It is a statement about America, that the best political reporting is coming out on a humor show. Watch Jon Stewart demolish Karl Rove, Bill O 'Reilly among other republican partisans and also the reformed maverick John McCain. And wonder why these aren't Democratric ad's on TV.

Hitman/ JLA : I remember reading the first Hitman / Bloodlines event and it being ho hum , till Hitman got his own series , and we got a copy of the first hitman collection through vicky. And oh wow, it was simply great. I picked up the other collections when I could and Garth Ennis easily tops Preacher in Hitman. And he returns to Hitman in this two parter and it has Action/Humor/Sentiment and all done very very well. What can I say , except , Tommy was here too!.