Millenium Bollywood Songs

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I was listening today, 90's most talked about song "Jhumma Chumma De De" and realized that there are so many songs which have created history out of it. Ding Dang Ding from Tezaab made Madhuri Dixit an overnight star. Oye OYe from Tridev was responsible for biggest blockbuster of 80's.

Let me prepare list of songs which I would say were most famous and talked about per year.

2001: This was the year where Lagaan went to Oscars while Gadar captured the box office. Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gum captured overseas market while Dil Chahta Hai captured the hearts of people. Title song of Dil Chahta Hai was probably the most sung song by people, specially by every visitor to GOA and almost every young person in their 20's and 30's.

2002: There were two songs in this year which captured most attention. First one is Dola Re Dola from Devdas due to two of the most glamourous actress of bollywood, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit. However, Saathiya's title song (even though the tune was listen by whole South India million times before Saathiya released) was also equally famous.

2003: Although Bipasha Basu and John Abraham's chemistry created the magic of JISM and sensualism of "Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai", Brooklyn Bridge Walk of King Khan with Sonu Nigam's melodious tune "Kal Ho Na Ho" would take the credit of biggest hit. There are still people who keeps the tune of Kal Ho Na Ho as their Cell phone ring shows the popularity of song.

2004: Mallika's kisses and the most bold written lyrics of "Bhige Hoth Tere" would be perhaps most talked about song of youngstars, Song of the Year would go to "Dhoom Machale , Come on you people" captured the heart of kids, young, oldies, females, males everyone.

2005: There is no competition in 2005. There is no competition even for selecting this song as the song of last 10 years. Its Bachhan Parivar together singing "Kajra Re, Kajra re".

2006: Bachhan Bahu one more time with less clothes sung "Crazy Kiya Re" and patriotic indians replied "Rang De Basanti"..but Winner is Sunidhi with "Beedi Jalai Le".

2007: SRK made brilliant effort with six packs of "Dard-e-Disco" and inviting all his friends to dance around with "Deewangi" and sung "Chak De India" but honestly, kids loved the song of the year "Hare Raam Hare Raam..Hare Krishna Hare Raam". Afterall God's name comes first before Country.

2008: Pappu started dancing and sung "Rock On" and Akki and people of India said, "Singh is King" but Oscar winner A.R.Rahman replied back with winning tune of "JAI HO".

Dhoni

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http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mocking-Bird/entry/effigy-burning-our-national-pastime

One so called, Intellectual person Manas Gupta shared his view point on India’s Cricket Lost via blogging and called emotional Indians “Thugs”.

India and Indians are very proud of having MS Dhoni as their leader in Cricket. India and Indians have made MS Dhoni, the status of Super Hero. India and Indians say very proudly that, “If Cricket is a religion than Tendulkar is God”. Indians are very emotional human being that is why they feel very dearly with every loss including myself. We also feel euphoric with every victory and disappointed with every loss. Those are the emotions of life which defines Indian and describe India.

Dhoni is an individual and is entitle to make mistake. More than Dhoni, Media needs to be blamed for creating lot of pressure. It all started with Padma Shri Awards that Dhoni was not able to receive personally. Dhoni also failed to get his much hyped Chennai Super Indians to win IPL. Dhoni’s own performance in IPL was ordinary compare to his extra ordinary abilities.

After going to England Dhoni & Team caught up with controversy surrounding Sehwag’s injury. It is not an inability of Indians to play Rising Deliveries because same kind of bowlers in lively pitches of Durban/Capetown; Raina,R.Sharma,Gambhir were able to clear the boundaries. It is one thing to hit the ball in NETS, It is other thing to HIT the bowler in Domestic Competition while It is totally different thing to play them when Billions of hopes rely on you. Every Dot ball increases the pressure and every boundary gives you a feeling such as King of the World.

Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for missing run out Opportunity of Bravo in game against West Indies. Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for sticking with Ishant Sharma (instead of Praveen Kumar). Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for not using RPSingh and Zaheer Khan’s complete quota of over’s. Sure Dhoni needs to be blamed for promoting Jadeja ahead of Yuvraj. Cricket and Captainship are kind of funny and it is directly proportional to unexpected turns of Life. Sometimes similar kind of moves pays off (Joginder Sharma in last over against Pakistan) and whole country will make you Hero while sometimes they will burn effigies.

Burning Effigies just show the shear anger. Hinduism is not a Religion but way of living and believes in the rebirth and reincarnation of souls. Death is therefore not a great calamity, not an end of all, but a natural process in the existence of soul as a separate entity, by which it reassembles its resources, adjusts its course and returns again to the earth to continue its journey. In Hinduism death is a temporary cessation of physical activity, a necessary means of recycling the resources and energy and an opportunity for the jiva (that part which incarnates) to review its programs and policies.

Similar way, Burning an individual or effigies are means of giving rise to new birth to hopes, desires, dream with the game which is very close to India and Indians. Tomorrow when India will play dead rubber against South Africa, our hopes will again rise. We Indians will again step up together in favor of Dhoni and his team. (At least, I will).

2008 Hollywood Movies

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In the order of my liking:

************************* (Good Movies)
Slumdog Millionaire
Iron Man
Body of Lies
Quantum of Solace
Revolutionary Road
The Dark Knight
What Happens in Vegas
************************ (Its all, Right Section)
Eagle Eye
Get Smart
Marley & Me
The Bank Job
Untraceable
Wanted
21
27 Dresses
Australia

************************************(Pathetic Section)
Bangkok Dangerous
Jumper
Lakeview Terrace
Righteous Kill
Seven Pounds
Taken
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Traitor
Valkyrie
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Definately, Maybe
Mamma Mia!
Sex and the City
Smart People
The Reader
Transsiberian
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
88 Minutes
Fool's Gold
Rachel Getting Married
Then She Found Me
Baby Mama
Burn After Reading
Hancock
Mad Money

IIFA

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Due to Strike,IPL and Elections, Indian Film Industry took a step back. It is finally coming up with lot of big films lined up. One of the step of bollywood coming back would be IIFA Awards.

Unfortunately, Most of the Big Stars would be absent this year's IIFA. Likes of SRK, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Aamir Khan, Irfan Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Karan Johan, Kajol, Ajay Devgan, Ranbir Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, John Abraham, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Arjun Rampal, Hrithik Roshan, Fardeen Khan, Sanjay Dutt.

After Looking at the list, it seems only Amitabh Bachhan, Abhisekh Bachhan & Aishwarya Rai are the only people there. I wonder why they want to go to Macau, They could do this @ PRATIKSHA or JALSA :)

Weekend Delicacy

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Whats in the Pic: DAL VADA, GREEN CHUTNEY, YOGURT CHUTNEY, MASALA ONIONS
How to Make It:
DAL VADA:
Get the GITS Package from Store. Put it in Water. Mix it Well. Add Ginger/Garlic/Coriander/Green Chillies in it. Keep it a side for half an hour.

heat some oil in a frying pan. add the batter in small rounds and fry until golden brown on medium heat to ensure that the insides get cooked thoroughly. Drain on paper towels.

Masala Onions:

cut the Onions. Put 4 or 5 Lemon Juice. Add Salt and Cumin/Coriander Powder. Mix it well.

Coriander Chutney:
Put, Green Chillies(8 or 9), Coriander, Salt, Sugar, Yourt(2 table spoon), Cumin/Coriander Power in the Grinder. Add little bit of Water.

Yogurt Chutney:

Mix Yogurt (1 Cup) and 3 Table Spoon Besan. Add little water.

Heat oil in a saucepan, Add Mustard Seeds, Chopped Green Chillies, and Curry Leaves. When they start to sizzle, add the asafoetida. Now add the besan-yogurt mixture slowly. Keep stirring to avoid any lumps. Add Salt, a bit of Sugar.

Tennis

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Roger Federer won one more grand slam. Federer is a good tennis player. Federer is the best tennis player in last five years. But Is he the greatest ever? I doubt.

I think, There is lack of brilliant tennis players in the world today. Closest person who can compete with Federer in this era is Nadal, and Nadal isnt quiet in the list of best ever.

In the 80's, there were Boris Becker and Stephen Edberg. 90's saw, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. Last 10 years it is Federer and Nadal.

However 80's had Becker, Edberg, Wilander, Pat Cash, Ivan Lendl, B. Borg, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors who have won multi grand slams.

90's had Jim Courier, Becker, Sampras, Agassi, Bruguera, G.Kuerten, P. Rafter etc who have won multi grand slams.

If we look at last 6 years or so, there has been almost none other than Federer and Nadal who is capable of winning more than one grand slams. Does it show Federer and Nadal's dominance or does it show the lack of other players and their ability to compete?

Clothes

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South Africa sucks big time. Just before South Africa Vs Australia Series, I watched India Vs New Zealand series on DirectTV. The Picture Clarity, Commentary Team, was so excellent, It was all High Defination.

When I got the news that IPL was going to be held in South Africa and not in England, I was disappointed because of the Picture Quality of the games being telecast are not of the high quality.

Today, I saw the first few games (Warm-Up) games for World Cup being held in England. Transmission/Commentary/Crowd/Seating Arrangement/Weather/Picture Quality/Camera Work..everything is just excellent.

It just lifts the spirit of the game specially for people who are watching it on Television Set. It is soothing experience, to see it being telecasted from England or for that matter Australia or New Zealand.

One of the most added factor are, "Clothes" or shall I say Colour of Clothes. Orange and Green was dearly missing in IPL.

Ireland won in Super Over. What a game. India game begins, Over and Out.

OSCAR

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There is something about OSCAR winning movies. Saw two of them this weekend, Slumdog and Mystic River. Its too late to write about those movies, but I am creatin a space here so that I do not forget that I need to write about these two movies.

Dish

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Every now and then, I think long and hard to remove Dish Network since there are hardly contents that they show in 15 channels are worth the money that I have to pay. But today was one of those day when entire Sunday afternoon was like worth having Dish Network, Hindi Package.

Starting with Singh is King, typical Hindi Masala Movie with Ace Akshay; followed it up with King Khan's Om Shanti Om. and Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par and Roshan's Jodha Akbar. Above all, It was "SARKAR". Specially, the scene between SARKAR and RASHEED, that's the scene that I can watch Million Times. What a Camera Work, What a Dialgoue, What a Posture, What an Acting, What a Performance,

Amitabh is far far far away from Aamir or Shahrukh or Roshan or Akshay or anyone else.