Thursday, December 25, 2008

Bollywood Movies 2001 onwards

2007 : (Best in Bollywoood Year)
Taare Zameen Par, Om Shanti Om, Chak De India, Guru, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Life in a Metro, Jab We Met, Salaam e Ishq , Namastey London,Cheeni Kum,

2006:

Dhoom 2, Lage Raho , Rang De Basanti, Omkara, MalaMaal Weekly,Dor,

2005: (Worst Year) Black, Sarkar,

2004:

Dhoom, Lakshya, Khakee, Swades, Yuva, Ab Tak Chappan, Ek Haseena Thi,

2003: Munna bhai MBBS, Hungama, Gangaajal, Ishq Vishq,

2002: Aankhen, Saathiya, Company,

2001: Lagaan, K3G, DCH, Ajnabee..

I hate to say, but I do not see many movies from 2008 could make it in my fav. list. I admit, I still have to see many films, including Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Ghajini, Dostana etc ...but I am disappointed with Sarkar Raj,Jodha Akbar and Singh is King and perhaps, only movie which could make it to top list would be RACE (so far...)

Sunday, December 21, 2008

NFL Fantasy Finale

This is the first time I attempted to sign up for a fantasy league in NFL. My season ended on the very first day of the NFL Season. Tom Brady got injured and had a season ending surgery and all hopes of Patriots having a good season were almost over. Tom Brady was also my first draft pick and my hopes were “almost” over.

I did not even bothered to look into the scores every week and couldn’t realize that I had 4 losses in the first 4 weeks. Suddenly, this Kurt Warner guy started me keeping in the game. I kept changing the team each week and suddenly I had a winning streak of 6 games and had my play-off hopes alive.

I won the play-offs, and then this week was the final week of the season for fantasy league. Kurt Warner who was responsible for keeping me in the league was a doubtful pick for this week. Simply because, Cardinals were playing Patriots and Patriots has to win the game to go to the Playoffs. Patriots are my favorite team and Kurt Warner is my favorite player this season simply because, he kept me in the league. So, I did not change Kurt Warner with Chad Pennington (BAD MOVE for this Week).

I had the best defensive units in the league, STEELERS and TITANS. I kept changing them every week depending upon which one they are playing against and every week they gave me more than 15 points. In fact, my defensive unit was my high scoring player.
Guess What, It is Final Week, and Steelers are playing against Titans. So, Which one to pick? Tough Choice, It’s like mother picking out of their two children. Finally, I picked Steelers because they are rated number 1 defensive team, and guess what they scored only 1 Point in the game (same score as of Kurt Warner), and Titans scored 23. (another BAD MOVE for this Week)

I also had two very good kickers in the team who on an average gave me minimum of 8 points every time I selected them. R. Longwell from Vikings and Carney from Giants. I picked Longwell for this week (Another bad move for this week).

I had 4 wide receivers and had to pick 3 out of 4. I had Bowe, Evans and L.Moore throughtout the season except few final games. I had M.Muhammad from Carolina panthers on the bench and in last 6 days, I just could not decide which one out of first three I need to drop to put M.Muhammad in. Unfortunately, I kept Muhammad on the bench for the finale and this was one more bad move. Muhsin Muhammad scored 8 points only but that is more than total of 6 points scored by three of my wide receivers (Bowe, Evans and Moore).

Now, Before I say, whether I won the game or not, let me give the name of the players my Opposite Team has. Opposite Team has best quarterback of NFL, Tony Romo. He scored 18 points as opposed to my Kurt Warner who scored only 1.

Opposite team has defensive unit of Vikings which scored 8 points as opposed to Steelers that scored only 1 point for me.

Opposite team has running back of T.Jones (number 1 in this season) and Kevin Smith who together scored 25 points.

Opposite Team had score of 56 Points and I had 16 points and only two players to play the game. Difference of 40 Points.

But the Running back which I had was (Steve Slaton) who scored 9 points and gave me hope. Like we all do, when the chips are down is go for the Hope and Pray. After all this was fantasy league and I fantasias that only one player that I have left, my running back will score some 4 touchdown (highly unlikely).

That player before I give the name out was going to play against the best defensive team, New York Giants. It is highly unlikely that someone would score 4 touchdowns against Giants defense. I would say, not even the whole team could score 4 touchdowns against Giants but this one player for me, scored 3 touchdowns in the first half against NY Giants. Player name, Ladies and Gentleman is : DeAngelo Williams.

DeAngelo Williams scored 34 points and gave me most unlikely victory and chance to win for a Super Bowl Tickets.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Oh No !!! Obama !!!

Barack Obama won the election because ...

He is a Democratic Nominee...(30% of the Votes just comes because you are Democrate, same other 30% Goes to Republican nominee)

He is NOT REPUBLICAN (10% of Votes Remember, Bush is Republican :) People were so frustrated with Bush Administration that they would have Voted for anyone with Democratic Ticket)

He is YOUNG Nominee compared to his Opposite Leader (3% of Voters, mostly young people voted for Obama)

He is African-American (3% of people who did not even voted anytime in their life, went out to vote because, of this)

He is a Smart Politician who BUY OUT CNN (3% of Voters) (only known authentic news channel that people of america follows)

He is a Shrewd Politician who THREW money in Florida to Win some necessary 5 to 10 of Votes to swing the state from RED to Blue. (1% of over-all votes)

Only 2-3% of Voters think, that He is actually smarters than what he looks and He could actually be a good President..

It is Amazing, How Illusion can ruin your dream and 2009 could be one of those year..........where those 2-3% people who voted for Obama thinking, He is INTELLIGENT,Strong, Clever etc. etc...would wake up and see the reality...

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Ganguly's Replacement

I feel, Suresh Raina should be Ganguly's Replacement in the Test Squad but ongoing One-Day Series will determine whether it is Raina or Yuvraj or Kaif or S.Badrinath or Rohit Sharma or M.Vijay, who is taking his place.

My Thoughts on this can be viewed @ following youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYsfuuJzOAY

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Indian Idol 4(Top 14)

Finally, We have Top 14 in Indian Idol season 4. Following are the list of contestants listed alphabetically.
1)Ananya Mishra
2)Bhavya Pandit
3)Kapil Thapa
4)Kuldeep Singh
5)Mohit Lalwani
6)Priyanka Negi
7)Prasenjit Kosambi
8)Rajdeep Chatterjee
9)Shini Kalvint
10)Sourabhee
11)Tulika Ganguly
12)Bhanu Pratap
13)Remo Ghosh
14)Torsha Sarkar

Following is the Order of my preference: (This order includes their singing ability, and their looks and their personality)

1)Rajdeep Chatterjee (I could relate to him, He sings great, looks good, smile's great, personality matches with one of my best friend, Ashutosh, Just Complete Package)
2)Bhavya Pandit (Bombaite, Sweet Singer, Sing Old Songs too)
3)Prasenjit Kosambi (Awesome Singer, Good Human Being)
4)Torsha Sarkar (Overall package, so far have sung non-challenging songs)
5)Sourabhee (Good Looks, Mix it up with Good Singing)
6)Tulika Ganguly (Good Looking)
7)Shini Kalvint (Fighter)
8)Kapil Thapa (Honest Singer)
9)Mohit Lalwani (Totla Singer, Good Actor)
10)Priyanka Negi (Can Only Talk, Cant Sing)
11)Kuldeep Singh (sing like Himesh with nose)
12)Remo Ghosh (can't sing)
13)Bhanu Pratap (hate him)
14)Ananya Mishra (hate her)

Following order is based on their Singing Ability Only(Not my liking but purely on my opinion on their Singing ability):-

Prasenjit Kosambi
Bhavya Pandit
Rajdeep Chatterjee
Ananya Mishra
Torsha Sarkar
Bhanu Pratap
Sourabhee
Shini Kalvint
Kuldeep Singh
Kapil Thapa
Mohit Lalwani
Tulika Ganguly
Priyanka Negi
Remo Ghosh

DADA-GIRI

DADA-GIRI

Prince of Calcutta or Bengal Tiger or Comeback Kid or Maharaja of Indian Cricket or Captain Courageous or God on Off-Side or Genius on Timing; Saurav Chandidas Ganguly has many nick-names. Out of all names though for Ganguly “Dada-Giri” suits him the best. He remains best and certainly most elegant and flashy Left Handed Batsman played for India.

Out of many achievements that he has been able to accomplish, injecting Spirit and Attitude in Indian Cricket Team via his idealistic “Dada-Giri” would be something for which he will be remembered for centuries. His Captainship single-handedly changed the Outlook of the Indian Team.

“DADA” as we affectionately call Saurav Ganguly has given many moments of success.

Out of all the moments, his waving shirt off at auspicious Lord’s Balcony after winning the unbelievable Net West Final is simply Unforgettable. This was aggression personified.

There are couple of one-day series against Pakistan at Toronto, where he was simply phenomenon with his gentle medium pacer bowling and when Man of The Match was getting decided before even the captain throw the coin for Toss.

It was Ganguly who played that magnificent century inning at Dhaka against Pakistan to chase down more than 300 runs. In Today’s World, 300 seems like a everyday story to chase but that was the inning and the year which gave entire India the hope that India can win the matches without Sachin Tendulkar’s Century.

First Test Match of 2004 Series, against Australia at Brisbane, one of the greenest Top and the person who is least likely to score even double digit runs (described by Pandits), this Bravest of all Captain, comes in and scored 144 runs against the best of the pace attack of Australia.

He recognized the very talent of many youngsters and stuck with them for entire his captainship era. Be It, Harbhajan Singh or Sehwag or Mohd. Kaif or Yuvraj Singh or Zaheer Khan; all remained part of his winning scheme and that was the key reason for India to be able to reach World Cup Final.

One of the remarkable things is, India has never Lost a Test Match when Saurav has scored a century, and only other batsman for India to achieve this task is G.R.Vishwanath.

After being humiliated by media and selectors to make a come back and deliver at the highest level can only be compared with Dennis Lillie who made a come back even after accident and Pataudi who lost his eyes.

Scoring 183 against Sri Lanka in World-Cup Final against World’s Best Off Spinner(chucker), and those “Dancing Down The Track” and hitting the ball out of ground type of sixes just makes the best viewable every time I turn on You-Tube.

Every 100 tells a story --> 100 @ Calcutta his home ground against Pakistan and then followed it up with double century, 100 @ Zimbabwe after Greg Chappell’s blame that he should not be part of playing XI , All 3 hundreds in England against the condition which many has described Ganguly is not equipped to play with.

I always felt, after Kapil Dev’s retirement that Indian Cricket will not be the same and then we found Tendulkar at his best and my favorite Azhar. After Azhar retired I said the same thing, cricket will not be fun to watch after the Artistic brilliance departed but then I found Lara and Gilchrist era. After Lara, Wasim Akram, Warne and Gilchrist gone, it was perhaps Ganguly and Sehwag who kept me awake at night to watch the game. Now After Dada’s departure, before I even feel a hole, I already have couple of favorites to watch the game, “M.S.Dhoni” and “Kevin Pietersen”.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Indian Idol Season 4

Top 10:



10 : Remo Ghosh/Kapil Thapa
Both of these guys are very jolly, fun-loving guys.

Kapil belongs to Army and loves three people that I love too, Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Shaan. This “Fauji bhai” is fearless and sing songs effectively yet effortlessly and most important sweetly.

Remo Ghosh is a school boy, cute looking baby face. He reminds me of Kunal Khemu who acted in Raja Hindustani. I have huge doubts over his singing capability, but then Indian Idol is not a singing contest, it is a VOTING contest, so he may surprise many people by going deep in the game with his image.

9 : Tulika Ganguly

I wish, Tulika could have participated in Miss India rather than Indian Idol contest. Her singing is not her best asset but her smile and look definitely is. I hope she makes it to the Top 10.

8 : Priyanka Negi

Another Delhi Gurl, along with Tulika and both of them represent “Young & Refreshing” India. Priyanka actually is a better singer going with her personality; I not only hope or wish but actually do believe she will make it in the Top 10.


7 : Mohit Lalwani

Mohit Lalwani reminds me a lot about my favorite Indian Idol 2 contestant Amey Date. Fluent and perfect singer going with that “X” factor makes him perfect candidate to be Indian Idol. However, Indian Idol has always given surprise results and I wont be surprised if this guy falls out in the middle of the game due to lack of votes. I also think that he has a bit of “TOTLA PAN” in his singing.

6 : Akanksha Palkar

This girl gives me an impression of “Making of another Lata Mangeshkar”. She has typical sweet and clean marathi voice. Her best performances are yet to come.

5 : Prosenjit Kosambi

Another MARATHI MANUS; reminds me a lot of my friend, Rohan Jamdar. He has same kind of confident attitude, and belief. You can add classical singing and MA in Music, which gives you the idea of how talented this kid is.

4 : Torsha Sarkar

She was no where near to my favorite zone until she sang, “Chura Liya Hai Tumne”. Although, I personally believe that this particular song itself is so sweet and melodious that anyone with good singing capability can make this song memorable. She has the personality of a champion in making if she get her focus right.

3 : Rajdeep Chatterjee

My Personal favorite is Rajdeep and I guess he is Judges Favorite too. He has tremendous range and he can take up any challenging songs at the same time can sing, slow melodious songs effectively as well.

2 : Sandeep Ubale

It is a very tough choice to make in between, Rajdeep and Sandeep. Both of them are talented and both of them are best equipped to become Indian Idol. Who Would Win the Battle and who will Miss out, is very hard to tell.

1 : Bhavya Pandit

I guess after 3 MEN Indian Idols, It is high time for a girl to be an Indian Idol. Bhavya is perfectly fit for it. She has that “Lata-Aasha” kind of voice with modern touch. She has very good personality to add to her singing.

There are other talented singers in the competition who unfortunately are not part of my Top 10.

Ananya , I think is very overrated and arrogant kid.
Keshav Prasad, Charit Dixit, Kuldeep Singh, Megha Sharma, Roshan, Sourabhee, Sreejita does not even belong to Top 20 list.

Shini may make it in Top 12 and so is perhaps Nirali.

Bhanu Pratap is a good singer but he is MALE RAKHI SAWANT, too much drama.