Ishaqzaade - Quick Review

Loved Ishqzaade. The first half is smashing and even though, the second half seemed a little contrived.. still simply loved Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra. The feelings and the emotions somehow got lost with the pace in the second half. Too much Tarantino and Sergio Leone dip-dashed everything, but still two lovers indulging in a shootout ala Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid with an awesome soundtrack by Amit Trivedi -and you just look away and simply forgive the mistakes, when u r bludgeoned with such brilliance. Parineeti Copra- you are a revelation - Piggy chops doesn't even come close to you. The difference between these two sisters is that Priyanka Chopra is an excellent actress, whereas Parineeti just doesn't need to act - she is spontaneity personified! I shudder to think that she is just two films old and if this is her repertoire of talent - she will leave everybody far behind.AWESOME ATTEMPT TO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO A DEAD GENRE OF LOVE STORY ....Just falls a lil short but just about, but still would watch it again just for Parineeti Chopra.

Aarushi Talwar - 10 questions, which will prove the innocence of the Parents.

Everyone is so happy about  Nupur Talwar being arrested and kept in jail. I am not going to go into depth and talk about what happened. Countless channels have done that and done a horrid job of it as they support the CBI in making scapegoats of the parents.


Just 10 questions being asked - Read them and you'll know what happened here?


THE TEN QUESTIONS WHICH WILL PROVE THE PARENTS ARE INNOCENT :-
1 WHY IS the CBI ignoring alarming evidence from its own investigation, such as the forensic report confirming that Hemraj’s blood was on a pillow cover seized from Krishna’s room? While it has offered an extensive report on its investigation of Rajesh Talwar, why is the CBI not revealing any details of its investigation of its three other suspects despite the strong clues of their involvement?

2 WHY DO Raj Kumar’s former employers Dr Praful and Dr Anita Durrani claim that the CBI is misrepresenting their testimony about Kumar’s alibi the night of the murders? They claim that Kumar was free of all duties by before midnight on the night of the murders, and that his bathroom was outside their house’s main back door so he could come and go whenever he wanted.

3 IF, AS the CBI says, Rajesh committed the murders under sudden provocation, why didn’t his clothes from that evening have either of the victims’ blood on them? A strong thread of the discourse around this case has been one of class bias. Critics ask, with just cause, whether those who believe the Talwars innocent, do so because they are ‘People Like Us’. With this in mind, the question to ask is: why is the CBI biased against the testimonies of the underclass?

The CBI confirms that two days before the murder, Krishna was infuriated with Rajesh Talwar because the latter had scolded him for making an incorrect dental cast. The Talwars’ driver Umesh Sharma has told the authorities that Krishna later exclaimed to him that he would deal with Rajesh Talwar. Umesh Sharma has also said that he found Rajesh to be in the same clothes on the morning of 16 May as he’d been on the evening of 15. The Talwars’ maid’s description to the authorities of Rajesh’s clothes on the 16th morning also matches driver Umesh’s description of what Rajesh was wearing on the 15th night, which were without any bloodstains.

4 WHY WAS the CBI’s first investigation team on this case replaced by a second one, especially since the first team had announced it was about to chargesheet the culprits? Why does the CBI now not mention the first team’s investigations — such as its sound reconstruction test at the Talwars’ house in June 2008 that concluded that sound from Aarushi’s room couldn’t be heard in her parents’ room; or its UV Light Testing on 1 June 2008 that apparently didn’t pick up any bloodstains to indicate that Hemraj was killed anywhere except the terrace?

5 IF AARUSHI’S parents had tampered with the crime scene, why would they have left the biggest clue — the Ballantine’s whiskey bottle with many fingerprints and both victims’ bloodstains — sitting in plain view on their dining table for the police to find the next morning? If they were guilty, why did they protest the CBI’s move to close the case last year and insist that investigations continue? If they have something to hide, why are they agitating for advanced forensics to be applied such as touch DNA?

6 THE TECHNOLOGY to solve this murder mystery exists. Touch DNA is a technique that’s been used in criminal cases worldwide since it can analyse evidence even after years of contamination. Why is the CBI refusing to simply put all speculation to rest once and for all and get touch DNA testing on the evidence it has gathered, such as the whiskey bottle with still-unidentified fingerprints?

7 WHY DO experts at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi completely contradict the CBI’s latest theories about the murder weapon? The authorities first posited that the murder weapon was a khukri (a curved Nepali knife), then they shifted to a scalpel, then to a golf club (or perhaps a combination of golf club and scalpel). Now, the CBI found Krishna’s khukri to be clean of any human blood, and its only evidence for the golf club theory is that two of Rajesh’s clubs in his golf set were cleaner than the others — disregarding these two inconclusive accounts leaves you with the experts’ opinion presented in a report in The Indian Express on 7 June 2008, which said that AIIMS experts concluded that Aarushi was murdered with a sharp-edged knife, given the deep cut on her throat (with probably a wooden handle to administer the blunt injuries) — rather than a surgical instrument like a scalpel, which “is so small it can only cut the skin layer by layer”.

8 DOES THE CBI believe or not believe in the results of the multiple lie detector, brain-mapping and narco-analysis tests the suspects have undergone? For example, why does the CBI still consider it suspicious that Nupur Talwar couldn’t explain where the key to Aarushi’s self-locking door was on 16 May morning (till it was discovered later), even though Nupur has successfully answered this question during the several lie detector, brain-mapping and narco-analysis tests she’s passed, stating that she probably made the crucial mistake of leaving the key in the door after visiting her child on 15th night.

9 WHY DO the post-mortem doctor Sunil Dohre and his assistants’ statements to the CBI rubbish their own original report? How credible is it that they somehow remembered radical new facts for the CBI about Aarushi’s body that are not present in their original postmortem report — drastic facts such as her hymen was “ruptured”, had “an old tear”, “the vaginal orifice... was unduly large”, “mouth of cervix was visible”, her private parts were extraordinarily dilated and cleaned after the murder. These new facts are not only radical but contradict the original report, since extraordinary dilation and cleaning is inconsistent with the post-mortem report’s claim about presence of whitish discharge under the External Examination header of Vagina.

10 HOW ARE we being ‘sensitive’ to the underclass by unquestioningly believing the police and CBI’s insinuations that Hemraj-the-grandfather was in a sexual relationship with a child, while discounting the testimonies of the maid and driver Umesh Sharma?


Wake up - this can happen to anyone in India. Lock your doors, get a gun and never hire a domestic servant for overnight stay.

The Walking Dead Episode 1 Review

The Walking Dead Episode 1 is a giant step in the right direction for interactive gaming. Sometimes some amazing achievements in gaming are barely noticed and this is one of them. How the game shapes out, based on your decisions is amazing and Its been planned for 5 more episodes and this is just the first episode. Bringing back memories of the best game I ever played - HEAVY RAIN!

Graphics- The graphics may not be brilliant, but they are good enough to bring about the feel of the series.

Game-play - Its basically Click and Go, but it does depend on some quick reflexes and the best part is the dialogue. It changes the story, based on your reactions.

Story - There are some moments, I felt it was better than the original series.


Experience - TOP - NOTCH - Considering its got real tall boots to fill with a Frank Darabont shadow looming over it- I felt it was a nutshell gem.


PLAY THE WALKING DEAD EPISODE 1 - YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.  

Google Drive is here

Google Drive is an online space where Google allows you to create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond. 

With Google Drive, you can:

• Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Once you choose to share content with others, you can add and reply to comments on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and receive notifications when other people comment on shared items.
• Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). All your stuff is just... there. You can access your stuff from anywhere—on the web, in your home, at the office, while running errands and from all of your devices. You can install Drive on your Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet. We’re also working hard on a Drive app for your iOS devices. And regardless of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader.
• Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [grand canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up. This technology is still in its early stages, and we expect it to get better over time.

Now you can get started with 5GB of storage for free. Google claims that this is just the beginning for Google Drive; there’s a lot more to come.

           

Google Drive page (Get started here) :- https://drive.google.com/start#home

In all Android phones Google Drive can be installed from updates available in Google Play (formerly known Android Market)

The Raid: Redemption: India's loss

India is missing this movie, because it too violent. I agree it is, but contains the most magnificent action choreography ever seen or experienced. Its like being soaked in a sea of adrenaline and the rush will hit you so hard, that you will feel like smashing something.The Holedrop, Rama and Andi's fight with Mad Dog,Jaka's fight with Mad Dog, the Hallway sequence - I am just dumbstruck- Action choreography has evolved to its finest form with this movie.

The links are given below:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hYsVqpiEa4

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDp5KYJuR1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVT67dme6M

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjE45S10Uss

The last link is the surprise. Don't ask me why. When is the DVD releasing? Come on. This is an action junkie's wet dream.