Chalk n Duster, Baaghi 2

Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line.
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Chalk n Duster
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• This movie is okay to be watched once.
• This movie maybe is not as good as Hichki but opinions may differ.
• Towards the end the movie is reduced to a ten question KBC type competition and Rishi Kapor is the anchor.
• We got the news in recent past that Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi's son may get to host KBC but that did not happen.
• Rather the one hosting was Amitabh Bachchan.
• We never got the news that Rishi was to host KBC.
• Well he made the attempt in the movie at least.

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Baaghi 2
This movie was watched at Carnival Cinemas, Rockline mall.

• This is the "Rambo First Blood" and Rambo 2 and Rambo 3 movie all rolled into one with an Indian twist.
• Yes Tiger Shroff is "Rambo" in the movie.
• Guess Rambo remake with Tiger Shroff won't be coming again .
• This is the best shot Tiger aimed towards Rambo First Blood.
• Here we find the conflict between police and army like in First Blood.
• Vengeance is there like in Rambo 2.
• And "War is over" like in the end of First blood is shown in this movie.
• Helicopters chasing as in Rambo 3.
• But majority of the movie drags on like a normal Indian movie like Heropanti for example.
• But last half hour the movie goes into 1000 times overdrive and shot in Thailand.
• It becomes from Goa to war zone.
• Such kind of difference is mind boggling.
• The director just takes the audience for a ride.
• Maybe they should have modified the story and taken it actually to Thailand instead of showing Thailand while claiming in movie taht those are the jungle areas of Goa.

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ETV Urdu now News18Urdu #ThankyouTwitter

The subject of this blogspot is ETV Urdu now News18Urdu #ThankyouTwitter

• It means when I have stopped using Twitter for News, I have turned to other sources.
• I am a 1998 graduate from Hyderabad and so it was natural for me to turn to ETV Urdu.
• ETV Urdu had its origin in Hyderabad and was later taken over by News 18 Network which is owned by Mukesh Ambani.
• I was aware of a Hyderabad specific news at 6pm airing in ETV Urdu everyday.
• But I never watched it regularly.
• But I used to go to Google and type Hyderabad and get the news related to Hyderabad from time to time.
• But watching News on TV is something far more simpler.
• Now I used to see English News.
• But slowly realised that English News is crap.
• They only show in favour of the ruling party or whoever feeds them money.
• Thus they are "Presstitutes" a corrupted word from "Prostitute" who sells her body for money.
• But these channels sell their souls for money.
• In present set of circumstances they are BJP-RSS-Modi and Amit Shah.
• They have paid plenty of money and "bought the channels".
• And the Indian English news channels are dancing to their tunes.
• Now foreign news channels are bouncers.
• Often I have seen they show biased News.
• Among foreign channels RT and DW News show good news.
• Australia plus shows the Australian view.
• Channel news Asia the Singapore view.
• NHK TV the Japanese view.
• CNN and BBC are like identical and so on.
• We can see Hindi news but they also are little like Indian English channels.
• But the thing is there are more Hindi News Channels than English Indian news Channels and that way watching Hindi News channels keep us in safety as we are less likely to get manipulated along the way.
• But coming back to ETV Urdu and Hyderabad news called "Deccan Nama"
• The moment I started watching it I discovered "a hidden world"
• It is like the "The Lost World" more glorious than the "Jurassic park"
• It was the world of Urdu.
• Now I regret that I have not learnt Urdu and I am uneducated.
• A person may know all the languages of the world if one does not know Urdu one is uneducated.
• That is what I feel.
• I mean my mother tongue is Oriya or Odia but still I am not perfect in that.
• I know Hindi more than I know Odia.
• I took Sanskrit in school but I feel Sanskrit is only good for getting marks and passing. One does not learn anything from Sanskrit.
• The real language of civilisation is Urdu.
• And Urdu is not a foreign language.
• It is a language which is born in India.
• And I regret the fact that I am unable to read or write or understand few terms in Urdu.
• Whatever Urdu words I understand is due to Hindi movies or being Hindi similar to Urdu.
• I am thus watching not only Hyderabad news "Deccan Nama" but also "Khabarnama" (National news), Kashmir News, Khaas Baat, Speed News, Metro Bulletin and occasional other programs on News 18 Urdu.
• Yes ETV Urdu transformation is complete because post March 16, 2018, it has become News 18 Urdu.
• We are thankful to the people working with News 18 Urdu who give a balancing effect to the News.
• India is nowhere without its minorities and if the minorities are not taken care of, India will go to dust and the concept of India will get extinguished.
• ETV Urdu, now News 18 Urdu shows how to balance the news from the minority perspective.
• Zee Network and News 18 Network are two behemoths in India.
• And thanks to them people are getting News in their own language and culture across the length and breadth of the country.

Love Breakups Zindagi, Mukkabaz

Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line
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Love Breakups Zindagi
This 2011 movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV after recording on pen drive.
I liked the feel good romantic movie.
No villians and full of entertainment.
All actors done good work.
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Mukkabaz
This 2018 movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• I liked the movie.
• The underlying message in the movie is:
• In India villians may win and prevail.
• You may not win.
• But life goes on.
• It does not matter what your religion is.
• You can be a villian no matter what your religion or caste.
• You will prevail and the loser will also remain.
• You may be the loser. More likely to be.
• Because the persons who are the "rulers" with power and clout will always win.
• But when you lose it is not the end.
• This is India in very raw terms. 
• Overall good direction.
• But 2 and half hours is a bit long.
• The director should have kept it to two hours and maybe the movie would have worked in box office as well.

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Country Flag

• We know our Indian flag.
• There is saffron at the top.
• White in between
• Green at bottom.
• And Ashok Chakra i.e. blue wheel like thing in middle.
• People may interpret the colours as they want.
• Flag_of_India
• The above Wikipedia article states that the saffron is the robe of teh Ascetic and Green is the plant life and the white is for the peace in land and Ashoka Chakra is for the "Law of Dharma" or "Rule of Law"
• I have put up a flag which was bough in Republic Day 2018 by me.
• Two ways to put the flag are as above.
• One is horizontal and other is when "gravity" takes over and flag drops down.
• Since mine is a small flag with a plastic straw cello tape was used to keep it in place.
• When Cello tape effect reduced, the flag just dropped down.
• The cello tape kept the "straw or stick" in place but the flag dropped down.
• Now what we find when the flag is in place in horizontal, the saffron is on top and green at bottom.
• The cello tape keeps it in place.
• But in "natural form", the flag will drop down and then we see an amazing thing.
• Suddenly we now see no difference between green white and saffron.
• All go down.
• Thus the lesson is we learn is when the flag which signifies the country's prestige goes down, all the colours go down together.
• Saffron is not left high when the flag itself goes down.
• In other words, all the colours have to be held up for the flag to be held high.
• Unofficially, saffron implies Hindus, green implies Muslims and White the rest.
• Thus we need to treat all the colours at par.

Mirror Game, Hichki, Pacific Rim 2, Tere Surroor, Warrior Savitri, Ittefaq, Beimaan Love

Watched seven movies over the last few days as mentioned in the subject line.
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Mirror Game
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• I will say this movie is set in New Jersey and shown some bits of it.
• We are also aware that there are plenty of Indian in New Jersey.
• We also aware that New Jersey is known as the "Garden state" probably due to the greenery
• Movie is okay for a one time watch.
• Some twists in the movie make it worthwhile.

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Hichki
This movie was watched at Carnival Cinemas, Rockline mall.

• This is totally underrated movie.
• I mean this movie deserves full marks.
• Full of emotion, this movie is totally enjoyable.
• This shows that where there is will there is a way.
• And hard work will give success no matter what the odds.
• Plenty to learn from the movie.
• This movie should be shown as special screenings to school children and made tax free.

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Pacific Rim 2
This movie was watched at Carnival Cinemas, Rockline mall.

• Wow what action in the movie.
• In childhood we used to see "Giant Robot" Japanese series on TV.
• This movie exceeds those standards.
• Also by keeping humans in control of machines, the man-machine bond is strengthened.
• Unlike Transformers where the machines are full aliens.
• I cannot recollect if I have seen Part 1 but will definitely see.

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Tere Surroor
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• This movie is "Himesh Reshammiya going wild".
• Definitely no harm in watching this movie once.
• I liked the movie.
• But you people watch it at your own risk.
• Do not tell you were not warned.
• Movie has been shot in Dublin area.

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Warrior Savitri
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• This movie is run of the mill movie.
• This takes existing movies and trashes them and the end product comes out like this.
• If there was an X rated version of the movie it would be far better, you know with the scenes and all.
• Om Puri plays Yamraj in the movie.
• Definitely movie can be enjoyed once without any problem. 
• While first half is shot in Jodhpur, second half is in Las Vegas.

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Ittefaq
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• This movie is okay to be watched once.
• But I have to say that the last five minutes of the movie when the plot gets so much twisted that it becomes like a bouncer and is not comprehend-able anymore and the film loses it.
• Plot within a plot and it acts like a bouncer and goes over the head.
• Watch it at your own risk.

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Beimaan Love
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive.

• This is Sunny Leone movie and she proves that she is made to be a Bollywood princess.
•  Movie is worth watching once.
• But watch it at your own risk.
• She takes badla or revenge when love is spurned.
• Like Hate Story 4 but little different also.
• Like the hero does not perish but becomes crazy.

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Raid, Amazing Wiplala, Gringo

Watched three movies as mentioned in the subject line.
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Raid
This movie was watched at Rockline Mall, Carnival Cinemas.
This Ajay Devgn starring movie is enjoyable and okay to be watched once.
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Amazing Wiplala
This movie got downloaded into Tata Sky pen drive as Video-on-Demand.
This is Netherlands movie.
I liked it.
Movie is a complete story and enjoyable.
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Gringo
This movie was watched at Cinepolis, Royal Meenaxi mall.
I liked the movie.
This movie goes miles in showing persons of colour especially Africans in good light.
Very much amazing things happen in the movie.
Coincidence things. Surprising things which make the African hero emerge as a champ.
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Shape of Water, Three Billboards, Ladybird, Hate Story 4, Tomb Raider

Watched five movies over the last few days as mentioned in the subject line.
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Shape of Water

• This movie was watched at Cinepolis Royal Meenaxi Mall.
• I liked the movie.
• I felt among the three Oscar nominated movies I saw this was the best.
• This shows the power of US. 
• How US can emerge triumphant.
• Especially in the eyes of the immigrant.
• The story we always known.
• A mermaid has special powers and when they kiss a human the human can live underwater.
• Same we have seen Tom Hanks movie Splash.
• But the director had made it in such a manner we can forget the old movies and begin the story afresh.
• It gives a new perspective to the issue.
• Wonderful direction. Deserves the Oscar award.

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Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

• This movie was watched at Cinepolis Royal Meenaxi Mall.
• I liked the movie.
• This is a frank story.
• It does not name the country where the US Armed Forces member has committed the crime. 
• Too much expletives in the movie.
• But it shows the depressing side of US.
• Especially for immigrants (of colour included).
• Worth watching this movie.

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Ladybird

• This movie was watched at Cinepolis Royal Meenaxi Mall.
• I liked the movie.
• Ladybird is a character of the heroine.
• Set in 2002-03, this movie shows the US picture.
• It shows the way of life in US.
• Also shows some gaps in the way of life.
• US is not a beacon of hope especially for immigrants of colour. 
• In that sense Shape of Water shows the best side of US such that immigrants will want to move there and call that country their home.
• But this movie is worth watching anyway.
• For about 90-100 minutes we get transported to a world like a magical world quite unlike our own.

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Hate Story 4

• This movie was watched at Carnival Cinemas, Tumkur Road.
• This movie shows "Indian values".
• How the "jism" or body of a woman is worth protecting and people die for that.
• And then there comes "revenge" by the leading actress.
• And the two heroes are actually villians in the movie. 
• But worth watching this movie.
• Like if you have something better than you can watch it.
• If not watch this.

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Tomb Raider (Lara Croft movie)

• This movie was watched at Carnival Cinemas, Tumkur Road.
• This new Lara Croft is just great.
• So much stunts and so much action.
• Shooting would have been tough.
• Even if it would be in a studio with green background.
• Movie ends in stage where it is shown that the villians work for her company only.
• Yes it is crazy story.
• I mean everybody is controlled by her company and she is the sole owner.
• Why her father remains in "self imposed" exile is a mystery.
• And then he does not survive and neither does the villian.
• Guess they leave further revelation for sequel.

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