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IMO, 3 stars is gross injustice!! It deserves atleast 4…

I am talking of Bluffmaster. I did not yawn once, did not switch off once and laughed loads…I mean loads and came out wondering when I was going to see it again!! It was nothing that mainstream cinema is supposed to be. Haan bhai, isme drama hain, action hain, romance bhi hain, aur ekdum se hatke bhi hain. (yesss boss, its got drama and action, and romance and its different too) But really it’s different!! It’s light and entertaining and did not give me a headache. Trust me that says a lot!! :-))

I had been looking forward to this movie and so took my mom dearest to the much hyped ‘mall cinemas’…multiplexes I believe is the appropriate term. Pardon my lack of ezzucassan in such matters; I am known to be full of total ignosanse in such matters!! :-p

Abhishek was cute and all that he normally is, but he sure is a good rapper. J saala he can rap yaar!! I mean really rap and act/dance/move like he is a rapper and all. But cuter still was Hitesh. Priyanka can actually act and that was a real relief. Boman Irani as expected added liberal doses of good clean fun and was really good, but there was too little of him. But Nana Patekar was the one that stole the show….the guy is too good for words!!

No, I am not going to write another review with the plot and dialogue and everything in the movie….what reason will you have then to watch the picture?? But speaking of dialogue…it was good!! The smattering of advertisements was a bit annoying, but then Bollywood mein sab chalta hain, nee?? There were some witty lines that ‘I’d like to write so that I can use it some day’. The music…excellent!! The extreme close-ups were quite good too….would love to write more about such details, but am too darned tired to do that now. I called the bluff quite early on…lets see when you catch on… ;-)

Watch it!! Its good fun….ekdum time pass, the bakwaas is totally worth it!!

Gone Fishing!! ;-)
Chay

Road Safety Week....

I have been driving around town like a taxi driver these past few days thanks to a family function that is coming up later this week. And each day on the road is interesting and by that I don’t mean just the madness of the traffic, but rather the sights that I have been observing….

For instance, today, I encountered a whole bunch of school kids on bicycles. They were all young teenage boys wearing T-shirts with ‘Road Safety Week’ in red. They were being ‘guided’ by a couple of men (teachers?) on bikes wearing similar clothes and carrying placards. I was driving in the same direction that they were riding and so could not quite see what was written on the placards that were placed in the front of each bicycle…but I gathered they were various messages, like ‘don’t drink and drive’, ‘obey traffic rules’, etc. I did manage to pull out my camera and shoot some pics at traffic signals.

But here’s what was happened….these kids were carrying these ‘be safe’ placards and weaving in and out of heavy traffic between cars and bikes and trucks and auto rickshaws like nobody’s business. They seemed to be in a hurry and were being instructed by the teachers to cut thru the traffic to gain speed. Just as I was thinking about how unsafe it actually was for them to proclaim safety in such a manner, one of the kids met with an accident. The boy was trying to squeeze thru a mo-bike and the curb/footpath and ended up in front of a moving auto and fell off his bicycle. The supposed ‘guide’ saw him falling and chose to drive on as though he were a total stranger and he knew nothing about the boy….

It’s bad enough that 13 and 14 year old kids have to ride thru such traffic to school and back…putting them thru such dangers in the name of safety, trusting that they are indeed being watched over by such teachers is outright stupidity!!

Road Safety indeed!!