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India Vs New Zealand

Written by Firydude on 8:36 AM



India is touring New Zealand. Their dismal performance in the first 20-20 match at Christchurch today is due to upset lots of fans back home. And since our global correspondent Galien Ralien has started to like this game as well, he decided to chat to the Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni about the forgetful performance against the Black caps. Here are the excerpts:
Galien Ralien: So Mahi, bad luck today. The team didn’t seem to perform up to their mark today?
M S Dhoni: Yeah, it’s the batsmen’s fault

GR: You mean all the batsmen including you with your score of 2 runs?
MS: No, I’m talking about New Zealand’s batsmen. It’s all their fault. If they hadn’t scored runs, we would have won the game easily. We performed according to our potential.

GR: So you believe 162 was good target in a small ground like this and your team wasn’t at fault anywhere in the game?
MS: Exactly. My team is the 20-20 world champion. How can my team go wrong in any of the 20-20 games? I guess our boys did fair enough job with batsmen Harbhajan and bowler Yuvraj

GR: You mean bowler Harbhajan and batsman Yuvraj…Anyways….So according to you it was “All Blacks’” fault that they won. What do you have to say about yours and Indian team’s batting as a whole?
MS: We are the world champion man. We don’t rely on any one guy now. We don’t want experience but youth. Look at Harbhajan’s score. Do you think it was possible few years back that a tail ender would get runs to get to a decent score?

GR: But isn’t it that back then the top half used to get runs. With likes of Sachin, Sourav, Dravid, Laxman etc India used to manage the same score that your team made today. So where is the difference, as you always believed by removing oldies, the team would get better…Any comments on that?
MS: Exactly is my point. With all the oldies thrown out…I mean retired and rested….we are still able to get the same score. All due to some good leadership and the power of youth. India has the power of Singhs and Irfans now.

GR: You mean Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Irfan and Yusuf did great work today? But Both Pathans got thrashed for runs and Yuvi didn’t do that well with bat…Then….
MS: I said India has the power of Singhs and Irfans…Did I mention cricket team anywhere in the sentence?? You journalists know exactly how to misquote a quote…I did not mean the cricket team but India as a whole. I meant Chota Recharge and Akshay Kumar both are doing a great job now a days. Soon I’ll lead them too.

GR: You mean you are planning to boot the veterans in the Bollywood as well, just like you did in the Indian cricket team? I did hear somewhere that when Sachin made a statement that New Zealand has windy conditions and players should keep their eyes wide open while batting. Your response was that you are going to wear the gogs to keep the winds at bay…then what happened today?
MS: Actually my agents were expecting to strike a deal with Police sunglasses well in time before the commencement of the series but it didn’t work out. So I decided not to go through with the idea. Have you checked the price, Police sunglasses are expensive to afford man.

GR: So you think your bowlers and batsmen did equally well, or should I say equally bad? By saying that your team didn’t go wrong anywhere, don’t you think you are putting the onus of this defeat on you, the captain?
MS: I’m a keeper first, then a captain. I kept really well today. I told you its all New Zealand’s fault. I’ll ask IPL to look into the contract of Mc Cullum after his performance today. Nobody can play cricket in India if they try to get smart with me. I mean ask Sourav, Kumble, Dravid and Sachin.

GR: So what’s the preparation for the next 20-20?
MS: We are the world champions and New Zealand is learning the game. It’s our duty to help them learn the game. We are not like Australians who don’t believe in helping others…We believe in “athithi devo bahva” (Guests are like Gods). After all some of these Black Caps play for our domestic IPL league as our guests. What good is a friend if they can’t help a fellow friend in need? I want to set a great example because I’m the leader you know.

GR: OK I got it. Thanks a lot for you time MS. Enjoy the day ahead
MS: Any time… ( MS looking at Galien’s sunglasses) By the way are you also sponsored by Police?
GR: No man, I shop lifted them…But you don’t try it because you have to set an example as the leader of the team. Good day.

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Kiski Jai Ho

Written by Firydude on 8:09 AM

I’m listening to ”Jai Ho” by AR Rahman…The song starts with nice rhythm, stops for a while and then comes the ever so energetic voice of Sukhwinder Singh. The song has a thump, a beat about it…

The singer is singing about the hardships that the protagonist has faced all his life…
How he has been dying each day of his life, bit by bit, slowly and steadily. Each night of his life has been juxtaposed to “dancing on burning coal”. How he blew sleep off his eyes and has spent the long nights counting the stars in the sky….


And then a sweet female voice asks the protagonist to accompany her under the open blue sky. It’s amazing how the poet takes you straight from the hardships of slums to an open blue sky. He takes his composition straight from the dark despairing night sky to an open blue sky of carefree life. He transcends to a life full of hope and to hail that life come two words “Jai Ho”…

And the song continues…

Oscars have ended and Rahman and Gulzaar have got Oscars for the composition. But there are few things that are untold about the song, about the cast and the writer of this amazing story.

The song Jai Ho was initially offered to movie “Yuvraaj”. But Mr Ghai declined it, rightly so, because one wonders where they would have fitted this song in the story’s plot. But then again not all the songs in a Bollywood flick suit the plot or characters. Most of the times, the songs are included because they sound nice.

We all know the movie is about how a “slumdog” becomes a millionaire after winning the the famous “Who wants to be a millionaire” game show. And we also know that two of the Bollywood superstars had hosted the very show in reality. Then why weren’t they offered the role. Or were they offered and they didn’t feel that the movie or the role was worth a try. Or was the money too less. Well I don’t know…maybe someone does. Maybe some of them didn’t appreciate the title...Whatever it was, it was an opportunity that went begging…

I agree that title is a bit harsh, but the truth is whatever the title is, the movie has 8 Oscars next to its name. And if someone thinks the controversy of the title won it the Oscars, then I guess whenever we send a movie to Oscars from next time, we are better off changing its title to represent some controversial issue.

After all in contemporary world, means are justified by the end. Maybe the creator of “Lagaan”, “Munnabhai” and “Swadesh” can take a few notes here…But then I ponder as well that if an Indian would have made this movie would it have been considered for even a single Oscar.. Now maybe the academy may help me here.

Finally let’s talk about the writer of the story. Without whom, forget the eight Oscars, the movie wouldn’t have existed.The movie is adapted from the book Q&A written by Vikash Swaroop. But did we hear this name before or even after the movie got released... Well…let me think myself…Swaroop works with Indian Civil Services and has been appreciated worldwide for his writing. But nobody is willing to give any credit to the man behind the story. I say so because I feel bound to compare this situation with the situation of movie “Hello”. Everyone knew, long before the movie was released, that the movie “Hello” is based on the book “One night at the call center”, , . But then I guess the way “Hello” was made it certainly needed that “Chetan Bhagat” milage to pull the crowds to the box office…

Whatever maybe the case but we still need to give a thought to why can’t the industry that produces maximum number of movies in a year make Oscar winning movies?
And why we need foreigners to adapt “our” stories to bag Oscars?

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Rahman Pe Reham

Written by Firydude on 10:02 PM

This morning when I got up and switched on my television, the Oscars were on...I was waiting to see who will get the Oscar for the best original score...And it had to be Rehman...Ultimately he ended up winning two Oscars. Great achievement many (infact every Indian) would say and should say..

But not our Indian news channels...They somehow managed to find or should I say "create" the controversies even in this great achievement. They were raising, and still are as I write this, issues about why Rehman sung the song at the Oscars when originally it was sung by Sukhwinder in the movie. Also they are trying to investigate why the legend Gulzar, the lyricist of "Jai Ho", wasn't at the ceremony to recieve the award.


And I'm sure they will run this crap the entire night and tomorrow as well. C'mon guys, why can't we just applaud a person's achievement who has made the country proud and keep all these pity issues aside. Afterall when the singer Sukhwinder and lyricist Gulzar both aren't bothered about this issue themselves. Can we not let a man, Rehman that is, enjoy his moment of glory. Can we all not stand up and say a fellow countryman made us all proud. But then media thrives on controversies...whether there are controversies or need to be created...

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