Golmaal Again Review!

In true Rohit Shetty style, lots of exotic cars greet your visual organ at the onset of the movie. Ajay devgan gets nostalgic by entering atop 2 moving cars.. others are either sitting on car’s bonnets or somewhere around an drool worthy automobile. 

Golmaal Again features a simple storyline ridden with many silly loopholes and irrelevant sub plots. You know what will happen and why it is happening. No KBC’s Jio jackpot for cracking this. 

The funny one liners and dialogues will assure belly pains. Rolling in your seats is assured! 

The screen is full of vibrant colours or extreme greenery making you wish for a house like that. Action sequences do not justify the larger-than-life expectation from Mr.Shetty. Music and songs are okayish, blended in the narrative. 

Plot :

An aatma returns to get justice for self and save the orphanage from criminal minded builders. A psychic (if i can address her so, Tabu) who can see and interact with ghosts helps in uniting the 5 orphan kids who can help to extract revenge.

Cast :

The show stealer, i felt, was Shreyas Talpade as Laxman. His lisping and crackling dialogues were worth the money paid for the tickets and yes, the parking tickets as well. 

Johnney lever is the star atop the Christmas Tree. Simply Brilliant! The villains are cute, not very menacing.

vrujesh as the nag baba, tushhar’s speech moment, The “nana patekar” ghost, sanjay mishra’s act are the additional parts which are awesome.

 Kindly ignore the icky feeling when you see out of shape and looks, ajay devgan and ahrshad warsi. Parineeti is just fine, as required by the script. Khemu is good, rare movies that he stars in.

Watch this movie over the week/weekend after firmly locking logic and mind at home. Just carry your heart, wallet and keys along. 

Newspapers!

It's a morning ritual to read newspapers while drinking hot masala tea!! 

Sunday editions are most looked forward to because of additional offbeat articles.. 

Despite the advent of instant news at your fingertips, you still look forward to it. 

The feel of turning pages, inhaling the smell of print and paper and reading local announcements,ads and information is indispensible.  

Sometimes, you read the headlines and exclaim "hey I read it online yest!", yet you will devour the article thinking if any extra Info is listed.

Newspaper articles enriches your vocabulary as well. As a matter of fact, any reading will ensure this. 

Unfortunately, these days newspapers are more of advertisements. During festive season, you have to swim through 4 huge cover pages of latest sales ads before reaching the front page section. 

Well, describing news articles consisting of terrorism and gruesome incidents like rape shall take up the entire blogger space. When you feel you had enough scare of one event, another takes place with more ferocity.  Alas, this is how it is, I suppose.

Page 3 features the latest parties and their party animals. Sometimes i wonder, how difficult it would be for wannabes/constant people to maintain a wardrobe with different styles to attend events regularly.

Its a great medium to reach out to the users who aren't net savvy. 

Also helps in promoting the local events/exhibitions/sales to a better effect.


What are the other uses of newspapers?

• Spread it on your almirah shelf to contain dust.
• Use it to soak extra oil while trying those bhajis and puris.
  
  
• Wrap your sanitary pads for disposal.
• Cover your unused items for storage.
• Spray some Colin liquid on window panes and tables and wipe it off with it.
• Keep it in between your ironed clothes for starched look.
• Best of all -- keep collecting newspapers and sell it off to the raddiwala for a good price, after bargaining!

Sunday Ritual - Doordarshan Time..!

In the 90's, growing up was uncomplicated and active! 

We had mud on clothes, scratches worn as war  medals, anticipating cousins' visits, waiting for holidays to go to nani-house, calling from the round-dial telephones and much more. 

One vivid memory, etched for eternity, is fine tuning the old television set manually to smooth out wrinkles of Doordarshan Channel!

Elders fondly recollect shows like Hum Log, Karamchand, Mungerilal ke haseen sapne, News, Surabhi etc while we have great memories of Shaktimaan, Alif Laila, Ramayana,Shri Krishna etc.

School time discussions centered around shaktimaan and emulating his spinning action. Andhera kayam rahe! 

Discussions at home revolved around renuka shahane's hairstyle and signature namaste. 

Mythological gyaan was duly enriched by Ramanand sagar's Shri Krishna and Ramayana. 

BR Chopra's Mahabharata! 

Every 90's kid will at least have a vague outline along with protagonists names and characters of the 2 legendary works, Ramayana and Mahabharata.

A typical sunday morning scene featured gulping a glass of milk in front of the TV screen, while mom screamed "peeche baitho, aankhen kharab ho jaayegi"! 

Grandma literally used to worship Lord Rama on TV when Ramayana used to be telecasted. 

Lord Krishna seemed to be manifested in Nitish Bharadwaj ( the actor).

Mahabharata and Ramayana war scenes (arrows flying, thunderstorms etc) introduced the concept of graphics and VFX, albeit in nascent stage. 

Alif Laila took us to exotic lands of djinns,chudails and treasure hunts.  Show me a single person who isn't fascinated with such stories! 

Who can forget the multi coloured vertical lines before the start of any show or in case of "inconvenience is regretted"! 

 Such was the massive following and power of visuals.

Sacrosanct time for the entire family. Congregate on your assigned seats and watch TV. No fighting over remotes ( there weren't any!) or having a plethora of channels to choose from. Just one and only one, Doordarshan! 

This blog post is inspired from Indispire topic on Indiblogger.