A New Dawn

CB series in Australia: There is only ONE Champion
Let the celebrations begin
Sachin: Class is permanent
Sachin:Finally scored a ODI ton in Australia

Rohit Sharma: The future of Indian Cricket is safe


Praveen Kumar: The Meerut lad who came good in the finals

Bhajji: The man who rode many a storm


Dhoni: The calm influence

Chotta Mumbai

I saw this movie this weekend and had a good time. It has been a while since I saw a Mohanlal movie and this one was certainly entertaining. Manianpilla Raju has produced this film and has played a small role in it as well. But credit must go to him for experimenting a new style of movie making in Malayalam. The film looks technically brilliant for a mallu movie standard.

The characterisations have been near perfect with Mohanlal essaying a chotta don kind of a role to perfection and his sidies played by Indrajith, Sidique and the comedian dude(don't know his name) and the youngster (again don't know his name) played a near perfect act. Sai kumar as Mohanlal's father has excelled and Rajan P Dev as the fultoo drunkard is again a decent role. Bhavana as the brave rickshaw driver is also classy and so does Kalabhavan Mani in the villain role.

Comedy is the main theme that carries as an otherwise thin story line which has been executed by Anwar Rasheed. It is definitely worth a watch.

Something for Mumbai

Everytime I see the well oiled public transport system in countries like Malaysia, Thailand & Singaporem, I always dreamt of when an Indian city would take cue from these cities and do a complete revamp of their infrastructure. The closest one came to is in Delhi. Very soon the Delhi metro would have a track length of 245 kms touching upon most of Delhi & its suburbs

Mumbai locals carry 6 million passengers daily. So what? Ya so what. There is one station in Japan which handles 3 million people on a single day!!!! Well that is something. As long as we create a system that can handle multiple entry/exits points, a good feeder system to and from the station, anything is possible. This particular station in Japan has some 260 odd exit points and is in 3 different levels and is able to do it on a day to day basis.

Well I did not dog for this data, but Hindustan Times did. They are doing a
special feature on Mumbai covering all the developments that are projected to happen in Mumbai in the next 5-10 years. It is some innovative journalism and its an awareness creation for every Mumbaikar and anyone who wants to read about Mumbai.

There are some really classy projects happening right from the Locals, the new metro being planned, the great Bandra-Worli Sealink, the new airconditioned taxis. Trust me if you like Mumbai and want to see it being the next big thing, read it, you will like it.

All I can do is hope that atleast 30% of what is discussed will happen in our lifetime.

for Freekicker

Appam in Indonesia

If there is one dish that I would have thought was unique to Kerala, it would have been our Appam. But guess what, there is our own appam in Indonesia. They also call it Appam :)


And it is served as a snack. You get some 10 appams for something like 1 ringgit. It is quite small and is very sweet. They are available in white as well as green colour. I have to tell you that it is quite tasty, but nothing like our Appam & Egg curry :)

Ratatouille - A class apart

Saw the movie...felt really nice and so watched it again in KL. I saw the movie the first time in Siam Paragon the biggest mall in Bangkok. And the multiplex was really big and the screen the biggest I have been to. So where all have I been to watch a movie? Well I can safely say that this must be the biggest screen in India/Malaysia/Singapore and Thailand. It was an amazinfg experience.Not many people would want to make a rat the hero of their movie even if it is an animation. But here the rat, its characterisation, the principles like he wont steal but make his food etc add a lot of credence to the entire plot. Similarly "anyone can cook" takes a whole new twist when a rat is believed to be making the best of french cuisine. I loved the movie.

Now talking about the mall, well it has couple of car showrooms on the 4th or 5th floor. Lamborghini, Ferrari etc to name a few.

I just wanted to write something so...