Chintadhara - a thought process

It was quite a while I went to Bangalore last. That too last time had office work so did not get any time to catch up with friends. This Christmas was a long weekend with Monday being holiday due to Christmas. So I was eagerly planning to escape from Chennai. That's when Bangalore folks called up and said they were planning for a trip for the weekend. But even that did not happen. But then there are so many things to do in and around bangalore. We decided for a 1-day trip to Sivanasamudram (aka Sivasamudram) , a falls about 120km from Bangalore, on Saturday. Sunday we roamed around the city with lunch stop at M. G. Road and wrap with a Bhagam Bhag night show at Innovative. Christmas day start with visit to the Infant Jesus Church and I winded-up my trip with a visit to the Forum . Here are the photos of my trip ... link: http://saptarshide.myphotoalbum.com/slideshow.php?set_albumName=album27

Got this testimonial on Orkut from one my ex- HCL colleague (I am still with HCL) this morning. And it was a very pleasant surprise. I remember having many short discussions with him on various topics during tea-breaks, snacks time and after office hours; each one of which was a lot of fun. "Saptarshi !!! a man with vision, cool dude....you can talk to him on any sub and he will have his firm point to substantiate his stand. One of the few guys I have seen among the youth lot to be more sesnsible. cool attitude, sharp smile and his sense of humour...make him more lively......(buddy I have done a good selling ain't I?) cheers man !!" Do not know how of it is actually what I am; but surely a good note to start my week with. Thanks Manick! :))

Say it luck or anything, I was waiting to go for Dhoom-2 for a long time and finally this weekend the wait was over ... twice. Something like the double-premiere of Sahara One. About the movie? Nothing much to say. Girls, bikes, stunts and music that was the USP of the first edition and same is the case here. Though he second half predominantly is a love story which causes it to drag a bit. Stunts are really cooler in this one, especially those by Hrithik . Bollywood has surely matured quite a lot in terms of how the new and copied stunts are executed and used in the movie. If they are planning a series then I think all Bollywood actors will be wishing to get the thief’s role, because the entire movie is made with the thief in focus and rest others supporting him. Abhishek did a good job with whatever he got, but for some funny reason he forgot to go to gym for the movie or maybe when your wife is pregnant you should also put on weight just to give her company. One thing where this o...

I am referring to the voting for the new 7 wonders of the world at the N7W website . For those to whom this is breaking news, there is a voting going on to choose the new 7 wonders of the world. The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07. The N7W is on a world tour visiting each of the candidate wonders. They are scheduled to be at Taj Mahal in December, 2006. You can place your vote online. In India, we have an alternate option of voting through sms . So go ahead and vote for Taj Mahal !

Yesterday night my roomie and I reached home around 9pm; I was in bit early and was watching Shiva on TV. He came and asked shall we go for a movie. Two movies were pending - Casino Royale and Dhoom-2 , but I was not thinking as he was ill and just came in after a drive. I am always ready to go out, and since he brought up the topic, so get-set-go. The nearest theater, Ega , was showing Dhoom-2 . We decided to go for it. We knew getting tickets will not be a problem as you can definitely get tickets in 'not-to-be-mentioned-ways' . Just when we starting my roomie's friend called in and said that today's rate in Ega is Rs. 200/- (extremely costly!), but it would have been a bigger tragedy if we would have dropped our plan then. His friend was at Woodlands , another theater, trying to get tickets for Casino Royale . We told him to get two more for us. Luckily he got the tickets and we saved lot of bucks (Rs.140/- per head). I had got quite a varied feedback for Casino Roy...

Don - The Chase Begins Again , directed by Farhan Akhtar , is a remake of the 1978 film, Don . But I guess remake is not the exact term to explain it; 'adaptation' will go better. The two films are essential same in their storyline but are still different due to the tweaks in the plot by Farhan. I will not get into the story or the details of the tweaks, maybe some of you are still planning to catch the DON. But I would love give my take of the movie. The 1978 superhit boasted of legends in its star cast - Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Pran, Iftekhar, Helen. The storyline and the charm of such greats was enough for it to be an excellent movie. And when talk about remaking such a movie; its bound to evoke lot of high expectations. And I would say it was clever on Farhan's part to change the plot a bit. He made changes in two fulcrum points of the plot which does brings out a total different aspect. In some ways though I find the new plot similar to Face/Off , a 1997 film di...

Launched the beta version of my homepage! Many parts might not work properly, sorry for the inconvenience. I would be very happy if you give comments regarding the issues/suggestions. Look-wise there is not much difference in the beta edition yet, in fact in some cases the content might be bit older. Major difference is the way the page is made. This time I am exploring the AJAX technology and using it to have dynamic content. My two-pointed objective in this exercise - understand AJAX and simplify the website management. I am planning the release date around the New Year. Beta homepage url: http://beta.saptarshi.info/ Normal homepage url: http://www.saptarshi.info/