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Let me get this straight, I went to this movie with a lot of expectations. May be that was wrong on my part, came out wondering, what the heck??.

I think bollywood directors seem to think that a movie just contains 4 elements. Big names, some road rash, some stunts, bikini babes. Add nice locations, good camera work and they think it works magic. Nobody seems to give any importance to the story line.

The movie starts out a “sketchy” story of a boy going to juvenile prison, being abused there and eventually being released from the prison, when the titles are run. Then it does a typical heroine introduction song. Minisha lambha who plays ’sonia’ doesnt look seventeen at all. I think she needs atleast a part time course in acting. I guess no will notice that, since everyone will be busy watching other things!!

The story is full of pot holes that the director and team think will be excused by the “stupid, eat shit” public. The ultimate ridicule was that the heroine who is kidnapped gets to wear all kinds of designer clothes, each scene has her sporting new clothes. Come on boss, a little bit of reality helps a lot.

The chase sequence where both sanjay dutt and imran khan jump, climb, hop and dodge is inspired from Casino royale I think. Dutt has no problem playing his role as a tough business man.

What I could not understand is that Kabir (Imran khan) comes out of jail as a techie. He is a wiz when it comes to setting up spy cameras, hacking into bank accounts. I guess Indian prisons are full of resources

The story line makes it clear that the kidnap is not about money and its about revenge. But there is no punch in the story line. The only silver lining is that the episode brings Vikrant raina’s family together, which is a good thing. I like such softies

The film belongs to Imran khan, he managed to appear as a cold kidnaper without effort. This is such a deviation from his earlier appearance as a soft-looking, soft-speaking youngster in Jaane thu ya jaane na.

And then zoom tv goes about saying how Sanjay who had taken up gandhigiri after his success with “munna bhai” has taken up gun once again to save his daughter on screen and thus became just “bhai”, speculating that his next movie would convert him back to “dadagiri”

Ok the final thing about minisha lambha’s skin show. I’m sure that this is going to infuriate a lot of women. It did have my friends wife fume till she reached home. I’ll link you to what Swarna had to say about skin show by Nayantara in Kuselan.You have to read it replacing just the names.

I didnt write a review, but I liked saroja (tamil movie) that revolves around a kidnap incident involving a tough businessman’s daughter and money. It showcases how 4 ordinary men who venture out to see a cricket match in hyderabad save the girl. That, is story telling… Kidnap, is shit, deep shit.

Roshnee asked how it all ends, I didnt want to write about that, but then atleast I’ll help some folks save money .

They part away as good friends!! Literally, only thing they didnt do was hug each other, they exchange pleasantries and good wishes for a possible career in bollywood!

The recent financial world turmoil had put me in deep thought and so many pessimistic thoughts keep poping up…. which is so unlike me, I am the epitome of optimism

Let me clarify that I’m not any economist or financial analyst. This is more like a layman’s view of whats happening, based on what I read in articles, maganizes, news and research in the internet. And when these are digested inside my head, I get all these bad burps, more like the worst case scenarios.

India has been touted as the economy that will handle all kinds of crisis. But I really wonder if India will be able to handle the impending economic slowdown following the financial crisis.

A number of financial and investment banks have gone underwater, vanished overnight. Some filed bankruptcy and some were sold off just like that, no questions asked. The US fed is planning a bailout package of 700 billion USD. Nobody knows if this will be enough, nobody know if it will work out. This is just the end of beginning says Swaminathan Aiyer ( he writes a column ’swaminomics’ in times of india)

My take on the bigger reason for slowdown in the US is becos of unbalanced money flow. Traditionally US had embarked on wars to create a ripple demand that starts to roll the economy. Currency flows into India(by way of cheap services) and china(by way of cheap products). China reinvests most of the trade surplus into US treasury by buying US bonds. Indias internal consumption was larger and the money never flowed back. So Net money flow into US has gone down drastically.

India spends most money on buying Oil to generate power for its own economy. Now all the hard push in getting nuclear power technology to India is understandable. The easing of demand for oil would certainly help. But this is only a single step, there are more steps required.

US jobless claims have gone to almost 600,000. The unemployed insurance claims are bound to increase. There are so many lesser people to pay taxes. On top of it add those tax rebates. There is a slowdown in consumer spending, which will soon reflect in the margins. Soon companies will start going down the drain, unable to keep itself alive. laying off people left and right. The cycle could continue…

American politicians will be under tremendous pressure to recreate jobs for the americans. The are definitely going to consider eliminating all tax sops for outsourced projects and insist on giving “American jobs to america”.

India has a lot of exports, textiles for instance. These will definitely take a hit. Almost all exports will suffer.

Indian economy is mostly driven by outsourcing. The first to be affected will be BPO/KPO services. If tech is even touched indian economy is in real trouble. Indian government does not even offer the equivalent of unemployed insurance. This will trigger indian version or the indian equivalent of sub-prime crisis.

Reality and real-estate will tumble down and a lot of allied jobs created in that sector will vanish. I dont think India is set to handle it. Exports will fall, jobs will be lost there too.

Lets face it almost all economies have gone through at least one depression cycle, no amount of regulation can prevent the impending crisis. Congress should be happy becos when all this could or would happen, they will not be in power. This could provide them a means to come to power in the subsequent election.

Atleast for now it appears that China could be the only real super power, given that American economy runs on trade deficit of the order of several trillions. This is deficit is funded by china which has bought the treasury bonds. Even if it thinks about selling off those treasury bonds American economy will go straight down. But americans can always say, those bonds are not valid anymore and laugh out loud at chinese foolishness

Sit tight, save the buck and keep your eyes wide open. The bad is here, worst is yet to come. The good is still long way away, but will surely come someday.