Six years Late

So I finally watched Lagaan a week ago. And since then i re-watched it 3 times. If my math is right , i had seen lagaan 4 times in the past week. The movie did things to me. Am being overtly patriotic the past few days. I started watching cricket matches again. And it was then that out of nowhere i decided am going nowhere outside india. (No that isn't just sensationalism. True blue.)


And during these surging moments of patriotism, was not missed a certain peculiar scene from the movie. During their epic run chase, Aamir khan , completely foreshadowed by his opening partner Pradeep Rawat, runs him out. the fact that he was run out at 49, also supports malicious intentions. Years and eons later Rawat takes revenge by killing the former's girl friend and also bludgeoning him with an iron rod on the head thereby making him a victim of anterograde amnesia. Rawat's actions are thus vindicated.(At the end of the saga, Aamir strikes him back with a rod on his head. So if the prior sypmtoms are to follow, Rawat will also suffer from anterograde amnesia. Thats the plot for ghajini-2 , bloody nincompoops).

Not digressing from the topic i was doing extensive research about the movie. And there was this intriguing discussion at an imdb forum. check this out

Apart from the goof ups mentioned in imdb forums, i have some of my own concerns.

* Guran must be given a three-match ban for showing dissent at the umpires decision and an additional two-match ban for sledging.

* Who is the man of the match? Kachra for taking four wickets or Bhuvan for his century.

* The team that went to central africa, actually had a great time touring the states, beating Kenya,Namibia,Zimbabwe etc. Of course Elizabeth returned to London and was not available for help. So was it part of the greater plan of the English to go to Africa, a tradition that was well espoused by other teams a century later.

That said i congratulate Bhuvan's team on their victory. Bhuvan looks very similar to Dhoni in his batting style.

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still, i care to censor.....

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22 yards has nothing to do with cricket

"Twenty-two yards lay between me and glory. Everything stopped around me, melting into a background blur. All that mattered was me and that ball. All my vision, all my concerntration was focussed on it as it dropeed towards me. In my mind, I heard the words of Steve Heighway and the boys at the Academy. Keep the head still. Weight over the ball. Make good contact. Make the keeper work. Here goes, Bang! The ball flew away from my right foot and accelerated towards the goal. The Kop held its breath. A split-second of silence reigned, save for the sound of the net pulling at the stanchions. Bullseye! Goal! Everyone screamed it. Goal! We're through"

From StevieG's autobiography about his goal against Olympiakos.

Those words make my hair on my neck stand upright every time i read it, just like the goal itself. Nothing can make this blog holy-enough as those would do.

Attica ! Attica !!

Mark David Chapman was a longtime Beatles fan. One day he decided to meet his idol John Lennon. As decided, Chapman met Lennon and had a Beatles Disc signed by him. That moment Chapman's ambition was fulfilled. He wanted to return to his hotel room. He didn't. Instead he pulled out a .38 and shot at Lennon's aorta.

And then he continued reading "The Catcher in the Rye".

When I heard this story,i read the book straight away. The book was a revelation of a kind for me since i wasn't too much into literature before that. Most Importantly what Chapman noticed in it, didn't escape my eyes either. Holden Caulfield, the protaganist of this book is a man who couldn't bear "phony" stuff. He once goes to a movie, which was a box-office classic, but couldn't bear watching it because of the phony acting.

This moment of the book stuck with me. This changed my views about movies and books forever. In other words "It was a life-saving moment for me". Since then i have read this book 3 times. This wasn't the case just with me. Millions of fans who have read this book, never stopped there. Some have read it and re-read it infinite times. Some couldn't get enough. And one of them was Chapman.

John Lennon was a phony bastard. This was a millionaire who once said " Imagine a world without money". This is the guy who sung "I am the walrus" and later said " Sorry I am the Carpenter". Chapman was once a fan of him. But he couldn't accept his phoniness. He ultimately gave up when Lennon went mad and shot his mouth off about McCartney and Beatles and Jesus Christ.

Twenty years hence Chapman is still in Attica serving for the murder. He has written innumerable bail petitions all of them ignored due to the persistent bitch Ono and the Phony fans.

Read this to know more about it.

No wonder Sardarjis are often the butt of ridicule....

Why 23 million is the price of a good trick

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts:



The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary.

The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back.


That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part that we Liverpool supporters call "The El Nino moment"."