An India vs Australia test match is always great to watch irrespective of it being played @home or away. The conditions @home are quite different from the Australian conditions. The green turf with extra extra bounce replaces a flat turning track @home.
Australia won the toss and Ricky decided to bat.Watson proved his decision to be right by scoring 126. Ponting(71) was run-out by a brilliant one-hand-pick-up-and-throw by Raina. Tim Paine scored a steady 92 along with the right-arm tattooed left-arm fast Mitchell Johnson (37). Australia scored 428 in their 1st innings with a run rate f 2.82. I guess, their slowest ever. Zaheer did the major damage with 5 wickets.
India started their 1st innings rather well with the Delhi openers giving India a decent start. Dravid played a class innings with 77. It was Tendulkar's dismissal on 98 (lbw North) that got the nation disappointed. I was waiting since mornin' to witness Tendulkar's century. Damn, shit happens! Raina proved the selectors decision to pick him instead f Yuvraj by scoring 86 before getting out to a loose shot. Laxman came out @ no-10 to bat as he was nursing a back spasm with he had developed in the 3rd test against SriLanka. Johnson partied on this Indian innings with 5 wickets to his name. India collapsed on 405 giving a 23run lead to Australia.
Australia started their 2nd innings with a good partnership between Watson & Katich but after that the wickets began to tumble and Australia folded on 192. Zaheer & Ishant with 3wickets each, Bhajji & Ojha claiming 2 each.
India needed 216 runs to win.
India begin their chase. Gambhir adjudged lbw to a Hilfenhaus delivery. Wrong decision by the umpire but the Aussies rejoice. Dravid fell for 13 fending off a wide delivery f Bollinger. Sehwag(17) got out to a rising delivery f Hilfenhaus & so did Raina(0). India close 4th day's play with 54/4 with Zaheer as the night-watchman & God @the other end.
5th day:
Tendulkar & Khan start out +ly with Tendulkar playing his strokes & Khan rotating the strike. Zaheer fell to a straighter one by Hauritz on 10. Then walks out VVS Laxman. Little did we noeLaxman would again play a innings f his life lyk the 281. Really, whenever I talk about Laxman I never fail to mention his 281. Tendlukar got out on 38 playing a one-day shot. India's hopes did look bleak for a certain period. VVS continued with his stroke-play. One couldn't imagine that he was nursing a sore back 24hrs ago. Dhoni looked solid before getting run-out due to a mis-understanding with Raina who was running for Laxman. Harbhajan replaced him only to get caught by Paine f Bollinger 2 balls later.
Now, 90 to get with Laxman & long-haired lanky, Ishant at the other end. I had little faith in Lanky after watchin him bat in SriLanka. Laxman showed immense faith in Ishant's batting abilities by getting him on strike for the 2nd ball over f the over instead f the last. There's something about showing faith in your players, something that makes 'that' player click. Ponting showed faith in Hauritz by tossing the ball to him in the morning & he clicked. Ishant & Laxamn played carefully with scoring & keeping the scoreboard ticking.
India 204/8. Drinks. 204/9, Ishant adjuged lbw. Wrong decision again.
12 to win. 1 wicket in hand. Australia were 1 ball away from winning. India were 12runs short. Laxman lost faith in his Ojha & kept most f the strike taking 2's whenever possible. A call for a single by Laxman refused by Ojha left Laxman furious. I must admit, I never saw Laxman lyk "this".
Next over. Right-arm tattooed & left-arm fast Johnson to Ojha. Ojha struck in the pads. All go up. Billy denies. It was plump. Wrong decision by Billy. Long Live Billy, I blessed.
India need 2 runs to win. Right-arm tattooed & left-arm fast Johnson to left-ear pierced Ojha. Johnson straying on Ojha's pads a lil too much.. ball kisses Ojha's pads & gets past the keeper towards the boundary. Watson fields & throws it back to Paine. But, it's all too late, son. India have won!!
Ponting has to wait more to win a test match against India in India as captain. I lyk the sound f this.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
movie review : Aisha.
Cast : Abhay deol, Sonam Kapor, Amrita Puri, Cyrus Sahukar.
Director : Rajshir Ojha.
Sonam "dumb" Kapoor plays Aisha a south-Delhi's rich dad's extremely spoilt child. Sonam shops & shops & shops, wears designer short clothes, designer shoes, dances, talks non-sense, goes to polo matches, does some gardening when she's home, feeds dogs at Animal right centre(ARC), bakes cakes, drives a Volkswagen, goes on camping trips, plays a match-maker, thinks about love the entire time. That's it. That's the whole story of the movie . Oh, yes, I forgot, she also smiles foolishly throughout the film.
There was one more character in the film.. I don't quite remember him.. er.. er.. some lanky fellow, ah, yes.. Abhay Deol. What a waste of talent, son. I was quite a fan f your's after Dev D.
P.S. DO NOT WATCH.
Director : Rajshir Ojha.
Sonam "dumb" Kapoor plays Aisha a south-Delhi's rich dad's extremely spoilt child. Sonam shops & shops & shops, wears designer short clothes, designer shoes, dances, talks non-sense, goes to polo matches, does some gardening when she's home, feeds dogs at Animal right centre(ARC), bakes cakes, drives a Volkswagen, goes on camping trips, plays a match-maker, thinks about love the entire time. That's it. That's the whole story of the movie . Oh, yes, I forgot, she also smiles foolishly throughout the film.
There was one more character in the film.. I don't quite remember him.. er.. er.. some lanky fellow, ah, yes.. Abhay Deol. What a waste of talent, son. I was quite a fan f your's after Dev D.
P.S. DO NOT WATCH.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
movie review : Salt.
Cast : Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber
Director : Phillip Noyce
If you read the script of this film before you watch the movie you'll imagine Tom cruise & no one else doing it. Unfortunately, even Tom imagined himself doing this film & refused it later saying it was "Mission Impossible" kinda film. Bad decision, Tom.
Once Tom's refused it try to imagine someone else for the script.. umm.. may be a woman.. um.. umm.. Jo.. Jolie.. Angelina Jolie, ah yes. That's the only name that comes to mind. And rightly so.
Jolie plays, Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who's accused f being a Russian spy.
The plot f the film is nuthin great. In fact it's worthy f a ridicule. The only thing that works for Salt is that the lead is a woman and a sexy one at that. The action scenes are too good. Your heart will skip a beat when you see Jolie jumping off the roof-tops f vehicles on a busy free-way. Okay, these kinda action sequences you've seen before but not by a woman, you see. Jolie brings mysteriousness into her character. The film is fast-paced which makes you overlook the holes in the script.
It turns out that Cruise must think twice before rejecting (read : Salt) or accepting (read: Knight and Day) a film. Tym to get a new advisor, eh son?
P.S. worth a watch for Jolie, for action or jus find a reason and go..
Director : Phillip Noyce
If you read the script of this film before you watch the movie you'll imagine Tom cruise & no one else doing it. Unfortunately, even Tom imagined himself doing this film & refused it later saying it was "Mission Impossible" kinda film. Bad decision, Tom.
Once Tom's refused it try to imagine someone else for the script.. umm.. may be a woman.. um.. umm.. Jo.. Jolie.. Angelina Jolie, ah yes. That's the only name that comes to mind. And rightly so.
Jolie plays, Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who's accused f being a Russian spy.
The plot f the film is nuthin great. In fact it's worthy f a ridicule. The only thing that works for Salt is that the lead is a woman and a sexy one at that. The action scenes are too good. Your heart will skip a beat when you see Jolie jumping off the roof-tops f vehicles on a busy free-way. Okay, these kinda action sequences you've seen before but not by a woman, you see. Jolie brings mysteriousness into her character. The film is fast-paced which makes you overlook the holes in the script.
It turns out that Cruise must think twice before rejecting (read : Salt) or accepting (read: Knight and Day) a film. Tym to get a new advisor, eh son?
P.S. worth a watch for Jolie, for action or jus find a reason and go..
Friday, September 10, 2010
movie review : The Expendables.
Cast : Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet li, Mickey Rourke
Direction : Sylvester Stallone.
When thousands f bullets are fired, why the bloody hell they don't hit the heroes?
Sly could've made the movie in a much better way yet he stuck to the pointless fights scenes, explosions, car chases & blowing up a entire South-American place just to a take a dictator down because he misbehaved with a girl who was 50yrs younger than him. It looked like a 80's action film.
Jason Statham was good as he always is. Mickey Rourke was terrible. Jet li should have been used more.
The action sequences shown in the film were not original. The story was baseless.
Sly, i'hv to ask you one thing -- man, doesn't it hurt when u get tattooed?
P.S. go if you're a action fan.
Direction : Sylvester Stallone.
When thousands f bullets are fired, why the bloody hell they don't hit the heroes?
Sly could've made the movie in a much better way yet he stuck to the pointless fights scenes, explosions, car chases & blowing up a entire South-American place just to a take a dictator down because he misbehaved with a girl who was 50yrs younger than him. It looked like a 80's action film.
Jason Statham was good as he always is. Mickey Rourke was terrible. Jet li should have been used more.
The action sequences shown in the film were not original. The story was baseless.
Sly, i'hv to ask you one thing -- man, doesn't it hurt when u get tattooed?
P.S. go if you're a action fan.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Movie review: The Wrestler.
Cast : Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
To tell you the truth, I never liked watching wrestling because I always knew it was fake & it was meant to entertain void minds. I watched this movie on a recommendation & I'm glad I did.
The wrestler is a story of a professional wrestler, a husband, a father & a loner.
Mickey(randy) once a famous pro-wrestler is, now, after 20yrs a loner who has trouble paying his rent & with that he has health concerns too. Randy takes steroids and it results in a heart-attack after a match & the doc advises him not to take that stuff anymore & also quit his wrestling career as he feels his heart wont cope up with him.
Randy has a crush on a most-wanted stripper of a club that he frequently visits named Cassidy & he looks up to her for affection and care. Randy also has a daughter on whom he had walked out several years ago due to his career. Now, that Randy is lonely he visits his daughter & tells her that he had an heart-attack but she is furious with him & does not care for him now for he walked outta her life when she needed him the most. But later on, she succumbs & loves her father back.
The father-daughter relationship shown in the film is beautiful.
There a couple of very good scenes in the film lyk the wrestling match in which staple-guns were used is breath-taking & the scene in the final parts of the movie where Randy walks out furiously off the store where he works & calls his manager & tells him that he would lyk to take up wrestling again.
P.S. Worth a watch. Never really expected a big guy to act so well. Rated R.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
To tell you the truth, I never liked watching wrestling because I always knew it was fake & it was meant to entertain void minds. I watched this movie on a recommendation & I'm glad I did.
The wrestler is a story of a professional wrestler, a husband, a father & a loner.
Mickey(randy) once a famous pro-wrestler is, now, after 20yrs a loner who has trouble paying his rent & with that he has health concerns too. Randy takes steroids and it results in a heart-attack after a match & the doc advises him not to take that stuff anymore & also quit his wrestling career as he feels his heart wont cope up with him.
Randy has a crush on a most-wanted stripper of a club that he frequently visits named Cassidy & he looks up to her for affection and care. Randy also has a daughter on whom he had walked out several years ago due to his career. Now, that Randy is lonely he visits his daughter & tells her that he had an heart-attack but she is furious with him & does not care for him now for he walked outta her life when she needed him the most. But later on, she succumbs & loves her father back.
The father-daughter relationship shown in the film is beautiful.
There a couple of very good scenes in the film lyk the wrestling match in which staple-guns were used is breath-taking & the scene in the final parts of the movie where Randy walks out furiously off the store where he works & calls his manager & tells him that he would lyk to take up wrestling again.
P.S. Worth a watch. Never really expected a big guy to act so well. Rated R.
Friday, August 13, 2010
movie review : Knight and Day.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz
Director: James Mangold
Tom cruise & Cameron Diaz -- what more could a director ask for. Both of 'em are still charming as were in Vanilla Sky.
Cruise plays a CIA agent, Roy Miller & Diaz play a regular girl, June who mixes herself in Cruise's affairs. Unnecessarily. The film lacks chemistry & this has made it very difficult to understand as to why Diaz accompanies Cruise to all the dangerous locations. Speaking f the locations , they're beautiful.
Although the films lacks chemistry between it's lead actors it makes up with the action sequences. My personal favorite is the one in which Cruise jumps from one car top to another on the freeway. Cruise still manages to keep the audiences glued to their seats when it comes to action sequence. However, he should seriously rethink before opting for Romantic-thriller kinda films. Not his cup-f-tea, I feel.
Cruise disappoints. Diaz disappoints. The film disappoints.
P.S. It's very important not to waste a talent lyk Tom Cruise's.
Director: James Mangold
Tom cruise & Cameron Diaz -- what more could a director ask for. Both of 'em are still charming as were in Vanilla Sky.
Cruise plays a CIA agent, Roy Miller & Diaz play a regular girl, June who mixes herself in Cruise's affairs. Unnecessarily. The film lacks chemistry & this has made it very difficult to understand as to why Diaz accompanies Cruise to all the dangerous locations. Speaking f the locations , they're beautiful.
Although the films lacks chemistry between it's lead actors it makes up with the action sequences. My personal favorite is the one in which Cruise jumps from one car top to another on the freeway. Cruise still manages to keep the audiences glued to their seats when it comes to action sequence. However, he should seriously rethink before opting for Romantic-thriller kinda films. Not his cup-f-tea, I feel.
Cruise disappoints. Diaz disappoints. The film disappoints.
P.S. It's very important not to waste a talent lyk Tom Cruise's.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
movie review : Milenge Milenge
Cast : Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Delnaaz Paul, Satish Shah, Satish Kaushik, Aarti Chhabaria.
Director : Satish Kaushik
Shahid to Kareena :
" Priya, mujhe sirf 5 min do. Priya, mein janta hun ki maine tumhe dhuk diya hai. Mujhetumhari dairy padne ka koi haq nahi tha. Par us raat jab guards se bachne k liye meintumhare kamremein aaya tab meri nazar tum par paddi aur mein tumhe dhekta hi rehgaya. Isilye maine wahisab kiya jiss se tumhe mein hi woh ladka hun jiski tumhe talashthi. But believe me Priya, mainesab isliye nahi kiya kyuki mein tumhara mazak udanachahta tha par isiliye kiya kyuki.. I love you, Priya. Please give me one chance, Priya."
Karrena to Shahid : "ho gaye 5 min?"
(Kareena walks out)
Shahid to Kareena : "Priya, mujhe poora yakeen hai ki taqdeer humko milana chahti hai."
Kareena : "Taxiiiiiii.. "
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.. That is what happened in their real lyf as well, isn't it?
At the start f the movie :
(a song plays in the background) -- shez full f lyf, full f style.. uska masum sa chehra..
Kareena helps 2 girls to cross the road & shez sees a man smoking, goes upto him, removes the cigarette from his mouth & throws it away. Dude, I would have slapped her.
Kareena wants to find her Mr. Right. She thinks about this the whole day. Duh, what a loser. A tarot card reader (Kiron Kher) tells her that she will find her man on a beach in a foreign land at 7: am & he will be wearing clothes consisting f 7 different colors (man, I almost fell down laufin here) & next scene is Shahid getting up from his bed late in the morning.
Following the tarot card reader's prediction Kareena gets smitten by Shahid but later finds that he's a liar, a smoker & drinker too. So, leaves him & shifts base to Mumbai from Dehli. Shahid goes to US for 3 years comes back & still can't forget Kareena & vice versa. Typical Bollywood film, you see.
Karrena is getting married to some Jatin unwillingly may be because she feels her clock is ticking or so & Shahid is getting married to Sophia(Aarti Chhabaria) may be because he has nothing else to do.
While parting in the first scene mentioned, Kareena makes Shahid write his name & no on a 50rupee note & she writes her name & no on a book she buys using that 50rupee note & then sells it at a old book store. She says that if if they are really supposed to be together, she will get back that 50 rupee note & Shahid will find that book, somehow. How Dumb!
So, when both are supposed to get married in a day or two, Kareena finds that 50rupee note & Shahid that book. Voila!
Kareena barges into Shahid's marriage ceremony & they get married there and then. Wow!
Cudn't get more dumber than this, I must say.
This movie was supposed to release on 23rd Dec, 2005 but due to some financial problems, Kareena-Shahid break-up, Tsunami in the Indian Ocean they stalled the release of the film. Man, you should have never made the film. That would have saved you a lot f money & embarrassment as well.
The acting is worst throughout the film. There's absolutely no chemistry between Shahid & kareena. Delnaz Paul is as stupid as she is fat.
P.S. agar tumhe tym nahi 'mila' ye movie dhekne toh achha hoga..
Director : Satish Kaushik
Shahid to Kareena :
" Priya, mujhe sirf 5 min do. Priya, mein janta hun ki maine tumhe dhuk diya hai. Mujhetumhari dairy padne ka koi haq nahi tha. Par us raat jab guards se bachne k liye meintumhare kamremein aaya tab meri nazar tum par paddi aur mein tumhe dhekta hi rehgaya. Isilye maine wahisab kiya jiss se tumhe mein hi woh ladka hun jiski tumhe talashthi. But believe me Priya, mainesab isliye nahi kiya kyuki mein tumhara mazak udanachahta tha par isiliye kiya kyuki.. I love you, Priya. Please give me one chance, Priya."
Karrena to Shahid : "ho gaye 5 min?"
(Kareena walks out)
Shahid to Kareena : "Priya, mujhe poora yakeen hai ki taqdeer humko milana chahti hai."
Kareena : "Taxiiiiiii.. "
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.. That is what happened in their real lyf as well, isn't it?
At the start f the movie :
(a song plays in the background) -- shez full f lyf, full f style.. uska masum sa chehra..
Kareena helps 2 girls to cross the road & shez sees a man smoking, goes upto him, removes the cigarette from his mouth & throws it away. Dude, I would have slapped her.
Kareena wants to find her Mr. Right. She thinks about this the whole day. Duh, what a loser. A tarot card reader (Kiron Kher) tells her that she will find her man on a beach in a foreign land at 7: am & he will be wearing clothes consisting f 7 different colors (man, I almost fell down laufin here) & next scene is Shahid getting up from his bed late in the morning.
Following the tarot card reader's prediction Kareena gets smitten by Shahid but later finds that he's a liar, a smoker & drinker too. So, leaves him & shifts base to Mumbai from Dehli. Shahid goes to US for 3 years comes back & still can't forget Kareena & vice versa. Typical Bollywood film, you see.
Karrena is getting married to some Jatin unwillingly may be because she feels her clock is ticking or so & Shahid is getting married to Sophia(Aarti Chhabaria) may be because he has nothing else to do.
While parting in the first scene mentioned, Kareena makes Shahid write his name & no on a 50rupee note & she writes her name & no on a book she buys using that 50rupee note & then sells it at a old book store. She says that if if they are really supposed to be together, she will get back that 50 rupee note & Shahid will find that book, somehow. How Dumb!
So, when both are supposed to get married in a day or two, Kareena finds that 50rupee note & Shahid that book. Voila!
Kareena barges into Shahid's marriage ceremony & they get married there and then. Wow!
Cudn't get more dumber than this, I must say.
This movie was supposed to release on 23rd Dec, 2005 but due to some financial problems, Kareena-Shahid break-up, Tsunami in the Indian Ocean they stalled the release of the film. Man, you should have never made the film. That would have saved you a lot f money & embarrassment as well.
The acting is worst throughout the film. There's absolutely no chemistry between Shahid & kareena. Delnaz Paul is as stupid as she is fat.
P.S. agar tumhe tym nahi 'mila' ye movie dhekne toh achha hoga..
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