Sunday, May 30, 2004
Count Dracula meets Frankeinstein!!!thatz what u get to see in Van Helsing.For a man rumored to be the next bond Hugh Jackman has little time to display his acting skills except during the scenes wherein he turns into a werewolf.....Jackman seems to be the immediate choice for a werewolf for any director these days.The story is set in the age of the Dracula(now what age is that??) and our man plays the title role who kills evil for the church.He is asked to take up the mission of helping the last of the family of knights fighting the dracula.In comes the beautiful Kate Beckinsale as the last of the survivors in her family.Both of them go bat hunting, fighting and killing all those weird looking gooey things on screen.
The movie is a remake of an earlier movie under the same title.On the whole it is a very oridnary one, the story being no different from the so many others that have come before it.Hugh Jackman is not gr8..but not bad either.
If u don't have any other movie to watch then watching Van Helsing woud not be such a bad idea
The movie is a remake of an earlier movie under the same title.On the whole it is a very oridnary one, the story being no different from the so many others that have come before it.Hugh Jackman is not gr8..but not bad either.
If u don't have any other movie to watch then watching Van Helsing woud not be such a bad idea
phew!!
blogging after a really long time.A lot has happened in between.For a change I was not bored or jobless for a couple of months.I no longer need to spend time at that godforsaken haunted place viz my college and I now have an admit to a reputed b-skool ...even better was the fact that I had options!!Yes, u read it rite,options.I had the luxury of choosing between this and a job at Wipro.Now u mite be wondering how come all this in a matter of months???
It all started when I thought that everything was gonna come to an end again(Again??? well...urs truly screwed up in his 12th and landed up at his present college)after my GRE score.Yours truly had made a waste of his two months of effort in building his diction(mugging wud be the correct word) by screwing up in the 1st question.So there went my score...not enuf to take me anywhere...So I went to my usual brooding-sulking mode deeming urs truly to be a big failure in life worth nothing other than the big talk.Then that other half which all of us like to think we have was not willing to give up(the other half has always had a gr8 opinion of urs truly...something which I'll never be able to figure out).I sat n thought for a long while trying to find out what I really was worth for.I realised that I never really was interested in sitting thro' another 2 yrs of engineering, I had saturated my immense pool of patience so there wud be no more of this.It also dawned on me that I might be sitting at home doin' nothing once I said good bye to college if I didnt do anything abt it.Then I thought y not give MBA a shot...If that also flopped I cud always brood and come up with something else.But luckily this time the fear factor stayed with me...stuck to me and got the work done out of me.Everytime I wud try to procrastinate all I had to do was think of another place like college again and lo I wud working at record pace.In between this people at Wipro thought me gud enuf to work for them(about this I shall write in detail later).And so it happened that I managed to clear the entrance tests to 4 institutes....well u can imagine my surprise when I heard abt the results.Finally, I was beginning to believe my other half...probably I was gud at something and maybe I had found it.But very soon the happiness n surprise disappeared as I started receiving bump after bump from my interviews.I got kicked from the interview room of one institute to the other until I landed right back to where I had started from - home.3 bumps and a waiting list which was moving slower than anything that ever moved.I started to console myself saying that atleast I didn't have to waste time at home...I cud do that at Wipro now.Then one day, two weeks back comes a letter from the last palce I got kicked out saying that when they kicked me they didn't mean to apply too much force...so there I was at waiting list no.2..waiting, waiting and waiting.Then two days later I get a call from home saying that I got myself a chance to be a student at a b-skool.So thatz my b-skool story..I shall write abt the rest of the stories as and when I get bored
blogging after a really long time.A lot has happened in between.For a change I was not bored or jobless for a couple of months.I no longer need to spend time at that godforsaken haunted place viz my college and I now have an admit to a reputed b-skool ...even better was the fact that I had options!!Yes, u read it rite,options.I had the luxury of choosing between this and a job at Wipro.Now u mite be wondering how come all this in a matter of months???
It all started when I thought that everything was gonna come to an end again(Again??? well...urs truly screwed up in his 12th and landed up at his present college)after my GRE score.Yours truly had made a waste of his two months of effort in building his diction(mugging wud be the correct word) by screwing up in the 1st question.So there went my score...not enuf to take me anywhere...So I went to my usual brooding-sulking mode deeming urs truly to be a big failure in life worth nothing other than the big talk.Then that other half which all of us like to think we have was not willing to give up(the other half has always had a gr8 opinion of urs truly...something which I'll never be able to figure out).I sat n thought for a long while trying to find out what I really was worth for.I realised that I never really was interested in sitting thro' another 2 yrs of engineering, I had saturated my immense pool of patience so there wud be no more of this.It also dawned on me that I might be sitting at home doin' nothing once I said good bye to college if I didnt do anything abt it.Then I thought y not give MBA a shot...If that also flopped I cud always brood and come up with something else.But luckily this time the fear factor stayed with me...stuck to me and got the work done out of me.Everytime I wud try to procrastinate all I had to do was think of another place like college again and lo I wud working at record pace.In between this people at Wipro thought me gud enuf to work for them(about this I shall write in detail later).And so it happened that I managed to clear the entrance tests to 4 institutes....well u can imagine my surprise when I heard abt the results.Finally, I was beginning to believe my other half...probably I was gud at something and maybe I had found it.But very soon the happiness n surprise disappeared as I started receiving bump after bump from my interviews.I got kicked from the interview room of one institute to the other until I landed right back to where I had started from - home.3 bumps and a waiting list which was moving slower than anything that ever moved.I started to console myself saying that atleast I didn't have to waste time at home...I cud do that at Wipro now.Then one day, two weeks back comes a letter from the last palce I got kicked out saying that when they kicked me they didn't mean to apply too much force...so there I was at waiting list no.2..waiting, waiting and waiting.Then two days later I get a call from home saying that I got myself a chance to be a student at a b-skool.So thatz my b-skool story..I shall write abt the rest of the stories as and when I get bored
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Jus' came back from watching TEHZEEB.If people like Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Verma have established themselves as accomplished filmmakes then people like Khalid Mehmood have been taking care of the lower rungs.With this movie Khalid Mehmood has proved that he is a shitmaker beyond doubt.Urgh!!claiming to be a loose adaptation of a Bergman movie the movie was nothing but truck loads of bs.
