Shabana Azmi on Farooque Sheikh and their College Life in 1960's

Did Aliens Kidnapped Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 ?

It has been 12 days since this plane vanished into thin air and all the efforts of countries like U.S.,China and India have yielded no result.We had been discussing this at our work-place since long and when there seems no explanation people start searching for super-natural or extra-terrestrial explanation.In this day of advanced technology is it humanely possible that such a huge plane can just disappear like wizards apparated in Harry Potter or it vanished into a parallel universe as shown in Thor: The Dark World (2013).

Craziness and Joy of Holi and Oprah's "Just Say Hello Campaign"

A campaign to fight loneliness Oprah Winfrey's "Just Say Hello" campaign urges people to say Hello to strangers.And in this festival of Holi I had people whom I didn't knew wishing me Happy Holi.A child with a "Pichkari" in hand ran out and said "Happy Holi Uncle",a guy riding on a scooter said "Happy Holi Bhai-saahab".

In the morning most streets were deserted and only merry children could be see playing with colors and thoroughly enjoying themselves.

Later on in the day when people had one too many you could see guys on bikes in tipsy state just stopping to collect themselves.I saw a guy butts half exposed lying in front of a closed shop in an inebriated state looking quite confused.A man who couldn't control his motorcycle collided with my bicycle and said sorry with a goofy lost grin.

We had two guys on a motorbike with a drum between them going around singing Holi songs.Mostly young boys were on streets hugging each other putting 'abir' 'gulal' colors on each other,laughing and chatting and wishing each other happy Holi.A guy sitting behind two of his friends on a Bike bursting joyfully into singing "Jaate Ho Jaane Jaana" from Amitabh's Parvarish."Sunny Sunny" from Yaariyaan was a favorite song this Holi,young boys and kids dancing gleefully to the tune while spraying colors on each other.Vendors continued to sell colors throughout the day.

At 12:00 Noon Holi ends but mirth and madness continued.I saw a group of Boys all drenched in colors with faces smeared in multiple colors,who have all seem to have lost their shirts or they got too wet and teared of.One guy sitting behind his friend on a motorcycle was wearing a half torn shirt which had only sleeves remaining and his pants were all reduced to the the size of an underwear.Three guys on a bike stopped to take a breath they guy driving was too tipsy to drive and the guy in the middle was dozing off.

Nimbu Park Lucknow

Queen (2014) - Review - Kangna's Roman Holiday

Not that its shot in Rome but is as uplifting in spirit as Audrey Hepburn's Roman Holiday.And two of her leaving her fiance and setting her self free scenes are so similar to Gregory Peck walking off after leaving the princess with not a regret but a beautiful smile.This is lovely musical about a girl discovering her self and starting life afresh after she goes into depression because her fiance left her at the altar.Each and every song by composer Amit Trivedi is great and the Asha Bhosle Bindu dance number "Hungama ho gaya" from Anhonee (1973) with music from Laxmikant Pyarelal is an added bonus and exhilarating.Vikas Bahl's Flawless direction and interesting story-line makes it a entertaining watch.

 In Amsterdam she has to live in Hostel with these three boys and develops a strong platonic relationship with them.Taka (Jeffrey Chee Eng Ho)the Japanese guy is brought on vacation by his two friends after his parents die in Tsunami in Japan.He is the most wonderful character in any movie I have seen in recent times.He is very expressive yet simple and has many light-hearted and emotional scenes in this film,in some funny scenes he reminded me of Tushar Kapoor in Golmaal series of movie.You know like a close person treating you like crap and a complete stranger giving you warmth and affection you need,to get out of that dark place you are in.

 Rajkummar Rao plays Kangna's fiance and delivers a polished performance."Director Vikas Bahl covered 145 locations in 40 days while shooting for Queen in Europe.When director Vikas Bahl took off to cities like Paris and Amsterdam in Europe to shoot for his film Queen with Kangana Ranaut, he took with him a crew of only 25 people. The director said that they didn’t have the budget to shoot elaborate sequences or stay put at one location for long. “We were just 25 people from India for the shoot. We would book a place for a couple of hours, then rush to another location. We would eat at the nearest hotel where we were shooting, and at times Kangana would change her clothes in public toilets! We shot in about 145 locations in 40 days,” said Bahl." - from Indian Express

Lisa Haydon as Vijayalakshmi is nice too.

Snapdragons or Dragon flowers (Antirrhinum genus)

Cineraria

yellow bells or yellow trumpet

Can you identify this Flower