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Can you be fair Filmfare? – Amit Sharma

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Can you be fair Filmfare? Katrina – I don’t care which award function this is. I just have to move my hips. In the last decade, the number of award functions for honoring shoddy Bollywood movies and catering to star fantasies of holding any inane trophy has reached an alarming crescendo. You flip one channel and there is an award function going on where SRK is doing a gig. Flip again and lo! But I have a problem with a perticular award which regrettably is also the oldest one. Filmfare. Coolie No. 1.

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manojalpa....(mind talk): 11/08/13 - 18/08/13

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Sunday, 11 August 2013. My "to-blog" list is already running into several pages, but what has shaken me from the typo-hibernation is something so unexpected (and some may term it unblog-worthy) that even I am taken aback! My close friends know that I am no fan of actor Shakrukh Khan's films. The ones that I have actually watched throughout can be counted on two fingers of one hand (Swades and Chake De! What's wrong with these people? For those who hav...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): 09/09/12 - 16/09/12

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Tuesday, 11 September 2012. She lives in India, Bhopal (north) and has called up her aunt's husband, also in India, Nasik (west). Her aunt (father's sister) and he had visited Melbourne, Australia, the previous year. Notepad and pen in hand, she launches off her questions. Uncle, when do you think is the right time to visit Melbourne? My dear, I'm telling you this, your time to visit Melbourne. But it must be cold there right now! No my dear, this far...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): 06/06/10 - 13/06/10

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Wednesday, 9 June 2010. Who Else am I not-Part Five: "The Bell(e)s of St. Mary's". All eyes in the school refectory (dining hall) were on the tiny bell in Sister's hands. The hands of the girls were busy too. It was bath day for Class twelve. Unseen by Sister's eyes, hands were busy undoing what could be undone without any indecency involved- hair, shoes, etc., so that minimum time was wasted once in the bathrooms. The reason was simple. Hot water...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): The Monsoon Traveller.....……(written while listening to strains of Khwabon ke Parinday/Der Lagi Lekin-Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara )

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Saturday, 7 July 2012. The Monsoon Traveller.……(written while listening to strains of Khwabon ke Parinday/Der Lagi Lekin-Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara ). It’s that time of the year when walls, buildings, markets, people, (most) gadgets start to annoy and coalesce into a list of 100 extremely avoidable and irritating things…. Nature’s loud, noisy signals have a Pied Piper kind of effect, luring the monsoon traveller to use any means to get away…. The sky is...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): 17/01/10 - 24/01/10

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Friday, 22 January 2010. Who Else am I not-"The Two Idiots". The next decade was a blur of places, names, people, schools, uniforms, teachers, exams, report cards. The one thing that remained constant in our lives were the Himalayas. In this time, my father went from Udhampur, through Kalimpong(a second time), and Phuntsholing(Bhutan) to Thimphu (Bhutan). The first was that academics became an inconsequential matter in our household, though not delibe...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): Chennai Express (ed)!!...Critics or Cynics??!!

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Sunday, 11 August 2013. My "to-blog" list is already running into several pages, but what has shaken me from the typo-hibernation is something so unexpected (and some may term it unblog-worthy) that even I am taken aback! My close friends know that I am no fan of actor Shakrukh Khan's films. The ones that I have actually watched throughout can be counted on two fingers of one hand (Swades and Chake De! What's wrong with these people? For those who hav...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): 22/04/12 - 29/04/12

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Friday, 27 April 2012. Letter of despair, outrage.and envy! This post is written purely in jest, and if you read it carefully, you will find that I am laughing at myself, and. Not at Mr. Bhagat,. Dear Mr. Bhagat (may I call you Chetan? Your next book is out, and none of mine are. This is an honest, open letter telling you about my (until now) closed feelings concerning your writing. As I set out to test this fact. Why am I sooooo worked up, you ask?

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manojalpa....(mind talk): Hello, hello!! Melbourne calling....

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Tuesday, 11 September 2012. She lives in India, Bhopal (north) and has called up her aunt's husband, also in India, Nasik (west). Her aunt (father's sister) and he had visited Melbourne, Australia, the previous year. Notepad and pen in hand, she launches off her questions. Uncle, when do you think is the right time to visit Melbourne? My dear, I'm telling you this, your time to visit Melbourne. But it must be cold there right now! No my dear, this far...

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manojalpa....(mind talk): 13/04/14 - 20/04/14

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Responses, reminisces, speculations, opinions, ideas. Friday, 18 April 2014. Giving up, for just a while-(written for a young friend who is battling a health problem). In trying times, and those of despair. You are often told to hang in there. 8220;Be strong, be brave”. Your loved ones sing along. 8220;It’s all about getting up and moving on.”. 8220;You can do it”, they cry. 8220;Don’t give up or give in. Life gives you lemons at times. So just have lemonade and grin.”. They love you and mean well. CHANG...