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Taare Zameen Par Loses The Oscar Race

A couple of days ago as I was sitting in my hostel room, a friend of mine came and said that Taare Zameen Par had missed the Oscar bus. He might have been expecting me to give out an elated expression considering the fact that I am a hardcore anti-Aamir Khan. But to his surprise I let out a disappointing SHIT!!!!! He was taken aback. He asked me what happened to me and why wasn't I happy that an Aamir Khan film had missed out on the Oscars?

It was then that I told him that, if TZP would have been nominated, it would have been a recognition for India as a whole and not only to Aamir Khan. And my disappointment was not because an Aamir Khan movie had missed out on Oscars. It was because an INDIAN movie had missed out. And I had seriously wanted TZP to get nominated.

And to put the record straight,
'I love my country INDIA MORE than I hate Aamir Khan'

The 'KING' Does India Proud..........AGAIN !!!!!

Golden Globes - One of the biggest awards ceremony in the world was held in Hollywood yesterday and needless to say the very beautiful Slumdog Millionaire won all the important awards at the ceremony.

For the first time ever, the Golden Globes had a major Indian connection to it. Slumdog Millionaire - The movie that won the Best Movie Award, was a story of an Indian and was completely shot in India. A.R Rahman (arguably the World's best Musician) won the Golden Globe for the Best Music.

Finally, the throne was perfectly set for the 'KING' to descend and he descended in awesome elan and swept Hollywood off its feet. Wearing a Black suit and a tie inside his shirt, he walked in and the world looked with awe at the MOST POWERFUL FILM STAR OF THE WORLD as he stood before them. He surely had the entire Hollywood in splits with his trademark cheeky humour.

It was the first time ever that an Indian was being invited to an awards ceremony as big as the Golden Globes to present an award. This surely is the beginning of the recognition of India worldwide and King Khan is one of its driving force or maybe a major driving force.

After having made it to the Newsweek's list of World's 50 Most Powerful People at the 41st position, King Khan has again added a 'First' to many of his 'Firsts'. And mind you he is the only movie star of the world to have made it to the list, leaving behind the more hyped Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise.

But still there are people who debate on King Khan's power. Some make films with the title Kinng(note the spelling mistake) and some guy calls himself the King - a claim that is supported and endorsed only by him and his cronies. Maybe he is actually suffering from short term memory loss because he always keeps on forgetting that King Khan is currently at such a dizzying height of fame and power that he could never reach that place all his life no matter how hard or maybe how negatively he tries.

Roomie's Hinglish 'TADKA'

1) IRONY OF THE SITUATION
2) I DON'T HAVE THE 'SLIGHTEST' IDEA
3) WHAT THE F@#$ IS THAT?
4) SAPNE ME MILTI HAI
5) BIJLEE

Well.... Now what exactly does the above phrases mean?????

These are the Hinglish 'TADKA' used by my roomie- Harshit Agarwal (Sec F). Usually in our hostel we talk in Hindi rather than in English coz we would be more comfortable in our mother tongue. But my roomie is different. His continous flow of Hindi is interrupted by some 'out of the blue' TADKA. And mind you these TADKAs are so hilarious that I am left in splits most of the time. Now I will tell the situations of the above TADKAS in detail.

1) Well the first TADKA didn't happen with me. It was something that his previous classmates told me (prior to him joining MBA). He was doing his engineering final year in MSRIT- Bangalore.

Two of his friends were talking about their salaries after having got placed. One of them was placed at 6.5 lakhs package and the other was placed at 4.5 lakhs package, but the latter had got an appraisal of 1 lakhs. So the former was telling him that you are consistently getting appraisals and all that stuff in a lighter vein. And all the conversation was purely in Hindi. And Harshit who was not talking till then suddenly sprang up and told the guy with the higher package, 'See the IRONY OF THE SITUATION, whoz talking?' And his friends were stunned to silence, thinking that what had suddenly happened to Harshit and how did English spring into the conversation.

2) The second TADKA was in our hostel. I had kept my nail cutter in my room and had forgotten where I had kept it. So I asked him in Hindi, as to whether he had seen the nail cutter. And to my surprise, the person who seldom talk in English replied with 'I don't have the slightest idea about the nail cutter.', leaving me dumb-founded.

3) The third TADKA was when one of our hostel mates had come to our room. There was a water bottle kept on our table and by mistake his hand fell on that bottle and that bottle fell down. In a split second, Harshit shouted out 'What the F@#$ is that?'. Initially, that guy got frightened but then Harshit broke out laughing and the other Guy understood that Harshit was joking. Otherwise I would bet that, that person would have profusely apologized to Harshit.

4) The forth TADKA was again in our hostel room. I was studying and Harshit was doing his assignment. For a change the ambience of our room was very studious. And suddenly Harshit turned around and starting singing the song 'Sapnon mein milti hai', almost frightening me. And later on he asked, 'Arre Ahmed kaunsi film ka gaan hai yeh?' And believe me, I almost had a stomach ache breaking out laughing at the way he sang the song. Now Harshit is officially the WORLD'S BEST BATHROOM SINGER. Hehehe!!!

5) The fifth TADKA is BIJLEE. We were watching the song 'Yeh jo desh hai tera' from the film Swades and in the song there is a scene when King Khan runs the power generation machine and in a run down hut the bulb light. And there is a very old women looking at that lighted bulb and saying 'BIJLEE'. And HArshit almost imitated her in the same manner and tome as that old lady had spoken in the movie. And I still tease him by calling him BIJLEE. And even on his birthday, we had written on his cake,
'HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIJLEE'

Well my roomie is an awesome guy and the room no:- 301(where we reside) in our hostel is always like a house on fire.

The Best Song I have Heard Lately..........

Tujhe milke laga hai yeh,
Tujhe dhoond raha tha main,
Tujh mein hain kuch aisi subah sa,
Jiske khatir main tha jaga sa......Maahi

My roomie Harshit played this song on his laptop while I was doing my assignment and I loved this song so much that I have been listening to this song ever since. This song is from the movie Raaz- The Mystery Continues. I don't know about the movie because it has not yet released but I found this song awesome.

'SATYA' (TRUTH) NAILS SATYAM!!!!!

'SATYAM A BIG LIE'

This was what today's Economic Times was shouting compelling me to go through it. I knew that Satyam was under a cloud of fraud and that the World Bank had banned it for 8 years. But what actually left me shocked was the confession of Satyam Chairman Mr. Ramlinga Raju that the fraud had actually happened and even more surprising is that it had been under wraps for several years. More skeletons would be off the closet in the coming days amidst accusations and counter accusations.

Satyam Computer Services Chairman B Ramalinga Raju’s admission he had cooked the company’s books has undoubtedly left India’s fourth-largest software exporter struggling to survive the fallout, but his misdeeds may cast a cloud over the squeaky-clean profile of the entire sector, and by extension, the rest of the Indian corporate sector.

Satyam might be facing the heat right but the Satyam saga has clearly dealt a blow to the Indian IT dream.

The IT industry represents modern India. They are the ones who have created brand ‘India’ on Wall Street. But Raju's fraud might change the Indian IT dream forever. After all, the fourth largest Indian IT company, Satyam has fallen off the cliff, in what unfolds as the most dramatic frauds of recent times. Now, the clients would think twice before engaging with an Indian IT vendor. The reason is simple—they would ponder over whether the law of the land can be trusted anymore.

It’s certainly going to be tough ride for the Indian outsourcing industry with the recessionary pressure of the west on one hand and now, an image crisis.
Meanwhile, the international biggies like IBM and HP will benefit directly, unless the industry leaders go all out to defend their credibility.

But many experts believe that the damage would not be limited to the IT sector alone. There are various other sectors that would feel the pinch and would have to prove their credibility all over again.

The ET was saying that money worth 7000 crores has been manipulated with and if convicted Mr. Raju could face upto 10 years in jail or 25 crores fine or both. It was the failed Maytas Deal that pricked the Satyam bubble. It was the same Maytas company promoted by Mr. Raju's sons, that had bagged the prestigious Hyderabad Metro Rail Project and now that project is in doldrums as the Govt. of AP is said to be reconsidering it.

The repercussions were felt in the stock market too, when the markets fell by 749 points and Satyam's shares crashing by 80%. The stock market runs on sentiments and it would now be very difficult for Satyam to gain back that confidence of its investors. Sources say that Satyam has no money left in its accounts and would not run beyond a month.

From now on its a wait and watch game. With the law taking its own course, there would be more earth shattering SATYA (TRUTH) that would be unveiled and SATYAM - India's first outsourcing Company will virtually be history.

HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2009

TRIPLEM WISHES ALL ITS VIEWERS A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR AND PRAYS TO RAB TO MAKE 2009 A VERY PEACEFUL YEAR