English Vinglish - Review

This Saturday me and S had been  English Vinglish. Sridevi's acting superb. The casting excellent. Direction and editing is worth giving 5 stars. Its a story of a housewife fighting for her identity.
I saw many a women shed tears during the  movie. Frankly even I did :). Its a very simple story or almost no story. But the concept and presentation  excellent.

 Any wife can identify herself with Sridevi in this movie. Especially those times when you call up your husband to tell  him something exciting and he cuts your call. S if u are reading this, you have done that to me so many times.After  8 years  of marriage and 2 children now you at least ask me if its urgent. I am glad for this change in you. I had shed few  tears here .

Another moving scene was when , she has to leave her kids and go to New york and the kids and husband dont even understand what she is going through. No I dint  shed tears here.

All together its a lovely movie. Worth a watch. The acting by everyone is restrained and controlled which in itself is a welcome change .And the movie gets over just when it has to. Just when you start thinking what else is left it gets over. Which is the most important point  his movie.

Sridevi's body wow! sari's worth stealing ,  only sore point is I wish somebody had dubbed for her. Her voice and accent is so bad.

I am in Love-Nook

S  surprised as well as shocked me this year on my birthday by buying me a Nook. And I cannot get enough of it .  Nook is basically a Barnes and Noble e reader.Now people might ask, why not a tablet ? A tablet has internet and O.S and everything. But Nook is just an e reader. For people who love books, Nook is perfect.If you are like me, who is reading 2 books at any given time, then Imagine carrying a John Grisham as well as a Kannada book in your bag. Your shoulders might just give away with all the weight.But Nook has 2 GB storage. It can store a couple of hundred Pdfs, I am having around 30 fictions now in my bag at any given point of time.

• Font can be increased or decreased as you want.
• It Book marks the page automatically . If u r reading book A page 25 and Book B page 57, both are saved, So next time you click on the name of the book , the exact page is opened.
• You can navigate to a particular page by just typing the page number.
• It has capacity of 2 GB.
• It has a huge battery life of close to 20 days once fully charged.
• It has ability to connect to wifi.
• Project Gutenberg is a wonderful site where you can download all classics.
• I am sure all of us know about torrentz for rest of the  stuff.
• It is very very light.In fact lighter than most of the books
• All major books are released even for e readers.
• It costs only around 7000 Rs on ebay.
• Has provision for attaching a memory card also.

It is worth a buy if you are a voracious reader and you are comfortable reading e books.

Cons

• Books cannot be borrowed or leant.
• Need internet to download books.
• You cannot build a collection of books for future generation.

Fortis Hospital, Banerghatta Road-Review

Yesterday I had been to Fortis on Banerghatta road with my aunt. My experience to sum it up was WOW.

• Huge parking space.
• Squeaky clean hospital premises
• Friendly people at reception.
• Nurses well trained. They can very easily spot a vein for taking blood.
• Billing very quick. In fact , they gave me refund for a scan which was conducted  first,and was inconclusive .
• They told me that I was eligible for a  refund and gave it back within 5 minutes.
• Entire system is digitised.All the reports will be directly mailed to concerned physicians  directly.
• Rooms spacious and clean
• Room service efficient.
• Restrooms very clean, and dry.

last but not the least.

• Cost very high. They charge for the services they offer. But if u have an insurance cover, and u need a surgery then go to FORTIS.

Zindagi Milagi na dobara- Movie review

 I went to this movie at the newly opened theater at my place. Wait a minute, theater is the wrong word, it has to be multiplex. So it had been almost 3 years since we had been to the theater, so I was mentioning to S about it last monday. He promptly booked the ticket for this movie.

So requested the  maid  to come on saturday, and lied to her that I need to go to office:). I lied to kids also, cooked saaru, palya for lunch and was in theater which was around 5 mins drive from my place just in time for the movie to start.

The movie was like an ad for Spain tourism with 3 good looking guys. Abhay deol looked out of place.He was visibly uneasy with the role he was playing. Hritik was supposed to be an investment banker, but his walk, his pout he could supress it, his acting was like asking a 10th std fail to pretend like a PHD. Sorry in spite of having crush on hritik when I was in collage could not ignore the fact  that he lacks acting skills.He was not suitable for the  role he was playing. He was looking quite old also. Guess my teenage crush has become an old man, so S was reminding me that even I have become old ,sigh. Age dosen't spare Hritik roshan, so who am I:). Farhan was the  best among the three. This role was made for him.He was the only one who was convincing.

Song except one Senorita,  the others I don't even remember. Screenplay was the  saving grace, as their was an absence of story.
On the  whole, I felt I should have waited for 4 more months or even earlier to watch it on T.V than in theater.

Pai Vinod, Party Hall Review

Been to an engagement party on Sunday to Pai Vinod party hall. I decided to present the facts about the venue.
The hall with a seating capacity of 100, can be adjusted  to accomodate close to 150 people. It has 2 very small rooms with attached bath rooms and a dressing mirror. It has a dining hall which accommodates close to 100 people at one time. And a small pantry which can be used to heat food. It also has backup generator, and a small dais. The dais is provided with a blue screen for background which can be used for decoration.
The Hall is supplied with food from Pai chain of hotels.Lets come to the main point now,the cost. The party hall can be hired for free, but the food would cost 245 INR per plate. And the minimum paltes to be ordered is 150 plates.So minimum cost comes to 37,000INR The venue is generally given to half a day at a time.The Menu includes:

1. Welcome drink, some kind of juice
2. 2 kinds of dry vegetable palya
3. 2 kinds of Kosambri
4. Pickle
5. Payasa
6. Gojju
7. One kind of rice, namely Bisibelebath/pulav/chitranna
8. 2 sweets
9. Puri sagu
10. Boondhi/Bonda
11. Rasam
12. Rice
13. Curd
14. Icecream
15. Beeda
16. Tambula

Quality of Food: Average, not worth 245 Rs.
Service:Good
Cleanliness and Hygiene: Good

The Decoration of the hall based on design starts from 6500 INR.

Overall Rating: Average. The location is good, with easy access to busstop, auto stand. Hence makes it worthwhile.But the big let down is the parking space, as the cars have to be parked on the Gandhi bazaar main road, which is so crowded that unless u reach early at off peak hours, there is no way that you can find a parking space.

The details are as below:

Address:
#196
Gandhi Bazaar Circle
Basavanagudi
Bangalore -560004
Landmark: Opposite Food World

Phone no:

080-26672580, 080-26508078

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