Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I love Douglas Adams's writing. His stories aren't the most logical. For the first few pages of his first book, I tended to comapare it with J K Rowling's, since both belonged to the same genre - fantasy - but gave it up as a bad job. There is nothing that makes sense except for the snide comments about England or the people in general.

This is one line I liked a lot. Pay attention at the end..


<..he describes a tense situation, the-time-has-stopped-kind of a situation followed by these lines..>

for example..

....he stared at the humanoids who could be described as cavemen, except for the slight fact that they lived in huts.

They looked very savage to Arthur and the guttural sounds that they emitted made no sense to him. But their actions conveyed that they clearly didn't want company. One of the cavemen moved forward.

Arthur's throat became dry.

Nothing happened.

Nothing continued to happen for the next two minutes.. (!!!)


The last two lines has been there in the first two books of his series. I am reading the third book right now. Will look out for those lines..

Abishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan is too good! I was laughing all the time when I watched him in both of the 'Koffee with Karan' episodes. He rocks! He is way better than his father. He's awesome! His father should retire. There should be an age bar for movies! You just get sick and tired of his stereotypical acting sometimes. I feel that he has had his moments of glory and should step aside and not hog the scene. Sentiments similar to those you get when you think about Sean Connery!

HBP

Spoiler Warning!!

I didn't think it was the best of J K Rowling's books. It was a slight bit of disappointment for me. The main reason was because Dumbledore died. I had an intuition that it was going to happen. The other reason is that it had nothing drastically new to tell.

The plus points are of course - Harry and Ginny, Ron and Hermione, more knowledge about the past life of Voldemort and about Horcruxes. But on the whole it was a darker book, and lacked a lot of funny stuff I usually like. I agree that life has gotten more complicated for Harry, but that doesnt mean there is no space for some good times. About Harry and Ginny, I had already mentioned my views in this blog before I read the book.

Now I would like to predict another thing that will happen in book 7. Snape will not turn out bad. He has never stopped being true to Dumbledore. He had to kill Dumbledore, because he had made the Unbreakable Vow, and he had made the Unbreakable Vow because he had to prove to Voldemort and his followers that he was indeed a true confidant of the Death Eaters. He had Narcissa already convinced, and helped clear some doubts about him in the mind of Bellatrix also. You may ask, did he really need to kill Dumbledore to prove that? And the answer is.. well! somebody would have killed Dumbledore one way or the other. Even if Draco was scared, Fenrir or one of the others would have done the job. By doing it himself, Snape protected himself from the Unbreakable Vow and reinstated his reputation in the eyes of Voldemort. I think he is going to help Harry a lot in the next book. And this Horcrux thing sounds a lot interesting.

1 2 ka 4

How did I miss this movie? I must have been too young then to notice it.. Awesome A R Rahman music. And who else to better carry the charm of it than Shahrukh? The story is fully timepass. But I like timepass movies. I read somewhere that it is similar to 'Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke' which is also one of my favorite movies. I would not agree with the person who made this comment. Though '1 2 ka 4' is in the same genre as the former, it is different.

I love the songs - 'Dil Ki Baazi Lagaa', 'Sona Nahi Na Sahi' and 'Khamoshiyan Gungunaane Lagi'. The songs sound familiar. I must have watched them on DD in 'Super Hit Muqabla' or something. Those were the days..

Paheli

Saw the movie. Expected it to be more of a moral story. Looking at it as a reproduction of a folktale, seems really good. Nice timepass..