Papa Kehte hai

There are many movies which have vanished without a trace in the box office, but there music lingers around. One such movie is Papa Kehte Hai. This Anupam Kher, Mayuri Kango and Jugal Hansraj starter was a much hyped movie with some great music. Music was by Rakesh Roshan and lyrics Javed Akhtar.

The most famous song from the album was Ghar se nikalte he. Nice song but if you have seen the movie you'll realize that there is no connection between the situation and the lyrics of the song. The other song that did well is Pehle pyar ka pehle gum, sung beautifully by Kavitha Krishnamurthy.

There are other nice songs like Mujhse naaraz ho to ho, Ye jo thodese hai paise, Jadoo bhari aakho wali suno and Pyar mein hota hai kya jadoo. Pyar mein is my favourite. You can listen/download the songs here.

Chake de India

I watched Chake De India last night. And I loved it. Here are some of the reasons why

• Its a sports film where the sport isn't cricket.
• The sport is the forgotten national sport of India - Hockey.
  
• Shah Rukh Khan is great. He looks smart, subdued, isn't romancing anyone and acts. The only other movie he has acted is Swades.
  
• The range of emotions - patriotism, sportsmanship, team work and a bit of cricket & male bashing. (Shah Rukh saying, "Hamare hockey mein chake nahi hote hai")
  
• The hockey looks real. The players aren't some models trying to play hockey. Some are models and some are actual players. It seems they all underwent a 3 month rigorous hockey training before shooting the movie.
• Screenplay & dialogues are great. It not that you are at the edge of your seat but it doesn't bore you in any way.
• Makes you wish you were a sports person. Wish you too could represent your country.
  
• Pretty realistic.

A must watch movie. I wouldn't mind another watch.

Great site

I found this great site BTIS about Bangalore traffic. It gives you live traffic situation in the city. It also gives you directions around the city with the auto fares also. There is also a car pool club.
BTIS is a partnership of Mapunity, Airtel, and Bangalore Traffic Police .
Browse around the site (http://www.btis.in/) and know more.
I've added an widget from the site which gives live traffic situation in Bangalore.

Weather & Savings

The weather is very inviting, so is the hot cup of soup, the warm cozy couch at home, the TV remote and a romantic movie on the TV. But I have to spend my day with a piece of code and a computer, shivering in an AC room. Life!!!

I have been shopping a lot now-a-days. I bought a new mobile - Nokia 5300. After almost a year, I'm using a brand new mobile. Its pretty decent. Has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a music player, radio, and some other stuff. You can read the specifications here. Then I bought a 512MB memory card for it. I bought a pen drive (misplaced my previous one during Women's Conference), a jacket and some clothes. For the house I bought an iron board, a ladder, a clothes dryer and a steam cooker. All this in 2 weeks. All my careful saving of the past few months, disappeared in 2 weeks.