Tashan and Tamasha

Written on Saturday, April 26, 2008 by Unknown

“The Akshay Kumar”, casting of the movie reads so and they could not have got it righter. And they could not have got it wronger, by prefixing the "The" for rest of star cast as well. Nobody belongs there yet, except for Akshay. His charisma and stature has been burgeoning by day. Wherever he makes an appearance, he simply loots the show. Be it his little cameo in OSO, his brief performances in zee-sony-star (wonder if aastha is also there) award ceremonies, the latest thumps up ad, the daredevil stunt at IPL or the strings of hits he has been throwing .. one after another. Tashan is the latest one in his kitty (ok not a hit one) and how he delivers in otherwise a comparatively lack luster movie from the famed production house.
Tashan is all about Akshay and his tashan. The first half of the movie is a narration with Saif suddenly coming out of the frames and talking to the camera, an innovative (not so quite) story telling which does look stylish. The movie picks up pace on a red scooter with Akshay Kumar and his 10 heads zooming past you. Thereafter you just want to see more and more of him. Even if it is his counter-strike-got-real fights scene with hanuman chalisa like bachchan pandey mixed with rap howling in the background. Kareena thankfully is not just a gimcrack though the director has tried his level best to prove her one, when she is thrown in song and dance sequences thrown in at most unlikely places. The songs, (though some of them being good) serve as road breakers giving the already waffer thin script a run for the money (pun intended).

Anil Kapoor, the lesser said about him, the better it is. He is plain boorish and irritating to the hell. His incomprehensible hinglish is hilarious, but only to the writer, because only that can explain the logic of using the same situational jokes again and again to the point where they (the jokes) are beaten, squeezed, ambushed, bruised and flattened beyond and worth recognition.

The pace of the movie takes a beating with all those flashbacks (which are weird to say the least) but the “tashan” keeps coming back in tits and bits (though you can't help thinking that you have had enough of it). The movie ends at least thrice with whispers of not-yet-over oomph every time. (I do realize that i have started using lot of dashes which result in words-like-this).
Despite all this and other extremely bad word of mouth reviews it’s still worth a dekko simply because Akshay is just too good to give this a skip.

The Good:
- The Akshay Kumar
- The first half
- Background Track
- Kareena in you-know-what
- The visual eye candy cinematography

The bad:
- Anil Kapoor and his irritating perennial unfathomable English
- The never ending one-against-hundred fight scenes
- The pyar-kabhi-marta-nahi and main-inteqaam-lungi flashbacks

The verdict:
- Watch it for him, The Akshay Kumar

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Unveiling the IRIS logo

Written on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by Unknown

For the uninitiated, IRIS is the annual B-School Fest at IIM Indore. The theme this time around is "Break Free" ( The Krazzy 4 song came later). Break free signifies a lot of things and is open to interpretations (like all creative arts in the world :p). IRIS has been known for its innovative contests which (like all other good things) has been copied, tried, used and overused (by others, ofcourse) till the dust. IRIS 2008 promises to be different from all its previous editions. We have added new verticals (cultural and corporate) to add more fizz to it.
Now after the shameless promotion, here is a sneak preview (only to privileged few who read this blog) to the newly created IRIS logo.
You can see my other designs here (The shameless promotion continues)

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Insanity 2.0

Written on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 by Unknown

No there is no Insanity 1.0 . Did you ever called KBC as "KBC 1" before the second version came out.

It's been Three hundred forty two days since i last posted something on this blog which actually seems like a life time. (I wrote it as Three hundred forty two and not 342 because the former looks some really large number and no, I didn't count it, it is just an approximation with the assumption that it bothers no body.) After getting into IIM, I never had any time to keep this blog updated (it is an exaggeration, which is ok) and now when I am doing my Summer Internship I have run out of excuses to not update it. If you have noticed (ofcourse you have noticed) that the look and feel of this website has also got a face lift keeping in line with the spirit of Insanity 2.0

Summary: Insanity personified is name of my blog. It has been dead for long and when I restarted it I chose to call it Insanity 2.0 because of no good reason (Brevity is a virtue which I fail to realize ... time and again)

I was thinking if I had kept this blog updated what stuffs would have gone here. Umm perhaps some of these ...... My first few days at IIM, victory at talent night and elections, some nonsense, Klueless and after, T20 victory, more nonsense, my new graphic designs and still more nonsense. However, I would try to catch up with some of those in next few days but it's a promise which i'll try not to break.

I just now realized that the first post to Insanity 2.0 is a pure crap but then I also realized someday I had to do it.

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