Upcoming from Bollywood

We caught up with a late movie yesterday (unusual given that it was a Sunday) and Bhool Bhulaiya, indeed was an interesting plot. But more than that we were quite surprised to see the movie trailers in the intermission, suggesting a spate of movies coming our way this winter.
There were trailers from eight movies - Goal (a soccer based movie starring Arshad Warsi and John Abrahim), Aaja Nachle (Madhuri's comeback movie), No Smoking (movie definitely from unchartered territories), Om-Shanti-Om and Saawariya (Diwali blockbusters), Jodha Akbar (from Ashutosh Gowarikar), Jab We Met and Taare Zameen Par (Aamir Khan's directorial debut). The movies I look forward to watching (in order) are:

1. Jodha Akbar

2.Om Shanti Om
3. Saawariya
4. Taare Zameen Par
5. Aaja Nachle
6. No Smoking
7. Goal
8. Jab We Met

Looking at this variety of offerings coming our of Bollywood, we can well and truly say that Bollywood has come of age.

The silent giant retires

It is going to be that last slow walk back to the pavillion for Inzamam-ul-haq and I don't think it is going to be any slower than usual (his usual is turtle speed). But as the burly man from Multan bids farewell to the game in a few hours from now, my only wish remains that he walks back having scored the winning runs for Pakistan. They are 210/2 and need another 250 at 5 runs per over as I write this. If it happens, I am sure few careers would match that sort of an end.

Whatever happens today, there's no denying the fact that we would miss a talented batsman and a great servant for the game. We all know about the Tendulkar's and Lara's but this man deserves a mention in the same breath purely from the talent perspective. The one innings that is etched in my memory is when along with Mohd. Yousuf took Pakistan from nowhere to the brink of victory against India in Karachi to lose only by six runs. From the world cup 1992 semifinal to this moment, Inzi's career has really come the full circle.