A True Winner
Apr 1st, 2009 by chinmayogale
Here is a true winner people… Slumdog Millionaire, a small film made at a production budget of 15 million dollars has grossed around 300 million dollars worldwide and has also bagged all the prestigious awards. However, Slumdog didn’t do well in India because I think the Indian audience’s taste is different and according to me most of the Indian audience felt bad because outsiders came and showed the real picture of Mumbai. I have been living in Mumbai for last one year and for me Slumdog Millionaire is a most authentic depiction of contemporary Mumbai.
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a Wednesday
Oct 1st, 2008 by chinmayogale
This year couple of films like Aaamir, Mumbai Meri Jaan have been released based on terrorism, effects of a terrorist activity on a common man’s life and “a Wednesday” is one of them. As I am writing after couple of weeks “a Wednesday” released, I am not going to delve much into its execution, performances etc. Still considering “a Wednesday” has been directed by a first timer, its a polished product when it comes to execution, technical finesse. Apart from this what to say about performances. Naseeruddin Shah again shows that he is the only one when it comes being a character himself and audience feel like he is not acting at all.
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Being Single is not Being Alone
Jun 2nd, 2008 by chinmayogale
Today, I was discussing “why one gets married” with one of my close friends. This discussion also reminded me of a Nagesh Kukunoor’s film “Hyderabad Blues”. In this film Nagesh K has played a character of Varun. Varun is a guy who has returned from US and is puzzled by the way of life he was living in America and the way of life people live here in India. As Varun is foreign returned and according to our traditions his parents are in hurry of getting Varun married. Nagesh Kukunoor has shown all this process/customs through some funny enjoyable situations. E.g. a milkman also asks Varun’s mother that when Varun is going to get married.
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Pre-Marital Sex!
Jan 31st, 2008 by chinmayogale
Yesterday, two of my friends and me were having a discussion on how relationships in modern India are working and in general our view on institution of marriage and relationships. The discussion led to a point of “
Pre -marital sex”. There’s a lot of buzz going on these days regarding this. Few months back actresses
Khushaboo and
Sushmita Sen expressed their views on
Pre -marital sex and it created a lot of controversy.
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Innovation always works
May 2nd, 2006 by chinmayogale
Earlier this morning, I was browsing through
Wikipedia and just for curiosity sake typed in
Hotmail and did a search. The website came up with all the details about the email system. Things like ‘how it came about, who was the inventor (it is, of course, our own Sabeer Bhatia). After parsing through the piece of information, what I realised was ‘If your product is innovative, it always works’.
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Blackout
Dec 13th, 2005 by chinmayogale
Today, all the newspapers were having a frontpage news “Pune goes international”. The occasion was start of an international Pune to Dubai flight. The other part of the story is that I was reading this news at 7.00 in morning in a candle light because in “International” Pune load shedding timings are 7.00 to 9.00 AM(Daily). I mean on what basis our leaders are saying that Pune is going international.
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Passion
Jul 27th, 2005 by chinmayogale
Some days back I was just discussing with friend about liking something and being passionate about something. People always get confused with this. Or some people never know what they exactly like so that they can pursue that thing as a passion. Reading, music, movies are the most common things people like. Read the rest of this entry »
The Power of Dreams
Apr 29th, 2005 by chinmayogale
Recently saw a great advertisement of Honda. I liked the narration in the advertisement. It is “There is no point in having dreams, U should see dream.” Honda has stated their philosophy “The Power of Dreams” in this just one line.
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Sound of Music
Apr 22nd, 2005 by chinmayogale
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
These ar the lyrics of my favourite song from the all time classic TheSound of Music. Lyrics are very very simple still they had a great meaning. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Read the rest of this entry »
Life & Success
Apr 18th, 2005 by chinmayogale
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