Journey Of a Sachin Fanatic

World Cup 1996:

This journey started somewhere in the 1996 WC when my dad introduced me to this 5 feet odd batsman and said “look how be bats”. I began liking him but it was an acquired taste.

Sharjah 1998:

The real fanatism came in 1998 during the sharjah series.His innings of 143 in that sand storm is etched in my memory like most sachin fans.There was a time when I was only bothered about his 100.I didnt care if India wins or not.All I wanted was a tendulkar 100!

From 1998 to 2006, I was a sachin fanatic to the point of being a sadist for his competition/haters.I was an alter ego of my present self.There was a time when my only worry in life was sachins form :D

I could keep watching sachin videos whole day without getting bored.

I am one of those who switched off tv when sachin got out.Done that umpteen times and i am proud of it.

I had many books with photos of sachin (and other cricketers too, but sachin almost 60%) pasted. Used to cut his photos from newspapers, magazines and pasted it in books.

2004 Slump:

I used to think  the whole world hates sachin during 2004 aus series.All critics bashed him for bad form.Some even wanted him to retire.and then when he got 200 in sydney, i remember I saw the full match highlights for 5-6 times.I used to hate dravid when he got credit for 2003-04 pak win.

2007 WC defeat and rise of Dhoni:

I think it was the 2007 WC ouster when for the first time I was extremely disappointed.(Besides the WC 2003 final of course)That was the same year India won the T20 WC under Dhoni and then obviously Dhoni went on to captain India to the WC 2011 win.

His retirement was on the cards though a bit late. But I am surprised why he retired ODIs before tests. Contrary to other batsmen, sachin has always been stronger in ODIs. The best time to retire was wc 2011 victory but I dont know why he continued further. He could have made 100 100 by playing only tests too.

And finally, let me say this is a huge loss for India especially in ODIs.The excitement to see indian batting open will never be the same.Sachin used to motivate me,he still motivates me.I am lucky to be born in his era.

Talaash is the alter ego of OMG

Story:

The story is about 4 characters. Kareena plays a prostitute who has a dalla named Shashi.He has a langda assistant(nawaz) .A film actor named armaan and his two friends , kejriwal and Nikhil.Aamir plays an inspector and rani is his wife.

The film starts with the car accident of armaan . Aamir takes up this case. There is a side story to aamir which I will mention first.Aamir has lost his son due to an accident leading to both aamir-rani having a depressed life. His son drowns himself while boating.Aamir blames his irresponsiblity for his death.His wife rani doesnt speak much until she meeets shernaz patel who practises blackmagic and claims that she can talk to his son's aatma.She even gives her a practical demonstration which convinces rani that ghosts/aamta do exist. But aamir doesnt agree.He is an upright well educated policeman and he has seen OMG.This son-track doesn’t seem relevant to the talaash case but later its link is given.

Now the main case is this. Kareena was sent by his dalla Shashi as the gangbang bitch for the pleasure of armaan, kejriwal and Nikhil.When she is making love to Nikhil in car, accidentally the door of the car opens and they both fall down. Nikhil is rushed to hospital by the two guys but kareena is left stranded,wounded due to fear of police case.Kareena dies and becomes a ghost to revenge her death.

She can be seen only by aamir but he doesn’t know this.She assists him in finding each of the people associated to her death and they get killed one by one,sometimes by her act and sometimes situational. The dalla gets killed first bcos he was blackmailing kejirwal for extortion money. Nawaz gets killed later for the same thing by kejriwals henchmen but this incident leads aamir to one of the henchmen as witness. He tells him about kejriwal.Kejriwal tells aamir that kareena was the one who was killed. Aamir is shocked.When they both are travelling in his jeep, kareena appears from nowhere and aamir loses his control. The jeep dives into the sea nearby.Kejriwal is dead but the ghostly kareena saves aamir.Aamir realizes the power of ghosts and starts believing in them. He now has sympathy with his wife rani who was a firm believer in this. That completes the relevance of the son-track.

Acting:

Aamir is in SMJ mode. He has acted quite well in two scenes particularly the scene where he recollects about the death of his son in his car and the one where he imagines the options that he could have used to save his son. Kareena has acted well and she overshadowed aamir in two scenes. One is the lift scene and the other is the scene at the seashore.Rani has very little role and has acted well.

Learnings :

In OMG,akshay taught us that we should not believe in superstitions.In talaash,aamir teaches us to start believing in ghosts.

EVA - Baap of ROI/trending method for BoxOffice

The first and foremost measure of performance that comes to one’s mind is profit/ROI- the accounting measure of performance. Someone has aptly said- profit is an opinion, not the fact. If this were not case , one would not have seen the debacle of big companies like Enron, World Com etc. All such companies managed their earnings well and have shown better performance in terms of ROI.

The thing is traditional measures ignore the definite requirement that the rate of return should be at least as high as the cost of capital.The cost of capital is the rate of return required to persuade the investor to make a given investment.Or a bare minimum margin which the investor expects by making a certain amount of investment.Economic Value Added (EVA) is a financial performance method to calculate the true economic profit of an investment. EVA can be calculated as net income minus a charge for the opportunity cost of the capital invested.

If EVA = 0 , Investment value neither added or eroded

EVA >1 , Investment value enhanced

EVA < 1 ,Investment value eroded.

The biggest catch of EVA is that it can be negative even for investments which have positive income!

EVA takes into account some major factors - it takes earnings,the expectations of the investor (cost of capital),time value of money,opportunity cost of capital.The only tricky thing  in this is to arrive at the cost of capital. But there is a way to it.

During ETT ,I heard a lot of ppl trash its performance.They said  it didnt maximise its market potential as 3 idiots did in 2009; even though the BO gross between the two was not much different.I will now calculate the  margin of 3i and will assume this as the cost of capital for other films to arrive at the EVA. By doing so, I wil be able to judge the films taking 3i as the parameter for trending,inflation,acceptance and so on. I am basically making the investors of those films act as if they are investors of 3i.

Financials of 3i:

Investment	Rs. 65.00
Indian	Rs. 111.10
Overseas	Rs. 35.00
	Rs. 146.10
Cost of capital	25%
Traditional Net Income
Revenue	Rs. 146.10
Total	Rs. 146.10
Deduct investment	Rs. 65.00	Return on Capital	124.77%
Net Income	Rs. 81.10
EVA
Market Value of Capital	Rs. 65.00
x Cost of Capital	25%
Dollar Cost of Capital at Market Value	Rs. 16.25
Net Income	Rs. 81.10
- Cost of Capital	Rs. 16.25
Economic Value Added	Rs. 64.85

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now, 25% will be taken as the cost of capital .By definition,if EVA is less than 1,it means the investment's value is eroded.

Ek Tha Tiger:

Investment	Rs. 90.00
Indian	Rs. 110.00
Overseas	Rs. 25.00
	Rs. 135.00
WACC	25%
Traditional Net Income
Revenue	Rs. 135.00
Total	Rs. 135.00
Deduct investment	Rs. 90.00	Return on Capital	50.00%
Net Income	Rs. 45.00
EVA
Market Value of Capital	Rs. 90.00
x Cost of Capital	25%
Cost of Capital at Market Value	Rs. 22.50
Net Income	Rs. 45.00
-  Cost of Capital	Rs. 22.50
Economic Value Added	Rs. 22.50

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Rowdy Rathore:

Capital	Rs. 75.00
Indian	Rs. 72.60
Overseas	Rs. 8.10
WACC	25.00%
Traditional Net Income
Revenue	Rs. 80.70
Income	Rs. 80.70
Deduct capital	Rs. 75.00	Return on Capital	7.60%
Net Income	Rs. 5.70
EVA
Capital employed	Rs. 75.00
x Cost of Capital	25.00%
Cost of Capital at Market Value	Rs. 18.75
Net Income	Rs. 5.70
-  Cost of Capital	Rs. 18.75
Economic Value Added	-Rs. 13.05

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Agneepath

Capital	Rs. 75.00
Indian	Rs. 67.65
Overseas	Rs. 14.85
WACC	25.00%
Traditional Net Income
Revenue	Rs. 82.50
Income	Rs. 82.50
Deduct capital	Rs. 75.00	Return on Capital	10.00%
Net Income	Rs. 7.50
EVA
Capital employed	Rs. 75.00
x Cost of Capital	25.00%
Cost of Capital at Market Value	Rs. 18.75
Net Income	Rs. 7.50
- Cost of Capital	Rs. 18.75
Economic Value Added	-Rs. 11.25

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Barfi:

Capital	Rs. 50.00
Indian	Rs. 50.40
Overseas	Rs. 13.50
WACC	25.00%
Traditional Net Income
Revenue	Rs. 63.90
Income	Rs. 63.90
Deduct capital	Rs. 50.00	Return on Capital	27.80%
Net Income	Rs. 13.90
EVA
Capital employed	Rs. 50.00
x Cost of Capital	25.00%
Cost of Capital at Market Value	Rs. 12.50
Net Income	Rs. 13.90
-  Cost of Capital	Rs. 12.50
Economic Value Added	Rs. 1.40

Zizek's note on Student of the Year

Never before has a filmmaker depicted the Oedipus complex in such a captivating and thought-provoking manner as in Karan Johar's SOTY.The moment comes in the introduction of the leads in the film who are believed to be the epitome of its sexual demographic.They are simply in awe of it.This moment (video 1) in itself is a strong reference to Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality" .The scene denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a person's homosexual attraction and desire to sexually possess them. In yet another moment (video 2) Johar makes Carl Gustav Jung proud.The moment where he reinforces Carl's Electra Complex proposition through the libidinal shift of the girl's colleagues towards the guy.In classical, Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the earlier identification with the same-sex person is the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex and of the Electra complex; and the key psychological experience to developing a mature role and identity which interestingly is the climax of the film.The clash between the two males in the film is the most blatant instance of symbolic castration anxiety. Johar captures that irrational fear of being degraded where the person will go to extreme lengths to save their pride and perceive trivial things as being degrading making their anxiety restrictive and sometimes damaging. Video 1 Video 2:

Baba Health series Part 1 : Misconceptions of weight loss

This is my first post for the health series where I wish to share some of my own training experiences and knowledge based on research regarding misconceptions of weight loss.

 Most people think that spending two hours at the gym or eating less will make them lose weight.Both are delusions.IMO gym is nothing but a fad to make money.You pay the fees but the instructor will not guide you beyond the first week.After a month or so,it becomes just a place to hang out with friends.Do not waste money on it.Instead a 30-40 min proper intense workout even at home can give better result.

Many think that doing a 1-1.5 hr long continuous cardio everday will cause significant weight loss.This is the biggest misconception.Your RMR (resting metabolic rate )remains elevated for only 1-2 hours following a typical cardio workout. Conversely, your RMR remains elevated for up to 1-2 days following a strenuous training session ( high intensity exercises) in which a large quantity of your skeletal muscle has been traumatized.I can vouch for this from personal experience. I am a Shotokan Karate practioner myself and we train only twice a week! Moreover our training session is not continuous but always broken down into stop-start sessions where the whole body is pushed to limits. There are times when I can hardly walk back home because my whole body is exhausted,the muscles are traumatised. But this is where the secret lies.This trauma created in your muscles during such training is the process of muscle protein breakdown. Then, in the hours and days following that intense training session, your body must repair the damaged muscle. This is called muscle protein synthesis. During this whole process, your RMR is elevated due to the repair work your body is performing. Hence, you end up burning a lot more additional calories from this residual RMR increase than you would have from the those long continuous cardio training sessions.

Excessive cardio training actually can cause a loss of lean muscle mass, therefore decreasing your RMR. the lower your RMR, the harder it’s going to be to lose any more body fat and easier to store body fat if you happen to overeat. Most competitive sports are also based on stop-and-go movement or short bursts of exertion followed by recovery.
Another benefit of variable intensity training is that it is much more interesting than long boring steady state cardio programs.
A 20-minute high intensity interval training session is much more effective than a 40-50 minute boring steady pace cardio session due to several factors like residual metabolic after-burn effect, muscle retention, hormonal response, heart rate variability, etc. It will also save you time!
Keep your workouts shorter but intense; your best results will most likely come from keeping your workouts between 30-60 minutes in length.

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But just exercise alone is not sufficient.Eating habits are the sole reason that most people never lose weight no matter how hard they train.And No! Eating less doesnt help lose weight.This is another biggest misconception.

While people do experience initial weight loss with crash diets, it is actually a loss of lean muscle, which will lower your RMR, making it easier to put the fat back on in the long run.

One of the first reasons people experience an initial quick weight loss with a low carb diet is that they lose water weight by depleting their muscle glycogen stores. Muscle glycogen stores are basically stored carbohydrate in all of your skeletal muscle. A significant quantity of water is also held in the muscle cells of the body along with the glycogen. When you deplete your muscle glycogen stores, you also lose a good bit of water weight.You might have noticed that a persons muscles appear smaller (kind of shrunken) when they go on a low carb diet.

When you eat carbohydrates, they are broken down in your system and raise your blood sugar. Your pancreas secretes insulin to remove the excess sugar from your blood and deposit it into fat stores.Slow and steady carbohydrate sources are ideal because they give you steady energy levels, reduce cravings, and allow your body to utilize fat for energy in addition.The more unrefined and fibrous the carbohydrate source the slower the carbohydrate will be digested, and the lower and more steady the blood sugar and insulin response.More heavily refined starches and sugars where the fiber has been removed will be digested much more quickly and cause a higher blood sugar spike and subsequent crash after insulin has done its job. People who eat a lot of refined processed carbohydrates typically go through these cycles of blood sugar spikes and crashes, which causes them to crave more carbohydrates and leads to body fat gain.

The blood sugar level can be managed by what is called the glycemic index (GI) of foods.Basically, foods that raise your blood sugar quickly will have a higher GI and foods that raise your blood sugar slowly and to a lower degree will have a lower GI. Examples of foods with high GI’s are white rice, white bread, white potatoes, corn flakes, crispy rice cereals, sugars (except fructose), ice cream, bananas, cooked carrots, candy, and any other refined carbohydrates where the fiber has been removed. Examples of foods with lower GI’s are most dairy products, most fruits and vegetables, whole unrefined grains, sweet potatoes, barley, beans, and most other higher fiber carbohydrate sources.

Now that you are aware of the misconceptions,in next part i will talk about the 30-40 mins intense workout. :D

Kranti - Unintentional comedy

To quite a few,kranti may be a great film but I always thought it had the makings of a "Clerk" in the future.But here I present only a song from the film that the bhelpuri waala will be proud of.Lyrics are inspiring to say the least.The real genius of the song starts form 2.44.


 

"Mera Chana khaa gaye gore
 Jo ginti mein hain thode
Phir bhi maare humko khode"

 Excellent metaphor usage I would say except that it made me allergic to Chanas for the rest of my life.

 But manoj kumar was just a disciple of DK.DK being the senior goes one step further

" Mera chana hai apni marzi ka
ye dushman hai khudgarzi ka
sar kafan baandh ke nikla hai
deewana hai ye pagla hai"

If chana coud be replaced with willy,i think those lines might make better sense.

what are DK,MK doing at 6.28? Why hema malini has covered her navel with that patch of cloth but she has a bare back?Why is that toonda at 6.36 in the battalion which intends to fight british? May be reservation seat under PH category.

Gangs of Bhos**pur

Before giving a review of the film,I need to make an appeal to  Anurag Kashyap :

Dear Anurag,When will you shed your small townish sex obessesed mentality and ruin your films?What is this infatuation with the ‘Bhosdaa’ of the woman and the “gand” of the man? It is necessary to give your sexual perversions so much prominence to your film and characters? Is it not possible for you to write a script which is compelling on its own?And this is not the problem with you alone.Its the same case with your fellow small townies  Imtiaz Ali (Rockstar) and Habib Faisal (Ishaqzaade).

Now on the film,GOW was basically meant to be a revenge film.There is a conflict shown between the Quereshi (Butcher) gang and the Pathan (upper class muslim) gang.Then there is a Hindu MLA also in the proceedings which looked  like the main villain of the film.The first 20 mins or so are very engaging .The historical references were blended with the story quite well.The character of Bajpai’s father is written pretty good who is a pathan.I liked all his scenes.After his death,the film loses its way.Manoj bajpai’s character speaks  how the revenge of his dead father is the sole aim of  his life but never quite shows the urgency towards it.Instead he is chilling out in the film,he  seems more interested in having sex with his wife and almost every other woman.The film forgets the conflicts with the Quereshis and the hindu MLA and focuses on the affair of manoj and his Bengali whore.Now few such scenes are alright but there is a limit to irrelevance.I mean who is interested in watching manoj bajpai in speedos!At times anurag is reminded of the core story ,so after all the perverted timepass scenes ,he would add few scenes relevant to the plot.If you thought GOW is about gangster revenge drama and politics,you are more wrong than right.To compensate for the lack of drama,anurag has filled the movie with unnecessary profane language. But even there he doesn’t quite succeed bcos it seemed as if everyone in wasseypur only knows one abuse ‘bhosdi ke’ .May be I need to give them some tutorials on abuses.But I will charge the ticket money.Then there are chronological errors too in the film.Trishul is being watched in theatre in 1985.

In the climax,anurag is again reminded of the basic story so manoj talks about the revenge thing again but its too late by now as 2.5 hrs have passed.In the end it says “abhi baaki hai”.I  replied “Tu shuru ki kab hua?seedhe part 2 hi banata”
Rating – 2/5 (story had potential,manoj is good)

Sunil Quotes

Sunil Koelr srk can make an impact only when he overacts. srk cant be subtle.He had to divert attentinon from his average looks.salman,amir can be sbtle.Salman is always sublte.

26 Jan 12, 10:04 AM
sunil: talaash trailer is good,but the film might not be good

Jan 12, 05:54 AM
sunil: Satyam and his friends did propaganda that Akshay is not a good actor.srk,aamir are.Akshay busted this myth with patiala house,desi boyz

12 Jan 12, 10:17
sunil: I thinkAkshay will overtake Amitabh as star.
12 Jan 12, 10:21
sunil: Dev Anand,Akshay will be biggest stars now

‎9 Dec 11, 08:41
sunil: Akshay is acclaimed for his acting.Desi Boyz is aclclaimed film

‎5 Dec 11, 10:06
sunil: public now relaised Akshay is a good actor.Thats like ATBB

19 Nov 11, 09:20
sunil: TMK has a limited audience becuse its a risky spoofy comedy.Its not a regular film.
19 Nov 11, 09:21
sunil: but rs is regualr film,.It should have made 75cr‎

17 Nov 11, 07:27
sunil: Akshay is a far superior actor than Ranbir,and TMK is cult film.‎

14 Nov 11, 09:16
sunil: Ranbir is overpraised

‎‎12 Nov 11, 10:09
sunil: baba,srk was bald by 2007

‎11 Nov 11, 09:49
sunil: Akshay started the action era again with Tashan
sunil: Not aamir as some fools claim.

26 Oct 11, 22:12
sunil: I have requested sv to give his password.he agreed.If I get that I will take over his id

15 Oct 11, 09:59
sunil: srk might look over 60yrs after next year
15 Oct 11, 09:59
sunil: and BG gross is due to holidays

‎12 Oct 11, 10:02
sunil: Akshay became No1 since 2007 In hollyowod they take total net of films.Leaving ouy flops.if we take Akshay's total net of succesful films since 2007 he is No1

7 Oct 11, 07:21
sunil: anycase Ajay's stardom is busted with rascals

16 Sep 11, 01:49
sunil: and jaaneman floppe because salman was lead.Public wanted Akshay to have preity

1 Sep 11, 10:28
sunil: garam masala is believabale.And it is remmebered for the iconic acting perfromance of Akshay Kumar.onr of the top 3 perfromances of the 2000s.you have look at the spontaneity of Akshay
A tashan is another iconic performace.Tashan is betetr than ghaijini
Aamir has no iconic perfromance,Akshay has 2.Garam masala,tashan


1 Sep 11, 10:22
sunil: lagaan is trash.in a cinematc sense RDB is better than lagaan baba.You belieive that british officers will bet on Indian villagers to win a cricket match?How stupid is the theme.The plot of lagaan is not be;lievable, lagaan is just overrateda titianic is believable. a separateds lovers in first world war is beleivable,but lagaan is not believable

12 Sep 11, 00:01
sunil: Ki is semi hit
sunil: at 51cr,it has recall value

12 Sep 11, 09:18
sunil: rangeela was urmila hit

11 Sep 11, 23:55
sunil: deepika took housefull to 73cr

6 Sep 11, 21:51
sunil: mohra is solo
sunil: jackie shroff was a bigger star than suneil shetty baba
Sunil: In 1994 Akshay has a solo superhit mohra which grossed 12.5 cr in 1995 Aamir has a multistarrer superhit in rangeela at 14cr.

‎7 Sep 11, 05:04
sunil: KA is salman film.srk was side actor.

7 Sep 11, 05:04
sunil: half of kkhh is salman stardom

7 Sep 11, 00:12
sunil: bash,I never liked aamir's vulgar liplocks with juhi chawla.karisma kapoor.
sunil: I didnt like kareena's vulgar liplock with aamir in 3I.
sunil: there was no need for that kiss AA.aamir always kisses on wrong occasions,and this obsession on kissing I dont like

11 Sep 11, 05:05
sunil: so bg has collapsed
sunil: No one can say TMk trended badly

4 Sep 11, 03:21
sunil: ty had bobby deol as main lead

Collection of cult dialogues : Veergati

If there is one film that can challenge Sholays cult dialogues,then Veergati is the one that comes to my mind.Salman Khans little talked about gem of 1995 is my most favourite salman film.Yes it was inspired by Nana Patekars krantiveer a lot in both characterisation of the lead as well as the basic premise to some extent.While Krantiveer was made in response to Mumbai riots in 1992,Veergati was more like a follow up to Krantiveer.In Karan Arjun also Salman played a similar character where he overshadowed srk. Below are some of my favourite dialogues in the film:
 1) (Salman is accused of attempting murder)

 "Dafa 302 likh ke takhti ko hare ped pe taang do to woh bhi sookh jaata hai"

2) (Salman's response to Inspector who tries to sympathise with Constable's son)

 "Naam Neelkanth....lekin tumne woh zehere nahi piya jo mere rag rag mein hai.Philhaal yahi kaafi hai ki main hawaldaaar ka beta nahi"

3) (Salman speaks why he doesnt bath often)

 "Pehle nehlaati hai dai,phir nehlaate hain chaar bhai....sirf do hi baar nahata hai aadmi"

Ghajini Box office

Thanks to AA:
Cost - 90 cr + 10 cr Pnp = 100 cr

non theatrical revenues : (tv) 25 + (music/dvd/dth) 10 = 35 cr

DS required : 100 - 35 = 65 cr

India DS = 61

overseas ds - 16

total - 77 cr

ROI - 77 - 65 = 12 cr