Hi Friends,

I never told you people about my short but very pleasant visit to the best planned city and cleanest city in India, Chandigarh. The architecture and urban planning has been done with utmost care that it really leaves a mark on your first visit to the city.

The capital of Punjab & Haryana (now I can say I’ve visited both the states at 1 go ) this city was actually Lahore before partition.. OMG did I go into Pak… lol.. Yep in a way I can say…

Thanks to my colleague for inviting me to his home and getting me a glimpse of this unique city. We started our day out from the Panjab University (no i didn’t do a typo .. it is spelt as PANJAB) where my friend lives.. A huge campus with loads of greenery it sure is a treat to spend your days of learning. Chandigarh as what i know is very popular for its quality of education..Affiliated to prominent universities it is one trying to jump deep into the IT world. The infrastructure of the city and its close proximity to the capital may be I assume the reason for its quick rapid growth in all fields. Well now coming back this city I must say is filled with most people having lots n lots of paper posing the Father of the Nation (Well I just meant money). Youngsters coming to college in nothing less than sedans was quite amazing to watch. Most of them involved in local politics as well so the inflow wouldn’t be a issue at all.

Stepping into the road will give you a shocker especially if you are from a city like Bengaluru. Gosh !! Which country are we in ??  Lush green lawns on either side of a 4 lane road with a divider in between.. and also an extra cycle lane on both sides… and traffic !! Ooopsies wait .. Now that must be a new term for the local population. No jams, No horning, Nobody rushing. Helmets are compulsory for even the pillion rider which is followed with utmost responsibility(Look whose talkin abt the helmet rule )… Being in UP past few months, i too had actually forgotten that RED in a signal means u gotta stop.. I was reminded about that…:-O .. Only hope such discipline will get implemented in our city sooner if not later it’ll be a great achievement.

I must tell you friends about this place called the Rock Garden. A 40 acre sculpture garden it is. The story goes that Nek Chand who is the creator collected materials from the demolition sites around the city (partition –> Pak — > lots of things to break maybe … ) and is supposedly built the garden illegally later made legal due to public demand… Hard to explain but marvels have been created from materials like broken bangles, odd shape stones, broken glass, bricks and even bulb holders.. Lesson to learn that nothing actually goes waste after use…

The whole place can be explored in a day n a half.. Smartly speaking not more than a day is really needed.

Hangouts are quite popular in the place just like ours .. though I’d say we got a better line of hangouts.. I just got a glimpse of one of the high profile ones in one particular colony… but wait I just had lunch at the restaurant and walked away.. The nite-life was not that great though…Hardly any takers even without the 11:30 shutdown notice… Finally we just went for a drive to a hill station nearby and back post mid-nite..

Coming to the malls.. Thumbs down. These are just forgettable structures compared to the ones in NCR.. But the insiders are just incomparable to any place. THE KUDIS !!! Are clothes stitched to cover or to uncover. A BIG QUESTION MARK ?? Some native of Chandigarh only must answer this. Too much uncensored talk will make a bad reading but GUYS expectation levels go beyond saturation level in this place… Nothin more…

Chandigarh is completely smoke free, plastic free. Buy anything from a shop and you will get it in a cloth or paper bag. I had heard of this before and its actually true. So many imported cars.. Man!! BMW’s,Porshe,Lexus,Audi… name it and you will surely find it parked or zooming somewer.

Hey BTW yes the Gol Gubba was tremendously delicious and so was the kulfies and so was the well I forgot all those Punjabi names… Unique varieties of snacks.. Not a great relief from aalu & paneers but Punjabi’s have their own touch of enjoyable cuisines…

I couldn’t make it to Mohali and Patiala(Hehe !!) however hoping i can go there sometime again… A memorable first time experience to one of the corners of India… As of now a rough road ahead with deadlines looking like demons approaching… Signing off .. Ciao till the next blog…

-Govu

There were different views within the industry as to how Ganesh’s fortures may turn after marriage..Unfortunately looking at the scripts being selected offlate by Ganesh looks really the difficult times have come.

D Rajendra Babu known for the stale outdated scripts lives upto his name yet again. Returning after Bindaas this just seems like a continuation from where he left Power Star tottering Golden Star given no opportunity at all to showcase his talents. The movie comes with a sub title which says “Idu ganesha Aata” but frankly speaking the aata never manages to impress apart from a few sequences of course.. All courtesy given to only Ganesh ofcourse and not the director.

Taunting narration,poorly placed songs,age old screenplay technique just shows the homework needed to make good commercial cinema is just not understood by the director. However Ganesh drags himself out of the drain by doing what he does best always.. entertaining the fans with his flow dialogs. However the action star image is something not his bowl of soup..Yes Goldy get back to the lover boy image, we don’t want to see you kickassing the villains. Glamor Gal Ramya may have rejected Chellata before but now the Golden Star tag added to Ganesh might have lured her into the movie. The chemistry between the two just seems out of sorts.

Coming to the cinematography. My word!!! What kind of work is that. Terrible shots and the camera angles are so bad especially in the climax where Ganesh looks bewildered. Songs are picturised very ordinarily. Pity Mr Rockline for cleaning up his pocket in selecting big time locations but all look too ordinary on screen. And the choreographer must have just finished up his aerobics lessons and gone to the sets. Technical aspects including the editing all done half heatedly. Better they come of of the mind blog that Ganesh’s movies will click by default.

The songs rendered quite well by meastro Mano Murty sound good but not very well picturised. Matinalli Helalarenu sung by Sonu is the song to be baffled about. The title track ‘I Am So Bombaat’ is placed at a wrong time in the movie as a result of which fails to catch up with the audience. The rest of the songs come and go but leave no impression.

Overall Bombaat is a movie which you may watch but only for the sake of Goldy and no one else. Fans may have something to cheer once the ganesha aata starts from the second half of the movie but too many plots and unnecessary flashbacks do get on your nerves. But the dialogs do manage to get the crowd onto their feet. Unnecessary exposure for Ramya in a song targetted at the front benchers could have been avoided. Ganesh looks too plumpy in some shots. Overall total timepass masala entertainer. Go for it with very low expectations so that you wont be disappointed. Watch the movie if your a Golden Star Fan

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