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Himmatwala: Show Himmat to watch Himmat - wala

 All movie lovers must be aware of the today's release an old movie "Himmatwala". I haven't watched this movie, neither the remake not the original. So, all my views expressed here are out of the impression I received from people around me and critic's views I came across.

I was wondering what is a criteria for a movie to be remade. For me, if there is a story which can be told again by molding it in real time situations. The story will then get accepted. For example a movie like "Don". I think it is a movie that one can remake many a times since the story can be adapted to real time situations. I am not sure if "Himmatwala" fall in the same category.

I haven't watched the original "Himmatwala", so, I am not really sure why this movie made it big back then. Personally, I am not a Jitendra fan. I fall in Amitabh category. So, no question of watching his movies. Second, as far as I understand, this movie had good songs that was the USP of the movie. But, I did not liked the songs of old  "Himmatwala" either. Back then, while watching these songs on "Chitrahaar", I could not understand why those songs were filmed keeping so many Tamboras around and what not. 

So, I am not sure why this movie is remade. To add to that, the ingredients of new "Himmatwala" doesn't appear impressive. Movie director is Sajid Khan. I did not liked any of his movies. Jitendra' role guess is played by Ajay Devgan. I am not sure what criteria he uses to select his movies. As far as I feel, he is an impressive actor with some very good movies and also national award in his kitty. How does he manage to slide down from his fascinating roles in movies like "Gangajal" to this role in "Himmatwala"?  I have never watched Tamanna's movies,  so do not really know what to expect from her. I guess the only thing that could be little relieving is the character played by Paresh Rawal. I guess he is playing the character played earlier by Kadar Khan in old "Himmatwala".

I went through some reviews about the movie and the comments on it by people. Based on that, I would wonder if watching this movie, even if some body pays you for that will be wise decision. Just read the comments on this review:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/movie-review/19255289.cms

I also heard a review on a TV channel. I have never seen anybody bluntly criticizing any movie so badly as this movie. I remember hearing a sentence some thing like "It would require lot of courage "Himmat" to watch this movie "Himmatwala". I would wonder if even Jitendra and Sridevi would want to watch this movie.

If anybody of you could gain enough courage "Himmat" to watch this movie, kindly share experience here and let us also know if there is really any thing worth watching.

Delft, Netherlands

Bazooka: threat to internet

For last couple of days, all bloggers like me probably must be feeling little depressed. One thing that is common among all the bloggers is their eye towards traffic visiting their blog. For past couple of days probably every blogger must be little worried and might even have started introspecting whether they are on right track in blogging or is it over for them with no new traffic attracting posts in mind. There was a sharp decrease in traffic observed by bloggers and at a point it even became pretty much stagnant.

The sole reason for the worry was a cyber attack named "Bazooka" which apparently is the biggest cyber attack of its kind. The story goes like this. A Geneva based group called "Spamhaus" is involved in creating a list of  site that falls under spam. All different networks use this list to keep their networks free from spam by blocking all the addresses provided in the list. This group is the reason why our email and other internet services remain clean. Recently, this group put one of the dutch website group on the list. Now the website owners feel that this move was wrong and they should not be blacklisted. Apparently this cyber attack started only after blacklisting of this website. The attack was targeted towards "Spamhaus" that creates the black list for spams

The tactics used behind this cyber attack was little different as one understands. Instead of targeting the customers, it attacked the network providers. It is little difficult to understand how it managed to slow down whole internet system, but apparently the effect was significantly observed in European domain. 

I believe the worst is over. I can once again see growing traffic on my blog. Hopefully, this does not get worse and we enjoy worry less browsing.

Geneva

Sanjay Dutt's brave decision

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sanjay-Dutt-I-will-surrender-have-not-appealed-for-pardon/articleshow/19253500.cms

After all the churning by different celebrity MPs and retired judge, one good thing has come out, Sanjay Dutt himself has made it clear that he will respect the decision of Supreme Court and will not ask for pardon. At the same time, he also requested the media to let him and his family be at peace in the time, Court has allowed him to surrender. 

This is a big and courageous step by Sanjay Dutt. May be he realized that he won't get the clemency or may be he is really a changed man, but his decision is going to have a big impact on people. On one side we all know this is going to be difficult time for Sanjay Dutt. In spite of that he has made his decision clear and that is one brave step. By following this route, he will set up a good example in front of people. I totally appreciate his stance.

On the other side,  I am not sure why Markendey Katju is hell bent to get Sanjay Dutt out without completing his punishment. He is trying to set a bad example. Is Supreme Court decisions are not be followed, then why all this drama running for 20 years?

I think Sanjay Dutt's words should be respected. Every body should stop trying to get him free without going through punishment. That will only bring the best out of him and he will come out a more better person. On the other hand, media should stop keeping hawk eye on his every move and should leave him free to spend some good time and have some good memories that will help him spend those three and half years little better.

Getting closer to Sun