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CAST Quick Gun Murugun – Dr. Rajendra Prasad Rice Plate Reddy – Naseer Mr. C. Gupta – Vinay Pathak Mango Dolly – Rambha Locket Lover – Anu Menon Rowdy MBA – Raju Sundaram Gun Powder – Shanmugaraja Dr Django – Ashwin Mushran Special Appearances: San Sani Reporter – Ranvir Shorey Masala News Reporter - Sandhya Mridul Gaurav Kapoor

We went bowling to Sparkz on Friday. It was loads of fun. I can't remember the last time I went bowling. Leisure Bowl at Vasant Kunj in Delhi most probably. SPARKZ 35, Diamond Harbour Road Kolkata - 700027 Tel: +91 33 24481744 Open Mon-Sat: 12pm - 10:30pm Sun: 11am-10:30pm

CAST Isla Fisher ... Rebecca Bloomwood Hugh Dancy ... Luke Brandon Krysten Ritter ... Suze Joan Cusack ... Jane Bloomwood John Goodman ... Graham Bloomwood John Lithgow ... Edgar West Kristin Scott Thomas ... Alette Naylor Fred Armisen ... Ryan Koenig Leslie Bibb ... Alicia Billington

KAMINEY CAST Shahid Kapoor...... Charlie / Guddu Priyanka Chopra...... Sweety Amol Gupte...... Sunil Shekhar Bhope (Bhope Bhau) Deb Mukherjee...... Mujeeb Rajatabha Dutta...... Shumon Harish Khanna Carlos Paca...... Cajetan Chandan Roy Sanyal...... Mikhail Tenzing Nima...... Tashi Shiv Subrahmanyam...... Lobo Hrishikesh Joshi...... Lele

You have got to try the Sizzlers at Food Talk Sizzlers Counter at South City Mall. At Rs. 170 each, these are just awesome.

Yesterday morning, while I was in the lift coming up to our office on the 9th floor, one of my colleagues, amused that I was carrying an umbrella, inquired why I carried such a big one. I replied stating how it actually did shelter me from the heavy rain and how since I was in office most of the day, it was mostly used by one or the other sales guys who needed to go out in the field on sales calls. She still didn’t seem too convinced and said I could carry a smaller one. Anyway later in the evening after a day of heavy rain, I left office and as I came to the landing of our office building, I came along side a large gathering of other people from our building standing indoors waiting for the rain to stop. As I walked past them, all their eyes went to the umbrella in my hand, which I put forward and opened, got under and walked into the shower out into the street to where my car was parked. The story got even better, because as I drove a little ahead around the corner in rows of he...

This morning on my way to work, my swift had the honour of being kissed from behind by a Mercedes Benz. The silver C 200 Kompressor had been following behind my swift for a while. Traffic was crawling and in such traffic, it is imperative that you pay attention to the car in front of you because it is nearly bumper to bumper traffic at that hour. Anyway a hoarding caught my eye and in that split second that I noticed the car in front had stopped, so I immediately braked; 10kmph to 0 in a split second. Every time I brake thus, I tend to look in the rear view mirror expecting the worst from the car behind. Sure enough as I looked in the side mirror, I noticed the Merc swerving back and his left side fender bumped into the right side tail of my bumper. In that traffic he was trying to make an attempt to overtake me and the instant I braked and he noticed the oncoming traffic from the opposite side, he tried to turn back, but then realised that his space had got cramped as I suddenly stopp...

A colleage of mine totalled his car early on Saturday morning returning from a night out partying. Fortunately he escaped with just a few scratches thanks to his seat belt. This is the picture of the results of Drinking & Driving. I guess this will give him Independence from his old faithful Maruti!

Of late, I have noticed a sudden spike in the number of big luxury cars on the streets of Kolkata. My all time favourite being the Mitsubishi Pajero 2800 Intercooler Turbo is among the most common. In addition to this, the number of BMW’s and Mercedes has also gone up. It’s not uncommon to be riding beside one any given day of the week. Yesterday I as I walked out of my office (Yes I’m working on Sundays too) I saw these two beauties parked on the opposite side of the road. A Mitsubishi Pajero & a BMW 3 Series and most shocking of all, they belonged to the same person. Anyway I thought to myself, “and people say Kolkata doesn’t have money!!!” Thereafter, my wife and I headed out to have lunch at Fire & Ice, one of our favourite Italian Restaurants. Beer, Garlic Bread and Pasta! What more would one want on a gloomy, rainy Sunday afternoon? As we were leaving Fire & Ice, and came to the T-Point to get onto the Main Chowringee Road, I couldn’t help but notice how lovely...

My in-laws had a reason to celebrate and invited us to Tamarind for dinner. While were entering the restaurant, we bumped into the owner at the entrance and a big exchange of his and hellos were exchanged by my in-laws and him. I also said hi and so did my wife. To my surprise my wife also seemed to know him and they kept calling him “neighbour”. I knew Goutam from a work angle and was quite taken aback when my in-laws also seemed to know him. Then I thought to myself that they were friendly people and probably got to know him on their last visit. So when we settled down to our table, we got chatting and I asked them if they knew him from their last visit to the restaurant and they informed me that he was the doctor who lived across the road from them; the building which housed the family of doctors. I was quite amused, thinking to myself, how small the world was? Anyway as we spoke some more, I informed them that he actually owned the restaurant, and they kept insisting that he w...

Last night, after a long hard day, we finally decided to watch TV. We hadn’t done that in a couple of days and decided since we had just renewed our annual subscription of TATA SKY (Mega Pack) we might as well start getting our money’s worth. The TV watching, coupled with being online on Facebook and my Blog, led us to being awake till the wee hours. At half past one, I guess, while I was working on our laptop and my wife was watching TV, the entire bed we were sitting on started to shake. I had my back to my wife and thought she was responsible for the same, trying to get my attention as I had been on the computer a while. Only after a bit, when she asked me why the bed was shaking did I look back and see that she wasn’t the one shaking the bed, but Mother Nature. We looked at each other kind of frozen and then kind of figured it was tremors from an earthquake. We jumped up and went to the balcony. By that time the initial tremors had stopped. Then again there was a quick 2 second tre...

The highlight of my Sunday drudgery at work was getting to step out and visit the location of a photo-shoot commissioned by me for a new Ad campaign we were going to start soon. The best part was that I was also going to be a part of it in the sense that I was going to be in the shoot. When I got to the studio, I got to know that the film-star, who was supposed to be the lead in the shoot, was still awaited, so all the models including myself had to sit in on a make-up session which happened rather quickly. Gosh my first make-up session. My first proper photo-shoot with me in it! This was going to be fun. So the clock kept ticking as we waited. The photographer kept checking the lights and preparing the set or whatever they call it. Huge flash lights kept going off from all directions as he clicked the camera mounted on the tripod and illuminated the entire room. Finally our main model arrived and as she got busy with her make-up, I must say, I was thoroughly impressed at how pr...

Since my weekends seemed to be drowned in work, the best thing to do I felt was spend the evenings judiciously. So we decided to head out to City Centre, do some lukhagiri and then went to Machaan at Mani Sqaure Mall. We had wanted to check out this place for a while now and finally when we got there and entered, we were quite awestruck by the ambience created in this restaurant. The interiors had been created like a forest and in the middle up a wooden flight of stairs was the Machaan. We were hoping to get seated up there to get the real feel of being up on a machaan, and as our luck would have it, we were taken to a table for two up there over looking the rest of the lower floor. As we seated ourselves, we soaked in the view; the attention to detail in recreating a forest was impeccable. There were animals, birds, nests et al. We soaked in some more of the view over a couple of pints of Kingfisher Beer and Junglee Masale Ka Murg Tikka. They served Papad and onions in red chilli powd...

After two days of the Banks being closed due to a nation wide strike called by the Bank Employees Union, today’s visit to the bank and the ensuing harrowing experience was inevitable. Anyway while I was walking down to the bank, I finally decided to click a picture of this epic venture. Formerly “Hotel Raat Din”, this building has been under renovation ever since we moved into our office in Feb 2007. I have been watching this building from our office window, nearly everyday, for the past two and a half years and it seems to be a never-ending project. Considering the time and energy being spent on the build, I am quite certain this is going to turn out to be a fabulous Hotel when it is completed. Anyway back to the bank. I wasn’t surprised to find a serpentine line outside the ATM outside the bank and what lay in store inside was even worse. All the teller counters had queues longer than I had ever seen. So I also got in one of the queues. I had a cheque and some cash to deposit....

LOVE AAJ KAL CAST Saif Ali Khan...... Jai Vardhan Singh Deepika Padukone...... Meera Giselle Monteiro...... Harleen Kaur (introducing) Rishi Kapoor...... Veer Rahul Khanna...... Meera's boss Neetu Singh...... Veer's wife Vir Das...... Shonty Raj Zutshi...... Harleen's father