World champions : India

Welcome the new world champions Men in Blue not yellow it's blue. It's a great feeling to see the team India doing well and winning a world cup (doesn't matter whether it's twenty20).

So you might be wondering what made India win?

Some say it's beacause of the youngsters, some say it's beacause of Dhoni and some say because of Yuvraj. But as we can see it's because of the whole team. Everyone shared their part to lift the trophy. It was amazing to see the guys playing together as a team. If one failed others stepped up. It was like a jigsaw puzzle, if one piece is misplaced then the whole thing is a mess.

I have 3 words to my team INDIA - "Well done boys".

Lets see India's road to finals.

India Vs Pakistan : Bowl out


India vs England


India vs South Africa


India vs Australia


India vs pakistan: Final

Abhijeet Sawant: Second single

Just watch the video and get lost in the wonderland.
This video proves two things:
- Indian Idol is not a regular tv reality gimmick.
- If you have talent, SONYBMG India is ready to promote the Indian Idol with the best in the business.

King of good times

Vijay Mallaya,CEO of Kingfisher is definitely holding our Indian flag higher than anyone else these days. In an interview, he tells about the future plans of his newly acquired F1 Spyker constructor and these are the highlights :

"when we announced that the Indian flag would be part of the team colours and logo, there was an explosion of excitement romping through the country".

"Formula One is the crown of motorsport and it is my style to look at the crown and not at the grass roots. "

"The real excitement with an Indian-owned team will be the 200 million new fans that India will add to the Formula One community. That’s a big step forward for the sport!"

"One thing is for sure, I want to put the word India into the name of the team."

"An Indian team with an Indian driver would be the ideal combination."

For full interview - CLICK HERE

Enrique and 50cent new videos

After the dissapointing video for a cool ping pong song....Enrique is back with his genre of videos. Somebody's me and Tired of being sorry totally assures Enrique's return.

Somebody's Me



Tired of being sorry



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50 Cent - Curtis - Straight To The Bank

McLaren's debacle;fined $ 100 million

The McLaren Formula One team escaped a disastrous end to a promising season but were however docked all of their points in the constructors' championship after a decision by the FIA.

The FIA convened a World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris to pore over allegations that McLaren, this season's pacesetters in both the drivers and constructors' competitions, benefited from a leaked 780-page dossier of secret Ferrari technical information.

As well as losing all their constructors' points, the British-owned team were fined 100 million (US) dollars.

Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso have however escaped losing the points they have won. Hamilton is currently leading the drivers' championship while Alonso claimed victory at Monza last week to close the gap on his team-mate to three points.

Ahead of this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix, McLaren were in the lead of the constructors' championship with 166 points, ahead of Italian rivals Ferrari (143) and BMW Sauber (86).

The 'spygate' scandal has cast a gloomy shadow over the season since early July, when it emerged that Ferrari mechanic Nigel Stepney had given confidential information to McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan.

In an FIA hearing at the end of that month McLaren were found guilty of unauthorised possession of Ferrari data but no penalty was issued as there was deemed to be no proof that they gained any advantage from the information.

Ferrari were outraged by that conclusion but clung to the FIA's promise that they would revisit the case if fresh evidence came to light. Ahead of last weekend's Italian Grand Prix it transpired that the FIA themselves had uncovered new evidence and Thursday's meeting, originally scheduled to be a Ferrari appeal, was switched to a full World Motor Sport Council hearing.

The new evidence is said, by the British newspaper The Times, to include details of phone and email correspondence involving, amongst others, Alonso, McLaren test driver Pedro De La Rosa, Coughlan and Stepney.

Throughout the affair McLaren have pleaded total innocence, maintaining that not a single component on their MP4-22 car owes anything to the leaked dossier.

Source: F1.com

My game console

Sometimes confusion emerges due to the choices we have. This is what is happening with us when we want to buy a new game console and we don’t know which one to buy, you either have to pick the Dream machine ‘Sony PS3’ with the heavy price tag or the compact and affordable ‘Nintendo Wii’. In between the two extremes we have the smart, affordable yet powerful ‘Microsoft Xbox 360’.

Lets us look at each of them individually now.

Sony PS3:

Launched on: November 11th, 2006 in Japan and November 17th, 2006 in USA, April 27th in INDIA.

Features:

Few of the Games for PS3: Spider-Man 3, Unreal Tournament 2007, Final Fantasy Next, Formula One PS3, Devil May Cry 4.

Drawbacks: Price, No infra red port,

Price: $499 for 20GB and $599 for 60GB.
It was launced with Rs 40k price tag in India but now fortunately few of the retailers are giving it for a special price - Rs 34k.

My view: Hard to resist even with the heavy price tag.Worth waiting till the price comes down. It’s my Dream Machine and can not wait to crab it.


Nintendo’s Wii:

Launched on: November 19 2006.

Features:

Drawbacks: Controller eats away batteries; lacks the advanced HD graphics and surround sound; can't play CDs or DVDs.

Games: Call of duty 3, Red steel, Need for Speed Carbon, Prince of Persia Rival Swords, Scarface, The Godfather: Blackhand Edition.

Price: $250.00 and 24,000 in Indian grey market( That’s high compared to it’s actual price, so wait for Nintendo to launch officially in India).

My view: It’s for everyone and we have to sweat a lot while playing(the best part). Cute, affordable and fun to play with the interactive joysticks.


Microsoft’s Xbox 360:

Launched on: US: November 22, 2005.Europe: December 2, 2005. Japan: December 10, 2005

Features:

Drawbacks: A noisy exhaust fan, a gigantic oversized power supply, no built-in wireless networking, and no DVI or HDMI output, support for next-gen HD-DVD movies requires a bulky external accessory, Online gaming requires a paid subscription to Xbox Live.

Price: Xbox 360 core system Rs 27,990

My view: Even with its design flaws it surely stands out with its high end graphics and good gaming experience for an affordable price. Coolest thing is that you can give it a try at your local Music world centers or the malls nearby.

RVG KI AAG BURNT

(movie review)

"It may sound like a cliche but it's a fact. RGV KI AAG is the worst movie I have ever seen," a viewer said to Nex-us.

The story is similar to "Sholay" except a small change. In RGV ki AAg, Amitabh has a brother who will be killed and for this reason he annihilates Mohan lal's family.

Why the movie did not stand up to it's expectations?

Casting :
The film flopped right here. No one really suited the original and legendary characters of Sholay. Casting was really bad.

Performances :
When the casting is bad, we can not expect more and it showed on the screen. Even though the movie had some great names Amitabh shined. He was awesone as the bad guy and played the role wonderfully. I would say he is a magician.

Music :
Apart from Mehbooba song none of the songs really clicked. Background score was very good at times.

Screenplay, Camera, Action, Dialogues, Cinematography :
Screenplay was not upto the mark. Got bored many times while watching and few of the scenes were direct copy from other movies.

Camera angles and Cinematography was good, especially in the scene where Amitabh cuts mohan lal's fingers.

Dialogues were very poor. This aspect was a big diasapointment in the movie.Moreover Action sequences were also poorly choreographed.

Climax :
Climax is the biggest let down in the movie.

Ramu himself admitted that he was nuts attempting to make sholay again. NO WONDER!

Rating: 1/5

Information given by: Balu
Pictures: santabanta

New Music videos

Bleed it out - Linkin park

Second single from LP's Minutes to midnight. The video is interesting and its one of my fav.




When you are gone - Avril Lavigne

Second single from Avril's The best damm thing. The song is awesome.

The king, "SPYKES" Formula deal :

Vijay Mallaya, popularly known as ‘The King of Good Times’ in his true style has made a bid to buyout the cash strapped Spyker F1 team. Vijay Mallya has teamed up with Spyker's director of Formula One,Michiel Mol,to make an 80 million euro($109.3 million) bid for the cash-strapped team.

"This offer has been accepted by the Board of Spyker Cars N.V. and exclusivity has been granted to the consortium Orange India Holdings Sarl to proceed with due diligence ... to achieve completion within 30 days," the partners said in a joint statement late on Friday.


Mallya will be the chairman and managing director and will nominate three directors to the board. The Mol family will nominate two directors.

Spyker Formula One team is owned by Dutch luxury sports car maker Spyker Cars NV.

"I have been dreaming about owing an Formula One team. I was looking at the right opportunity to show up at the right time," Mallya told a news
conference on Saturday.



"The deal is good for Formula One. It's good for India and it's good for Formula One Management because viewership is going to shoot up now," he said.

Mallya's involvement is reportedly in his 'personal capacity', meaning that his airline Kingfisher will continue to sponsor Toyota.




Mallya, a key supporter of a Grand Prix in India said: "Part and parcel of bringing Formula One to India is to also have an Indian company involved.

"We have drivers, we have Narain Karthikeyan, we have Karun Chandok and I hope there will be more as we go along."

With this deal in the bag and an Indian grand prix being a possibility within next two years, it will be a sheer delight for the Indian formula one enthusiasts to see those mean machines burn rubber on the Indian roads.