June 18, 2007

Love at first sight

Well..that's the theme of this year's IIFA awards at Yorkshire. It's to describe Yorkshire I suppose. The telecast of which is being aired now on Star Plus.

Hmm..the huge ensemble of actors - yesteryear's and today's, sure make it look interesting. Look's like all the Industry's who's who are in. Rani's absence is profound [considering, she just won the best leading actor-female award, which Karan Johar accepted on her behalf, asserting the fact that he was NOT Rani..Like we doubted that!!!!]. Hrithik won the best Leading Role- Male and the Most Glamorous 2007 or something like that...for Krrish and Dhoom2 respectively. Yippeeee!!!

Aishwarya looked very pretty and happy :-) and she also won the Glamor award for Dhoom2 too. SRK did not turn up too. I surely missed Saif's and SRK's antics as hosts [though irritable sometimes] Instead had to do with a very bland Lara Dutta and enduring Boman Irani as Spiderman [or Superman??], James Bond, Raj Kapoor [singing Jeena yahan and dressed like Raj Kapoor in this song] and believe it or not, wearing the Scottish Skirt [donno the exact name] and trying to dance like one!! Sheesh....

Other than Abhishek's performance [with Amitabh joining in later] and Shilpa Shetty's grooves, I think the others - Saif, Bips, Akshay Kumar were ok-ok. And did I see Aftab and Emraan performing..puh-leez!! who selected them???

It also looked like the actors were busy promoting their new movies:
- Jhoon Barabar Jhoom
Abhishek's performance
- Apne
Dharmendra got an award, something close to life-time achievement I guess, and invited not only Sunny and Bobby [who was crying..yeah...or rather being emotional about his dad being the best!], but also the director Anil Sharma. Oh..the award to Veeru was presented by our very own Original Jai. Clippings of Koffee , feat. Jaya Bachchan [telling she'd loved to have played Basanti instead, coz she thought Dharmendra looked like a Greek-god] was also shown; followed by a lot of Dharmendra's snaps. It was a nice touch! :-)
- A Partner
Sallu bhai dancing to the tunes of Salaam-e-ishq and Govinda joining a lil later [ for songs of Partner I suppose]

The trailer of the film on global warming -Global Cool was shown, which featured Amitabh with Tony Blair, among others!

RDB and Lage Raho took most of the awards, which wasn't unexpected.
And I must confess, Ash and Abhi looked good together.


June 12, 2007

Update on Play - Mysooru Mallige

The play Mysooru Mallige [which I had written about here] will be on at RangaShankara on June 14th Thursday at 7.30.

Check it out.It's def worth a watch.

June 11, 2007

GokarNa

From KemmangunDi, we went to Jog and then to Gokarna [Om beach].
Very hot and humid around April-May time-frame. Best to avoid coastal areas at this time of the year.

Landscape on the way



Om beach

KemmangunDi

Couldn't write up an account of this trip for some time now and now I lack the motivation to do so. Will post a few pics instead.

Our goal..to reach the z point



En-route..



View from beyond the z-point



Some abstracts