My views and reviews about everything under the sun
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You can find full concerts of renowned Indian musicians on you tube. Its really nice that they are putting the old concerts online.
Ustad Zakir Hussains full concerts online.
Even some of the old movies are online in full, legally. It would have been nice if it was just one file rather than divided into 14 videos.
Posted on 9 February '10 by Prasanth, under Computers & Internet, Television & Movies. No Comments.
Updated
Some one took my advice and made this new version of the old song Mile Sur Mera Tumhara. It is being aired on zoom and is 15 minutes long. Watch a smaller version of it below, go here to watch the full version.
The new version is okay but i still prefer the old one. Too many movies stars in the new one and less musicians and athletes etc.
This brings back so many memories, why are no other channels doing this? This is how i knew about all the famous artists and their talents.
Something like this could help younger generation know about, current artists and also bring some patriotic feeling in them.
How cool would it be if someone did a song with all the leading musicians, actors, social workers, politicians, sports stars, industrialist etc of this generation.
Posted on 26 January '10 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
Its surprising to see that some of the well known name don’t feature in this list.
I thought Emmanuelle Chriqui was wonderful in Entourage. I think people like her for her character in the tv show more than for her face. There are many women more beautiful than Emmanuelle Chriqui, but her role as a desirable girl friend goes a long way in putting her on top of the list.
I am also not surprised to see Padma who has become a huge star since her hosting the top chef series. She really looks beautiful and like to eat, what more can a guy want.
Supermodels Padma Lakshmi and Lakshmi Menon have beaten Indian actresses Aishwarya Rai and Freida Pinto in a most desirable women poll conducted by a portal.
Posted on 25 January '10 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
Amair Khan is having a stellar year. After acting in one of the highest money making movies in bollywood, he now goes on to sign the biggest ad contract. He is making a killing this year. Who is the big Khan’s now?
After the stupendous success 3 Idiots, the actor has landed the biggest endorsement deal in Indian advertising history.The Economic Times reports that the actor will promote new telecom entrant, UAEs Etisalat, for Rs 30-35 crores for three years.
Posted on 21 January '10 by Prasanth, under Advertising, Television & Movies. No Comments.
Movie 3 Idiots crosses 315 Crores in just 19 days. And it is the first movie to do so in Bollywood film history. A movie that’s totally worth all the accolades at least the idea in the movie, if not the story itself.
I wish Reliance, which is the company which produced the movie would set up a group of colleges or camps that preach their idea in reality. It would make all this success even more impressive. And also give Anil ambani a leg up on Mukesh ambani, who is planning to setup a big university in India soon.
It has achieved what no Bollywood movie before it has done. Raj Kumar Hirani directed movie 3 Idiots starring actor Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Sharman Joshi and Madhavan has become the first movie in the history of Bollywood to cross the 300 Crore mark. 3 Idiots has grossed in Rs 315 crores globally in the 19 days since its release.
Posted on 13 January '10 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
I am writing this after using Tatasky+ for six months.
I upgraded to Tatasky+ so i only paid 5000 Rs which was reasonable. They took my old tatasky settop box away.
The installation came as a surprise because i thought, and was told by the customer service that there is no installation. I thought i could just swap the settop box, but that’s not the case.
A red led glows when a recoding is happening.
This is the remote for Tatasky +
Only these buttons are the extra from the regular tatasky +. Just hit the R button to record anything.
The installation guy comes and installs new hardware near the dish and also put a second cable to the dish. He was only just able to put the second cable because of the tight space inside the wall.
So be aware that there is an installtion for this box and it can only be done by a qualified professional. He also calls in to activate the service one the installtion is finished. So don’t think you can do the installtion.
Now the good part, once you paid for the box and the annual package. You can start using the service.
Before i begin once you use the service you will never go back to normal tv ever again.
Here are the feature of the device
Record Tv (You can record two channels at the same time)
Pause Tv (You can pause any channel you are watching and rewind back upto 45 minutes or the moment your started watching the channel which ever is higher)
Record Tv
You can record up to 30 hours of programing. Which is more than a 10 full lenght movies. Once you set the hard disk management to automatic, it will automatically delete the old show and keep recording the new once you choose.
Only settings you can change for tatasky + plus are these shown above.
You can schedule recording up to two days in advance.
You can record two channels at the same time. And watch another recording while this is going on.
When you are playing a recording a blue led light circles around the round dial on the set-top box
You can even set series link which automatically records a show every week or every day. But this feature is not supported on all channels. Only few of them have this feature, but really useful when it works.
The info bar show the time remaining in the recording while playing back, when you press info button.
You can even fast forward the recorded shows to skip ad’s or the boring parts.
Pause Tv
You can pause any channel you are watching it automatially buffere up to 45 minutes or whenever you started watching the show. You can change this in the settings menu.
This indicates how far behind you are from the live Tv.
Once you get to know all the features and start using them, you will really love your tatasky+. Now i can’t imagine watching tv without a Tatasky+.
Here is a Trick to do a slow motion on tatasky+. Pause the recording and then click forward button to do slow motion, this is not in the manual.
Its priced around 9000 Rs if you are not a Tatasky subscriber. But well worth the price.
I really recommend you get one, it will change your life style enormously.
Posted on 22 October '09 by Prasanth, under Gadgets, Review, Television & Movies. No Comments.
Sun direct is the first DTH player to bring High Definition to India.
Even thought they are just offering two channels at the moment. It will surely get bigger once others start launching their own system.
You have to buy a new HD capable box and pay for installation charges which means new Dish.
According to their website the HD settop box will be priced around
6200 (HD box) + 2750 (Installation charges) + 1200 (Two HD channel charges) and extra for other channels.
Look forward to paying 10000 Rs to get two HD channels which are in Telugu and Tamil.
I am not rushing out to buy this, i will wait for when Tatasky will bring Hd settop box with recording capabilities.
At the moment i am happy with my Tatasky+ which will cost you same as this. But will give you lot more features.
Posted on 19 October '09 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
Can’t wait to see this movie that everyone is raving about.
Its about freedom fighter from Kerala read more from the wiki until you can watch the film.
But this movie made on a budget of average ten Malayalam movies, has a quality that has never been seen before.
Posted on 19 October '09 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
This was tamil film industries attempt to make a super hero movie and it succeeded mostly.
Vikram is really good in the movie and Shreya is sexy too.
This movie has the best first half of any movie i have seen in the recent past and that’s quite a complement for the movie. But that’s where the compliment stops. Second half of the movie is is so terrible and so different from the first half that it makes the whole movie seem bad.
Vikram has done some amazing work in the movie, sadly the second part of the movie reunins it.
Movie is about a superhero who fulfills wishes of devotees, who write their problems and tie it to a tree in a temple. Hero is like the Robin Hood who robs the rich and helps the poor. Nice concept and nice acting, but poor directlion and excution make the movie a bad one.
You will be entertained in the first half, but will leave the movie disappointed. This could have been a franchise, but second half ruins that chance.
Posted on 4 October '09 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
I got all of them correct, let see how many can you get. Its really worrying too that i got all of them right. I guess i know my Bollywood heroines well.
Bollywood is all about the bikinis these days, and everytime a heroine wears a two-piece, it’s flashed all over the news channels.
So let’s check how closely you’ve been paying attention. Identify the following actresses by checking out just their bikini bods… obviously it’s a win-win situation even if you get it wrong!
Posted on 12 September '09 by Prasanth, under Television & Movies. No Comments.
