They call it the gay flick; instead they should call it the skin flick. Dostana is mostly about hot hot folks clothed in hot hot clothes – at least the leads anyhow. The movie moves fast – and doesn’t bore one at all – not even the faux gay bits – in fact the entire movie pretty much moves without a blip and boredom – with the faux gay bits being very funny cos of the inside joke ‘tween John and Abhishek’s characters.

The first ten miles back to the hotel, were SWEET. I had a mile wide grin plastered over my face for the whole journey. My cheeks didn't hurt even after having that grin plastered over my face for ten miles. The initial turn-in seemed a bit laborious, from the Pulsar's sporty stance - which's what I was used to. After the first couple of turns trying to figure if I was on the right street, the rest of the time was spent, cruising, being stared at. (Helped that I'd dressed as a propah "biker" - leather n denims). Cruising on the hog with a full lane for me, hogging the attention of folks around me, in cages - was sweet. The cool Pacific Ocean draft set it out to be the perfect ride. (That the draft might be a bit too cool, I found out later).

Nearly a decade or so back, I got my learning license. And started to drive ride. Of course the first LL is only for an ungeared motorcycle considering I was in my teens. And as was the norm, most of us rode those ungeared scoots that were then beginning to transform the country’s landscape – [...]

This week, a few fellow bikers and I underwent a “Safe Riding Workshop” (post coming up soon) – conducted by a few chaps from Hero Honda. This gave a few of the chance to sample some Hero Honda bikes which we hadn’t till then – for various reasons. Some of them also lead to some [...]

If you have been on a visit to the US Consulate for a Visa, or are you going to it for one – you have no doubt heard about – or seen first hand – the long wait it entails in the hot sun. It also means you cannot carry most things you want to [...]

Rumors are rife in the auto world about Honda bringing the Jazz to India. If my experience with the Airwave is any indication, then the Jazz doesnt look a promising prospect. The Airwave is a station wagon model based on the Jazz platform – and its ordinary at best, boring at worst. The Airwave is [...]

The annual Bangalore Book Festival is on all this week, at the Palace grounds. The Book festival this year has been organised to co-incide with the Dasara festivities – and will last the entire duration of Dasara, which is the NadaHabba or State Festival of Karnataka. Added attractions of the festival, apart from over a [...]

Tasveer is having a new photo show – “Silver Screen” by Fawzan Husain starting today, and which will last until July the 8th. Having seen a previous show of Raghu Rai at Tasveer, and enjoyed it immensely, I would recommend this one – especially for movie buffs. Tasveer is a very cozy place to goto [...]

Spiderman’s bestfriend becomes enemy.Spiderman loses girlfriend. Spiderman goes bad, er. black. Spidey’s girl gets ‘napped. Spidey fights 2 enemies at once – and gets the arse kicked all over the place. Ex-Best Friend turned enemy comes to the rescue, dies saving Spidey. (Friends again?) Spidey’s Enemy says “sorry!”. Spidey gets girl back. like the movie? [...]

Is almost typical in the kind of BULL CRAP movies one used to get in the late 80s/ early 90s. Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol – or so some wise soul said. The movie lives it up, aptly. And apparently everyone was totally floating in alcohol there. Well, we werent on [...]