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Just few days ago, came across to know about Noor through one of my friend. He recommended it and after hearing the music i thanked him back.

India, where a lots of music and movies releases everyday in numerous languages; the low profile albums somewhere rests behind to gain popularity. Anyways, this post is not a debate on this issue. I am writing this because I felt that i must share this mellifluous debut album titled "Noor" by Lokesh and Manan. Lokesh, 24, a physiotherapist by education but a singer by heart gave vocals of all the songs. The music, back vocals and all the post production tasks are accomplished by Manan Sharma and recorded and released by White Coffee Studios (NCR).

The album comprises four main songs along with three other scores. These are : Noor, Jal jaye jiya, Iltja (ft. Shevy), Jal jaye jiya (live), Bhuloon naa, Noor (indo-asian version), theme of Noor. All the songs are really musical and soulful, but there is only one ace and its the title track "Noor" for me. The tempo of the album is set by this track but you'll find varying resonance in the tracks. Shevy , a graduation student and an upcoming musician did a rap  in Iltja, which is another popular track of this album. Its highly recommendable to you guys and you can listen the teaser from the Facebook Fan Page of Noor . If you like it, go and buy it, its high form of Appreciation for an upcoming artist. Remember, "Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

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3 idiots...hmm, by the time you are reading this, you may have watched this fantastic movie. Did you said... No ?? OMG, stop reading this and book a ticket now !!

Above must have made it clear that "3 idiots" is another blockbuster of this year, or decade !! Well, the story is about three students, though Amir (44) was really not looking anywhere to 20s but played the character of Rancho, or Ranchoddas shyamaldas jhanjhad (the humor starts from the name itself), Sharman (raju rastogi) and Madhvan (Farhan) of ICE, Imperial College of Engineering -(hmm...my college name resembles it). As we all know its an adaptation of FPS of Chetan bhagat (not a copy of it), the story is about the life in the elite engg. college like IIT and the immense pressure of parents, society to be a successful, good earning engineer.

The story revolves around these three friends aka Idiots. Where Raju and Farhan joined college to be a part of this education system and with the aim of getting a degree which can in turn give them big bucks, Rancho believed in getting the knowledge and learning from fun. He obviously can't fit into an Indian classroom, where all you have to do is mug up, to rise up. As the movie includes campus, a danger Director of college-Virus (Boman Irani) oops sorry sir, Mr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe & friends the fun and laugh ride is sure. Another character which needs a definite mention is (no no i am not talking about kareena), its Chatur (Omi) - 'Silencer'. His speech (remember 'chamatkari') and other scenes like the ragging signature made the three hours a laugh riot. And yes, the love masala was really apt in the movie and i really liked the role of kareena -short and apt. The serious and emotional moments and issues were all well fitted the scene and the screenplay deserves a hats off.

Such a serious issue of our Education system was really well criticized along with a great humor. The film is actually a fairly serious take on a cruel examination system that gets passed off for an education system in this country. Not surprising, this rote-learning, cramming and to just pass the exam, (as prof said "book me yahi definition hai, yahi likhoge to pass hoge") even from India’s best institutions, produces more a bureaucracy to serve the corporate and banking sector, than any original thinkers who could pick up a Nobel prize for an invention. But as all iz well, in the end.

Super packed performances could be useless, if there is no script. The core of the movie was script and Raju Hirani (along with Abhijat Joshi) has done a fabulous job. Raju Hirani is continuing to be a good film maker and proving Bollywood is no more leaner than Hollywood. Three cheers to him. Music moves well along with movie and "Behti hawa sa tha vo" as theme was a good choice, but my favourite : Give me some sunshine... Perfect performances by everyone, gr8 script, dialogues, cinematography, story presentation with an awesome blend of humor, emotions, morals, music, romance (a lil bit but in apt quantity), and a message to India's education System.

A must must must watch for everyone...do watch this as soon as u can !! I request Mr. Hirani if he could screen this movie for free after a month or so for Teachers n professors, so that they should watch this and the message must be forwarded to them !!!

All iz well !!

MyRatings : 4.5 / 5

P.S : Leave your review n ratings with the favorite dialogue/scene of the movie. Its always good to share !!!

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Here is the First Day First Show Review of Latest bolly flick "London Dreams" released on 30th oct,2009. The show was house full as people believed that this movie has something. And yeah, they all were right !!

The movie is all about story of two friends, Arjun (Ajay Devgan) and Manu (Salman Khan) and their musical journey full of friendship tadka. The script of the movie is really fast and things happen within a song and so. The two friends, initially in punjab, separated as Manu moves to London. While Manu (sallu) is in punjab and having a life full of fun and masti (the gr8 part of the movie) Arjun is all set for his ambition of being the greatest popstar just like Mai -ka-Lal-Jai-Kishan errr Michael Jackson (as said in a dialogue). Then after some stage performances and good songs, Arjun brings Manu to London to join his band. Oh band, yeah comprise of VJ aditya and Ranvijay and Priya (Asin ,just for a face).

The movie goes on with Rock performances but the bolly-twist/turn is Manu starts overshadowing Arjun and now Arjun feels envious of him. Now the whole movie is paced about Arjun's jealously and how their friendship turned on again.

The movie is really good, the music smoothly goes on with movie. Salman is the heart of movie, certainly his comic timing is getting better in this movie with a bindass andaz. At the same time, Ajay has proved him once again that he can fit in any type of role. Asin has done her part fabulously. You'll definitely like the songs of the movie if you haven't earlier. I heard this from a lots of other people, so the music is really foot-tapping at times. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music really make the pace of the movie. Director Vipul Shah has done a fantastic job after Namastey London and you'll notice some good camera work and screenplay too.

Now some floppy things about the movie, one is its unrealistic pace. Shah has tried to put everything in this two and a half hour long movie so you need to assume few things. Like their friendship still remains same after so long and the stadium packed with people really dont look realistic. The climax is over-stretched and the climax concert number is not up to the mark just like the earlier songs.

I got to know that this is inspired by an Oscar winning "Amadeus", and you may be not very attracted by Critics harsh comments but who cares about them?? This might you bring on memories of Rock On. So got and watch this one, thumbs up from me. Its definitely a watchable movie !!! A real fun and a complete bolly flick with every masala. [:P]

MyRating : 3.5/5

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OperaMini, the leader in mobile browser has just launched its next version. Opera Mini 5 beta is out now and you can download it from Opera's site.

I just had its first experience. And here is my review:

Tabbed Browsing : The first thing you'll notice is its tabbed browsing. As mobile browsing is increasing day by day with higher bandwidth speed through EDGE n 3G, a tabbed browser was indeed necessary. So good feature by Opera.

Speed : I thoroughly enjoyed surfing on this browser as the speed is really enhanced. It compresses your page by about 90% resulting faster page loading.

Password Manager : The next thing you may notice is its password manager, which is a very good feature introduced in this release. Now no more need to remember your username and password, let Opera Mini do it for you.

Scroll n zoom : Apart from viewing the mobile sites, you can switch to full version anytime and without any hassle. It has a really good point n zoom cursor. Go to a part of a page and zoom there to view. The scroller is also very nice and fast from previous versions.

Interactive Speed Dial : Just like the Speed Dial (bookmarks) in PC web browser, all Speed Dials are at the home page. So just click any one of them and go on.

Touch n Keypad : The new Opera Mini is suitable for both touch screen based mobile phones and normal screen keypad based mobile phones. So all touchscreen users now will enjoy more with this.

I really praise Opera for their new launch but one thing that i didn't liked was the new Menu which opens a new bar on top. I am more comfortable with the old menu. Although it is graphical and looks good but the menu should be at the bottom, atleast for me.

As this is the beta release so there were some features missing, like download manger, synchornisation etc. Hope the final version have all n more guddies.

Download it from here and share your experience.

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So, here is my review of Nokia 5130 Xpress Music.
Its the lightweight phone with awesome sound quality, having great look and low on your pockets as this is the cheapest phone available with all these features.

As, its from Nokia's XpressMusic series, there is no doubt about the sound quality and sound output and there are music dedicated keys on left side. Moreover, it has universal 3.5mm jack making it compatible with all standard headsets and can be connected to the your computer's speaker too, which is i think really fabulous. Also, it gives 21h continuous music playback time.

The phone has stereo FM radio with RDS. RDS is Radio Data System that means it gives information about the station frequency like Radio channel name, its frequency, info about current playing song. The feature, AF (alternative frequency) allows your phone to automatically switch to a (nearly) different frequency of the same channel providing more clarity than your current frequency .

This phone has 2 Megapixel camera (1600x1300 pixels) and can take videos with 15 fps. The camera quality is also enhanced with this model.

It has 240x320 pixels screen resolution with 256k colour support. It has a decent battery backup. Apart from GPRS, class 32 and EDGE, class 32 it has Opera Mini as the default web browser making your phone internet experience richer. It also supports Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP.

Now, one most important thing, it has phone memory of about 27 MB, but expandable memory is about 16 GB, yes 16 GB although there is still some conflict in that but 4GB support is guaranteed and it comes with a bundled 1GB microSD card.

Now some lags, i think, there are still some chances of improvement of bundled headsets, but with 3.5mm jack it overcome with it. Also, there is only one player for all media playback rather videos, mp3's etc...and you have to again select your music files. Initially, this might irritate you.

IMO, go buy it, the current street price is around Rs. 5.3K. With superb music features and other qualities, its going to be a great deal, and it is cheaper because it is manufactured in India rather than imported.

My Ratings : 4.5/5

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