Kahaani Humaare Mahabharat Ki

I am very excited and eagerly waiting for this show which is starting from today at 9X. Visually, its look like a desi version of Movies likes Gladiator. Manish Malhotra has designed the costumes and the graphics are amazing. Given the fact that Ekta Kapoor's normal serials are also like Mahabharat only; I have high expectations from this one.

As per Ved Vyas, writer of the epic; if there is a character and incident present in Mahabharat it’s present in real life; if it is not present in Mahabharat, it’s not present in real life.

When B.R.Chopra made his Mahabharata, I was too small and have not seen the serial with this angle. This time I am surely going to analyze characters and incidents. I just hope the present one is not too far from the original one. Anyways, the promos are looking promising to me.

IIFA Awards 2008

I found IIFA awards very entertaining much better than all the award function of all this season (though I hated them in 2007) – Ritesh and Boman were very entertaining as hosts – simply superb and it was a nice change to some new faces doing the hosting – I am bored to hilt to see the same faces over and over again. The more I see of Ritesh the more I feel there is so much of untapped potential in him; he really needs someone to take it out. Boman as usual was a thorough entertainer. Though they were also mean to an extent to the rest of the fraternity; but by no means can they give any competition to Shahrukh and Saif in Filmfare awards or Sajid and Karan in Zee Cine awards. Shahrukh’s gang comes out in public with a sole purpose to prove that Shahrukh is great and all the people Shahrukh doest like are good for nothing.

Urmila can do a better job if she doesn’t use such heavy accent – it was really not going well with her but she was looking very good :)

Now about performances:

a) Akki truly rocks and he precisely did that in the event – he ran from the stage and sang a song right amongst his fans – you read it right – he is a real dude :)
b) Clips to show nomination for movies from Ritesh and Boman – simply hilarious
c) Harry and Priyanka – Priyanka did an awesome job of matching steps with Harry
d) Kareena – I tell you something has happened to this lady – or may be success gives you the confidence – or may be the magic of newly found love - have never seen her in such spontaneity and cheerfulness. I like one thing about her; she never forgets to thank Shahid on the face of Saif for the movie – that’s professional. I wish Shahid would have also won half the no. of awards she has won for Jab We Met. Common guys he was equally good.

If you have missed the show; catch the glimpses here and don’t forget to watch the repeat telecast – there has to be one!!