That is how I started and Quit Smoking!! Candid acceptance - Anupam

Inception of this habit goes to the day when I wrapped dried Croton leaves in a piece of paper and went to roof of my home to taste it. One of my friends told me that it will taste great and you will feel good, I acted on the words of him and smoked my first homemade cigarette. Then I didn’t smoke again until the mid nineties.

I was in my graduation and was into a habit of wandering here and there in my city, as it was once an Estate so a lot of things one can explore there. I made some new friends and was invited to attend a marriage function in a village very far from the city and there was a dense forest on the way to the place. Just before the day of function I left with my friend on a Scooter he was riding. After attending the ceremony we decided to leave the place to our home. It was very beginning of January 95 or 96 can’t remember exactly. We decided to leave in the morning and left the place by 6 AM. Very soon we started feeling cold when we were reaching to the Forest. Then I started riding the scooter and soon I also realized that we haven’t made a good decision we both were shivering badly. The moment my friend noticed a cigarette shop half opened. We went there and bought few cigarettes. We sat there on a wall of a miner and started to smoke, both smoked all the cigarettes leaving two in the packet.

 This gave us the enough warmth and we moved on to our home. We didn’t feel that much cold as we felt before smoking the cigarettes. Though I am not sure that was it due to cigarette or our mind had believed that we are not feeling cold, I can’t say exactly. And within an hour we reached our respective homes.

From that moment I started smoking in real sense. I started from one and increased up to 12 in a day by then I had come to Lucknow and joined a marketing Company. The Number had been increasing month by months and in 2003-2004 I was smoking 30+ cigarettes per day.

I tried to quit smoking twice in between but one resolution lasted for a month and the other was for Six months, and I was again on the other side of the smoking Shit.

 But 31^st December 2004 was the day when I finally quit smoking.

In the beginning of that day it was not in my mind to quit smoke and I enjoyed the day and was having dinner at the Cozy Corner in the late evening, after dinner I lit my Cigarette and went to a nearby shed to smoke when It was just half smoked I put that at the rising corner of that shed and said to that cigarette “I am going forward in time, (as it was only few minutes away from the arrival of a new year), and you can never find me as I am leaving you in this time” and I had moved on. And from that day I didn’t smoke until the pulling of an emotional trigger in 2007, but I smoked only two cigarettes that day. So after quitting the habit of smoking in 2004 to present, I just smoked two cigarettes on the very same day in 2007. It urged a lot of times but I never gave it a chance to be in my life again. And that is how I Quit smoking. Did You?

-Anupam

हर रोज़ सफर

हर रोज़ सफर पर निकलता हूँ तेरी आँखों में खुद का अक्स छोड़ के
तेरी अलसाई मोहब्बत मुझे धकेलती भी है और रोक भी लेती है
गली के नुक्कड़ से तझे रोज़ मुड़कर देखता हूँ तो लगता है के
कुछ पल और रुक सकता हूँ यूँ ही के दिन अभी इतना भी नहीं चढ़ा
तू कहती तो नहीं पर अब कुछ कुछ पढ़ लेता हूँ तेरी आँखें मैं
के इसीलिए हर शाम लौट आता हूँ तेरे पास फिर अगली सुबह जाने के लिए.....
और एक बार फिर लौट के आने के लिए .......
- अनुपम 

I really enjoyed Shivaay movie

Very beautiful movie, I really enjoyed it with my family. After watching ADHM and few other movies stuffed with nonsense, it was quite nice to watch a movie which had beautiful story, alluring locations, fantastic cinematography, tuching songs, perfectly performed emotional scenes and more particularly the movie perfectly depicts the issue of child abduction and child trafficking. The movie begins with the song “Bolo har har har” which has taken few lines of “Shiv Panchakshar strotam” along with the magnificent scenes of Himalayas in the background captivates the audiences. Ajay is at his best again. In spite of the length of movie I didn’t feel bore as the twists in the story made it more interesting.

Basically it’s an emotional action story and is a perfect blend of the emotional relationship between a father and daughter and the eye catching action. The child actress Abigail Eames is adorable and looked very effective in the role of Gaura, she looked very expressive and perfectly portrayed  the character of an speech-impaired person through her expressions, and gestures.

Few scenes specially attracted my attraction and i am impressed that the team Shivaay had worked a lot on this department, the chase on the roads of Bulgaria, and few scenes related to the child artist, when Ajay releases abducted children from Van in the Romanian border the expression by the child artist was enough to reveal the talent of the child artist, the way she looked shocked and she even didn’t recognized the Ajay, his father for few seconds itself reveals the pain and mental torture suffered by the abducted children.   And when Ajay was down by the Sargent Nicolai and the other person and Ajay ask his daughter to leave the place and run she way she reacts was awesome.

The best art of the movie is that the emotions have been well expressed without words the this treatment make this movie very special. “Ratein” and “Darkhwast” are very beautiful and with an emotional impact. Perfect story and screenplay, a must watch emotional action thriller.

Compelled to write review of e dil hai mushkil

Ridiculous movie, full of nonsense stuff and idiotic dialogues  and “Chhichhorapan” there is nothing wrong in saying that this is a story of few “Chhichhoras” and very well depicts the height of “CHHICHHORAPANTI”.

It has no head and tail as well, for the first few minutes I thought that what was going on but as minutes passed the story and focus got worsen. I am unable to understand for which audience this film was made and Karan had litter freely on the audience who just wanted to celebrate their Diwali and ended up with their Diwalas, it was a rotten garbage and he should have kept this garbage restricted with the audience for which it was made and with the warning at the very beginning of the movie. Actually what I feel it’s rotten garbage made for a particular type of dustbins so there must have been a classification before starting of the movie or the posters of the movie.

It was a complete torture; I wonder that it was all occupied the “Karan's”. There is no difference in Kim jong and Karan as he is in a position to spill his litter to the wide section of audiences because he has a rotten brain inside and resources outside.
It was a story about Never School Going MBA, Jobless Shayara and a penniless, confused, hippocratic Preaching girl.
They travel in a Private jet but do not have enough money to afford separate rooms at the Hotel. Hovering on a roof of a building which I don’t think abandoned at all to use as a meeting or sitting point. I think you need to be one of them to understand the story better and enjoy if you could. And smile if you could on the waste comedy effort. All actors acted very well as if they were overpaid in any kind which we might not understand. Some through lifetime achievement roles some acted in a way in this movie as they took this as a platform/ opportunity to take some kind of revenge with their counterpart. And few looked as they have used an actress in a way as they had some personal rivalry with her.
This movie was made for only few people to set and achieve their personal goal and nothing more than that. Must waste you time to watch this movies to you will get enough scared with the Name of the maker to go for his next movie. Ranbir is losing his path surely in spite of his beautiful acting. As he is choosing a type of movies which had to take the means of controversy to attract the audience.

*Plz excuse the language errors

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Deepa Karmakar's Final Vault

Deepa Karmakar created History with her qualification to finals the Rio Olympics 2016, she will compete on 14^th of August, just a day before the Celebration of Independence Day, 15^th  August, in the final vault, after qualifying for the final vault at the Olympics.She is the First Indian female ever to compete in the Olympics.

Best Wishes for 14th August-from every Indian, 'pray’ for her on her fateful day (August 14).