Pune - first impression

As you all know that I had moved to Pune for now.I am writing about my first impressions. I am living in a locality called Pimple Saudagar and working out of Hinjewadi phase two. The distance between the places is around 10kms and the established nearest neighbourhood is called Aundh and Baner.

Pimple Saudagar exactly looks like 90s madipakkam or velachery. No great roads, street lights and construction everywhere. But Aundh and Baner has got nice facilities thanks to Balewadi stadium which came couple of years ago.

Pune railway station, Pune Camp, Kalyani Nagar are located some 25Kms away from my place and i am yet to explore them.

For me, it looks like Pune is definitely behind Chennai or Bangalore infrastructure as of now. But lot of construction, road building which is happening now might make the place more comfortable over a period of time.

Traffic - No driving sense at all and people drive at all the places. No right or wrong side as of now. Autos are costly but Tata Aces, Marutis and shared Autos are cheaper than individual autos. Signals are relatively less and traffic moves comfortably as the roads are reasonable broad. Lot of sign boards help you to move around freely.

Will post more info as i keep exploring. so enjoy some photos as of now.

ASAL - Movie Review

Saw my first movie, that too, tamil movie in Pune - that is Asal.... My feedback goes like this:

Story: One big man.. his two sons have hatred against another son... why bcoz of the dad's affair (chinna veedu) logic... they are all in arms dealing biz... they slug it out for 2 hours... Yuhi Sethu fails to provoke any laughter but makes the story move.

Acting: Ajit as usual tries his best to carry the movie on his shoulders.... Sameera and Bhavna are pretty decent. The villains are ok but some how it doesnt settle with you.

Technical: Photography is good and cool. Choreography is really bad. in fact, ajit competes with Bhagyaraj in kuthiraikku song and loses badly. The movie is mounted stylshly...

Music: I liked 2-3 songs when the music released. But in the movie, they are all cut by half.

What i liked: London location, conversation bwn Sameera and Bhavna

Opinion: We know it will be a masala movie., but why cant u make it little better? avoidable movie, over all.

Crowd: I saw it E Square, Pune. Crowd was cool, noisy and celebrating.60% occupancy for the first day, night show.

Rahman wins Grammy

Rahman winning grammy is a such a great feet. Any music lover will realise the value of winning a grammy. Its a pinnacle of music awards and it is a proud moment for all of us.

Its also two to tango. Hopefully, people will keep quite after calling "slumdog millionaire" is not one of the best of Rahman !

I pray to god that Rahman should get good projects in future so as to enable him to demonstrate his versatile music strength.

Jai Ho !

Hibernate

I will be busy for the next 6 months over work and might not be able to spare time for blogging, lyrics as before. Will post less and will post when essential....

Mumbai trip

I went to Mumbai, Pune this week after some gap of 3-4 years. Mumbai never fails to surprise me. It brings up something new every time. Just could not figure out how this maximum city survives when a tourist like me bewilders abt the traffic jam on the Bandra flyover.

I drove through Worli Sea Link and felt bit excited. As usual, had bites of street food like vada pav, pani puri and one dish called "bell" - chinese chat item. All were good.

Drove down to Pune through Mumbai - Pune Expressway (done by IRB) in the foggy morning and liked it thoroughly. But the heavy vehicles end up struggling bcoz of hill terrain, curves.

There was a food mall on the way and they were calling "Thoosai" for dosa and "Soombar" for Sambar... had a hearty laugh abt it.

Will write a lot about Pune over next six months for sure...

IPL Vs PAK

IPL chose to omit Pakistan players in the auction. Enough was written by others on this topic and i am late to it.

All I can say, if Indian government wants to hurt Pakistan where it really matters is - then, it could be cricket only !!!

But i would have loved the display of some guts and transparancy instead of blaming each other on this topic.

Chennai will be back to inaction

Chennai is a very different city. Life becomes very interesting starting from Dussera days to Pongal with various activities or festivals like Diwali, Christmas, Music festical, island grounds exhibition spread in between.

You visit so many shops, relatives... plunge deep into carnatic... then relax, take it easy with chennai sangamam folk.

Then, all of a sudden, life turns serious... exams for kids, summer leave...

nothing simply nothing happens and life becomes really predictable for outdoor life especially.

How do you call it... deep slumber? yeap... starting from monday :) Have you felt that way too?