All the beautiful people...

The Royal wedding was the much talked about event of the week and the day( of course today)...

Some people make news and for beautiful people with great personalities can become like magnets.Kate Middleton, now her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge is a classic beauty with a great personality and looks calm, composed( especially today on her big day)...

Loved the wondeful Grace Kelly-Princess Grace inspired wedding dress. The dress that has been re created many times and epitomizes serenity, class et al...Even the bouquet was a hit...

Grace Kelly will always remain a classy beauty who many love to talk about with a great personalities. Being a movie fan, I loved her movies with Hitchcock and of course High Noon. She was classy to the core...

The discussion of classic beauties will continue...Watch this space for more on beauty...

For old times sake...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and days of old lang syne?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

..
The media really loves to make mountains out of molehills. The media from the country of my birth has earned a not very good reputation in recent years.

Now I can speak more about it because I've been involved with it for a couple of years.

I can effortlessly say that it has it's own darlings and then forgets people quickly. Especially people who aren't constantly in the news or are elderly. Such a short memory it has. Quite heartless in fact.

Let me talk a little more in detail about the Indian entertainment media as I have more knowledge of the same.

In the last few months, many old time artistes had passed away but apart from a few reports there were no genuine shows of sympathy.

A couple of months back, there were reports that the editor of one of the biggest Hindi hits of all time has fallen on hard times and the industry was not doing anything much for him...even none of the actors who were involved with that film and are big names in entertainment and politics even now.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Sholay-editor-falls-on-hard-times/articleshow/7479269.cms

http://www.hindustantimes.com/MNS-helps-Sholay-s-editor-M-S-Shinde/Article1-661264.aspx

Slum dog kid Rubina Ali still continues to live in slums and there were reports that she lost her home some time ago and photos taken at the cremony.

Don't think the other kid star Azhar is doing any better. Now both had gone to the Oscars and they going to La, and being on the Oscar stage too.

Now not everybody was as lucky to go as far as Freida Pinto, Dev and all, right? When there was the hulla ballo I was hoping the well off artistes like Anil Kapoor would help them but that was not to be. Guess Mr. Kapoor is too busy with his children, more so actress daughter Sonam.

From personal experience I saw an assistant editor fly high after the win. Even become arrogant.

Much of all the kudos haven't helped that person either

Once very good looking and now old and retired actors like Shashi Kapoor and Sadhana, don't care to be asked any more. As if they are outdated now. And once people were so enamoured by their beauty.

Big B and some are really lucky to continue for so long.

Well, only a few in media continue to actually care about some long forgotten people.


April 5, 1993 was the day a very young actress Divya Bharati had lost her life untimely. Many of us were very little then then but even after so many years remember the day. Can't believe it's been 18 long years now.

Divya's dress designer Neeta Lulla( she's still doing well and her daughter Nishka too) is believed to have been present at the apartment at the time but the unfortunate event could not be avoided. Police closed the investigation into her death in 1998, but the circumstances of her death still remain a mystery.Her husband Sajid Nadiadwala continues to produce big movies and dedicated the earlier ones to her memory. Karisma, Urmila and many of her contemporariis are still working and wonder how many of her ex colleagues etc remember her

Abroad, a few years later, the paparazzi took the falk for Princess Diana's fatal car crash and the insensitivity.

Happy about the sensitive writing though...The M'bai terror attacks were a terrible chapter. Only recently an aware citizen commented firmly but humorously about how the Indian media is giving publicity, coverage to a book on the sole surviving terrorist and that's so not required.

Good there are some people who care. Wish there were more in media...

Cheer day for the country of my birth!

I've been not following the game of cricket for a while now...Yeah, since the late 90s, my teen days-the good old carefree days...

And the 2003- 2007 World Cups for the country were so bad, many of us( I wasn't a fan anymore), more so the fans were so disheartened...

But the Indo Pak is always a nail biting one, and I had to check it out on the 30th of March even though I was so many miles away from there...

And April 2nd, 2011, for sure goes down in History as a big day for cricket....


India are the cricket world champions now. Wow is all I can say. It was wonderful to witness the historic moment.

The tweets by celebs and normal folks were overwhelming.They all seemed to tweet their hearts out, so did I more since the India- Pak Mohali match.

Well, they play better in their home ground, but the team is good, the match with Sri Lanka was competitive and the losing captain gave a great speech too.

I've been an admirer of Sachin Tendulkar for years now, since I was a kid. And to see him enjoy this moment after playing 5 world cups was amazing in itself. The master blaster is sure one of a kind, in a league of his own( I read how the wonderful meeting between the very amazing Don Bradman and Sachin had happened years ago) and will remain India's pride forever.


The celebration continues for the cricket crazy nation and will do so for a while now... A happy day indeed!