Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Round Up of some Mumbai Durga Pujas of 2011



above : Vashi Durga Puja 2011



above : Poonam Nagar Durga Puja 2011



above : Kandivali Durga Puja 2011



above : Kandivali ( Thakur Village ) Durga Puja 2011



above : Powai Durga Puja 2011

Saptami schedule was Kandivali and Poonam Nagar and Vashi on Ashtami ...

Was at the Powai pandal both days for anjali & bhog !!!

This year the food stalls at all the pandals are serving lip-smacking stuff all bongs love - fish fry / rolls / cutlets / biryani / mishti doi ... awesome yumminess :-)

At least couple more pujas to be visited planned for Nabomi :

and possibly the ones in Navy Nagar and Ram Krishna Mandir on Bijoya Doshomi morning ...


Sunday, September 11, 2011

Durga Puja Pandal @ Powai Mumbai 2011





Got a sneak preview of the Durga Puja pandal under construction near my home ... this year the Puja venue has been shifted as the original ground has been converted to a bus stand ...

A smaller ground but lets hope the scale of the Puja is not compromised.

Looking forward to the week of 2nd October !!!


Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Agneepath Coincidence !!!

A remake of Agneepath is on the cards, to be released later this year ... got me reflecting that I'd not seen the orginal as yet ...

The late 80s / early 90s were not the best of times for the big B ... he had a string of flops ... Toofan, Krodh, Ajooba etc ... none of which I've ever seen either.

Movies from this period which fared better were Shahenshah ( Rishte me hum tumhare baap lagete hain ... ) and Hum ( Jumma chumma de de ... ) both of which I'd seen and of course Agneepath ( Vijay Dinanath Chauhan ... poora naam ... ) which had somehow eluded me over the years ... cant fathom why though !!!

Anyway decided to rent the DVD over the weekend and realized that Agneepath is such a treasure trove of Big-B dialogue gems !!! Had it realeased in the Bachchan heydays of mid 70s it could have potentially dethroned Deewar ( Mere paas XYZ hai ... tumhare paas kya hai ... ) for sheer dialogue recall if not Sholay !!!

( paused the movie to click this !!! )

While watching the movie I was casually checking for facebook updates and found an old friend (
Shashi don - who loves his single malts these days ) of mine half way across the world was also watching Agneepath at the same time ... some coincidence !!!


Thought I'd post our facebook chat text on my blog for posterity ... also whats a blog on Mumbai without a smattering of Bollywood !!!


Saturday, May 21, 2011

the young foodie

photo 1) restless wait for the food to arrive.
photo 2) relentless focus on gulping it all down !!!