Sohil Gupta

There are some things that you just should not do. One thing for example is watching an Anurag Kashyap’s movie. After the last  movie with absolutely no sense called “No Smoking”, he is back again with this shitty movie called Dev.D and seriously, after watching it, I want 3 hours of my life back!! I had watched some bad flicks earlier, but adding insult to injury this time are some mindless critics (supposedly on drugs just like Dev) praising this movie!! Times of India gave it 5/5 , HT gave 3.5/5, some even got the balls to stand up and say “go and watch Dev D and be blown away by a sample of what Anurag Kashyap as a director is capable of.” Are you nuts ppl?? How the hell could you give it a 5/5 whereas a masterpiece like The Dark Knight meagerly got 4.5/5 only?? I am even feeling guilty by taking out some time and writing a review for this movie and giving out this space for such movie. Anyways, the plot is the same as original Devdas except that today’s Devdas is modern. Here’s what you get to watch in this movie :

1. Some cheap adult comedy to give people a reason to hoot.
2. A bunch of crappy “presleys from Patna”  showing their ugly & horrible close-up shots to give you a ting of Horror coupled with songs like “emotional atyachaar” that give you a headache.
3. Relive some of the recent real life  controversies mixed  up with otherwise nonsense story to divert audience attention.
4. Faltu steamy scenes to cheer up perverts (including critics who gave 5/5 ).
5. An abrupt  ending with absolutely no clue as to where the movie was meant to be heading and makes you feel like throwing eggs and tomatoes on the screen.

It’s not that everything sucked in this movie. Abhay Deol’s screen presence for one saved the day for this movie and you can appreciate the fact that he’s getting better and better after watching this movie. And also, this movie is indeed going to appeal to those who just don’t give a damn about masala or entertainment value and are there just to appreciate the work of actors. But I am not one of them. I pay money and spend my time to be entertained.  If you are of my kind,  I would recommend you should totally avoid it.

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About 3-4 months ago, I was stucked up in a a helpless situation. I needed to get some word document printed out by the next day. I got the document from my friend but when I saw the extension of it, I knew I was in big trouble. Its extension was .docx, which could only be opened on office 2007. But I had office 2003. I looked up on google, but couldn`t find a solution. I couldn`t do the job in time and hence became pretty much pissed off. I spent some time after that on finding a workaround and then when I found the solution, I couldn`t help it but say WTF. Microsoft itself had developed a patch for it. But I never got that result on google. All I got were cheap softwares claiming to convert to .doc but never worked. So I just wanted to share that link so that you people don’t have to fool around.

Link for patch

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As many of know already, the windows 7 beta is directly downloadable for free from the microsoft site. This free download is available only for a limited period. This beta aims to pinpoint the bugs and technical issues which developers might have overlooked and to get the feedback from customers earlier than its official release. The only downside is that it expires on Aug 1st 2009  after which your PC will be rendered useless unless and until you purchase the official release or install a prior windows before expiry. Though there was some news that a team of hackers have created a patch to avoid expiration, I would  recommend not taking any chances and use this beta  only on a machine you do not need to use regularly as in case you don’t like the product, your pc may get useless after the expiry date.

More details on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_beta

Download : Windows 7 Beta

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