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Before you get into the review for TRANSFORMERS DARK OF THE MOON, you may want to have a refresher course on TRANSFORMERS http://kartikr.blogspot.com/2011/06/transformers.html and TRANSFORMERS : REVENGE OF THE FALLEN http://kartikr.blogspot.com/2011/06/transformers-revenge-of-fallen.html Director            Michael Bay Cast                  Shia LeBouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Peter Cullen, Hugo Weaving, Patrick Dempsey, Leonard Nimoy, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, Year                 2011 Genre               Sci Fi, Action Now that’s what you call a partnership!!! We are talking about Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay.   And the ...

Gold and Real estate are very traditional investment avenues. Gold has evolved from its traditional investing and found its place in the modern sophisticated investment world via Gold ETFs. Similarly Real estate is also emerging as an investor friendly avenue with less hassle via PMS route or private equity route. Have you ever thought of investing in real estate will one day be as simple as investing in mutual funds? If no please read on…. Real Estate as an Investment: Buying a dream house or flat to reside ourselves is basically not a real estate investment. Buying real estate with a view to generate income and capital appreciation is considered as Real Estate investments. Real Estate investments can be further classified into residential, farm house, commercial, retail, leisure. Leisure is a relaxation place where one can spend their free time or vacation. Depends upon his/her risk tolerance and time horizon one can invest in real estate at different risk levels. It can be ...

Director            Roshan Abbas Cast                  Ali Fazal, Satyajeet Dubey, Giselli Monteiro, Zoa Morani, Pritika Chawla, Navneet Nishan, Vijay Raaz, Akash Khurana, Lillete Dubey, Satish Shah, Ashwin Mushran, Manoj Joshi, Mukesh Tiwari, Year                 2011 Genre               RomCom Dear Roshan Abbas – When someone makes his first movie it should ideally be an original story line.   If not there should be at least some semblance of originality if not completely original. But ripping off an entire Hollywood flick to the extent that it has been – GAWD!!!! Have some shame.   We are definitely an Indian audience but we definitely have our resources to watch Hollywood flicks.   Plus the DVDs of Hig...

Director            Sagar Bellary Cast                  Vinay Pathak, Kay Kay Menon, Minisha Lamba, Aditi Govitrikar, Suresh Menon, Rahul Vora, Rukhsar, Amol Gupte Year                 2011 Genre               Comedy It is never easy to make a sequel to a movie. Especially if the first one has been a stupendous success. The expectations of the audience have already been set extremely high. What it does though is ensure that the cash registers at the Box Office are continuously ringing. Music to the ears of the movie hall owners who are anyways having a tough time getting people to come in. However, a not so great sequel leaves the audience feeling distinctly cheated and more importantly ensures that there are no further ...

Director            Bejoy Nambiar Cast                  Kalki Koechlin, Shiv Pandit, Neil Bhoopalam, Gulshan Devaiah, Kirti Kulhari, Pavan Malhotra, Rajeev Khandelwal, Sheetal Menon, Nikhil Chinappa, Raj Kumar Yadav, Rajit Kapoor, Rukhsar, Rajat Barmecha, Year                 2011 Genre               Drama One of the reasons I did not put up the review of Shaitan up earlier was because I was quite certain that people would watch it – review or no review – and not be disappointed with it.   The other reason – the more important one – was that I was and still am running the movie back in my head to piece a few things together to figure out if they were really required in the movie.   I probably have missed a few ...

Director            Anees Bazmee Cast                  Salman Khan, Asin Thotumkal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Paresh Rawal, Anuradha Patel, Manoj Pahwa, Manoj Joshi, Puneet Issar, Akhilendra Mishra, Sharat Saxena, Arya Babbar, Sudesh Lehri, Nikitin Dheer Year                 2011 Genre               Comedy Before you go to watch Ready, please follow the steps as under Open Skull Carefully pull out brain – make sure you don’t damage anything else the purpose of saving the brain from trauma would be defeated. Now, place brain in a bowl of ice cold water and leave it in freezer for the next few hours Now that you have no sense of pain or pleasure or excitement or humour, you are in the perfect situation to watch one of the most ...

Rahul is working for a mutual fund house. They have recently came out with an NFO (new fund offer). The day on which the fund house announced its maiden NAV (net asset value), he received lot of calls from investors asking why the NAV is at below par. They thought something was wrong. Then Rahul went on clarifying them that though both an equity fund and a stock extend market-related returns, there are some key differences between the two. If you have similar misconceptions about equity funds and stocks, this article will demystify all those misconceptions. New Fund Offerings: A new fund offer is not likely to generate amazing returns as can be the case with an initial public offering from a company. This is because the NAV reflects the market value of the stocks held by the fund on any day. Because a fund holds several stocks in its portfolio, the NAV can only reflect the combined returns on the portfolio between the NFO date and the date of first NAV. The first NAV declared b...

As you all know, Anna Hazare led the fight against Government to introduce the Lokpal bill. But many politicians (from all parties) are against it as it will completely curb the corruption and politicians will not be able to make out any money. Many politicians are opposing Lokpal bill by giving reasons like it is difficult to follow this bill or it is complicated process, etc. Given below are the reasons how the procedures of Lokpal bill are different from existing Indian political system. Existing System System Proposed by civil society No politician or senior officer ever goes to jail despite huge evidence  because Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) and CBI directly come under the government. Before starting investigation or initiating prosecution in any case, they have to take permission from the same bosses, against whom the case has to be investigated. Lokpal at centre and Lokayukta at state level will be independent bodies. ACB and CBI will be merged into these bodies...

Health care costs are sky rocketing day by day. Therefore the need for having a mediclaim policy for you and your dependents has grown. Suppose you have to undergo some medical treatment or need to be hospitalized for certain reason, then a mediclaim policy will be of immense help to you in covering your health care expenses. The reason is Mediclaim offers protection in case of unexpected medical and health care emergencies. Hospitalization expenses in case of illness, disease or accident will impose a heavy financial burden on individuals and families. This is where the mediclaim policy comes in handy. The mediclaim policy can reimburse the hospitalization expenses or can pay the hospital directly on behalf of you. A mediclaim policy provides a health cover of certain amount of money. This amount depends on the amount that the insured person was insured for. The mediclaim policy can be taken for an individual or for an entire family. Some insurance companies allow a discount on the pr...