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Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) : Investment ideas

Posted by JV on November 24, 2007

I am publishing this post in the answer of Sudha’s query about the price target of RNRL, which I have been occasionally asked.

About RNRL I am as clueless as most of people , about the business of the company. The business profile on the official website (as on 24-11-2007) of the company remains silent about the business .

What general public knows about the it is that the company become demerged during the dispute between the Ambani brothers resolved and shares of of RNRL having face value of Rs.5-00, were issued to the share holders of at the premium of Rs.35-00.

While the demerger RNRL entered into agreement with RIL for supply certain quantity at certain price for a certain period. However, there is prolonged dispute between the brothers about the terms of the agreement and it is pending in the court. (See news 1 2 3 ) So, unlike RPL , RNRL has no fundamental footing to work on.

If you check the financial of the company you will find RNRL as one of the most expensive stock in the front line stocks. Against the huge share capital of Rs.736 Crore , quarterly turnover is 63 crore and net profit is 19 crore. Therefore, at given EPS of 00-27 paisa, price earning ratio is whopping 585 at the market price of Rs.158-00.

After initial listing in March’ 2006 RNRL was ranging between 22 to 30 till May’07. (check turnover figures at NSE)

In June’07 it clearly breached the level of 30 and moved up smartly without any downside till mid September. On 21-09-2007, it gave a unprecedented single day price hike in the history of Indian stock market from moving 56 to 76 and on next trading day on 24-09-07 it closed on 93.

RNRL Chart showing market price

Such sudden price hike drew attention of many investors and thereafter RNRL was on dream. People was expecting hikes of Rs.10-20 everyday and speculating price of 300 soon. But after hitting life time high 198-00 (203-00 on BSE) it followed the law of gravity and fall down but not significantly. Following chart will help you to under the price movements graphically.

It is very exciting to see the price movement of RNRL on screen, but there is nothing fundamentally to justify all these price hikes.

It is difficult to set any price target for this script as it is already hyper-overrvalued, and therefore it is strongly adviseable not to invest at this price unless you have long time horizon and some risk appetite.

If you are already invested at high price you will definately see your purchase price looking to the recent reversal up trend. However, every upward movement will be faced with profit booking and it may take some time to cross the life time high.

Disclaimer here, I have invested some good amount in RNRL at average of Rs.22-00 and I have become greedy as I am getting thundering 700% return and I have very deep (highly unlikely) stop loss and I am staying invested. Probably sell 10% stake at 220-00 take back the original invested amount.


Other Related posts :
Investment in Reliance Petroleum (RPL)
Reliance Petro(RPL) : High returns
Accumulating Tata Teleservices (Mahrahstra) Ltd. (TTML)

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Heyy Babyy : A review

Posted by JV on August 27, 2007

While watching the trailer of the movie it becomes clear that it has been ‘inspired’ from the Hollywood movie “Three men and a baby”. However the director Sajid Khan denies that his movie is based on any such movie. Well, there is nothing wrong to take inspiration from something, but it is hard to improve.

Despite the denial, the story goes parallel to the Hollywood movie with additions of some music numbers.

Aroush (Akshay Kumar), Ali (Fardeen Khan) and Tanmany (Ritesh Deshmukh) are having all the fun a bachelor would have till someone drops a baby girl at their door step with a note. Each of them denies to be father of the baby. Being unexperienced in raising a small child they face difficulty to look after the baby. After unsuccessful efforts to find the mother of the baby, they try to get rid her. But with a life threatening accident to the baby, their hearts change and they start loving the baby and enjoy her company. When the three men are settled, her mother (Vidya Balan) , a former lover of Aroush , turns up and gets the hold of the child. The three men make various attempts to get the her back with the mother and eventually everyone unites and lives happily.

Sajid Khan being the director and looking to the plot of the movie, a comic relief was heavily expected, but the movie fails to deliver much. Most of comedy scenes are physical comedy and dual meaning dialogs. Akshay Kumar is an established actor in comedy, as he has proved his metal under the direction of Priyadarshan but he is not at his par performance.

There are some comic relief the trio try to provide , here and there , but nothing for stomach holding laughs. Boman Irani, another talented actor, and I always found it disturbing that directors waste him for overacting. Vidya Balan is okay as she has nothing much to do. There was some gimmicks for the promotion of movie by shooting some 21 actresses in one song, you will be hardly able to recognize few of them. Then there is overacting Anupam Kher and Shahrukh Khan in special appearances for no reason at all. There is nothing special about the musical numbers and are easily forgotten.

In my view the movie fails to entertain for the money one may spend on it. I would stay at home and watch the re-run of Mr. Bean on Pogo.

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ICICI Bank - Do not call option !!??!

Posted by JV on February 25, 2007

Now what I hear? ICICI Bank is generous enough to let me have “Do not call” option and they will make attempt that I am excluded from their list of calls and SMS. Mercy! Mercy!

Reserve Bank of India has directed all the banks to…

d. The card issuing bank / NBFC should maintain a Do Not Call Registry (DNCR) containing the phone numbers (both cell phones and land phones) of customers as well as non-customers (non-constituents) who have informed the bank / NBFC that they do not wish to receive unsolicited calls / SMS for marketing of its credit card products. The DNCR should be set up within two (2) months from the date of this circular and wide publicity should be given to the arrangement.

ICICI Bank seems to have taking advantage of this. They are informing , that they respect your privacy , so register your cellphone numbers with the bank, and you will be excluded from the list. (QUESTION HERE, how do they get the numbers?)

Further, while just asking your number ,out of respect , to be excluded from the list , they also ask all the details , like office email, personal email, office number, residence number and more. So, previously the bank had only your cellphone number now have all the details, superb job.

Here is another misinterpretation, RBI says “who have informed the bank / NBFC that they do not wish to receive unsolicited calls / SMS “, so if you are not informing about the “do not call” option, the bank will assume that you have no objection for being contacted.

RBI is trying to learn from US. In US they have same kind of scheme, and violators are punished with the penalty of 11,000-00 USD, now this is missing in the RBI direction (no wonder).

Infact, all phone numbers ought to be considered as excluded ,unless the user expressly subscribed to any service. Like we have in email subscription, any decent web sites would not send any email unsolicited.

Now this is clearly case of doing wrong thing from the other side of the end (hope I am clear) so it appears like doing public service. Again ICICI bank plays trick here, if you have eventually decided to excercise the option, the bank will inform that this DNCR is for the ICICI Bank Ltd. only, not for other group companies. So you need to get your all the details registered with all banks, before you can sleep peacefully.

Kudos to RBI and other banks, for allowing humble citizens to have option to rest peacefully.

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Deception Point by Dan Brown

Posted by JV on January 11, 2007

After reading the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown I wanted to read his rest of previous books, and I had ordered for them and were lying unread in the shelves. The Christmas holidays provided good free time to finish them all and Deception Point [DP] was last of Dan Brown.

Infact, I was not quite impressed with the De Vinci Code [DVC] and I have my opinion for it. And when I read Angels and Demons [AD], it was clear that the most of plot of AD was recycled in DVC and I found AD better and fresher then DVC.

Same thing seems to happen with DP, if you have read Digital Fortress [DF], the first novel of Dan Brown, you will find some similarities in the plot in these two.

After reading all his four novels, one thing I can say about the author that he researches thoroughly for novels and uses realistic , actual data which excite the readers. But time and often I find this bit in overdoes. One of fellow blogger concluded the writing style of Dan Brown is like blog informative-one-time-read. But every author has its style and definitely I have put Dan Brown in my favourite author and look forward to read The Solomon Key and other 12 novels when published.

Now something about the story of Deception Point.
****
Senator Sedgewick Sexton is running for the US Presidency election against the elected president Zachary Herney. Rachel Sexton, the daughter of the senator, is intelligence analyst National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and loath her father.

The senator is successfully using the failure of NASA in its missions and over-budget to attack the president, who is supporter of NASA. Suddenly Rachel is summoned by the President, after receiving advice from William Pickering, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, to refuse any proposal by the President which is anyway related to her father.

However, she does not get any option and she is sent to a huge Arctic glacier where NASA has made some discovery of a meteorite, which alleged to contains fossils of extra- terrestrial life forms. There she meets Michael Tolland, Oceanographer and host of TV Show, and other civilian scientists who are called by NASA to verify the discovery.

The President declares the newly found discovery of NASA which helps to boot his ratings, and lowered the image of the Senator who was apparently lobbying against the NASA activities as he was receiving bribes from private space companies, to allow them to expand their business in space.

However, after verifying the meteorite, the scientists find something unusual about the the discovery and decide to get into it. Soon their doubts become reality as they find out the deception about the discovery. Someone else is watching their move and try to kill them

Eventually, the President learns the felony, still wins the election and the senator wounds himself by the accidental publication of his scandal.
***

In this novel also like Digital Fortress, the head of the key government agency is villainous character , and who at same time believes that what is done is in the best interest of the nation. Again it is hard to believe that the President of only super power country, who knows what goes around the world, does not know what happens under his nose.

So, I would not recommend the novel, unless you are like me to read all the books of your favourite author.

With finishing this novel, Dan Brown is among another author with Jefferey Archer and John Grisham, whose all the novels I have read.

This is my first read of 2007 as per the resolution (1/52)

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Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Posted by JV on January 1, 2007

When Dan Brown read Sidney Sheldon’s novel The Doomsday Conspiracy, he decided he could do better and it was Digital Fortress [DF] , his first novel.

**Spoiler ahead **

Susan Fletcher is Head Cryptographer of NSA (National Security Agency) and she receives emergency call from the Dy. Director of the operation, Commander Trevor Strathmore, who was like father to Susan.

Strathmore informed her about the emergency, TRANSLTR, a super toy of NSA able to decode toughest encrypted message within minutes, is not able to decrypt a code for more than fifteen hours. Strathmore explained that he had entered a code published by Ensei Tankado, who claims that the code is unbreakable as against the Bergofsky Principle, which states that every code is breakable. Only Tankado has pass-key to decrypt the code, he has decided to sell the unbreakable code to the highest bidder among the international computer companies.

However, TRANSLTR seems to be in endless loop, and Strathmore sends David Becker, a foreign languages expert and boyfriend of Susan, to Spain to recover the belongings of dead Tankado. Meanwhile Susan and Strathmore tries to figure out the problem.

When Phil Chartrukian , assistant System Security Division of Crypto, arrives at Crypto and believes that TRANSLTR has been attacked by a virus. Greg Hale, another Crypto of NSA also wonders why Susan and Starthmore are present on Saturday and smell the rate.

Here David find something missing from the personal belongings of Tankado and the chase begins to recover it as it contains the pass-key to decrypt the code of Tankado.
****

I find the story with too many co-incidents. Also the chase by David almost consume half of the story which becomes frustrating sometime. You left in wondering that NSA , budget of which runs in billions and which contains the most secured secrets of America appears to easy to breached. One could peep into another’s room, and one can access to the Dy. Director’s email account.

I find hard to believe that at the NSA, building of which is spread in two millions square feet and have staff of twenty six thousand, nobdy turnsup when their ultimate machine is at fire.

Having read all the novels of Dan Brown it appears that the author makes a very good head start , explaining everything necessary to understand the novel, and also state that the state-of-art technology developed and controlled by the American secret agencies, but somehow initial excitement created by the fact and figures fads away as the story progresses.

Dont regret If you haven’t read , because you will regret too after reading.

I liked a dialog of abusive Jabba , Anti-Hecker and System Security Chief of NSA …to conclude the review

“Clear like shit”

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Dhoom 2 : Doomed too

Posted by JV on November 30, 2006

Dhoom 2I am the person who cannot bear non-sense. I agree that the cinema is a meant for the entertainment, but Indian movie industry believe that all Indians are dumb and do not understand what is going and will be happy with skimpy clothed actress and exotic location. A good story is not requirment of Indian cinema. I am shocked to see such movie under Yash Chopra banner. Yash Chopra is known for giving romantic touch to his movies, not obscene which is now clearly happening under his banner.

Dhoom 2 is really doomed . Thre is no links between the scenes , and you wait for some worthwhile story. But except Hrithik, there is nothing to watch, only if you are die hard fan of Hrithik. I maintain my stand that I admire Hrithik as an actor he is top notch, infact he is of international caliber and wasted in Bollywood, but that doesnt mean I worship him and watch his every move religiously.

In the movie Uday is Unneccsary, Aishwairya is Aging, Abhishek is Average (especially against Hrithik in every way), Bipasha is Baring and Hrithik is clearly Heart-throbe and Rimi(?) is Rare.

There is no tale to tell , even the creator couldn’t thought of an imganative title and hence Dhoom 2. The movie is made with clear intention encash the populairty of the first part, as happens with most of succesful movies, that too unsuccesfully.

Hrithink is , as always, suitable in the character posing as international thief. However we are not previlaged to see most of his adventautres, only narrations. The train robbery mission is unimpressive. At the first glance to the queen anyboy could easily identify her as Hrithik. The disguised technique is good, but couldnt shortened the height of Hritihk to match the height of an old queen (probably of England). Hrithik is clearly wasted, and casted only to attract the huge fan base. Abhishek is clearly undershadowed by Hrithik and hopless. Stunts are unbelievable, I am not saying out of “awe”, but it is “ouch”, they appear foolish. Answer the following questions and you are offered, ummm two front row tickets for Dhoom : 3 for everyday for 4 weeks.

-How could you keep a water bike submerged, and appear on the surface when you want?
-How did Hrithik surf down from the deseret dunes, when he was on the train which was running in the plain?
-Best ever, how could one enter through drainage system of Mumbai and and come out  intact, that too ,twice.
-Securities at Junagarh Fort must be blind , not able to detect the device running between their legs, how could it be so?.
-How could a person with the physique of Hrithik, escape unnoticed, appearing as child?
-Kiss between Ash and Hirithik? ( it is puzzle to me , was it stunt or something)
-How could one police officer of State of Mahrahstra roam in Brazil for months without aid of local police?
-Lots of other quizzes and puzzles for you in the movie.

Aishwarya, now looks old and expression-less as always, and certainly cannot give competetion to Bipasha. Bipasha is well endowowed in acting and otherwise, and Ash is flat in acting and otherwise. Bipasha is wasted ,twice, in the movie. Her characters in double role clearly un-neccssary except to give glamours edge to the movie.

Watch Discovery Channel instead, if you are fond of exotic places. Localtions of Brazil were cleraly un-necessary , probably because of some incentives from Brazilian Tourism.

Songs are not memborable, as they ought to under Yash Chopra banner. Watch the movie if you are die hard fan of Hrithik or you have nothing else to do.

N.B. I am already terrified by hearing the rumours of Dhoom : 3 with Shahrukh Khan. The team of Dhoom 2 should be arrested under TADA act for creating terror and for future plannings to do so.

Some other review I find matching with my reviews, and with the stuff I would like to write.
http://www.desitrain.com/2006/11/24/dhoom-2-strike-out-a-pose/
http://urmilesh.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/dhoom-2the-review/
http://cinemascope.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/dhoom-2-cheap-movie/

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Krrish : Review

Posted by JV on June 25, 2006

Last night I went to see Krrish, rather I was dragged to the theatre. Since seeing the promotions and articles of this movie last year, I had became grudged to the movie. Apparently it was sequel of “Koi Mil Gaya”. Forget it let’s talk about the story (!). You have to be very observant through out the movie, of course it is not the story you have to concentrate on but something else.

Now Rohit(Hrithik Roshan) and his wife Nisha (Pritey Zinta) have died leaving one son Krishna (Hrithik Roshan). His grandmother (Rekha) finds out that the young child also is gifted with all the superhuman qualities given to his father by Jadoo (alien). She is afraid of these qualities of Krishna and disappears with him in some distant hilly town leaving no trace behind.

Krishna grows up with no friend as his grandma keeps him aloof from the most of the society. He is instructed not to display his superhuman capabilities, but still sometime he plays with such capabilities and amuse the local village boys.( Inspite of his superhuman capabilities you can see him drinking ‘Bournvita’). Then one day while playing with the boys , he sees a ‘large kite’ (glider) and follows the kite to get it. There he saves Priya (Priyanka Chopra) from the fall and falls in love with her, who has come from Singapore for Adventure Camping with her friend Honey (Manini De).
Soon they become friend and she has to return to Singapore. Back at home she is got fired by her lady boss (Archna Puran Singh) of a TV Channel (Star TV) for taking leave more than granted. Honey lies about find of superboy at India, which excites the boss, and ask them bring him at Singapore. Priya calls up Krishna and deceits him about her lover towards him, and if he does not comeup at Singapore, her mother will marry her with someone else.

Back in India , Krshna insist upon going at Singapore at any cost, to that the grandma refuse firmly. After word fighting between them, he says sorry to her and she explains her reasons why not allowing him to go anywhere.

She explains that his father because of the superhuman qualities became world famous. One of the largest IT Company invites Rohit for the dream project of its owner Dr. Siddhant Aryan (Nasrudin Shah). What the doctor wanted was to invent a compute which can show the future. Rohit worked hard for the Doctor for two years and finish the computer. In India his wife Nisha is pregnant (?) about to give birth. He receive call from his mother informing birth of son, then suddenly something happened and Rohit died because of fire in the lab. Nisha could not live the shocking news and died too.

After listening the story, Krishna promises his grandma that in Singapore he will behave like ordinary human and will not reveal his capabilities and he leaves for Singapore with the overcoat of his father (?). As he arrive at Singapore (you can find Priya and Honey eating “lays waffer” in parking lot instead receiving Krishna). Priya do not bring him at her home, making some excuses. While roaming Singapore, on a street Krishna finds a martial art expert showing his arts to raise money to operate his paralysed sister. Krishna grasps all the movements of the art by looking at it once, suddenly the performer gets hurt doing the tricks and crowd starts leaving. At that time Krishna performs all marshal arts he has learnt by observing, and entertain the crowd and gathers money for the operation. Then the performer introduces him as Kris Lee and invites him to visit Great Bombay Circus (?) (sponsored by Hero Honda, another question mark??) where he works. Krishna and Priya visit the circus, but instead of watching neat circus tricks they go on performing song in the circus(!@#$).

Somehow, the circus tent catches fire and everybody runs out, a few people are left inside and cry for help. Here you can see the masked man coming into the scene, Krishna wears the mask to conceal his identity and saves all of them. Immediately he becomes famous as Kriss. Eventually, realised that Priya is taking his benefit, so he prepares to leave Singapore. BEWARE : SPOILER AHEAD……At the airport the Security Chief of the Doctor Aryan tells that his father still alive. That makes Krishna to drop the idea of leaving Singapore, and eventually he saves his father, destorys the computer, kills the Doctor and comes back to India happily.

Now I told you to observant, through out the movie. Because you have to remember all the products advertises through out the movie, Bournvita, Tide, Lays, Hero Honda, Singapore Tourism etc. Then you have to recall the Hollywood movies for one scene or another. Superman, Spiderman, Matrix, Blade, Daredevil.

I am angry about the movie of ‘Indian Superhero’ , in the movie except the hero nothing is Indian. Not even locations, the movie could have been well shot in Mumbai, why Singapore? Why Indian Superhero has to wear an unconventional Overcoat, couldn’t he perform supertricks in Dhoti.

Now consider the reasons to see the movie. It has good stunts- If you are interested in stunts why not watch the original Hollywood movies and Jackie Chan for real stunts. It has good story - What story? It has Hrithik Roshan in it - now this is one of the prime reason to see the movie - but then I can watch Kaho Na…Pyar Hai every year, why new movie, just to see Hrithik Rithik.

Overall movies lacks everything, did I mention anything about music? Sorry for that, I am not able to do so because I cant recall any song.

Why every move, stunts even costume has to be borrowed. Original movies can be inspiration but imitation is something I deprecate. Though I admire Hrithik as an actor but I cannot allow any thing which is contempt to my intelligence. I request Roshans to come up with something original, be experimental.

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Mission Impossible - III : Impassable

Posted by JV on June 7, 2006

I am not great movie freak so I am always late to watch any movie, however superhit. Same with the Mission : Impossible trio. I had wathced the first part very late and do not recall much details of the second part. MI III following the common trend of movie industry came out to encash the success of its previous movies. Tom Crusie being actor and producer wanted to milk it out till last drop.

I dont want to narrate the story , you can check it out at Wikipedia (yes, wikipedia showcases it!!). I think I have little bit of intelligence left so I was not able to digest what the movie offered. Stunts and use of hi-tech gizmos are little bit over strechted. I am not against the real stunts as done by Jackie Chan, rather I like him for that thing, that he does it really. But if the stunts are performed using computer and other hi-fi techniques, then it is less appealing to me.

Again, use of hi-tech gizmo is permissible upto certain extent, till the intelligence reaches. Now in the movie Tom could create a perfect mask of the villain within a few minutes using some carving machine. Just think that, it requires few days to a master craftsaman to create look-alike mask of any person. Here hero can create such mask, that even too without the physical presence and without taking any measurement, just by using some photographs received by another team member.

As it happens with most of sequels, it fails to give the excitement of watching the original movie. While choosing which movie to watch, I picked MI III over Ice Age 2, now I think I would have enjoyed the later more. So if you are MI fan, it is must for you, otherwise nothing to regret.

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Body Language Secrets by Susan Quilliam

Posted by JV on January 31, 2006

Body Language Secrets by Susan Quilliam
(Thorsons, an Imprint of Harper Collins) (Non-fiction/ Self Improve)

This book has tag line "Read the signals and find love, wealth and happiness". I failed to understand it. I have become interested in "Body Language" some where in 1996 and I have been reading many books about it and internet is great source for it. What I have understood is that Body Language is just another language, though unspoken. And it is believed that body language speaks the truth, as people sub-conciously speaking its mind. In oral language I can flatter you but my body may speak differently, speaks honestly.

But there is always room for mis-interpretation which can be fatal. According to me what this book offers is ready made under standing of given situation. Let's consider few of the topics of the books to get the clear idea. All the topics are in questionnaire form.

-=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=-

In first Chapter OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE:

How can body langugage help me perform better in my life? (too general and too broad scope)
Does my natural physical appearance affect the way people relate to me?
How can I dress for success?
How does my body help me remember things? (interesting thought)
How can I spell better?
What happens when I cannot concentrate - and is there anything I can do about?
How do I tell when I am unsure about something? (amusing)

Second Chapter SUCCESS AT WORK
What does my workplace say about the company I work for?
How can my body language can help me fit in at work?
How can body language help me steer clear of 'Office Politics"? (Nidhi certainly will want to read this)
How can I stand up to the Office Bully?
What is the secret of body language of sex at work?
How can I handle a difficult boss? (everybody wants to)
How can I tell whether I am doing well in work or not?

Third Chapter SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL LIFE

How can body language help?
What is the secret of good listener?
Can I tell from other people's body language what sort of people they are?
How can I tell if people really find my jokes funny?
How should I use my body language when friends come round for a meal?
What are group "roles" and how can I spot them.

Fourth chapter MAKING LOVE WORK (strangest chapter)

How can body language help me succeed in love?
How can I tell who is available and who is not?
What make a good flirt - and should I learn to be one?
How can I use body language to make sure that first date goes well?
Is there a secret to perfect kissing? (yes there is, but it is secret)
Are there any guaranteed ways to turn my partner on? (my my )
What body language should I use when my partner and I undress ? (please bear with me)
How can I tell how aroused my partner is?(I am speechless)
When is the time right for penetration? ( I told you , this chapter is strangest, just check the next)
How can I tell when my partner has climaxed? (……)
What are the body language "contraceptives" I can use if I do not want to make love?

Fifth chapter TOTAL STRANGERS (forget the chapter)

-=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=-

Whew… particularly it was the fourth chapter which refrained me for quite some time from writing down any review about the book . I was too confused. That's why I put few words about the body language in general and the few selected topics from the chapters.

Now this book , every book , is useful one way or other. But my complaints to the author is as under:

1. READY MADE SOLUTIONS : Following the marketing trade this book offers ready made solutions for the given situation as given in the chapters. Now, as per me body language is like another lanauge. For example English language. If you know the English Language you dont need to be taught what to say at work, how to say at social party, when to say to your lover, and why to say anything at all during sex.

People is rquired to be taught the basics of any language, and words and sentences will follow. You cant teach them rehearsed phrases for all the situations. If I can spot a liar at office then why I cannot spot liar in love or at home or at party, basic rules remain same. This book attempt to offer such thing. Hundreds of such solutions are readily offered on the net.

2. TOO BRIEF DESCRIPTION : All right, certain topics of the books are indeed useful. But the solutions or explanation offered are too brief. Most of topics are explained in 5 to 6 paragraph (two pages at the most, and I have pocket book edition). Many topics require elborate understanding. So brief description can confuse the first time reader of the subject of Body Language.

3. AS IF BODY LANGUAGE IS EVERYTIHING : Ofcourse, knowledge of body lanugage is very good and beneficial but it is not everything. Here I again argue that after all it is just a language it simply helps to understand the people more properly but then again millions of time people are told and explained in the oral language yet not benefit from it. So understanding the body is just another skill not evertything.

4. THE FOURTH CHAPTER : Okay, everybody tries and wants to find a clue how the opposite sex thinks about oneself. Disucssion of the body language of other people until you know him/her well is okay. But when you know the other people very well, love him/her , understand him/her then why I want to know my kiss is perfect or not, she is turned on or not and it is time to… Well this is too much for me. If you know the other people very well then you dont need to understand these or you are dumb.

In general the book is disappointing affair.

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Deewaney Huey Pagal : What a bore!

Posted by JV on December 4, 2005

Deewane Huey Pagal A Firoz Nadiadwala Movie, Directed by Vikram Bhatt, Music by Anu Malik ,Lyrics by Sameer and you expect a good multi-star movie. But, alas, there is nothing near to anything good. At first look at the trailer or the poster one might think the movie as Priyadarshan’s as the team of Hera Pheri, Awaara Deewana Paagal, Hungama, Yeah Tera Ghar Yeah Mera Ghar are to be seen. On poster you see Akashay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal and you think of nothing else. But in the movie you find more nutty characters. Vivek Oberoi as the narrator is boring. Aftab Shivdasani has guest appearance. And yes Johny Lever is there to entertain you but he fails too. Then, Rimi Sen is good looking gal, but surprisingly I find her horrible, she is not suited for the role.

Movie tries to get touch of comedy but does not come near to anything. Sadly enought it has no good music number either. After watching the movie you won’t be able to tell the story, because it has none. I can try to tell the story in one breath.

Shahid Kapoor is shy and timid but scholar student and falls in love with Rimi Sen but cannot express it to her. She suddenly vanish somewhere as Om Puri chases her for some secret code which he believes is with her. For three years Shahid with his friend Johny Lever tries to find the whereabouts of Rimi. Johny recommend Akhsay Kumar to find Rimi as she is somewhere in Dubai. Akhsay flies to Dubai to serach her and falls in love with Rimi. When Shahid and Johny arrive at Dubai Akshay tries to shoo them away to get Rimi for himself. But again there are already handful of lovers around Rimi to handle . Paresh Rawal fools around in the home of Rimi, Sunil Shetty becomes his friend, and Asrani (did someone mention Asrani?) is also in the queue.

Akshay decied to remove everyone by hook or crook. Then arrives Om Puri with a South Indian character (he is in crazy tv shows) who is also fond of Rimi. In Dubai Rimi lives with different identity and doing Arabi Video Song(?). Eventually eveything is messed up, every lover has played cheat on Rimi to get her so she is confused so much.

I dont know how to conclude the story (some story :) ) finally , as usual Rimi goes with Shahid, her true lover.

Please watch this movie only if you have nothing else to do, it is waste of time and money.The movie seems to be shot in much haste without giving any thought of continuity and logical sequence.

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