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Chaila offers heartfelt condolences to Mr Nitish Kumar and his son

New Hybrid BMW Makes UPhill road look easy

She has just given a new meaning to the word combo drive — Bahan MayaWati's go-cart driven by Dalits AND Brahmins. Simple! isn't it? Is it?
This thing needs to be studies deeper. What's interesting is that ol' Mulayam still clung on to so many seats. Wonder, what the ramification of this will be on the national scene!

Ta Ra Rum Sham Sham

Jab bhi ho ghum, Zyada ya kam,

Muskuraayenge hum, Gaayenge hum,

Ta Ra Rum Pum...

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Wow! Man whatta concept. Whenever you are depressed all you need to do is sing Ta Ra Rum Pum & Lo! you guardian angel will at once leave her favourite Yashraj movie to take bring you out of whatever mess you are in.

Of course you have to be of the caliber of RV (Saif Ali Khan), the super racer. In true Bollywood ishtyle, one fine speeding morning he almost knocks down few people on the street while driving a cab he had hired, almost knocks the car off, breaks his Shona's (Rani Mukherjee) i-pod and lands the job of lead racer for Speeding Saddles. Of course he wins all the races right from the first one till he himself is almost gets knocked off by Rusty — The Villain Racer.

Then suddenly this becomes a 'phamily phillum' from being a 'racing ka phillum'. loses it speed, shows us around The Great American cityscape yet once again and of course ends Happily ever after with RV reinstated as the champ.

In the process, somewhere down the line director Siddharth Raj Anand (Salaam Namaste in ’05) forgets to tell us the actual struggle story that should have happened — how the former champion becomes champion once again. The idea of the protagonists fear coming back was actually good. But we never got to see how he did overcome it. He just did it. C'mon he is the HERO. Siddharth, did you here about a movie called Million Dollar Baby?

Not all was bad, though. There racing sequences, for e.g, were not bad. However, a simple F1 view-from-cabin is much more exciting. That could have led another dimension to teh narration and could have helped the screenplay in process. Saif wasn't bad either. He is becoming somthing. Rani have given us better roles in the past. Well, to be fare, it actually was Preity's role. But still, Rani, you could've done a better job.

The itch: Had first heard of Ta Ra Rum Pum way back... I think in ’99 or Y2k. It was supposed to be done by Shekhar Kapur. Heard, he left this to do Elizabeth. Wonder, what he would have actually done with Ta Ra Rum Pum!