Knick n knack

I was speechless, excited, enthralled and spellbound on seeing puppets come to life in front of my eyes at the opening show of the Ishara International Puppet festival “Bollywood Brandwagon”. Truly a mesmerizing experience that cannot be described in words, can only be  felt and understood. Staged at Stein Auditorium at IHC on 27th January, 2010, the show was attended by who’s who of the puppet family. As is percieved by aam junta ...puppetry is all about traditional rajasthani string puppet form....the picture of a ghaghra clad putli with stings attached to it comes to mind as one utters the word puppet. "Bollywood Brandwagon" was absolutely nothing about what is mentioned above. It had everything that a typical masala bollywood movie contains...swagrvasi maa, rahees pitaji, do bhai (one a brat and other an ideal son),sundar susheel ladki (suit clad bhartiya naari), villain and a super sexy steaming hot middle-aged vamp (who will make you remember prem chopra, ajit, pran, H

Tweeet.....tweeet..... anyone there? Are you tweeting? Twitter... the new word making noise these days and those contributing to the tunes are Barkha Dutt, Shashi Tharoor, Navin Chandra, Rajdeep Saredesai, Karan Johar, Sharukh Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Abhishek Bachhan and the list go on and on..... The sole purpose for Twitter, the micro-blogging site was to make people interact with each other in limited 140 words. But lately it has become a self-promotion website, especially for the celebrities, who promote their movies, channels, themselves through tweets. Priyanka chopra and Uday chopra are promoting Pyaar Impossible , Karan Johar is promoting My Name is Khan , Jenelia is tweeting about her Vatika ads , Abhishek Bachan is spreading araam around, Farhan Akhtar is promoting Karthiik Calling and Zoya's new film, best of all - these people promote each other too! Twitter has become a new tool of promotion, directly targeted to audience - no channel required, no money invested