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If you are reading this post in RSS feed reader, then I think you should visit this post on the blog. I have now hosted blog at new place. I owe a big Thank to WordPress for providing me great services for over two years. I believe that wordpress is the most powerful yet simple blogging service of all. I wanted to move to new hosting provider on the first day of 2008 but somehow couldn't make it. I have now migrated all the blog with posts and comments.

I have more things to add to this place now. I will keep you posted about that in coming days. I am even going to put another blog (personal) for my personal, friends and family updates. You can find that here.

More is coming on the way.

Today, after watching 'Shootout at Lokhandwala' (SAL), I realized that there is huge difference in the quality of movies produced in Hollywood and Bollywood. Directors like Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg make movies which has lots of research and study. Not only the shot but the finest detail of shot gets enough attention. Movies which are having based on past events are shot with great precision to make sure that they don't have any present day detail.

In SaL I found few blunt mistakes which could have been fixed while shooting or at least at the editing time. On the top of mind few things come are -

• Tata Indigo! - The movie is shot in 1989-1992 timeframe. When Sunil Shetty makes a blank call to his wife, I could see a white colored Tata Indigo car passing by. Its impossible to see that car in 1991! The car was launched in India in year 2002. Strange to see that car in 1991.
• AA Group posters! - In the song 'Ganpat' when group of people are dancing on the top of a bus, we could easily see 'Anil Dhirubhai Ambani' Group advertisements on the light poles. This group was founded in 2005 after division of Ambani group of companies. I thought roots of this group were founded in 1992

In addition to that, there are other small mistakes too. Which you can easily find like the bikes which were not present in movie time line etc.

Looks like Indian directors have to put little more efforts in research and analysis to make movie more authentic and real. Movies like Hollywood ending, Schindler's List were based on past events. They were so real that you will believe those were produced from original footage which was conceived in the movie timeline.

Off to see Shrek 3!

Updated: Sorry but following video is removed from YouTube!

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I have been writing for a while on Blogger & JRoller. But, I wasn't able to continue for long. I needed a break! Finally I decided to settle down on WordPress. This time, I have planned my blog nicely. I will keep posting in each category on regular basis. I have lot of things to share and document. You can expect few articles on technology and some fun paragraphs from my life. Keep looking

I just had a look at OpenOffice.org 2.0 and it rocks! You just see how many features are loaded there. Moreover, its free. I have decided that from now on I will install only viewers for Microsoft Office and for my day to day office purpose I will use OpenOffice. There are few differences in them like the macro definition language. But almost any office document can be opened into OpenOffice. Good work OpenOffice team. Just have a look at here.