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Had it not been for the flaws in its technical aspects, Mausam, despite its weak storyline, wouldn’t have been so bad a movie. Indian Cinema, right from the pre independence era, has churned out an amazingly large number of movies-movies that have been watched and admired by the entire globe. In fact the film Industry in Mumbai (or Bollywood as it is popularly known) is one of the most important factors that make Mumbai what it is on the global scale. It was way back in 1913 that the first full-length motion picture titled Raja Harishchandra was introduced in India by the noted Marathi scholar Dadasaheb Phalke. And since then the Indian Cinema, as the cliché’ goes, has never looked back; churning out one movie after another, and adapting efficiently to the technological innovations in Film making. Today, therefore, there’s no doubt that the Indian Celluloid has indeed come a long way. This is indeed evident from the fact that as a movie goer, you never quite take into acco

You really cannot curse Mike Atherton for laughing while he announced the Player-of-the-series from the Indian side during the presentation ceremony at the Oval after India lost the last and final test and allowed England to complete a 4-0 whitewash. You also cannot help but feel sorry for Rahul Dravid (adjudged the player of the series from the Indian side), the only batsman who was willing to stay at the crease throughout the tournament. Dravid, who scored 461 runs in the 4-match series, hit the nail on the head when he rightly quipped at the post-match presentation, “It might take half an hour (to explain why India performed so dismally in the 4 match series).” In just a few words, therefore, he had actually summed up Team India’s performance. A defeat is excusable, in fact understandable-you can’t go on winning anything and everything under the sun. However, the margin of defeats, and the lethargy displayed by Team India is indeed a matter of concern. To begin with, this Ind