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No mercy for delay
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Vendetta politics Spare universities, at least West Bengal has a long history of students’ unrest. The cyclical violence seems to be visiting West Bengal again. It began on Tuesday when some members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) allegedly attacked the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of West Bengal in Delhi, in a very undemocratic and uncivilized manner. The act was shameful.
Global Arms Trade Treaty
The missing suitcase
This Nautanki is different
Action roller coaster Worth visiting One for sci-fi buffs
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No mercy for delay
Keeping
a prisoner on death row for long years is no ground for commuting his sentence in India. This is the message from the Supreme Court’s much-awaited ruling on Friday. It has rejected the petitions seeking the commutation of the death sentence awarded to Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar for his role in the bomb attack on the then Youth Congress president, M.S. Bitta, in which nine persons were killed and 25 injured in September, 1993. It was contended on behalf of Bhullar that he had undergone imprisonment for 20 years and that prolonged incarceration amounted to cruelty and violated the fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution. Besides, he had lost his mental equilibrium during the 11-year wait for the President’s decision on his mercy petition. The judgement seals the fate of quite a number of condemned prisoners. Waiting for the verdict in the Bhullar case, the Supreme Court had stayed the execution of 17 such prisoners even after the President had rejected their mercy pleas. Among them are three killers of Rajiv Gandhi. Hanging so many convicts in such a short time is bound to shake the collective national conscience and revive the debate on the desirability of capital punishment. Though given in the “rarest of rare cases”, the death sentence, on an average, is reportedly handed over once in three days in India. The world over the trend is to abolish the death penalty. Appealing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to “take immediate steps to commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment and abolish the death penalty in India”, Amnesty International had said, “it was troubled by the arbitrary, flawed and biased use of capital punishment in India”. Recently, Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir had asked the government to avoid delay in carrying out the sentence of those on death row. “The quicker things are done, the better it is for everybody”, he observed. It is also necessary to lay down a time frame within which the President of India must take a decision on mercy petitions.
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A step closer, together
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin during the state visit to the economic powerhouse of Europe has raised many expectations. The broadening cooperation on trade, bilateral investment, energy, technology and defence as well as a thrust on education signalled the strengthening ties between the two nations that are celebrating 60 years of establishing diplomatic relations with each other. On the other hand, both sides soft-footed around the issue of the long-sought free trade agreement between the European Union and India by agreeing to continue negotiating on contentious points. India and Germany have worked together on many projects and have a history of cooperation, although there was some heartburn in Germany about India picking a French fighter jet for the Air Force rather than the Eurofighter, which Germany was pitching for. As a leader of the European Union, Germany has been pushing for the free trade agreement, on which there are some sticking points that include automotive industry duties, protection of intellectual property rights, and foreign direct investment cap in the insurance sector. Domestic considerations will, however, make it difficult for India to agree to many of these demands. India and Germany have long enjoyed a cordial and close relationship, which was given a fresh impetus at the dawn of the millennium when both nations established a strategic partnership. Growing cultural, business and government ties have led to greater economic synergy. Germany wants to invest in Indian infrastructure, and India would like to have German technology and knowhow. Within Europe, Germany is India’s largest trading partner. In fields like education, science and technology, there is room for much more cooperation. The two nations are on the same page on security and terrorism, and indeed work together at various levels in this area. The latest meeting of the leaders of the two nations, with its focus on the future, is a concrete step in strengthening the relationship that has paid rich dividends.
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Vendetta politics
West Bengal
has a long history of students’ unrest. The cyclical violence seems to be visiting West Bengal again. It began on Tuesday when some members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) allegedly attacked the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister of West Bengal in Delhi, in a very undemocratic and uncivilized manner. The act was shameful. The vandals in Delhi had their justification, their anger was in protest against the death of SFI leader Sudipto Guha, who they alleged died due to police high-handedness supported by the ruling party. Then, the ruling Trinamool Congress members had to express their anger on the streets of Kolkata for the heckling of their Chief Minister and Finance Minister. In this shameless game of political vendetta, Presidency University, formerly Presidency College, was vandalised in an act that was rightly termed as ‘criminal’ by the Governor of the state. Now, both parties are trading charges, while the country watches the unfolding of events in one of the most prestigious education institutions with a deep sense of shock. Students have been used by political parties to meet their short- term objectives. Often for inciting arson and violence and as a tool for propagating a particular ideology. And Bengal is not new to it. In the 1970s, the Naxalites took over Jadavpur University, used its machine shop facilities to make pipe guns to attack police. Their headquarters were in Presidency College, which produced many elite thinkers of Naxal ideology. Therefore, what is happening in Kolkata should make its administrative machinery sit up, before the situation slips out of hand. The statement of the Vice Chancellor that she saw people carrying the TMC flag and that the police stood mute while students were beaten up and girl students were threatened with rape, has given a very ugly turn to the entire situation that began with a very low level of political theatre enacted by both parties. If history has to be prevented from repeating itself, universities and students should be spared such ugly scheming by the politicians.
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. — Rodney Dangerfield
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Global Arms Trade Treaty
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again India has been forced to abstain from voting in favour of a discriminatory treaty – after its unpleasant experience with the NPT and the CTBT in the past. The global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), aimed at laying down common international standards and limiting the illicit sale of conventional arms, was passed by the United Nations General Assembly with an overwhelming majority of 154 votes on April 3. Iran, North Korea and Syria voted against the treaty while China, India and Russia abstained. As the largest importer of arms in the world, India objects to the ATT on several counts. India finds it difficult to accept that the treaty will enable arms exporting countries to impose unilateral conditions on the countries that import arms. The treaty has failed to address Indian concerns about the illegal transfer of arms to terrorist organisations, insurgent groups and other non-state actors who oppose democratically elected governments. The treaty does not ensure a “balance of obligations” between arms exporting states and importers of arms. As a country with a pacifist strategic culture, India has traditionally abhorred the export of arms and itself resisted the temptation of doing so for several decades after Independence. India has 39 ordnance factories, which are wholly government owned, and eight defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs). India’s defence exports are less than 2 per cent of the total production of weapons and equipment and were valued at $191 million (Rs 859.60 crore) in 2008-09. These are mainly indigenously produced surplus small arms and light weapons that have been supplied to some of India’s neighbours as a goodwill gesture. However, the new defence procurement policy (DPP) and the new defence production policy (DPrP) are encouraging the formation of joint ventures with 26 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI). This is expected to go up to 49 per cent in future. This will gradually result in an increase in arms exports as MNCs will begin to use their Indian joint ventures as hubs for sourcing weapons and equipment components for their factories abroad. India is likely to spend approximately $100 billion for the import of weapons and defence equipment over the next 10 years. The DPP stipulates an offsets’ commitment of 30 per cent of the total value of a contract if it exceeds $66 million (Rs 300 crore). In fact, the offsets obligation specified for the multi-mission, medium-range combat aircraft (MMRCA) is 50 per cent of the total value, which is estimated to exceed $12 billion. Assuming that 60 to 70 per cent of the import contracts will exceed $66 million, defence MNCs exporting to India will be required to procure items worth approximately $18 to $21 billion from Indian companies over the next 10 years by way of direct and indirect offsets. Even though the items that may be exported by these MNCs and joint ventures will be mainly components and not fully assembled weapons system, India needs to ensure that the stipulations of the ATT do not bar such exports. South Asia is arguably the second most dangerous global hotspot after West Asia and radical extremism in the Af-Pak area is nudging it rapidly towards acquiring the pole position. One of the major reasons for this dubious distinction is the large-scale proliferation and easy availability of small arms and light weapons (SALW). India has witnessed around 152 militant movements since Independence, and of which, 65 are believed to be still active in one form or the other. Pakistan remains the primary source of small arms that are India bound. It uses SALW as political and military tools against New Delhi and facilitates smuggling of SALW both through sea and land routes to ISI-supported terrorist organisations and sleeper cells across India. Funding for SALW proliferation can be accredited to money laundering and safe havens abroad organised through hawala channels. The transfer of small arms takes place mostly through clandestine routes and the grey market. The Chinese angle to SALW proliferation in South Asia also cannot be ignored. Chinese weapons gained immense popularity among the insurgent groups in the region as they were competitively priced and low-level officials offered counter-trade agreements. The Chinese weapons pipeline soon permeated into Myanmar’s underground markets along the Thai border. Beginning with the Type 56 rifle, China produced and offered for sale five different varieties of rifles (Type 56, 68, 79, 81 and 5.56 Type CQ), allied light machine guns and sub-machine guns. China also became the prime official supplier to Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan (including anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons). Significantly, large numbers of weapons of Chinese origin have been seized in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh. The Chinese supplied small arms to Indian insurgent groups in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura for many years up to the late 1970s. In a statement with far reaching consequences, India’s Home Secretary, G K Pillai, said on November 9, 2009, that the Maoists in India were receiving small arms from China, “Chinese are big suppliers of small arms…” Earlier, then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had said in an interview in October 2009 that the Maoists were acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal since the Indo-Nepal border is a porous border. Since 1989-90, Indian security forces have seized huge stocks of arms and ammunition along the LoC in J&K alone. Between 1990 and 2005, as many as 28,000 assault rifles of the AK-47 series; 1,300 machine guns; 2,000 rocket launchers; 365 sniper rifles; 10,000 assorted pistols; 63,000 hand grenades; seven million rounds of ammunition; 6,200 landmines and IEDs and 37,000 kg of explosives were recovered from various hideouts in J&K during counter-proxy war operations. Large-scale recoveries are still being made. Large numbers of illegal arms also come into the country through the Northeast and from Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province (NWFP) on Pakistan's Afghan border. India finds itself at the centre of two major international weapons warehouses — the NWFP and the Southeast Asian arms market comprising Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar, with approximately 13 identified gun-running routes close to India’s north-eastern border areas and the Chittagong hill tracts. Countries exporting arms have a responsibility to ensure that they do not provide weapons without strict end user verification or else SALW may be diverted to wage intra-state conflicts by non-state actors. The ATT should have refrained from imposing new norms; it should have reinforced the existing obligations and responsibilities of all countries under international law and should have provided a mechanism for their effective application to the trade in SALW. The present treaty is also deficient on monitoring and verification. While initially monitoring may have to rely on the good practices of the member-states, viable technical means need to be developed over time. Subsequently, the treaty must make provisions for intrusive international monitoring of sources, means of transportation of weapons and, where possible, their end use based on formal complaints being launched by affected state parties. Such a system can only be implemented by constituting an international body like the IAEA. The Government of India accords immense importance to compliance with arms control, non-proliferation and export control regimes, even though India is not a signatory to some of them. Hence, an initiative like the ATT, that seeks to establish a global benchmark, would under normal circumstances have been welcomed and supported, but the treaty has turned out to be discriminatory. The government has instituted stringent controls for the export of arms, including the requirement of an end-user certificate from the government of the country to which SALWs are to be exported. Each request is thoroughly vetted before an arms export licence is cleared by the government. India ensures that no arms are exported to countries that are involved in conflict, or to non-state actors engaged in an intra-state conflict. In fact, most arms exports out of India so far have been those of goodwill gestures towards friendly countries in India’s neighbourhood. The moral argument for an ATT, one that underpins human security, social and economic development is overwhelming. However, if it is viewed through the prism of a disarmament or arms control instrument, it will not find much support. While India has not voted in favour of the ATT, it will undoubtedly adhere to all its provisions, much as it has done in respect of the NPT and the
CTBT.
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The missing suitcase My husband stood sheepishly in front of me, the contents of his suitcase unpacked on our bed. He had just returned from a short work trip and I was emptying his baggage. And aha! I had caught him again, his linen kurta pyjama was missing. ‘I must have left it hanging in the bathroom of the guest house I stayed at’, he mumbled. I said in a stern voice, ”The way you keep leaving cloths behind on your trips, anyone would think we are made of money. That pair cost Rs 900 and was a new one.” To which he turned his back to me and busied himself in checking his messages on the phone. I wasn’t going to allow him to escape this easily. “Last time you lost a vest, the time before that, you forgot to pack your red cabled sweater, that was a Pringle”, I continued. Hubby chose to reply to a telephonic message instead of answering. What could he say? He was guilty as accused. He was a little careless with his stuff and many a times we had to purchase a new phone charger on his return as he had left the old one plugged in the hotel room itself. Leaving behind a vest or a night suit was a common occurrence, so much so that I sighed in anticipation of loss whenever I packed his clothes before a trip. Tired of my bickering, he had of late taken to denying leaving any item behind and he stuck to his guns brazenly! To keep him on his toes, I had devised a new way of keeping tabs on the stuff he carried so that I was armed both orally and literally. I started making lists of all articles he carried and tallied them on his return, much to hubby dear’s grief! There was simply no escaping the accusations I threw at him now. A month after the new modus operandi came into force, a film shooting was scheduled in our summer cottage in Nainital. Since it was a Yashraj Films banner, my husband decided to go and click a few pictures of the exciting event. Our cottage was to be the hero’s house after all! He packed with extra care, he had to meet the stars, couldn’t look shoddy, could we? In went his most expensive clothes, his best Colour Bars & Pringles, his new Adidas tracksuit, his SLR camera, his single Mont Blanc, his best perfume, a new travel kit , new novel, etc, in our best four-wheeled suitcase! I made the list as usual and bid him goodbye! He arrived as scheduled, grinning from ear to ear. That should have made me suspicious but I was so eager to learn of who had come and what had happened at the shoot that it was only an hour or so later I realised his suitcase wasn’t about. I quickly took out my list and demanded the suitcase. “Well, I have been long suffering and do believe that there is something called natural justice”, he began reflectively. I raised both my eyebrows as high as they could go. “No suitcase! Someone stole it as I slept in the train”. “The berth?”. “The lowest one”, he said, not meeting my eyes. But there was a hint of chuckling revenge in his tone and a glint in his eyes as he averted them. He knew he had stumped me finally! Left holding the list, literally! Well, I know when I am beaten, I pack and unpack his stuff cheerfully now and hope for the
best!
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CINEMA: NEW Releases RATINGS:
***** Excellent **** Very Good *** Good ** Average * Poor When a movie is called Nautanki Sala…. rest assured it can't be just another run-of-the-mill story. Moreso when the film is a remake of French film Apres Vous. So here it is a tale that takes off from a suicide attempt, spawns into a comedy and climaxes as a love story with a twist. The first half merely builds up the graph, is sluggish at many points as it takes a leaf out of a theatre actor director (Ayushmann Khurrana as Ram Parmar) who finds his life turned upside down when he saves a stranger (Kunaal Roy Kapur as Mandar) from calling it an endgame. How his bid to get this man's life on track pushes him into a corner creates most of the humour as well as drama. Amusing situations and one-liners that appear picked up from daily life keep the flow going. Drama within the drama is not only interestingly and adeptly handled but also conveys more than the obvious. It's not without reason that the play is called Ravan Leela. What with Khurrana playing the Ravan, expectedly his play act gets mixed up with his real life. Of course, the film is not making any value judgements. It merely plays up a piquant situation, tosses and turns it around and tries to serve it as a refreshing loaf fresh from life an endeavour in which it succeeds only in parts. Even though the basic premise is rather dramatic and unusual the characters and their demeanour are as natural as can be. Be it the romantic angle or the relationship between two male leads, there is no nautanki here. Indeed, most of the credit for this goes to the director Rohan Sippy but also to the actors. Ayushmann proves that his Vicky Donor was no flash in the pan act and he is his confident self. Kunaal who transforms from a despondent man fed up with life to a diffident lovelorn jealous lover is apt no doubt. Only he appears a trifle stilted in the beginning and finds his feet literally and metamorphically only much later. The heroines (Pooja Salvi and Evelyn Sharma) look refreshingly pretty. Only their roles require them to be just themselves, sans any histrionics. Music is a breeze and the camera makes love to Mumbai. Finally, Nautanki Sala is as delightful as the endearment that is often used in everyday parlance to address cheeky beings constantly putting an act. Cute, funny and endearing. The movie may not be outstanding, but it takes a path that new age cinema has begun to not always with spectacular results though.
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Action roller coaster Jantey bhi hain kaisey banta hai commando…one of the character-artists in the movie Commando - A One Man Army, asks the politician. We leave that for you to figure out, but we know that a commando is made when the actor, Vidyut
Jamwal, does all the daring stunts himself, leaving everyone to gape in amazement. You can also ignore the plot; it's a been-there-done-that one. Concentrate on the actor
Vidyut. As the disclaimer in the beginning of the movie makes clear - all the stunts in the movie are performed by the actor Vidyut
Jamwal, the actor, himself except one-odd shot, you can't but help admire the commando!
Dilip Gosh has tried to exploit every cell, molecule and muscle of the actor's body. Pooja Chopra remains slightly ignored. Jaideep Ahlawat as the bad man, however, fares well. Film Ratings * * *
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Worth visiting A title like A Place Beyond the Pines conveys peace and serenity but when it refers to Shenetady, a city beyond the Big Bad Apple that New York has now come to be known as, the opposite is more likely. French writer Andre Maurois says "running water has the power to turn misery into melancholy" but in their case it makes them bank robbers in a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This partnership too doesn't last long. Enter Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper) who manages to nab Luke and the action shifts to Avery, who is shattered by the incident and moves away from the beat. More than a decade later, Luke's son Jason (Dane DeHaan) is now a teenager but has not been told about his dad. The second half is more cerebral with Mike Patton's music providing apt relief and Dean Bobbitt camera caressing the picturesque outdoors. Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper do well in the lead roles and Eva Mendes shows her emotional range as the woman who has gone through much. Bob Mendelson steals the show in an excellent cameo while Ray Liotta, another great cameo performer, is wasted in a bit role. Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen are more or less nominal as the second generation. A Place Beyond the Pines is an absolute must for aficionados of cinema, but don't see it after a heavy day's work! Film Ratings * * * *
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One for sci-fi buffs We have won the war but lost the planet," is one of the opening lines uttered by Commander Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), virtually the last man standing and it sets the tone and tempo of Oblivion, an enigmatic, thinking person's sci-fi, which pays a tribute to the sci-fi thrillers of the 1970s such as The Andromeda Strain and Seconds, before the razzmatazz FX of Star Wars drowned whatever cerebral content that may have entered those stories. Actually, much of Oblivion is also inundated with futuristic action, often the same scenes repeated like those speeding jets going up and down the same valley. We also have some picturesque sequences, which show the versatility of cinematographer Claudio Miranda. Based on Oblivion, an unpublished graphic novel by Joseph Kaminski, it helps greatly that he has also directed and co-scripted the film. As I have said often and am forced to repeat ad infinitum Oblivion'is unduly padded to 124 minutes instead of the Bunuelian 90 and although Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman do justice to their roles, it is the story that keeps the viewer going most of the time. A must watch for thinking, sci-fi buffs! Film Ratings * * *
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Movies on tv Saturday April 13 Makkhi Star
Gold 9:00PM ZEE CINEMA 7:00AM Magic Robot 10:15AM Jungle: The Battleground 5:15PM Muqaddar Ka Sikander 9:00PM Nayak STAR GOLD 11:35AM Housefull 2 3:15PM Bandhan 6:25PM Biwi No. 1 9:00PM Makkhi Ratings
* * * 7:02AM The Pursuit of Happyness 10:02AM Two Brothers 12:23PM The Incredible Hulk 2:21PM You Don't Mess with the Zohan 4:29PM The Bourne Identity 6:51PM Fantastic Four 9:00PM Ip Man: The Legend Is Born 11:09PM Hot Shots! Part Deux SONY PIX 7:20AM Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 8:50AM True Legend 10:55AM Step Up 3D 12:55PM Gridiron Gang 3:15PM The Pink Panther 2 5:00PM Rebirth 6:45PM Welcome to the Jungle 9:00PM Kung Fu Panda 11:00PM Resident Evil: Extinction ZEE ACTION 7:00AM No.1 Mard 10:30AM Don Ka Muqabla 1:30PM Purana Mandir 55:30PM Main Tera Dushman 8:30PM Baazigar B4U MOVIES 8:00AM Yuvraaj 12:00PM Mr. Natwarlal 4:00PM Hote Hote Pyaar Ho Gaya 8:30PM Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega HBO 8:20AM Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster 10:05AM The Island 12:35PM Final Destination 5 2:30PM The Perfect Storm 4:50PM The Dilemma 7:10PM Hop 9:00PM Shaolin Soccer 11:15PM Armageddon FILMY 9:00AM Shriman Shrimati 12:00PM Mawaali 3:00PM Corporate 6:00PM Dharamyudh 9:30PM Vaastu Shastra Sunday april 14 Happy Feet Two hbo 1:00PM ZEE CINEMA 7:00AM Sampoorna Ramayan 10:15AM Journey Bombay to Goa 1:35PM Vivah 5:15PM Mr. India 9:00PM Yamlok STAR GOLD 9:45AM Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii 12:00PM Dhol 3:00PM Kurukshetra 5:50PM Masti 9:00PM Ek Tha Soldier STAR MOVIES 7:02AM War Horse 9:52AM Evan Almighty 12:00PM Hot Shots! Part Deux 1:33PM Ip Man: The Legend Is Born 5:57PM Gladiator (2000) 9:00PM You Pick the Flick 11:31PM Van Helsing HBO 7:40AM Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 9:20AM Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 11:10AM Hop 1:00PM Happy Feet Two 2:55PM Shaolin Soccer 4:45PM Armageddon 7:30PM Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 9:00PM Happy Feet Two 11:04PM Rush Hour ZEE ACTION 7:00AM Shapath 10:30AM Saathi 1:30PM Gopi Kishan 5:30PM Nirbhay The Fighter 8:30PM Khiladi B4U MOVIES 8:00AM April Fool 12:00PM Waaris 4:00PM Hattrick 8:30PM Mumbai Meri Jaan FILMY 9:00AM Chachi 420 12:00PM Shor In The City 3:00PM Waqt Ki Deewar 6:00PM Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam 9:30PM Gair |
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An intelligent take that rather adeptly interweaves off stage drama with on stage enactment of Ravan Leela, it moves back and forth the real and the unreal to find a ground that engages. Of course, not always fascinating. 
Directed by Dilip Gosh, the movie has loads of stunts and whatever in the name of combat you can think of. But, in this case, more the fights more the
mazaa! Starring Vidyut Jamwal, Pooja Chopra, Jaideep Alawat, among others, the movie can definitely inspire you to either hit the gym or join defence services of the country! This is only if you don't get distracted by the damsel in distress, the useless where-are-they-coming-from songs. 
It is a saga of generations where characters have their entrances and exits; it ends on the next generation and is packed with emotional depth as well as psychological overtones. At the end of the day one finds far too many coincidences in the plot but for me it is excusable considering the vast canvas it covers, almost like the Forsythe Saga and for once condone its enormous 140-minute length. With director Derek Ciafrance also co-scripting the film, he exercises total control. It all begins with the focus on motorcycle maniac Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) doing daredevil acts at the local arena when his former lover Romina (Eva Mendes) turns up only to reluctantly reveal that she has a son by him and is now living with another man. 
Makkhi is the story of Jani and Bindu who are in love but never communicate their feelings to each other and continue to enjoy their unexpressed love. Sudeep, a billionaire and a powerful businessman gets attracted to Bindu and wants to own her for his pleasure, but he realizes that she is in love with Jani, which upsets him. When Bindu wants to express her love to Jani, Sudeep murders him. Jani is reborn as the fly and attempts to fight Sudeep's proceedings towards Bindu, but his efforts go in vain. The fly convinces Bindu that he is Jani and they team up to take revenge.
Happy Feet Two is a 2011 Australian-American 3D computer-animated family musical film directed by George Miller. It is a sequel to Miller's 2006 film Happy Feet and features Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hugo Weaving, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia reprising their roles from the first. Pink, Common and Richard Carter replaced Brittany Murphy, Fat Joe and Steve Irwin as Gloria, Seymour and Bryan the beachmaster, respectively.