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Tennis fans out there would agree that there is nothing like watching your favorite player in action in a while sitting in the stadium, but watching a match on TV can be pretty boring, especially with the advertisements and lack of control. Don’t you wish you could rewind and watch that swing again? Or maybe pause it at that moment so that you could run to your kitchen and grab some popcorn?

Well, I know it sounds dramatic, but MediaZone has done us all a favor by making your favorite Wimble matches available for you to watch online! The service is called Wimbledon LIVE, and they give you good reasons to pay them $24.99 (for an all access pass). They have video on demand services, which include full matches and extras such as interviews. They also have a section for old matches from last year, or all time classic matches, if you want to relive the glory of old times.

Apart from the paid services, they also provide a few free-of-cost services such as reviews and radio commentary. For more details, or to watch Wimbledon episodes LIVE online, visit their website.

Ankur Banerjee of Needlessly Messianic has come forward and decided that all the geeks, bloggers, techies and quizzers, who are spread all over Delhi should move their lazy asses from in front of their computers and come down to Connaught Place on 29th June, 2008, and have some fun. To eligible for the meet, you must be a geek, that is, in simple terms, you must have absolutely NO life. The meet is open for women too, but I highly doubt anybody other than Uma Damle would qualify for the event.

The point to be noted that there is no age limit for this meet, but the current crowd is from our batch, that is, geeks who have passed out from their schools in 2008, and are looking forward to join a college for further studies (or maybe not). So even though people of all age groups are invited, you may feel somewhat left-out if you are a 65 year old FORTRAN programmer sitting amongst ten 17 year olds who are playing with hacked Chinese phones with their custom Linux distros installed on them.

To register for the event, you need to have a Yahoo! account, so that you can add yourself to the ‘I’m Coming’ list over here.

Though Ankur hasn’t mentioned any official agenda for the meet, but I guess we’ll be talking about random stuff, discussing what we have in common (the tech side of our lives) and our future in college. Maybe we can plan and form some kind of a group which will organise such meets regularly to break the monotony of our very ‘geeky’ lives. If you want to come forward and suggest an idea or have an activity in mind (apart from watching a movie - has already been discussed) that you think we can take part in and have fun, you are most welcome to join us.

For any suggestions/queries, leave a comment on the official Yahoo! page for the meet, or contact Ankur.

One of the most excellent, hard-hitting, vivid and real movies I have watched in recent times - Aamir, is an eye opener. I had chosen to watch this movie over the much hyped Sarkar Raj, for the sole reason that it was under Anurag Kashyap’s banner, whose earlier movie No Smoking was the first genre defying movie of Bollywood I had seen and reviewed.

Though Aamir comes across as a movie full of emotions; those of helplessness, despair, and the choices we have to make in difficult times, it also brings about a bigger question - the one of destiny. The tagline of the film - “Kaun kehta hai… aadmi apni kismat khud likhta hai?“, though sounds lame at first, but after you watch the movie, it forces you to think. The choices made by you and others in your surroundings - is that all that affects your life or do choices made by your civilisation as a whole affect you as an individual? Whatever may be the answer to that, I am still and existentialist and a firm atheist.

On the acting front, Rajeev Khandelwal has done an absolutely outstanding job. He doesn’t seem at all like a newcomer, but like the A-league actors of Bollywood - Aamir Khan, SRK. A natural/born actor, and he deserves to be appreciated.

The script, though, I feel is flawed and stretched unnecessarily. Also the timing - the points where the meaning of the whole movie is conveyed, are not spread out evenly. So the script is lacking, and some of the audience was starting to lose interest midway. The background score was OK, the music was limited to 2 tracks, which were well placed and suited the mood.

I would give the movie an 8 on 10, lesser than what I had expected from a movie by Anurag Kashyap (The director is Raj Kumar Gupta, Kashyap is the creative producer).

This post was guest blogged by Sneezy Melon of The Goofy Express.

It was bad. And that’s in subdued terms. It was so bad, I can’t actually remember why I dropped Shutter for it after all. Overacting? Yep. Bad Direction? Yep. Weak-In-The-Knees-Script? Yep. Character-Funnily-Resembling-George-Bush? Yep. Not-Jokes? Yep. It had it all. And it had nothing. You could make out it wasn’t a Hindi flick though. I bet Yash Raj could have easily created a three-hour blockbuster out of the same story. Maybe he would. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see Shahrukh Khan try convincing his angry wife Kajol Devgan how her school-time ex Saif Ali Khan is evil?! The good part- the movie got over before one could yawn. And the nachos, at least until the hidden hair was discovered.

One of the best superhero movies I have seen in recent times, Iron Man is a complete entertainer. Unlike other movies such as Superman and Spiderman, Iron Man seems more realistic, mainly because his power is based on gadgets rather than his genes, and also because the real life character of Iron Man (Tony Stark) is quite interesting rather than boring like Peter Parker or Clarke Kent. Apart from the fast-paced action and awesome gadgets, the movie has a lot of comedy, which makes it even more entertaining. No cliché scenes or dialogues, no bullshit. Everything is big - the sets, the weapons, the locations; which make it an out-of-the-world experience. Go watch this movie at your nearest cinema halls, make sure it has a good sound system.