Guess is right. Its about the movie ‘Luck’. Contains spoilers, so don’t read if you want headache after watching the movie. Movie sucks. Sucks very bad. I wish Shruti Hassan had a better debut. Imran Khan’s luck is not going good. Well, yeah, what can one tell. He is choosing wrong stories and movies. Probably he would have chosen a worse movie for debut, if it wasn’t Aamir’s choice.

Coming to the movie, Luck. My guess was wrong, the movie is not a copy of The Condemned. Probably, the movie would have been better if it was at least a copy of that. Well, the movie is about luck. Luck of Ram Mehra (Imran) who has some financial crisis - and ends up in an illegal realty show (Now, just think about Roadies for 1 second). Aisha (Shruti) comes back to the game after finishing it previous time. But, she seems to be very uneasy about the game. Major (Mithun) joins the game to earn money for his wife’s operation. Short Cut (Chitrashi) is yet another character. Raghav (Ravi Kishen) a serial killer is the bad man of the story, who is another participant. The show is run by Moosa (Sanjay). He has some rounds of games which involves luck to escape. People might die when a round is completed. Internet betting happens while the game progresses. Participants make money while they finish each round. Moosa challenge them for a death match when any participant wants to leave and he kills them as he is luckier than them.

Now, coming to the rounds of the movie. First round is when all the first fifteen participants are given revolvers with 1 normal bullet and 5 blanks. They point guns at heads of the person standing right to them. So - game motto is ‘Lucky guy lives’. While watching the game, I dint understand one thing. 5 blanks and 1 normal bullet. That makes, kill probability as ⅙. Now, here the statistics part of my brain got activated and started talking to the logic part of my brain. If the the probability of dying is ⅙ - Why would a LUCKY guy be dead (Did I tell you that they had a very strong recruitment policy ? Yeah, they take only luck people into the game). Now another doubt. 5 out of 15 people are dead after the end of the round, which means ⅓rd of the participants are dead. I don’t remember my probability lessons very well, but, I think, the probability of that to happen is ⅓ * ⅙ which is around 5.5%. Uhmm, okay, thats still a big percentage. Now, there is one more thing. Two people standing next to each other are dead. Which means - there is a delay of shooting by one person, who actually killed a person who killed another person right next to him. Now, probability part of my brain is shouting at me, shut up and sleep. I’ve no clue how did this round finish. Yeah, one guy wants to leave, and Moosa kills him in a death match.

Then, the second round. People have to take parachutes and jump from a height of 2000 feet. The catch is that there are 12 parachutes, only 9 parachutes work, only 9 people are there (6 of 15 are dead in first round). Uhmm, lets consider that the chopper took them another 500 feet up in the air. Well, it doesn’t seem to take them much higher. Now, all the guys jump one by one from that height. Now, the physics part of my brain is hurt. its 2000 feet - and the scene goes at full pace for next 2 minutes. Wait - there is one blunder here. Is gravity less in South Africa that, it will take 90 seconds for a person to reach ground from 2500 feet. Well, g is 32 feet/sec². Now, you calculate the time a human will take to reach the ground from 2500 feet. Our hero, reaches jumps first, stays in air, then - thinks for a while, grabs heroine and then opens his parachute. Uhmmm, did I tell you there is one blunder here ? Wait …. Ever heard about minimum/safe height for deploying a parachute ? Well, its about 2000 feet. It can be brought down to 600 to 1200 feet, if the parachute is awesome. I fail to understand how they managed deploy parachutes and land safely … perfect landing and do so much drama in the air when the height is just 2500 feet.

The next rounds turn even more ridiculous. People swim faster than sharks. Hero and heroine run faster than the effect of the explosion on a train which was actually moving in the opposite direction. Well, yeah, Heroine is one of the twins and she is the unluckier one. Her sister is the one who played the previous time, but ends up committing suicide. So, she wants to take a revenge on Moosa. Movie ends when Moosa and Ram fights the death match and shoot each other. Ram is a mirror bla bla guy who has heart on the right side. So, he survives. He is an adult, and he doesn’t know that till the doctors tell him. So, I think that his brain is misplaced rather than just mirrored.

The movie is one of the most boring movies I’ve seen lately. It has nothing to offer other than a tag that its the debut for daughter of a great actor. Shruti is cute in few scenes and atrociously emotionless in few scenes. But, yeah, she will learn, she has the talent. Imran should better ask his uncle (Aamir) to choose stories for him in future. His choices are turning out as huge flops. Well, if you are lucky enough, you will stay out of the theatre for this film.

I’m big fan of Sony Ericsson phones. Among 19 phones (as far as I remember) I’ve used during last 3 years, there are 3 Motorolas, 2 Samsungs, 1 HTC and all others are Sony Ericssons. This can show my love for Sony Ericsson phones. I simply love their UI, simplicity and I feel that the price tag they keep for their phones is more reasonable than the other manufacturers.

The longest running phone in my hands was a HTC Vox. Its a windows mobile and the reason I used it for longer time is a weird one. I simply couldn’t sell the phone. There is no market for used WinMo and HTC Phones. As a matter of fact, the phone I’ve used a lot is Nokia 8250 when I was doing my Engineering  (story older than 3 years) That was a phone, one of my cousins gave me.

So, Nokia 5800 is officially the first Nokia I bought. There are few great reviews for the phone, but they are completely unbiased reviews. They point out good and bad. But, this one is a completely biased review (from a SE fan). Here it goes.

Package and Pricing – kickass.

For 20K, you get touch screen phone with WiFi, 3G, GPS with 8 Gig card, 3.2 Megs cam, phone cover, plectrum and an additional stylus. This is one thing that made me buy this phone. If it was a single grand more than that, I wouldn’t have bought this phone.

Phone – Duh.

Well, to be honest, I thought phone is a great release from Nokia till I got to know that  Nokia forgot that people use the phone for calling. My phone was a defective piece where volume of Ear piece was jumping up and down. A small Google search resulted in a lot more customer bakras who are facing same problem and a YouTube video of how to fix the problem. I had to follow that and fix it myself (Yeah, I could’ve gone to Nokia care and got it fixed there too) But, the point is – too many people having problem ain’t good. But, after fixing that problem, phone is fine.

Phone UI – Double Duh.

I did like Nokia’s Active standby in few phones my friends use. I expected something like that, but this phone’s Active standby was the worst Nokia can do. It had two types of Active standby themes, one is Contact bar, another is Shortcut bar. Both can accommodate ‘just’ four items. It means, you’ll either have 4 friends whom you want to talk, follow, stalk or you like only 4 applications on your phone. Contacts bar – Not seriously my choice. I cant limit my friends to 4. Shortcuts bar – Come on, just four applications ?

And, there are two buttons on down on the screen. One is for dialer, another one for Contacts list. If you want to go to menu, the only option you’ve is to press hardware button. I’m not kidding, but Nokia must be kidding me. All the empty real estate between the bar and two buttons down the screen, accommodate a search bar and music info (if playing) if you’ve selected Shortcut bar as active standby theme. And, the search bar searches only on Yahoo, Google or Live. It doesn’t search phone contents like other Nokia phones do. Another let down.

Phone has an accelerometer which turns the screen to landscape automatically whenever you turn the phone. It becomes annoying as normal people normally don’t keep phone in perfect position all the time. So, I disabled automatic rotation. But, there is a catch there, no manual rotation. Now, I cant use my phone in landscape mode at all, unless the software is made such a way that it works only in landscape. The options are … either be annoyed by automatic rotation or forget rotation. Its really annoying while browsing internet on phone.

Phone Camera – Triple Duh.

Its 3.2 megs cam by title but works like a 2.0 megs cam. In fact, my HTC Vox did have 2 Megs cam that I never used, worked almost as good/bad as this cam.

Music and Video – Express Music and kickass quality

Audio quality is awesome. Headphones are comfortable. Quality of speakers on phone is damn good. Phone comes with some songs inbuilt, but most of them are DRM protected. So, if you are thinking about keeping them (unlike me), make sure that you save the licenses. Video quality is awesome (atleast the videos given). If you’re fine with a small wide screen, you can watch stuff on it.

So, what’s the point.

If you’re not picky like me, you can live with this phone happily ever after. But, If you’re like me, you might end up taking some serious decisions like, running back to SE phones ASAP.