Kajal Agarwal not insecure by Ajay’s presence in ‘Singham’

Friday, July 22, 2011
South actress Kajal Agarwal, is all set to make her debut in Bollywood alongside actor Ajay Devgn this Friday, with ‘Singham’. The beautiful actress isn’t really insecure about Ajay Devgn grabbing the entire limelight, instead, she says she had a blast working with the actor.

Kajal says, “Its not the amount of screen space that I have but it is the quality of work that I deliver. Yes, its an Ajay Devgn film but I will stand out with my performance. I am sure after watching the film people won’t stop loving me.”

The actress adds, “Its better for me to act with Ajay as acting is second nature to him. We have rehearsed together and he is very co-operative. He does not need rehearsals he gave me very important tips.”



Coming Friday Kajal will start having butterflies in her stomach for good reason. The southern chic will make her debut in Bollywood as her first Hindi film Singham is going to see the light of the day in a grand manner.

The actress plays Ajay Devgn’s ladylove in Singham directed by Rohit Shetty. It is well known that the film is the remake of Tamil blockbuster film Singam which has handsome hunk Suriya in the lead role. Kajal is all excited and on the other hand tensed about the result as this film decides her future in Bollywood. She is looking forward for a long term innings in Bollywood and at the same time wants to continue & concentrate her work in south cinema.

Kajal says “My director Rohit Shetty has watched my Telugu film Magadheera (Maaveeran) and was impressed with my performance. Ajay Devgn and Rohit are supportive all through the journey of Singham and I am happy to be part of this team.

When quizzed whether she would good bye to south Indian films, Kajal says “I feel that art has no barriers and so I will be doing the films in south and in Bollywood by striking a balance. I will choose the best offer which comes my way”.

Let’s wait and see whether the actress bounces back like Trisha or will make her career in Bollywood like Asin.


Surprisingly it was a day after i.e. July 23rd, 2010 Trish too made her Bollywood debut with Khatta Meeta.
Ajay Devgn) is an honest sub-inspector in his village with practically no case registered at his police station, since he solves most of them amicably. With a heart of gold, chest of steel and fists of iron, he qualifies as the elementary hero material. He just needs an excuse to flex his muscles and clench his claws, turning a one-man army at the drop of a hat, to battle an entire battalion of zombie-looking goons. The actual story initiates by the end of the first half when he clashes with an extortionist-cum-aspiring politician Jaykant Shikre (Prakash Raj) and a game of one-upmanship begins between the two.


An aftermath of the success of larger-than-life actioners like Wanted and Dabangg , Singham (officially remade from last year's Tamil hit by the same name starring Suriya) is clearly devised as an out-an-out action flick for the original action hero Ajay Devgn. The focus is clearly on action and perhaps Rohit Shetty's definition of full-blown action is his trademark blowing-up-cars phenomena. Jai Singh Nijjar's action direction involving mortal combats and car chases is quite unimaginative on that front and it's only thanks to Ajay Devgn's intensity and physical authenticity that the fight sequences look kind of convincing.

The obligatory romance track involving Kajal Aggarwal is predictably boring. The heroine fulfils the prerequisites for an action film where she has to get molested once to give the hero a chance to show his heroism. A couple of redundant love songs later, love is hurriedly established between the couple. The idea of casting real Marathi actors doesn't help much, since most of them are relegated to the backseat. And both Ajay Devgn and Prakash Raj who take the lead, struggle in forced Marathi dialect and accent.


Singham cashes in on the current scarcity of the once-popular hardcore action movie genre, which never relied much on the story but more on the constant clash between the hero and the villain. And like its genre, the film also brings back the vicious villain that has presently gone missing in most films. It's the revival of the age-old formula! So it's left up to Prakash Raj to firm up the film as a worthy opponent to the hero. And though the actor hams hysterically and repeats exactly the same act and character that he played in recent films like Wanted, Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap or the original Tamil Singam , he is perhaps the only villain with an intentional humourous streak to him, which he brings out effectively every time in the climax. His unusual comic confrontation with the cops in the climax makes you laugh more than Rohit Shetty's entire Golmaal series.


But beyond that, this film is not only devoid of a believable screenplay but it also lacks wit and humour. Even Ashok Saraf's comic track seems forced for the effect. The film runs at 'breakneck' speed and attempts to overtake all loose ends coming out of its larger-than-life format. While the narrative isn't much inventive, the constant clash between the hero and the villain in the second half don't let you lose attention. And unlike most action films where the hero gains authority only towards the end, here he is poised with power through the runtime, thereby having a mass-appeal connect pretty early in the plot.


Ajay Devgn effortlessly revives his action-hero image and looks quite convincing in his role. Kajal Aggarwal doesn't get much scope other than showcasing a constant smirk. Sachin Khedekar hams. Ashok Saraf is his usual self. Sonali Kulkarni is wasted. Ashok Samarth has a commanding presence as the villain's sidekick. Prakash Raj is perhaps the only villain who would be credited for his amazing comic timing.

Ajay Devgn clenching his fists like a lion kind of reminds Mithun Chakravarthy doing a similar step, couple of decades back in a B-grader called Cheetah . Singham isn't much different from that film either. If an exaggerated action film still excites you, then go Sing-ham!

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Amir Khan V. Zab Judah: Brooklyn Versus Britain


This Saturday night in Las Vegas, Amir Khan will face Zab Judah in a junior welterweight fight from Las Vegas. To be clear, despite the promotional literature telling you it’s a title unification, it’s not for the Ring magazine title which is universally accepted as the real championship belt. But Amir Khan is using this fight as a chance to make a name for himself, and to see if he can maybe bait top-ranked Timothy Bradley to step in the ring with him and settle that specific championship vacancy.


So here’s the question for Amir Khan: Can he make that climb from a guy who is on the pound-for-pound outskirts to a guy that can create a mandate for himself?

But for Zab Judah, the question is different, but no less important. Can Zab Judah, a guy who has always been marked by what he hasn’t been able to do as much by what he has, finally make that step up to a great fighter? Or will he sink back down to a gatekeeper?


HBO recently uploaded new "Greatest Hits" videos for the contestants in Saturday night's World Championship Boxing main event, Amir Khan and Zab Judah. The pair are unifying their 140-pound trinkets in Las Vegas.

Khan's Lineup: Paul Malignaggi, Marcos Maidana, and Paul McCloskey. The win over Andriy Kotelnik should be there, but that didn't air on HBO, and the Khan camp is not exactly friendly with Sky Sports right now, so hey.


Funniest Moment: Lampley claiming Khan and Malignaggi fought at the "mecca of boxing," Madison Square Garden. I mean, they did...sort of. They fought at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden. This wasn't exactly following in the footsteps of the greats who have main evented on that hallowed ground.

Khan first. This isn’t Marcos Maidana he’s in the ring with, so we’re not going to see Amir stand and trade with the willingness that he showed in that fight. But also, he’s not in there with Paulie Malignaggi who he can’t intimidate with his size and punching power. So in a lot of ways, this is one of his biggest challenges. Zab Judah, for all of his faults (and we’ll get to those later), is also a guy who has been in more than a few big fights over the course of his career. Amir Khan has been in exactly…one, and even that’s debatable depending largely on how you feel about Marcos Maidana.


This isn’t me saying, of course, that Amir is doomed. He’s most certainly not. After all, Amir is a Olympic silver-medalist and has the potential to be the best British lower-weight fighter since Ken Buchanan. High praise, I know, but Amir has the potential to make me look right. He’s got a solid jab, power in both hands, and is well-schooled far beyond just his amateur background. He’s got the trainer of trainers, Freddie Roach, helping him and, most importantly, making sure he’s remaining under control. Whenever Khan boxes and then sets up his punches off of that he’s a terror. But when he feels like he can brawl, when he wants to get his Meldrick Taylor on, he’s eminently more beatable than he would like to be.

Zab’s an odd case. Ol’ boy was the first big boxer from NYC since Tyson. And he had that intoxicating blend of power and speed that all of the greats have had.

And early on, it looked like he was going to live up to all of that potential. He hammered people including crowd favorite Micky Ward, and started to look like he could be one of the pound-for-pound best.


But he got KTFO’d by Kostya Tszyu, and it all kind of went sideways for him from that point on. Suspensions, horrifically bad performances (typified by him losing the world welterweight title to unknown Carlos Baldomir in Madison Square Garden where he somehow managed to fight for 12 rounds with one glove around his own throat), and it all adds up to a career as a fighter, who while very good, was in no way as good as we were all told he was.

So what’s here for him? Simple. A chance to prove he belongs, and put the sins of the Tszyu, Mayweather, Baldomir, and Cotto fights behind him. Because if he hasn’t…if he’s still the same brilliant but terribly flawed genius that he was before, then he’s stuck on this level in perpetuity, and honestly, that’s not something that any of us want to see happen.

So in conclusion, my prediction for this fight: Khan will be too much for Judah and will either win a wide decision or TKO him sometime around the middle rounds.


Judah's Lineup: Floyd Mayweather Jr (loss), Ernest Johnson (Jesus Christ, really?), Lucas Matthysse (a gift decision). These clips don't come with much worse lineups than this.

“It’s going to be an exciting fight, if you hit me once, I’ll hit you twice back because I’m a warrior.”
ZAB JUDAH, International Boxing Federation (IBF) Junior Welterweight World Champion & Former Five Time World Champion

“I’m ready and I’m excited. I’m very blessed to be back in this position. I know Amir Khan and Team Khan have prepared themselves for a war. I just think that over the years of me being in this position, I’m prepared for Saturday night. I’m prepared for what’s gonna happen. Amir Khan is new to this situation. He’s a young guy.”


“People have been getting this stuff about Zab Judah, 33 years old, is an old fighter, mixed up. What you gotta understand is that I turned professional at 18 years old. I was champion by 20 years old and I reigned ever since.”

“I’ve got my second wind. I’ve lived my years as Zab Judah just being Zab Judah, tough guy, Brooklyn, whatever. I’m here to say today, that don’t pay man, just live your life and be happy. Saturday night I’m gonna give you guys the best Zab Judah that you guys are looking for. He’s here!”
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One of my best effort, says Kevin Pietersen

If you answered ‘yes’ to that question, you’re wrong. Kevin Pietersen was not out on 202 when England declared.

The consensus seems to be that Pietersen probably should have been given out when he tucked the ball down to Rahul Dravid, but we care more about what happened after that. He wasn’t given out and India had another 196 opportunities to dismiss him, but didn’t.

As many of you know, we never really accepted that Kevin Pietersen was in some dire run of form, but he still surprised us a bit with this innings. To go all Tour de France for the third time this week, he drifted along in the slipstream of Bell and Prior, conserving his energy in the mountainous morning and evening sessions. Then, when the England peloton approached the flat of an evening session featuring three fully-knackered frontline bowlers, he burst out and sprinted like Mark bloody Cavendish.


England’s man of the moment Kevin Pietersen termed his double century as one of his best effort in trying conditions.

“It’s (my innings) is something to be proud of. Having gone in to bat on such a wicket and having to face MS Dhoni (in jest) as well for half an hour, it’s right up with all the hundreds I have scored.”


About the course of the match, he expects that ball will seam and swing to put Indians in a spot of bother.

“History tells us that getting result at the Lord’s is quite difficult. But the wicket we have at the moment is aiding seam and swing and we all know swing is alien to Indian batting,” Pietersen stated in a matter-of-fact tone after striking a brilliant 202 and powering his team to a massive total of 474 for 8 declared.


On Sky, they called Matt Prior the catalyst, which may well be true, but it’s worth keeping things in perspective. Kevin Pietersen scored three times as many runs as Prior.

As for England’s declaration, 474 really doesn’t seem like that many runs to us. We’d have been tempted to try and inflict some more wear and tear on the immense Praveen Kumar being as we’re at the start of an overly rapid four-Test series, but maybe we’re going too far with the long range planning with that. After all, the guy who wins the Tour de France will have done so by picking the right times to attack.


Emboldened with his success, Pietersen revealed his ambition to enter the 10,000 Test runs club now that he has completed 6,000 runs.

“I would love to have (10,000 runs). I love to set goal for myself and hopefully I would reach there if I bat this way.”

This is Pietersen’s 18th century in his 75th Test but quite uncharacteristically, he never have had to graft in the manner he has done at Lord’s over the last two days.


“The conditions were very difficult and they bowled very well. Sometimes you were playing and missing by couple of inches. It was a real hard graft. It made you wonder if India were batting yesterday where they must have been.”

Pietersen also gave credit to Cook, Strauss and Trott for consuming a lot of overs.

“Credit to the first three batsmen (deserve credit) for they ate up a lot of balls. Trott was magnificent again and Strauss batted for 80 balls which was great under the circumstances.


“When it’s seaming and swinging you try to get overs in the other bowlers. They did a great job for men like Prior and Swann to take advantage of what’s been created a day before. Bell also batted beautifully.”

Pietersen had two moments of anxiety – one, when he was on 49 and Rahul Dravid appeared to have caught a chance at leg slip before replays ruled it in his favour.

The second moment arrived when he was on 73 and umpire Billy Bowden gave him out caught behind off Dhoni – only for the Decision Review System (DRS) now to come to his aid.

“I was on 49 when Rahul used the technology. He wasn’t sure (so he did it). He is a fantastic servant of the game, a true Indian legend. I have played with him in IPL for 2-3 years and there is no way he would have claimed a catch when he knew it wasn’t out.


“As for the second chance, I had to review it. I can’t get out to Dhoni. Having said so it was difficult to see him through. He was moving it both ways and it was nipping around. He is a talented man.”

Another Indian for whom Pietersen has only admiration and affection is Praveen Kumar.

“I captained him for a year in the IPL. He is fantastic and a very skillful bowler. If there is anyone in the Indian team, I would be happy to have got five wickets, it would be PK. He is a fantastic guy.”

Pietersen revealed that England had decided in advance to give Indians half an hour of batting on Friday evening.

“We wanted to bowl for half an hour at Indians. I kept passing messages to Strauss that if he really wanted to pull us out (declare) now, there are no dramas. My 200 wasn’t important – I had scored quite a few runs already. Team is more important and not a 200 in a Test match.”

Pietersen took a dig at his critics who have been terming his form as none too great in recent times.

“It’s been only six matches that I haven’t scored a century. I got a 85 against Sri Lanka in 100 balls.

“You do go through good patches and bad patches. As long as you are true to yourself and continue to do hard work, you have to be rewarded.”


Pietersen returned to speak about the Indians and Sachin Tendulkar around whom there is a huge expectation to get his 100th international century.

“There are a lot of great cricketers who haven’t done well at Lord’s – Warne, Ponting for example. We would try and make sure Sachin doesn’t get a hundred.”

He also didn’t find fault with Harbhajan Singh’s bowling who went wicketless but conceded over 150 runs in England innings.

“Harbhajan bowled very well. Harbhajan on that wicket which was friendly to seamers, tied it down. On occasions, even I found it very hard to score. I don’t think he bowled badly,” he concluded.
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Through the Wormhole does "The Sixth Sense"


This is great if only because the youtube comments dredge up the same stuff I experienced recently.

I posted peer-reviewed "gold standard" (randomized controlled) studies proving paranormal powers on "theparacast" forum.


The members on that forum freaked.

Instead of addressing the content of what I posted it was first stated that I must be selling something and therefore the post should be removed. Then it was stated that the study was just "name dropping" and therefore fake (because it was a study done at the prestigious Mayo Clinic). After that things got stranger -- I was attacked with vehemence when I continued to post evidence corroborating the research. So the testimonials must be fake or paid actors -- even though the local news had reported them and corroborated them. The results must be placebo -- even though the results were dramatic and showed electric shocks.


Again none of the above criticisms actually addressed the content of the research. Finally someone stated that they would not trust the results of the research unless it was double-blinded. So I then explained how consciousness by definition doesn't have a traceable source so it could be telepathy or precognition -- in other words there's no way to prove that a person isn't somehow unconsciously aware of the results ahead of time. By definition consciousness remains a mystery and yet the results remain.



Well this was too much! Now I was "pandering" -- stooping to peoples' lowest desires. The thread was immediately shut down and if I protested then I should be "banished" from the forums. haha.



And so there was blatant, repeated evidence presented and yet a great psychological wall was reached: Rational thinking is not what it appears! Science is a scam! The emperor wears no clothes. The Cosmic Mother will never be unveiled.







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