Unless you want to become a machine like this film probably wants, stay away from it, advises Prasanna D Zore.
'A scatterbrained film that fails to encash Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin Shah's screen presence,' says Prasanna D Zore.
'If there is no outcome at Tuesday's meeting, then on the 30th thousands of tractors and farmers will march on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway.'
'The fact that this happened and the fact that we were not able to bring it down, we were not even able to trace from where it came from and where it went, certainly raises questions on our level of preparedness.'
'It is not something that is going to unfold in the next few weeks or even the next few months.' 'This process will continue for some time. And that's how it should be.' 'If the politicians are coming on board, then that is a welcome step.'
'We are also seeing the birth of new evil, the new face of drug distribution where human interface has reduced; consumers are using the Dark Web to source supplies and using cryptocurrencies as payment mode.'
Since the Budget announcement on July 5, FIIs have been busy unloading their stock.
'The Sena is always ready for any and every eventuality.'
'I teach my students for one hour every day. At night, I teach science to students from other countries. I have got requests from more than 70 countries in the last three years and more than 80,000 students have benefited from my online classes.'
'Kindling the private sector's animal spirits is more important than focusing on how government can give jobs on its own.'
'Farmers are much pained today.' 'They have no idea what to do with the money they have.'
'If the BJP doesn't want to accept the will of the people, then we will show them what a majority means.'
"The feeling is yet to sink in," says Soumya Mukherji, who will now use the money to convert his dream into reality. He tells Prasanna D Zore and Ashish Narsale all about it.
'If the Union Budget can provide incentives for animal spirits to come as well as induce demand stimulus and consumption, the Budget would have done a wonderful job.'
'They had come to tell the government what their problem is (with the three farm laws) and cautioned the government that if you don't solve our problems we will continue our agitation.'
The hits and misses of the week.
Shiv Sena has named Eknath Shinde as its candidate for leader of opposition in the Maharashtra assembly, signalling a complete breakdown of talks with the BJP. Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore reports
'Many were wearing three shirts, one on top of other.' 'Half of our time was spent in removing these clothes.' Dr Ashok Sharma, who conducted the post-mortem on the 8 escaped prisoners slain by the Bhopal police, is mystified why they were 'wearing layers upon layers of clothes.'
'I am the senior-most, obedient and loyal soldier of the party and it is the party that will decide Gujarat's next chief minister.'
'Now you see a patient, 10 minutes later the patient is dead.' 'The second wave is definitely much more dangerous, brutal and fatal than the first wave.' 'The number of deaths and infections in India today are very, very, high; the actual numbers are not being reported.'
'The people of Goa have not given the BJP a mandate to form a government, but the fact is they are trying to form the government.'
Congress-NCP-Sena leaders discount reading too much into the meeting between the Maharashtra CM and prime minister.
'Geological processes occur at time scales that are beyond human imagination, but we need to understand these events.'
'We would advise investors to hold on to multi-cap funds and not invest further until further clarity emerges.'
'The 100-metre stretch from the opening of this tunnel is completely flooded with debris; the oxygen supply (through the pipes) too had gotten over and the chances of any survivors inside this tunnel are very bleak. Nobody has been able to talk to the people trapped inside'
'These frequent political visits to the governor's residence show the state and the office of the governor in bad light.'
'If they think they can silence us by suspending us, then they don't know what BJP MLAs are made of.'
Hundreds of Muslims chanted Bharat Mata Ki Jai and unfurled the national flag, in a historic gesture that will only strengthen the country's religious fabric.
Captain Krishna Swaminathan, Commanding Officer of the INS Vikramaditya, India's majestic aircraft carrier, and naval pilot Lieutenant Commander Lalit Yadav tell Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore why the Indian Navy is a "very, very good" career option.
'If Rahul Gandhi is doing so much for the country and the party without thinking about his own health, then I realised that the only way to impress upon Soniaji and all those who are campaigning against him about how ordinary party workers are looking up to Rahulji was to write a letter in blood.'
'You realised there was a struggle outside and now your struggle is to survive, live in prison, to retain your feelings, your humanity, and collectively continue doing inside what you were doing outside.'
'Police officers should be selected on merit and not on the basis of who is close to the political party in power.'
The hits and misses of the week.
Will this announcement have any material impact on the stock price when the markets open for trade on Monday, April 18 at 9.15 am?
Salman Khan's big Eid release Tubelight is also a major loser.
Salman Khan's much awaited Eid release Tubelight turned out to be a damp squib at the box office. Distributors stand to lose on their investments.
'As a woman torn between familial duties and somebody evolving into a person trying to live life on her own terms, Madhuri is ecstatic to watch,' notes Prasanna D Zore.
What happens when you are in a life-and-death situation and, as it happens often in such situations, you just have a moment to make a choice? Director Amit Kumar's Monsoon Shootout makes you sit on the proverbial horns of such a dilemma.
'On June 13, we will intensify our agitation further by stopping trains from plying in the state.'
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