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India not sending a team to Asian Games!!!

With so much debate about Cricket, possibly being a sport in Olympics 2020 and Adam Gilchrist putting his weight behind the same, it was considered that it was not long before we could actually see Cricket on a global platform. With IPL being such a success, it has opened the doors for the newest and shortest version to be showcased to the world. With the ongoing saga between them and Lalit Modi on the ruckus that has been the administration of IPL, BCCI would have been well off without this controversy. BCCI, presently has a lot on its plate as they have to deal with WADA, Lalit Modi and most of all, its relations with its players The relations between BCCI and players seems to have reached a stage where they don't trust each other after the T20 World Cup in West Indies. By now its pretty clear that BCCI did not want to take the blame for the scheduling debacle. So they conveniently served show cause notices to the players who were involved in the pub incident to deviate the atten

Sapno ke desh mein...

I remember a few years ago, around the time "Bluffmaster" released, Abhishek Bachchan saying he categorized movies into only two- good movies and bad movies. Apparently he did not know that there were more choices and he did not certainly know that movies like Sapno ke desh mein... were made I too subscribed to the views of JuniorB because it made sense to me. Reading the book "If better is possible" by John Buchanan these days, it is so easily made out that Chetan Shah either became too redundant with the actors or he indulged himself a lot while making the movie. I still don't understand how the producers- Raw Films, if am not wrong- came forward after listening to the narration by Chetan Coming back to the movie itself I felt that it had a good story to tell but then failed in the aspect of screenplay and incompetent performances by not just the lead cast but also the supporting cast. It starts with that tested flashback within a flashback format and starts