Things I thought I would never write...

It is hard to imagine a movie so bold, so in your face, with such a care-a-damn attitude to be so appealing and truthful. It is too painfully honest for a Bollywood movie. What this movie has done, apart from pleasing the critics and the mavericks, is that it has now officially raised Anurag Kashyap to a divine status. He is one among the Gods now. The way in which the real incidents have been portrayed is something which only Anurag could have done. He saw what no one did. He showed what no one had seen or even imagined. Whether it is the Delhi MMS scandal or the hit and run case, you find yourself in the witness box. The advantage that a director has while making such a movie is that he does not have to care about the story much. The story takes care of itself. The director gets a chance to be bold and daring and in this case, to be himself. Another great aspect of the movie is the music and the way it blends with the story. Like the movie, even the music does not sound artificial. ...

Ketan Ghatode and I can now safely claim to be quizomaniacs. We are in fact mad about quizzes. It is rare for two people to have so much as a passion for playing quizzes in common. It is a thread that now binds us together and runs through our lives. I started out on quizzing from my school days. I was a part of two separate teams which won the first and third prizes in two years. Then came the big event. While I was still in school, in the ninth grade, I participated in a quiz conducted by Viswesraya National Institute of Technology. My team-mate was my buddy of all weathers, Abhishek Shiwalkar. We realised the magnitude and scale of the competition after we actually won it. This entire hardcore quizzing thing took a backseat during my junior college studies. Not that I was 'engrossed' in studies, I just lost perspective. And with it I also lost my G.K. It took quite a while to get back on track. I was lucky to have a partner like Ketan Ghatode. We thought we were invinc...