BHOOL BHULAIYA

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Bhool Bhulaiyya (drama) Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Amisha Patel Direction: Priyadarshan Critic rating:
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THIS one was supposed to be a laugh riot but it’s sheer mumbo-jumbo, despite its attempts to garb the old-fashioned bhoot-pret story in psuedo-scientific garb. Akshay Kumar maybe a psychiatrist from America but he ultimately resorts to tantrik rituals, complete with a scary exorcist who beats the spooks out of a possessed Vidya Balan. And if that’s not purana ithihas, then Vidya Balan is made to dance like a maniac in a setting pulled out from the dustbins of history: an evil king, a long-haired lover, a flaming sword.... Shiney and Vidya are the America-returned couple who try to set up home in their ancestral haveli which is supposedly haunted. The rest of their kin join them in the haveli, to keep the bhoots out. But soon, you fail to distinguish the living from the ghosts. Everyone is equally shady and minus flesh and form. Except Akshay Kumar, the goofy doctor who comes all the way from videsh to help friend Shiney. But Akshay arrives only a few minutes before interval and leaves you tackling reels and reels of yawny yarns about inconsequential village folk. Once he arrives, things do perk up, but only momentarily, as mumbo-jumbo soon takes over. Priyadarshan holds his usual parade of familiar faces: Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani. But nothing seems to work this time. Not even tried and tested Paresh Rawal who has been the backbone of most of his comedies.



////////////////////Are We Trapped in God's Video Game?
Probably not. And no, he's not looking at your underwear. by Jaron Lanier
There are certain questions about virtual reality (VR) that I’ve been asked a few times a day, every day, for over a quarter century. The e-mails still come in, from a kid in Korea or a grandmother in Australia: Will VR ever get so good that we will no longer be able to tell it’s VR? Is it possible we are already living in VR? Recently even The New York Times got into the act, interpreting an argument from philosopher Nick Bostrom to mean that “it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.”
When these questions come up, I usually try to redirect the inquirer’s attention to the world of actual VR research, because that topic is richer than most people realize. But readers of this column know I am as friendly as can be to weird speculations, and it is interesting to think about the metaphysical side of virtual reality.



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Oh my golly that’s a delicious wrap. And so simple!Categories: yummies
Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by Emily

prep time: 5 minutes
I just had an amazingly simple, mouth wateringly delicious wrap. I must share it with you. Here goes…
fresh spinach
fresh tomatoes, sliced or chopped
Sabra’s Garlic hummus
Mission multigrain flour tortilla
Heat tortilla if desired. Put a slab of hummus on tortilla. Add as much fresh spinach and as many fresh tomatoes as you want. Eat! So simple it’s scary.


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