Wednesday, July 18, 2012


Posted: 14 Jul 2012 06:54 PM PDT
Amit ( Sharman Joshi) and Jai (Manish Nagpal) fall for Neha ( Raima Sen) and Nisha ( Riya Sen). But before they can settle down in marriage there is a whole lot of confusion that needs to be tackled first.
We know the release of 3 Bachelors has been stuck up for some ten odd years now. So naturally expectations are not high. Rightly so, for everything - just everything - seems stale in here.
The plot is seen to death: Two college boys (Amit and Jai) can never find accommodation in the super expensive Maximum city. What's next? One of them dresses up as the wife and the so-called couple happily finds shelter in the same outlet that has their respective girl friends on the ground floor. Of course, the movie, right in the beginning, unabashedly owns up to getting all that makeover idea from Chachi 420. Add to that a sub (love) plot of yet another bachelor, Deepak Verma (Manoj Pahwa), and you know stale is just the beginning .
The performances sadly are nothing much to talk about. While Himani Shivpuri (she has maximum screen time) is seen playing the 'toofani danda' - the college principal who does not believe in love till she herself falls into the love trap, the Sen sisters are there as mere eye candies. Even the item song seems dated. Not so much for the lyrics and tune, but more for the item girl herself - the long lost Nigar Khan.
Interestingly, there are a couple of one liners (out-and-out adult, mind you) and moments that manage to make you laugh... somewhat. But then it's all in flashes... primarily in the first half. The second half is all bhashan on love, family, friendship, duties....
Finally, the Big Q we just can't stop ourselves from asking: Sharman, is that really you...all skinny and skimpy? Guess we need to blame it on his (Sharma Joshi's) not-so-Ferrari-Ki-Sawaari (read struggling) days.
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Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:00 AM PDT
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, also spelled Tarik Ibn Zeyad (died c. 720), general who led the Muslim conquest of Spain.Mūsā ibn Nuṣayr, the Arab conqueror of Morocco, left his general Ṭāriq to govern Tangier in his place. Spain at this time was under Visigothic rule but was rent by civil war. The dispossessed sons of the recently deceased Visigothic king of Spain, Witiza, appealed to the Muslims for help in the civil war, and the Arabs quickly responded to this request in order to conquer Spain for themselves. In May 711 Ṭāriq landed on Gibraltar with an army of 7,000 men, mostly Berbers, Syrians, and Yemenis. Gibraltar henceforth became known as Jabal Ṭāriq (Mount Tarik), from which the Anglicized form of the name is adapted. Ṭāriq soon advanced to the Spanish mainland itself, gaining valuable support from Spanish Jews who had been persecuted by the Visigoths and from Christian supporters of Witiza’s sons. In July 711 he defeated the forces of the Visigothic usurper king Roderick at an undetermined location. He then immediately marched upon Toledo, the capital of Spain, and occupied that city against little resistance. He also conquered Córdoba. Mūsā himself arrived in Spain with about 18,000 more Arab troops in 712, and together the two generals occupied more than two-thirds of the Iberian peninsula in the next few years. In 714 Mūsā and Ṭāriq were summoned by the caliph back to Damascus, where they were both accused of misappropriation of funds and died in obscurity.
  

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