Gulo main rang bhare

 गुलों में रंग भरे, बाद-ए-नौ-बहार चले

चले भी आओ के गुलशन का कारोबार चले (गुल = फूल, गुलाब), (बाद-ए-नौ-बहार = नई बहार की हवा), (गुलशन = बग़ीचा) क़फ़स उदास है यारों, सबा से कुछ तो कहो कहीं तो बहर-ए-ख़ुदा आज ज़िक्र-ए-यार चले (क़फ़स = पिंजरा), (सबा = मंद हवा), (बहर-ए-ख़ुदा = ख़ुदा के लिए) बड़ा है दर्द का रिश्ता, ये दिल ग़रीब सही तुम्हारे नाम पे आयेंगे ग़मगुसार चले (ग़मगुसार = हमदर्द, दुःख बंटानेवाला) जो हमपे गुज़री सो गुज़री मगर शब-ए-हिज्राँ हमारे अश्क तेरी आक़बत सँवार चले (शब-ए-हिज्राँ = जुदाई की रात), (अश्क = आँसू),  (आक़बत = परलोक, भविष्य) मक़ाम 'फैज़' कोई राह में जँचा ही नहीं जो कू-ए-यार से निकले तो सू-ए-दार चले (मक़ाम = पड़ाव), (कू-ए-यार = प्रेमिका की गली), (सू-ए-दार = फाँसी के फंदे की ओर) -फैज़ अहमद फैज़ml

By this river

 Here we are

Stuck by this river
You and I
Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down

Through the day
As if on an ocean
Waiting here
Always failing to remember why we came, came, came
I wonder why we came

You talk to me
As if from a distance
And I reply
With impressions chosen from another time, time, time
From another time

Money Heist

 

I had heard a lot about money heist and it had been recommended by friends whose advice I usually value, but only recently did I get a chance to watch it. Its a treat to watch. By clever use of sets and cinematography, except actual gun fight scenes, production value won’t be outrageous and unlike many other series revolving around lead characters, this one develops almost all protagonists and even minor ones. Like a proper Shakespearean tale, people are shown to have weaknesses, at times they know about them and are still not able to overcome them and which impacts their behaviour and clouds their judgement. By the way some Indian tv channel should dub this in Hindi and telecast, in DD monopoly era they used to show dubbed tv serials of other languages and at times they were quite a hit. This series make us like the “bad” guys, interestingly even after earning all the loot money they don’t seem to be indulging in bad behaviour rather just enjoying themselves, an idea which appeals to almost everyone. Further insistence on not killing anyone by robbers is shown as virtue on their part while same on the part of police is conveniently portrayed as weakness. How do the robbers manipulate media and use mass fervour to their advantage is an instructive case study in media management for law enforcement agencies and concerned stakeholders.

Article 15

·         The movie is good and bad. Good parts first but why I call some of it is bad that it has done great disservice to the cause it espouses despite being able to capture some nuances very well.

·         Sleepy north Indian rural milleue with its poverty and infrastructure has been depicted quite accurately, especially government hospital or government residence. In a small town ( overgrown village) the so called gentry consists of business persons and sundry government officials as shown in movie. The new IPS who is essentially a transplant from an alien environment ( not from same state but also the culture ) gets shock and is treated by local people exactly the same way as shown in movie. A seemingly innocuous man like bodyguard of addnl SP who is himself shown involved in the crime , or one fiery village woman who dares to speak truth, or how post-mortem can be manipulated at government hospitals, or how SP deliberately leaks news to media or local businessman tries to get cosy with SP is pretty accurate and shows script write have ear to grounds. The way politician of both sides unite and how victim of dalit community don’t get help from leader of their community is pretty accurate.

·         Sadly though good things end here. First movie tries to allude to a real life incident which was actually an honor killing by the family of the victims in UP. Movie strings together various crimes from all over India over different periods of time in a single time frame in a single place painting a picture of doomsday. The SC police inspector is shown taking orders from dominant caste senior which is so patently false. The sad truth is police is divided across caste lines and more often than now whoever is in position of power plays saviour for people of his caste.

·         The SP must have cleared UPSC, got trained for a year and then at least 2 years in field before becoming SP and his incredulity at surroundings is simply laughable especially when asking who is which caste as the very exam he would have appeared inot and training he would gone through constantly reinforces these ideas.

·         Robin hood of the village who does nothing but sermonises is as unreal as moon in daytime and no demonstration, dharna or morcha by public or family of victim is not what happens in reality.

·         Overall the mood picture paints and especially the cinematography is very good, performance wise people shine in their role, especially corrupt policeman, businessman, lady doctor, assistant police officers , Ayushman acts well but his role is not written perfectly and so is issue with robin hood and his love interest.

·         Overall one should watch the movie but remember that it is fictional and substantial part of it never happens in real.

Sepoy to Subedar

From Sepoy to Subedar is a very rare, first person account of a sepoy who served in both the East India Company's army until the mutiny and then continued serving after the Indian army was brought directly under government control. Sita Ram began his service for the Honorable Company in 1812 and fought in virtually all the army's major campaigns. Ram's narrative describes his active service, and provides a private soldier's insights, into the Gurkha War (1814-1816), the Pindari War (1817-1818), the incursion into Afghanistan(1838-1839), and the subsequent retreat (1842) to include his capture and time as a slave before escaping to return to India. Ram's story continues with his actions in both Sikh wars, and the Mutiny in 1857.

What makes the book interesting is that it provides a soldier's level perspective of all these actions and life in the Indian Army. What makes it even better is it is written by a soldier in the Indian Army along with the insights and perspectives of a Hindu soldier in the service of the Raj. It's this perspective that makes the book unique and worth reading.

As with many soldier's narratives, it lacks the context that would go along with a more polished military history. However, the book's editor provides both context and background at the beginning of each chapter and in the footnotes.

It would be interesting if we get  sepoy/soldier level perspective of IPKf, Kashmir insurgency, naxalism etc. But his memoir also points to some painful reality, like technology won the day for Britishers, caste was an important fact for north Indian hindus which were prevented  to go abroad or serve beyond Indus and even mere touch or eating with impure irritated them to no ends

Cure of Troy

History says, Don’t hope

On this side of the grave.

But then, once in a lifetime

The longed-for tidal wave

Of justice can rise up,

And hope and history rhyme

Video Games

one of my favorite songs

Swinging in the backyard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name

Open up a beer
And you take it over here
And play a video game

I'm in his favorite sun dress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown

I say you the bestest
Lean in for a big kiss
Put his favorite perfume on

Go play a video game

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

Singing in the old bars
Swinging with the old stars
Living for the fame

Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Video games

He holds me in his big arms
Drunk and I am seeing stars
This is all I think of

Watching all our friends fall
In and out of Old Paul's
This is my idea of fun
Playing video games

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

(Now you do)

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you want to do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living if somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

I am

Just watched this movie out of four stories found story featuring Sanjay Suri and Juhi Chawla most poignant Specially Juhi Chawla one... first of all it is first movie which shows plight of Kashmiri Pandits in unambiguous term, no root cause theory .. How kashmiris were chased away by very people with whom they had shared lives, how Kashmiiris mask the even by saying Kashmiris ran away, how their properties are either decayed or occupied, how old generation of Kashmiris never like delhi or other indian cities where they ultimately settled but one very important thing this movie shows different from movies like tahaan, sanjay dutt bipasha movie, mission kashmir, or shourya is how conflict means lost opportntites or rather lost life for some people Manisha's acting is superb in her small yet powerful role of a woman who lost her youth, her love, her brother because she was caught in a wrong place in wrong time and in that sense maybe character of Juhi Chawla was rather lucky story of Sanjay Suri is perhaps first portrayal of child abuse on Indian mainstream movies. like many other secrets of our society this is never talked about and as general lack of sex education means that those who are abused feel they are themselves guilty and never complain about their tormenters must watch to understand absurdities of modern civilization

Agneepath

Producers may claim that they were not marking remake on some minor plot points ( like husband of amitabh's sister) or no development of character of Amitabh's dad but still movie has imprint of old flick

plus - choice of very good location as mandwa, Om Puri, Rishi Kapur and minister were apt for their role. Praise for rishi kapur who shines in possibly first negative role in his life. Fight between his son and himself has certain godfather movie like feeling there are many opportunities which are wasted. e.g. Kancha's near maniacs is never explained, though towards end his dad is shown as proverbial uncle of Ravan who tried to stop him.Similarly in old movie goga kapur though less frightening but comes out as more scheming character which Sanjay dutt does not fight scene towards end is completely ridiculous and sole aim of it seems to show physique of Hrithik. Priyanka chopra is also wasted in small insignificant part. Praise for lady playing sister of Hrithik, she does not have many dialog but she delivers by her eyes

Movie review Ragini MMS

After a long time a decent Hindi horror movie maybe after darr of RamGopal Varma before he turned himself into a factory.Premise is simple and though they say it to be inspired by real events this kind of story of a wronged soul communicating with innocent/scheming outsiders has been repeated umpteen number of times. But thankfully it does not have that typical Ojha/magician so common in all Hindi movies who comes to deal with the bad soul neither it has a religious figure normally a priest or someone who comes to frighten away the ghost. This makes the story very realistic. Acting by lead pair is too good ,though movie sags towards end but length has been kept proper and it ends before viewer will get bored. Good movie. 8/10

Shor in the city

as opposed to typical movies on Bombay this steers clear of Hindu Muslim angle, immigrants, does not eulogies slum life and neither makes caricature of Bala thackrey but stays true to its intent

temptation to show chowpaty, railway station or gate way of India are avoided and thus it makes a visually appealing experience to watch movie

tushar kapoor finally acts looking at sendhil one feels that all Indian khans should be taught real meaning of word being fit is not Buffy muscles but something else

acting wise the local small time leader and friends of tushar kapoor and his wife shines there are some loopholes e.g. small kid plot is out of place , similarly how tushar kappor changes overnight or why not NRI tries to do something else before taking matters into his own hands is not explained

good premise but it could be more

but a good weekend watch

Tanu weds Manu

Movie certainly had a fresh story line. Just like DevD female lead is shown independent in thinking but as her friend correctly points out she is rebel without a cause. Best part of movie is capturing middle class India and towns of Kapurthala and Kanpur, though depiction borders on clichéd still movie is brilliant in pieces and there are quite a few comic movements. e.g. monkey show scene, scene where before wedding Manu's friend and Manu go to meet girls, while playing Antakshri they sing song 'abhi na jao chod kar', towards end when in typical Indian arranged marriage style tanu tells little girl that I like the boy and so on.. but somehow director did not have a convincing end and Jimmy Shergill was most unconvincing in bad man with good heart role

the lovely bones

As such movie is sad because a young girl is killed and her killer roams free for many year but in many ways movie reinforces ideas of family, love and relationship. We Hindus offer food to birds, animals and priests even years after our near and dear ones have died in the hope that this might help them in after life. Similarly when Susan is tormented about scheming of his murderer or when his family reminisces about her she seems to establish a connection. Acting by her grandma, siblings and mom are superb. watched it when was back from office at 2 o clock in night and was impacted by it. and I actually like the special effects they add to the surreal feeling which movie tries to create. Comic interlude of grandma though seems slightly misplaced

Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster

a remake of classic sahib Bibi ghulam of Mina kumari and guru dutt only that here Bibi knows what she wants and gets it and same with ghulam. Though it is never explained what killed sahib's first wife and why choti bahu is mentally unstable or goes brusque at the name of Lalit but otherwise story is good. It is just like how Othello or Macbeth were adapted to Indian story line by Vishal Bhardwaj. Politics of north Indian small towns is captured though political struggle is showed in only one dimensional way. acting by characters of minister and rival politician and their dialogues are terrific. Deepal shaw shines in whatever little screen time she is given. Only casting mistake I think was Jimmy sher-gill, someone like Ajay devgan would have looked better in this role. though movie slacks towards end but cinematography is good and so is pace. Tigmanshu's first movie Hassil was also a gem and so is this

You is kind, You is smart, You is important

Movie review of The Help



I am sure this is going to win some oscars.
Central character of Abiridin is Ms Miller from "Doubt", where in her small role she outshone everyone.

In this movie she is a narrator. I liked the movie because

1. period drama, costumes and music and social norms captured beautifully
2. Job of Nanny was upgraded to something where they make children confident. Skeeter has memories of her nanny giving her emotional support when she is not picked at PROM and similarly the you kid moleby is made to feel important by his nanny. A very good depiction of child psychology
3. But daughter of Miny, Sugar who is forced out of school into job represents what goes wrong with black kids who are hard working
4.Separate church , separate restaurant, separate club... it reminded me of once prevalent untouchable in India. West never stops of lecturing us on unapproachability but we had that more as a tradition, we could eat food grown by their lab-our and could make them produce goods for us but could not involve them in actual cooking of food or religious rites
5. Here the hypocrisy goes a step further, they are allowed in kitchen, actually tend for kids but are still socially segregated and this is done by educated prosperous people in 1960s
6. I think is this movie is both feminist and anti feminist. After having seen saas bahu culture and preference for male kids in Indian society, I have come to believe that many times females oppress female with or without opposition from males. In this movie also white females of South town mistreat their nannies not physically or economically but emotionally.
7. British India has lost of Nannie or ayahs as they were called.I am surprised there is no literature on their point of view
8. Civil rights movement is just a backdrop to the movie
9. Lead authoress, her publisher, her mom who was ex beauty queen, the lady who lives in a mansion out of town all are confident women who have charted their own course in life
10.Males do not have much screen presence and are essentially prop

History boys

will write review later movie is notable for its dialouges

here is the screenplay
http://www.douban.com/group/topic/1846112/

movie review : real steel

a typical underdog movie, effort to gain long lost glory by past hero, father bonding with son, father living his dreams via sun, a girl trying to save his dad's business, vengeful corporates, underground culture of honor but less money and public' hero (occupy wall street??) all these combined with best special effects and kinetics

this is one of the first movies where robots are neither inhuman like machines not frightening. though there are plot holes that how something from junk was so good which even modern robots were not or how an all winning robot had processing power to learn tactics of its opponents instantaneously but not enough battery!!! how can court give custody to an absentee broke care less father compared to doting rich aunt but at the end of day enjoyable pure Steven Spielberg magic

Adam Smith : Wealth of Nations

just some notes from first three chapters of book

• Chapter 1 -Central theme is division of labor.
• Division of labour is there is big organizations also but is not very visible.
• Davison of labour results in proportionate increase in productive powers of laobur.
• Division of labor is difficult in agriculture compared to manufacturing & that is why progress has been slow.
• Three main advantages are – increase of dexterity in every particular workman
• --- saving of time which is lost in passing from one type of work to other
• ----- Invention of great no of machines as someone doing a work repeatedly will device better ways of doing it.
• In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes like any other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens.


• Chapter 2 – What promotes division of labor
• In civilized society man needs co-operation and assistance of others.
• It is not form benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
• Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.
• It is by treaty, by barter, and by purchase that we obtain from one another the greater part of those mutual offices which we stand in need of, so it is this same trucking disposition which originally gives occasion to the division of labor.
• The difference in natural talents in different men is , in reality much less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius which appear to distinguish men of different professions , when grown up to maturity , is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour.



• Chapter 3
• Division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.
• As by means of water carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land carriage alone can afford it, so it is upon the sea coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself, and it is frequently not till a long time after that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country.
• Nations around the coast of Mediterranean Sea seems to have been first civilized according to authenticated history because of its peculiar geographical location and topographical features.
• Ancient Indians, Egyptians & Chinese limited themselves to inland navigation.
• River should always branch up to give extensive navigation network ( African rivers) and should not pass through hostile nations.(Danube)
•

India in transition : Jagdish Bhagwati

Not review but some points which I noted when I was reading the book long back.

• Morris Cohen – American philosopher
• Peetamber Pant – Planning commission member
• Adam Smith – The theory of moral sentiments
• James mill – History of British India
• Sidney morganbesser – when asked about Mao’s statement that a proposition may be both true and false he said I know and I do not know
• Henri bergson – great advantage of time is that prevents everything from happening at once
• Childhood was discovered in Europe in 13th centur but it became more significant in 16th-17th century. Children were transformed from valuable wage earners to economically useless but emotionally priceless objects
• Herbert Spencer – the ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of follies has been to fill the world with fools
• The worst psychological state to be in is to have a superiority complex and an inferior status – India before 1990
• J lewis – Quiet crisis in India
• Moore – Social origins of democracy and dictatorship
• Selig Harrison – India the most dangerous decades
• Raj Krishna – Hindu rate o growth – 3.5 %
• Reform by stealth – Mrs. Gandhi
• Reform with reluctance – Rajiv Gandhi
• Reform by storm – Narsimharao
• US view
o 1960 – If china succeeds and India does not, other countries will follow that path.
o Honey attracts flies, gold attract diggers and India attracted economists.
• Harrod domar model talks about rate of investment and productivity of capital. For policy purposes productivity of capital was assumed and thus complete emphasis was on accumulation.
• People thought democracies can’t extract savings which totalitarian countries can garner and were thus at inherent disadvantage.
• India did well on rate of saving and investment but productivity of capital was low.
• In late 70s and 80s perceptions were running ahead of the realities both in cas of china and to a limited extent in case of India.
• Perceptions were driven not by remarkable economic performance but by whether the policy framework was changing in the direction of market oriented reforms.
• Rajiv Gandhi’s reforms were aimed at changing the nature of intervention but not at eliminating them.
• There is no simple relationship between democracy and growth rates if cross country regressions are run.
• Authoritarianism seems to be neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for rapid growth, on such evidence.
• Weak excuse for India’s low growth
• Growth now may at expense of growth later – latin America
• More compared to pre independence
• India is special , eastern economies were small
• India is democratic
• Lack of growth was the reason for India’s failure to eradicate poverty
• There are two routes to ameliorate property : direct help or through growth
o Both should be used unless one is dominant
o Even if direct route helps second is required because it will enable state to take second route
o Till 80’s poverty and growth were treated In isolation and often in opposition
• He does not agree with the claim that economists ignored poverty at the cost of growth I n1950 and 1960 rather he argues they chose a path of growth to ameliorate pverty
• Indian strategy was of active intervention by government and has author calls it “pull up”
• Poverty persisted in India not because there was wrong emphasis on growth but rather because there was little growth
• Poverty goes down in years of good harvest
• Growth may not be not only slow but also distorted if one has autarkic inward looking strategy thus favoring capital intensive industries on labor intensive one
• Did we get satisfactory growth from our investments?
• Low growth resulted from low productivity as savings were always adequate



• Why productivity was low
• India’s productivity suffered from both the oppressive framework above and illiteracy below
o Saving overestimated? –relative prices and quality of capital good
o Income underestimated? –Black economy – it may be more efficient as it escapes inefficiency of formal economy
o Capital directed towards low productive industries
• Agriculture became more capital intensive with green revolution – but even if you expand land diminishing utility comes in picture. Further growth in productivity would compensate for this
• In industrial sector shift towards capital intensive industry – almost all industries had low productivity . A broad based and prolonged phase of total factor product stagnation in Indian industry between 196-70
o Bureaucratic control
• Control on import export product diversification capacity expansion allocation of imported inputs
• If no industrial licensing we will spend resources in producing lipsticks
• This originated from lack of trust in market when scarcities are acute and tasks are challenging and failure to understand that markets in general work better than central planning as resource allocating device
• The argument was that central planning will calculate costs better but they forgot that central planning will not have access to information
• There were theories supporting identifying and guiding the investments to be coordinated
• Indian planners assumed export pessimism and putty clay technology
• India’s misfortune was brilliant economists who could rationalize everything , far east was spared of them
• One purpose was to prevent monopoly or prevention of economic control in few hands but there could be better ways than licensing as licensing inherently helps haves not have nots
• Small scale sector protection - textile was sacrificed for handlooms
• But the attitude to think that growth of large industry will crowd out small industry was misplaced
• Indian industry could neither become competitive worldwide not could it harness domestic market
• Further regional balance approach – further dividing small capcities that were allowed thus losing economies of scale
o Inward looking trade and foreign investment policy
• Manmohan Singh wrote his thesis that Indian export pessimism was unjustified
• Protection in domestic market made it attractive while restrictions disabled Indian firms from competing globally
• This export driven could have broken the limits imposed on industrial demand from natural limits of agricultural growth
• Import control promoted expanding inefficiently as imports were allotted on capacity basis
• Closed foreign trade and high saving made Indian manufacturing capital intensive rather than labor intensive. Thus wage and employment did not benfit from labor intensive export industry
• Restriction on foreign capital impeded absorption of new technology or their incubation
o Large public sector going beyond what is convention and public utilities and infrastructure
• Fabianism supported gradualism than outright nationalization
• Even electricity , telephone , steel , transport were put in public sector i.e. infrastructure thus they also made private sector inefficient
• Overstaffing and workers being paid for overtime
• Policy of taking over sick private units to respond to public pressure
• High wage and salary bill cut down investment on capital goods crating infrastructure bottlenecks further declining productivity of many user industries
• Payment crisis and subsequent conditions imposed by IMF were not alien but were very much required
• Now question was not whether reforms but in what speed with what sequence and with what chance of success
o Failure to spread primary education and literacy
• Protestant asked everyone to read bible ,thus spreading literacy
• Industrial revolution and child labor law
• Caste system in India has made education useless






• What is to be done
• Macroeconomic crisis made necessary microeconomic reforms
• Multiple governments prompted large spending in small time
• Soft state had arrived by 1980 eliminating celebrated macroeconomic discipline
• Civil service failed miserably in raising the alarm
• Low credit rating – so no private borrowing
• Remittance from gulf dried up
• NRI deposits were withdrawn
• Almost negligible FDI
• Diversion of aid from asian and African countries to erstwhile soviet union
• Increased demand in USA for spending on education and social care
• Funds were low so efficiency was demanded
• Even communist and latin American nations had left anti FDI or anti trade stance so environment was changed
o Indira Gandhi’s upbringing and her past political experience made her at best reluctant reformer
o Rajeev Gandhi was first PM to have done honest work outside politics so he knew deficiency of system
o Reforms till date
• Reforms are foreceful and explicit as opposed to earlier time
• Bicycle theory of reform – keep on reforming in different sectors continuously so as to prevent opposition from having a static target
• Both licensing and exchange control had to go as they were interlinked
• There was support for two step – first mak domestic industry used to competition and then open it but india had no choice in matter
• Rather than import tariff or export subsidy devaluation is better ???
• Promiscuity is easier than marriage and flirting with convertibility was done rather than full account convertibility
• FDI – from arm’s length technology transfer to cultivating direct equity investments
• Impostition of hard budget and competition will make PSUs efficient
• Public sector works on premise that given scarcity of jobs it is bad enough to find one job in a lifetime and to ask people to find two is nothing short of cruelt
o Why reform will stay
• Nothing succeeds like success
• It should not be growth driven by exceess borrowing like latin America
• Domestic market alone can’t attract FDI
• Play Japan card
• In gulf war Japan finance USA instead of giving money to poor Asian nations
• Rajiv Gandhi was not clear that reforms are needed to fight poverty . he seemed to be just fascinated
• Reforms are not prelude to laissez faire but move to productive intervention
•

Movie review : fanaa

Really stupid.Full of over acting, clichés and lots of factual and cinematographic inaccuracies. 1.Railways at udhampur is recently made how some 5-6 yrs back kajol could board it. 2.The overacting by AMir Khan as tour guide washes his past reputation specially all the 2 take ki poetry he does. 3.A very clichéd character of guard at delhi. 4.Tyagi she was supposed to be a psychiatrist but is present in all operational decisions and in Indian authorities women are really not involved in this kind of things.Even celebrated Kiran Bedi was traffic superintendent. 5.Most laughable thing was Nuclear missile part, which never has a simple trigger kind of thing and what on earth that trigger was doing in some forward base in Kashmir. 6.While trying to be politically correct terrorists are shown fighting both India and Pakistan which is a rubbish.Terrorists are supported by Pakistan and their major demand is accession to Pakistan and not freedom. 7.They copy the scene from James Bond movies of fight in ice field but never shows a front shot of Amir Khan. 8.House interior and costume of characters never show that they are in midst of a snow struck region. 9.Kashmir doesn't have snow storm obstructing everything for 15 days it happens in Antarctica. 10.it is ridiculous to think govt will leave the pursuit of terrorist and don't do a house to house search while they had an encounter with such a deadly terrorist ,similarly his terrorist friends should also have come earlier. 11. I never knew Gulmarg is that close to Srinagar. 12.Scene of amir Khan singing in kitchen with kajol is direct lift from Dil hai ki manta nahinh but thr it was more graceful.