Terrible 'Dhada' and Karan Rastogi's futures win

Today's updates are dominated by the telugu movie "Dhada" I watched yesterday and anexcellent ITF futures win for Karan Rastogi in Kazhakisthan.

Watched Dhada yesterday and oh man, what a terrible movie it is! The director completely failed to emotionally charge up the audience and hence there was no connection with the feelings of both the lead actor and actress. Kudos to Naga Chaitanya for putting up such a great effort, he really worked hard towards his dance movements and fight sequences. His hard work paid off and as an actor he is pretty good now. He is looking a hero's material now. Kajal agarwal looked terrible, not sure who designed her clothes and hairstyle, it was utter s***t. Director should have noticed it right in the beginning and rectified her hairstyle, she really looked bad. If she continues to act in future with such a make up, Kajal Agarwal is bound to fall from the lofty heights she achieved after Mr. Perfect to the abysmal levels she never witnessed. I am really upset at the negligence towards her makeup. Songs were average, Devi Sri Prasad failed this time. Everyone else looked poor. Overall it was a very poor effect, no matter how much you spend on publicity the movie will sink.

Karan Rastogi won the futures title in Kazhakisthan. Though it is not updated on the ITF tennis website, I came to know about the result from a reliable source. He is slowly becoming the second best singles player for us after Somdev Varman. Nice to see his progress, he was once the most talented player in India before his injury. Good to see him regain his form back.

Then the terrible series for Indian in England continues. Hope they will put up a fight atleast today! I am still eagerly waiting for Sachin's 100th ton. That is the only thing we can cheer about in the entire series that too if it happens. The bowling department looked very poor. We have to drop and revamp our side drastically if we have to dominate the test cricket again.

Another gloomy news is the speculation about USA going back into the recession. I am still very hopeful that USA might avoid a double dip but for that they need to be very very careful and not fall in the debt trap. Very tough but if at all there is a country which can avoid it, it has to be USA. With a vast amount of data they have, I think they will analyze it well and avoid a recession. A long and tough work ahead for the USA. The most worrying factor is how the politics in USA has almost pushed the country into a debt default. This was never the case with USA, country was always placed ahead of the petty politics, but now things have changed. That is something which needs to be rectified immediately.

Some good news in the form of the resurgence of Zimbabwe. In the times of cricket losing its popularity in many countries, nice to see Zimbabwe getting back into the scheme of things for the test cricket. They have won the test played against Bangladesh and now has recorded a ODI win too. In a way it is good to see Zimbabwe being as good as what they were before the exile. But sadly the same can't be said about Bangaldesh, not sure where Bangladesh is heading? I don't see much hope for their cricket, after 15 years of international cricket they are still languishing at the bottom. I feel sorry for the cricket crazy people in Bangladesh.

Another sad news today, I know it has been too many disappointing news so far. Rohan/Qureshi had to withdraw midway when the set score was 3-3 against Bryan brothers. Rohan Bopanna twisted his ankle and couldn't continue. Sad to see such an interesting match go this way but I hope Bopanna's injury is not too serious and he will be fit for the US Open.

And we have Sania and Somdev playing at Cincinnati today. The match is scheduled at 7:30PM and 8:00PM IST respectively. Sania will be playing 83rd rank Vania King while Somdev is playing 104th ranked Marsel Ilhan. On the paper both are favorites to win this match, but the way Sania is playing I would give her only 40% chance to win. I think Vania King is the favorite to win. For Somdev it should be easy if he can play upto his potential, any miscalculation he might end up on the losing side, but yes I expect Somdev to win this match.

That's it for now, its time to decide whose picture should be on the top. The contenders for the day are Naga Chaitanya for his excellent work in Dhada and Karan Rastogi for an amazing title in Kazhakisthan. I will go with Karan Rastogi, he is a winner while Dhada is a flop. It would have been even if karan lost in the finals, but Karan Rastogi it is for the day.