Tuesday, 17 December 2019
West Indies stars eye IPL windfall
Even in his last tour of India, in 2018, he was quite impressive in the shorter versions, hitting a century and a 90-odd in the ODI series. After going through a bit of a lean phase, Hetmyer has looked threatening right from the first game versus India (the opening T20I in Hyderabad) that culminated in his match-winning 106-ball 139 in Chennai on Sunday. Besides helping the Windies win the game, the innings also underlined Hetmyer's composure and maturity, which he looks to have gained with time. The Royal Challengers Bangalore released him earlier, but looking at his mesmerising knock, it wouldn't be surprising if they will be keen to get him back in their scheme of things. Other franchises too are bound to be interested in the 23-year-old.Sheldon Cottrell: Termed as the Windies' best bowler in the shorter versions over the past year, the left-arm pacer has proved his capability to adapt to conditions and bowl accordingly, making fine adjustments by altering his length. The T20I series and the first ODI against India have proved so. He can also very nicely take the pace off the ball. A franchise like the Kolkata Knight Riders must be following him and if they do get him, Cottrell's trademark salutes could make him a crowd favourite at the Eden apart from strengthening the two-time champions' bowling attack.Kesrick Williams: The medium pacer has been in the news lately for his on-field battles with Virat Kohli. The India skipper did bash him up in the two T20Is in Hyderabad and Mumbai, but don't forget, the latter did dismiss him once in the series. Like Cottrell, Williams too can take the pace off the ball and fox batsmen with his variations. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://jobboard.lmc.edu/employers/346049-pernezkumens
Greta takes a break, 'to be home for Christmas'
Now others have weighed in.President Trump called this year's choice "ridiculous" on Twitter. He urged Thunberg to "work on her anger management problem" and to "chill". The Trump campaign also distributed a Photoshopped image of the Time cover with the President's head superimposed on the teenager's body. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://disqus.com/by/pernezkumens/
Pati Patni Aur Woh movie review: Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar make this comedy work
The whole premise that a guy can so easily fool his wife and the woman he loves outside his marriage is so troubling. The film starts with a dashing voiceover by Jimmy Sheirgill who asserts that 'aisa koi sawal nahi jiska uttar aapko Uttar Pradesh mein na mile'. And then we're introduced to Abhinav Tyagi aka Chintu (Kartik Aaryan), who works as a government employee in Kanpur's PWD department. He married Vedika Tripathi (Bhumi Pednekar), a physics teacher from Lucknow, at an early age. Vedika aspires to live in Delhi because modern-day life is more tempting. They get married soon after their first meeting where Vedika makes it clear that she 'likes sex', and the two lead 'happily ever after' life for three years until Tapasya Singh (Ananya Panday) shifts from Delhi to Kanpur to find a location to set up a workshop for her designer boutique. Bhumi Pednekar does well as Vedika. Just when Chintu was looking for ways to spice up his mundane married life, he is assigned the job of helping Tapasya find the plot and, in no time, he gets into a I-don't-know-how-it-started and I-am-not-even-sure-of-what's-going-on-between-us relationship with her. Between all this, Chintu's colleague and best friend, Fahim Rizvi (Aparshakti Khurana) backs his gharwali-baharwali game and saves him each time he is about to get caught red-handed. What ensues next is a series of confusions, complications, white lies and realisations that sound rather illogical. The film, though problematic in parts, works as a comedy, particularly the scenes which feature Kartik Aaryan and Aparshakti Khurrana. The film's tone is sexist, where it is okay to call your best friend's girlfriend as daayan, chudail and naagin. Call it a comedy of errors and it won't be wrong because there are plenty of them that look unsettling. I couldn't help noticing how the film ridiculously switches between Kanpur to Lucknow in a matter of seconds and without even giving the audience a proper reason. Maybe, location consistency is something that makers didn't pay any attention to. Talking of comedy, the humour is well-placed but you can't call it extraordinary. At places where the comic element goes down, the makers have cleverly infused it with witty dialogues and one-liners like 'No what no why, free free bird blue blue sky', 'Vichaar karne se bachhe paida nahi hote', 'Ladki dekhte hi how I wonder what you are ho jaate ho'. Comic timing is one thing that goes in favour of Pati Patni Aur Woh. Especially the camaraderie and banter between Kartik and Aparshakti's characters is so good that it keeps you invested whenever the two appear together on screen. There are little nuances that are quite pleasant to watch. For instance, how Chintu and Vedika address each other as Tyagi ji and Tripathi, respectively shows the modern-age bonding between couples. There's Vedika's mausa ji, too, who like an annoying relative, will pile on at his relative's house, and do nothing but eat, sleep, snore, fart and repeat. Kartik Aaryan once again plays what he's best at — the guy next door with his innate talent for monologues. He might be getting close to being typecast but guess he's okay to risk that at this moment. Ananya Panday is stuck with her rigid expressions that don't seem to change throughout the film. Even when she tries to look the typical good-looking Delhi girl, it doesn't work. Bhumi, on the other hand, wins as Vedika. Her confidence, swag, dialect and even the expressions say a lot about how comfortable she is in the skin of her character. While the romance between Kartik and Bhumi looks real, you can't say the same about Kartik-Ananya dalliance. There's just no chemistry there. Ananya Panday tries to look the typical good-looking Delhi girl but fails. A surprise comes in the form of Sunny Singh's extended cameo post interval. However, it isn't the Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety vibe that Kartik and Sunny share here. While the music of the film had already made heads turn, Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare in the closing credit is a treat to watch. Do check out for the signature Govinda step. Pati Patni Aur Woh is funny, watchable and problematic at places, but who intends to learn a message or two from a film that trivializes an issue like infidelity and make it sound funny? DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://ebusinesspages.com/pernezkumens.user
Citizenship Act stir: Police action in Jamia Millia University unwarranted
It is alleged that they entered the library, hostels and even went inside washrooms to beat up the students at random. The police excesses were even visible in Aligarh Muslim University, which also witnessed protests against the Act on Sunday. In videos doing the rounds on social media, policemen can be seen vandalising and damaging public property and vehicles. Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar has said the university will lodge an FIR against the police for entering the campus without permission. The police must register a case against themselves, identify the erring officials and arrest them to send a clear message to the rank and file that they cannot take the law into their own hands. In the meantime, the least the police can do is transfer some of the high-handed policemen, order a departmental inquiry into the incident, and try and hold a meeting with the students and university authorities in order to clear the misunderstanding. But unfortunately, all the Delhi Police have done until now is to close ranks and even justify the action. If such is the brazenness of the police, it is not surprising why the men in khaki remain among the most untrustworthy, feared and loathed. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://disqus.com/by/raajdenenews/
Business as usual for Liverpool & Salah
The leaders had Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah to thank for their latest victory.Liverpool took the lead with a characteristic counter-attack in the 38th minute - Sadio Mane collected the ball on the left and found Salah, who burst goalward before cutting in and curling a shot home with his right foot.Liverpool had to wait until stoppage time to make sure of the victory thanks to a superb back-heeled flick."We played a tough team today - the way they played, they should not be where they are in the table," Salah said. "We have experience in playing out games, I think sometimes crowd gets nervous."It was far from classic Liverpool, but Klopp was pleased with the way his team had ground out the win."That's how it is. At 1-0, that's the result you never can rely on. No problem with that," said the German. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://www.intensedebate.com/people/rebensonim
Huawei Watch GT 2 launched in India, promises two weeks of battery life in one charge
The 46mm watch will go on sale for the first time on December 19. Customers will have a chance to win a Huawei speaker till December 31, 2019. The watch will be available across Flipkart, Amazon, Croma and other leading retail stores.Huawei is offering pre-booking for the watches from December 12 to 18, and those who do so will get a Huawei Freelace worth Rs 6,999 free. Users will have to make full payment for the watch at the time of booking. Huawei Watch GT 2 comes with a SAMOLED display with 3D glass and runs the company's own Kirin A1 chipset. It supports Bluetooth calling, in-device music and has the capacity to store and play 500 songs. The company claims its chipset is designed to improve battery life and has an advanced Bluetooth processing unit, a powerful audio processing unit, an ultra-low power consumption application processor and a separate power management unit. Huawei Watch GT 2 highlight is the two weeks of battery life. The company says this will be valid even with the heart rate monitor and call notification functions turned on, which usually result in battery drain on most other wearable devices. The Watch GT-2 is compatible with 15 sports modes, including eight outdoor sports (running, walking, climbing, hiking trail running, cycling, open water, triathlon) and seven indoor sports (walking, running, cycling, swimming pool, free training, elliptical machine, rowing machine). The user will be notified if heart rate is above 100bpm or below 50bpm for more than 10 minutes. The watch also has sleep monitoring function support. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://jobboard.usw.edu/employers/346052-pernezkumens
Fatima Bhutto on her new book, Asia's cultural influence and why Shah Rukh Khan tops the charts
'Essentially, the last century has been a very uniquely American century when it comes to pop culture. Barring a few blips such as The Beatles and French films, we've been inundated with American films, TV and music, and that continues, but what is changing in the world today is that there is movement rising out of Asia,' says Bhutto. She primarily charts the journey of Bollywood in the book, and goes to Peru to understand what makes Indian films so popular in the country. She travels to and explores the cultural industries of two other countries too: Turkey and South Korea. Bhutto gives us a behind-the-scenes account of Magnificent Century, Turkey's biggest TV show, watched by over 200 million across 43 countries, and understands how K-Pop has transformed the world of popular music through a trip to Seoul. In a detailed email interview from the US, she talks more about the premise of the book. 'We have long lived in a multi-polar world when it comes to culture. Even when I was growing up in Syria in the 1980s at an ostensibly closed time, we were able to listen to Motown music, watch Bollywood films, and get Russian cartoons on television. I started this book because I wanted to look at the rise of Asia,' says Bhutto, who has previously written The Runaways, Songs of Blood and Sword and The Shadow of the Crescent Moon. American pop culture is losing its relevance because of the betrayal of globalisation, says Bhutto. 'The world was not lifted on a wave of opportunity, wealth and access as promised. That has alienated millions struggling to survive the modern world, and has rendered American cultural products offensive if not tone-deaf to their struggles. It's not to say it's not popular still, but it's facing serious competition,' she says. Can it reinvent itself? 'I'm afraid it's a bit late for that,' says Bhutto, 'It has come very late to the issue of diversity; it can't even tell the story of an Ethiopian refugee drama without a White protagonist and it no longer speaks to the struggles of the majority of the world's populations,' she says, referring to the Dakota Fanning-starrer Sweetness in the Belly. She shares with us the video of a dance performance, which shows a Peruvian girl — wearing ghaghra-choli, bindi, mehendi, and jasmine flowers — dancing to the iconic Madhuri Dixit song Maar dala at an Indian restaurant in Lima. 'You name any Bollywood actor and there will be fan club dedicated to them in Peru,' says Bhutto. She writes about this love affair that started in the '50s even when countries did not share any diplomatic relations. It is 2019 and the love has only grown. Bhutto writes about her experiences at various dance classes, fan club meetings, Facebook live sessions and film screenings through which people experience Bollywood now. It is not an interest of the elite, she points out, it belongs to the middle class who see their struggles reflected in the Indian cinema and find it fascinating to see a brown man making it big. Shah Rukh Khan tops the charts here and young men with their dark brown skin, mestizo features and black hair cut in flat-brush style seem like they have modelled themselves on the actor. To understand his superstardom, Bhutto flew to Dubai to meet the actor in person and observe a day in his life, where he was shooting an episode for the Egyptian reality TV show Ramez Underground. To her, Khan spoke about his earlier films, 'the goodness he brought to badness', and why a group of German grannies follows him everywhere. Bhutto began working on the book in 2016, 'but if I was starting it today, I wouldn't have included Bollywood'. She says, 'With regards to the rest of the world, I am not sure it will survive its most recent incarnation as a cottage propaganda industry.' The author also looks at the rise of Turkish TV shows or dizis that are sweeping through Middle East, Asia and Latin America. She travels to Istanbul to speak to the people behind popular shows such as Forbidden Love, What's Fatmagul's Fault, and Magnificent Century, and explains their global success. 'They appeal to both modern and traditional sensibilities. The settings and production are modern, and yet the stories are based on traditional morality. The dramas are centred not around materialism or bloodlust but about the struggle of living honourable lives of dignity,' says Bhutto, who also travelled to refugee camps in Beirut to understand why people spend hours watching them. In the book's epilogue, she talks about the high-rises of Seoul to understand the working of Korean film industry, the making of K-Pop idols, and explains how K-culture is American culture repurposed. She speaks to K-pop trainees who tell her how contracts include seven to 10 cosmetic surgeries, and extremely hectic schedules. 'Korea is facing competition from China. Already the head of Warner Music has said that artistes will want to break into China the way they once wanted to break into the US,' says Bhutto, warning us well in advance that further upending of status quo can be expected in the future. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://ebusinesspages.com/devakrajints.user
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