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Bob Dullam built a full size working replica of The Tumbler from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The whole thing was built from scratch without blueprints, using only photo references found online. The total cost is an estimated $50,000-$70,000. He did the project for fun, and does not plan to sell. “You wouldn’t want to sell this if you had one, believe me,” Bob writes.

Source: SlashFilm

I was able to watch this Indian movie titled "Iqbal" - which is a story of a farmer's boy who wants to become a member of the Indian Cricket Team. The movie is good in itself with some really touching scenes - and as expected from an Indian movie: a lot of emotions.

Iqbal stars Naseeruddin Shah as the mentor of Iqbal, and a host of other characters. I loved how Iqbal's family members have acted in the movie. Especially Khatija, Iqbal's younger sister who helps him in every way possible - and is Iqbal's official interpreter - since Iqbal cannot hear or talk by birth.

I think movies like this should be more frequent from the Indian cinema. I have lately grown sick of the usual indian masala films that I cannot digest even if I have to see them for about 20 minutes.

I remember Satya, which I really liked - and it is one of my most favorite movies for some reason - and I always feel that Indian film makers should come up with similar stories more and more frequently. I agree that such movies may not generate the amount of revenue any masala film usually generates - but the situation is changing - and there are always people who are interested in intelligent cinema - that consumes you for a long term message - and not just a couple of hours of non-sense.

Additionall, I think it is the responsibility of the film makers to change the taste of those addicted to useless nonsense by introducing movies like this. Nagesh Kukunoor, the director of Iqbal is one of those people I guess, who want to change the taste of the audience by incorporating entertainment and real life values, to create a better experience. He has already directed similar kind of movies such as Rockford and Hyderabad Blues.

 

I went to the Capri cinema a few days back to see this movie with a fair bit of excitement as this is "Indiana Jones"... BUT I was utterly disappointed, and not just me but everyone around! This time the move makers try to be 'oh so cute' rather than focusing on something that makes sense.

One reviewer on IMDB got it right when he said:

When you come out of the cinema screen, turn around and look at the expressions of the people walking out behind you. I did, and it was a collective 'Has someone just farted?'

I went with Ahmed, Adeel and Hamid, and we had good fun together but we all were dissapointed with the movie.

OK, let's face it: Indiana Jones survives a nuclear blast just by hiding himself inside a fridge! and that fridge was inside the house where the nuclear explosion took place. Everything in that house literally melted of that massive nuclear explosion but here we go, our indi jones is well and alive and the fridge is just fine left after everything just vanished.

Here's another one: The enemies are an army of their own with advanced weaponry in their hands all the time and they're shown having machine guns firing with full flow onto the indi jones and crew, yet none of the indi jones members are hit by even a single bullet.. i'm pretty much sure those enemies weren't blind.. and they were soldiers so shouldn't miss a shot from 6 to 8 feet distance.

Now this one: In the end, out of no where does this UFO come into place and flies away.. i kinda laughed a lot at it.

There are so many other moments during the movie that you just literally get shocked to see: surviving three consecutive deadly waterfall jumps and landing safe in a boat in two of them and just safely in the water in the third (and most disasterous) one. That was so lame honestly.

well, i was so wrong when i felt that ppl like Lucas and Spielberg can't make stupid things.. actually they're humans and they just proved that! I'd still give it a 3 out of 10 for some eye candy/stunts and some funny moments...

Well, We just got done with our projects submission and exhibition on the 29th of May. I got 2nd prize for the computer graphics project I did. It's not too cool if an art student looks at it but for a computer science department, it was good enough to get 2nd prize. The group that came 1st did some software for Network Programming. I was just 0.75 marks behind the group who came 1st but well, whatever happens, it happens for good I guess.

I had to do all of it in a hurry, I had so many plans for this animation, but all went in vain as I just ignored those plans in order to get the animation done in time along with other course projects such as Network Programming and IS Audit (I hate you). But again, everybody has their bit of stories and reasons for most things all the time.

 

Here is the link for downloading the animation (size is 5.5 MB):

http://www.thesocialgeek.com/Kamran_CG_Project.zip 

Make sure you see the animation with your speakers turned on, otherwise it's no fun.

* also, the animation might show up too dark on some monitors. So please adjust the brightness accordingly.

Just a few minutes ago, I called Shoaib Mansoor, yes that very Shoaib Mansoor who is known for so many good things that I find it difficult to highlight any single aspect of his personality. Well, I mainly like him for his magical work done for the Vital Signs and Junaid Jamshed. Then I like him for his excellent tv shows such as 50-50, Sunehrey Din, Ankahi, Tanhaiyan, Alpha Bravo Charlie, Gulls & Guys, etc. Then I like him for his first ever movie Khuda Kay Liye, a really well made movie which I really liked!

I got his number after quite an effort I'd say. I'd been trying to call him on and off for a quite a few days now. But today he picked up the phone and well, we talked, and i was just so happy to talk to him. I was just kinda lost in thinking what to say hehe. He was cool, calm and casual and the calmness in his speech was mindblowing. I was so impressed and I guess success lies in being patient and calm.

Well, you might take it as anything, but talking atleast once to Shoaib Mansoor was a dream for me since I just love the lyrics he has written. I basically like all of his work a lot. I hope he can continue doing more of the great work he has been doing for all these years. I'm indeed feeling lucky that I've got to talk to him hehe.

Have I not mentioned before that they're lovely! I had a nice few hours of evening time. Sarfoo and Noman came to me in the evening and we had a nice discussion. We plan to meet today at GoAish (yes! that ultimate adventure park :). I met Noman after so many days and it was a pleasure to see him. He is a potential judge in the TechElite programming competition to be held in NED so I have good chances of winning :P It's the very first time I am going to GoAish so let's hope for the best! ;)

Later on, me and Ali thought to have cold coffee so we met and had it. After that we went  to Dolmen Mall and got stuck in traffic =S it was so painful that I better not speak up here. Anyways, we luckily found a good spot for Parking. Went in, then to Radio City, I got a couple of DVDs and then we headed to Liberty books. There I purchased Aisha Siddiqa's Military Inc. I had forgotten my debit card at home so I had to ask Ali to pay for the book and I'll pay him back the next time we meet.

Annywayz, ciao!

 

Wow! Another stunning movie to my list! Man I can't say enough how good this movie looked to me in the end. I loved it. Ridley Scott did it again. I have been lucky enough to see some really good movies lately. There are only two things that I can talk about these days :) Work and Movies.. work is boring, so I'd prefer sticking to movies :)

Two of my most favorite actors (you can see above) have worked with excellent balance and they did great justice to their characters. I have seen Shawshank Redemption in the last couple of days and I am a fan of that movie too! I wonder how I missed such a fantastic movie! Anyways, all things happen at the right time I guess :)