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Tuesday 28 February 2017

#ColgateMagicalstories: Once Upon a Time with Hottie


My Nephew's Magical Story: Once Upon a Time with Hottie



A magical story weaved by my two-and-a-half year old nephew who is a Mr. Bean cartoon series fan and has a filmy keeda just like I do. Hence the story is a combination of Mr. Bean characters and has Bollywood masala incorporated in the story. He has given the characters their names, personalities and jobs and I’ve helped him to build a story around these characters. Lots of action, lots of fun and here it starts:


Character Sketch:


Main Characters:

Hero – Mr. Bean aka Hottie


Mr. Bean is the main protagonist of the story. He’s an astronaut and is smart, jovial, intelligent and fearless. Mr. Bean loves travelling around space and finding materials and elements from planets that can save the world and improve the environment.


Heroine – Miss Irma Gobb aka Cutiepie



Irma is the future love interest of Mr. Bean. Being the only lady astronaut, she has many admirers but she considers Mr. Bean to be extremely handsome and is impressed by his intelligence and goal to save the environment. She is bold, beautiful, fearless and quite sensitive.

Villain 1 – Mr. Pran aka The Meanie



Pran, the famous villain of Bollywood. Mr. Pran here is again the villain but the most dashing one. He is the most handsome astronaut and all the girls call him “The Handsome Hunk”.  He is very smart, intelligent and cunning. He is Mr. Bean’s competitor and always wants to beat him in all his experiments.

Villain 2 – Gulshan Grover (Bad man)



Gulshan Grover, another famous villain of Bollywood movies. Here he is the real bad man who is an alien. He is cunning, evil and also has a dirty character. My nephew calls him the Bad Man as he is very bad towards Mr. Bean and his main goal is to earn lots of money by destroying the environment.

Other Characters:

Mars – Lottie


Lottie is Cutiepie’s best friend. She is smart, beautiful and extremely talented. She keeps giving tricks to Cutiepie to help her complete her mission and win every battle. She is Teddie’s girlfriend and Naughty’s friend. She likes both of them but loves only Teddie.

Saturn – Teddie



Teddie is Mr. Bean’s best friend and Lottie’s boyfriend. He always tries to avoid Lottie from talking to Naughty and gets jealous when they do interact. He is calm, composed and cool in nature and tries to give new ideas to Hottie whenever required.


Comet – Groonie



Groonie is an enemy of Hottie. He once was caught by Hottie stealing important elements from the Sun aka Naughty. From then, he tries to stop Hottie from completing any mission. He is evil and uses his heat to burn elements within a closer range.

Sun – Naughty



Naughty is a friend of Mr. Bean aka Hottie. He comes time and again to help Hottie with his experiments and once Hottie helped him to make friends with Lottie who he has a crush on. That’s the reason he always is ready to help Hottie. His nature is always energetic and in a dancing mood. His main motto is to impress Lottie.

Venus – Maddie


Maddie is Meanie’s best friend. He is selfish, mean and cunning. He knows how to manipulate things and help Meanie to accomplish any task he fights against Hottie.





Prologue:



“Where am I? How did I wake up here? The fire…How will I escape?” Hottie keeps asking himself as he wakes up on an unknown planet. He finds himself surrounded by fire and no way to escape. No human no alien…It is just him in his spacesuit.

“Please help…Help me…” He screams for help but there’s nobody around to come and help him.


Plot/Main Story:


Chapter 1:


8 hours ago…

Hottie landed on an unknown planet for an experiment. He was sent in a UFO and landed on the unknown planet in search of a mineral and this mission was termed “Mission Possible”. For this mission, he first needs to find a spaceship that can help him travel.

UFO



While walking on the planet, Hottie came across an unknown stone and went to pick it up but as he bent down to pick it up, he was struck by fire. It was Groonie.

“Hello, Hottie. Remember me?”
“Groonie, what are you doing here?”
“I’ve come to make your mission fail. You will never get your spaceship.”
Groonie leaves Hottie stranded alone on the island with no help.


Spaceship


After 8 hours…

Hottie cries for help and faints. 

“Wake up Hottie. You can’t fall asleep. My rays will help you get your energy back.” Hottie opens his eyes and notices Naughty before him.
“Naughty, you’re here?”
“Yes, I noticed Groonie following you and I knew he was upto some tricks. And I was right. The fire has been extinguished and now you’re safe.”
“Thanks a lot, Naughty…I’m happy you came to help me. But now I don’t know how to get that spaceship.”
“Yeah, I know. Groonie trapped you in fire and hid the spaceship you needed but I know the way to get it.”  
“How Naugthy?”
“Here is an iceship that will help you reach your destination. It will keep you safe from groonie too as it’s coldness will absorb Groonie’s hotness.”


ICESHIP



After an hour…Hottie gets his spaceship and poses for a selfie.





Chapter 2:



“Finally, I’ve cleared one stage. Now I’m on the second planet and need to wait for Cutiepie to come and give me the access pass that would take me to the third and final stage.”

Hottie tells himself and keeps waiting for Cutiepie but she doesn’t arrive even after 3 hours.

“I don’t know why she is taking so long. She should have been here long time back and her spaceshift left 4 hours ago. Where are you Cutiepie?” Hottie keeps walking about and he notices somebody walking towards him.

“Hello Hottie…The one you are waiting for is with me.”
“Meanie…you are here…You have Cutiepie? What did you do to her? If you harm her, I won’t leave you.”
“Relax Hottie. You know how much I love Cutiepie but she loves you. I kidnapped her and will get the access pass from her. I’ll defeat you this time.”

Meanie leaves and doesn’t hear Hottie’s pleads. Hottie goes in search of Cutiepie and finds the place where she has been kept. He sends his best friend Maddie to torture Hottie and not let him succeed in rescuing Cutiepie.

When Maddie tries to harm Hottie, Lottie appears and rescues Hottie and Cutiepie. Good always wins and evil people get destroyed. Cutiepie and Hottie succeed in trapping Maddie and Meanie in a cage and Hottie gets the access pass with which he unlocks the new spaceship’s code and bids his love, Cutiepie good bye.



Hottie went to his new destination and Meanie returned back to Earth.




Chapter 3:


Here comes the most tough challenge before Hottie. While Hottie is searching for the mineral, he meets Bad Man who has the mineral with him. He gives Hottie a hint to find the mineral by telling him it’s hidden in his vehicle. Hottie needs to find it in 30 minutes but when he finds it, he would get destroyed by the light of it.

“I know Bad Man that you planned this for me. You knew I’ll come here in search of the mineral and so you hid it in your vehicle and also planned a way that will get me killed.”
“You are so smart, Hottie. You know it well how much I love your entire team who destroyed my planet. How can I let you humans live a second? But still to help you before you die, I give you another vehicle (My Rover) to travel around this planet. Good luck with your search.”


The ROVER



Bad Man's Vehicle


 Hottie uses the Rover to travel and he meets Teddy.
“Teddy, what are you doing here?”
“I have come to help you, Hottie. Lottie told me about your mission and it’s my duty to help you out as you are my best friend. I’ve come to take you to the vehicle of Bad Man. I traced it through his footprints.”
“You’re so intelligent, Teddy. Let’s get there.”

Hottie and Teddy reach the vehicle and Teddy protects Hottie by covering the entire vehicle with colgate toothpaste to avoid the light from harming Teddy. Teddy manages to get the mineral from the vehicle and then leaves to reach Earth.




The entire NASA team get together and test the mineral that can save the Earth.



Epilogue:


After completing Mission Possible and saving the earth and environment, Hottie decides to propose Cutiepie with the help of Lottie.

Cutiepie gets shocked at first as she always knew Hottie loved her but she was still waiting for him to propose to her.

Finally, Cutiepie and Hottie get engaged and married. They have a daughter Sweetie and they want her to be an astronaut and do the same job what her parents did “Save the World.”











I’m blogging my #ColgateMagicalstories at BlogAdda in association with Colgate.

Monday 13 February 2017

Kaabil Review



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Here’s my review of the movie Kaabil:


Rating: 3 out of 5



Story: The story begins with the lead actors Hrithik Roshan (Rohan) and Yami Gautam (Supriya), who are blind, meeting at a restaurant which is said to be their first date. Rohan works as a dubbing artist and Yami is a piano teacher. They both don’t have plans to get married as they feel that two incomplete people cannot complete each other. The story then progresses and Supriya gets to know Rohan as a man who can protect her and they both have a bright future together. They get married and life gives them a new chance to be happy with each other. However, their happiness is short-lived and an evil man Ronit Roy (Amit) who eyes Supriya’s beauty and he and his friend physically assault her. Rohan and Supriya try to seek justice but being blind and helpless, they don’t succeed. The next day, Supriya commits suicide and Rohan gets to know from Amit’s brother, Madhavrao Shellar, (Ronit Roy) that she had been raped the second time. Rohan loses his control and warns the police department that he’ll seek revenge but they won’t be able to stop him. The story of revenge then begins.


Direction : The Director of this movie is Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay has done an excellent job. The story is similar to other revenge stories where the female lead is physically assaulted and the husband seeks revenge but here the male lead being blind brings in a lot of WOW moments as it proves that being disabled doesn’t make a person helpless but he is more powerful that abled humans.


Star Performance : The star cast of this movie consists Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Rohit Roy, Ronit Roy and Narendra Jha. Hrithik had played many good roles in his career but I can say that the role of Rohan Bhatnagar has been one of his career’s best roles. Yami too matched his acting ability to an extent and their chemistry was fab. Rohit Roy was quite disappointing as his role was storng but he did not try to put an effort and look evil compared to his real-life brother Ronit Roy who had a short role but a powerful one in which he excelled. I haven’t seen Narendra Jha’s performance earlier but he too did a great job as an inspector and was convincing in playing a cop.


Music : The music of this movie is given by Rajesh Roshan. This kind of a movie did not need any songs but there are still a few of them. The songs like “Kaabil Hoon” and “Mon Amour” were pleasant ones.


Plus Point :  Being a revenge drama, the movie has done a good job. The movie had many new elements that made us watch how a blind man can seek revenge and this was presented very well by the director and actor.


Minus Point : The only minus point of the movie is that the story was short and it did not have any suspense as to how the blind man finds out the culprits or how do the enemies find out that the blind man is seeking revenge. The story was quite predictable and had no elements that made me feel shocked or surprised at any moment.



All In One : All in one, the movie is a good one-time watch and Hrithik Roshan and Ronit Roy put in a lot of effort into their roles that makes it a total entertainer. The chemistry of Hrithik and Yami too has come out so beautifully and they playing such a role for the first time convincingly made their performance so believable. I give it a total of three stars (2 for the revenge element and 1 for Hrithik’s performance).

Friday 3 February 2017

Chennai - A place with the best people, food and culture

It was the year 2012 when my college booked a trip to Chennai and we there was a makemytrip offer at that time where we were offered good discounts which is why we booked 3 rooms in Trident hotel from their website. We were offered very good deals and packages and since we all shared the expenses, we had to pay very less compared to paying individually for the same. Chennai is known to be a very hot place but since the hotel atmosphere was completely the opposite. It was quite cool and pleasant to be there. The wind had an awesome energy that made me feel that my decision to be in Chennai was the best as before that, I and my friends had shortlisted many destinations and it was my idea to come to Chennai.

The hotel staff greeted us at the entrance and made us feel very special as they knew we were tourists and we had been visiting Chennai for the first time. The staff introduced the place to us by talking about how it was called Madras before and now it’s named Chennai. They also explained what is the specialty of the place, the different tourist spots and the food that we would enjoy the most as he was aware of what was served in Mumbai and what we would and should try eating in Chennai at their restaurant. I found that quite supportive of them as I had not researched a lot about the place and getting so much information from him was very useful.

The staff was so cooperative that they even made us get the best transport that took us around Chennai and made us witness the amazing tourist spots like the Kapaleeshwara Temple, Fort St. George and Marina beach. We were overwhelmed by the people of Chennai as they made us all feel so special and at any point we needed help, they were ready to guide us. On reaching the hotel, we were so tired that we ordered food in the room itself and I loved the chicken and fish the hotel served. It was very appetizing. The hotel room was spacious and the beds were very soft and comfortable and we were three girls who shared the same bed. I asked the room service for few more pillows for my friends and the staff immediately provided the same.


I did not realize when our stay of 4 days and 3 nights in Chennai ended as we just loved everything over here. The hotel, food, markets, beaches and the tourist spots that we had visited made us go back with a hand full of memories and I wish to visit this place again and book the same hotel Trident.

I am blogging about my luxury stay experience for an activity at BlogAdda in association with MakeMyTrip

My birthplace Goa #LuxuriousStay




It was in May 2010 that I and my family visited the beautiful state, Goa. It’s my birthplace and it was the first time I had seen the place as before when I visited this place, I was just few months old and it was my mom who had brought me to my grand mother’s house. This time, we had no place to stay as our ancestral property had been sold and hence I booked a hotel online. I found that Holiday Inn Resort had the best rates and hence we checked in this hotel. The entire package was booked and hence our stay, food, travel and sight-seeing was managed in the package itself that made our trip comfortable and exciting.



When we reached the hotel, the staff welcomed us gracefully and we were just asked for verification which lasted a few minutes and then were guided to our room. n entering the room, I could feel a positive energy as I do believe in vastu and this room gave me a positive feeling which was the first good thing I observed. The staff helped us in our luggage and arranged our things as per our guidance. I found them very police and helpful and everything we needed was provided to us. The beds were big enough for me and my family and comfortable as well and as per the website that we had checked before booking the room. There was a TV, Wifi connection, AC, Fridge and I could name a thing that I required and it was present in the room. I was very happy as everything was going according to our plan.



They had all the arrangements done in a perfect manner and the food that was served was mouth-watering and just superb in taste and presentation. The staff kept serving us the dishes we preferred to order and every time he kept asking us if we needed more which I found was very humble and gentle. The manager too was extremely cooperative and polite. During our stay, we had a complaint with regards to the AC as it was not working properly and the manager then helped us a lot. He got it repaired while we were out and by the time we came back, everything was done and he was perfect in his service. The staff too kept helping us in finding the nearby market areas where we could shop and we many times left our things at the reception and got them back in our room which I found was excellent about this resort.



My 3 days stay at Holiday Inn was super exciting and memorable and I’ll always remember how they brought me so close to my culture and my birthplace and made me feel as a valued customer in Goa.


I am blogging about my luxury stay experience for an activity at BlogAdda in association with MakeMyTrip