A movie that I saw sooo late that it was hard for the world to digest, I started feeling as if I had committed some crime and the whole world was against me for not watching Rock On, but finally in the end when I gathered courage to watch it, it was worth watching. Though it had nothing for me to feel that I’m enjoying the film, as I never actually felt that I should watch this shot again, watch this song again, or this was a WOW sequence, but then I never felt like turning it away, it had a kind of enticement that didn’t let me move away from a single shot or sequence in the movie. I usually run through a movie in 10-15 minutes and if it has a beautiful heroine like Asin or Hazel then it might take 20-25 minutes, but here was a movie that took my full 2 hours and 25 minutes and I actually kind of liked the presentation. It was a movie worth watching, the environment was too good, may it be Aditya’s house, his office, the band’s work place or the Joseph’s place, a perfectly presented idea.

It was a tough ask to decide what the movie was about, was it about youth, its struggle, its music, its friendship, its relationships, or its priorities. I would term it as a movie about all of the above that were beautifully knit, the film was about young friends who had a passion and wanted to make a living out of their passion, but not everybody is blessed enough to pursue a life of his/her choice. The circumstances unfold in a manner where one is forced to decide about the priorities and options available, and people either move on or just wait their whole life for things to get right and end up losing it all in the process.

The film recalled few things and showed some very gentle and soft settings where one feels, it’s all about moving on. But then when you finally move on, it leaves a space that is hollow, unfulfilled, occupied by some dreams and hope that it will all be fine one day, coz a great actor in a bolywood block buster said "picture abhi baaki hai mere dost". It is immaterial whether you move on or wait, those dreams become nightmares and keep haunting you till they are fulfilled. One of the four friends decided to stay back and fight while his life became living hell. The other three decided to move on and were doing well in their life but still that empty space was not letting them enjoy the success, those nightmares, were still haunting them after ten years, and life for them too was no different from heavenish hell.

All the characters in the movie had something to say, a dream to fulfill, and a space to fill. The wife seeing her husband singing with his band, flirting with a girl in his younger days, realizes the cause of emptiness in her married life and doesn’t just goes out crying, instead understands that anybody and everybody has a past of sorts, what matters is how is the present and makes an effort to make him meet those he loved and enjoyed with, and wants him to do what he likes the most; sing. Another wife tries to help her husband get a hold of his life and come out of the trauma of missing his band and not being able to do what he always wanted to, she takes care of his family business, isn’t this what marriages are supposed to be. A person suffering from tumor, waiting for his death, living with a last hope that some day he'll play with his band, is it that big a ask from life. A person overwhelmed to hear about a person who shares name and birth date with his best friend, isn’t this what friendship is all about. Friends part, love is lost and the girl gets married to a member of rival band, isn’t this what life is all about, compromises, finding happiness, looking at the remaining half glass, just move on, nobody’s indispensable, life goes on, it never stops.

All in all a very well presented issue, a very well presented idea, a thumbs up for Abhishek Kapoor for doing such a great job with story, screenplay and direction. Music of the film was superb, though it was a direct inspiration from English rock numbers with 'socha hai kya tumne kabhi', being a straight lift from ‘back to you’ by Bryan Adams, but still Shankar Ehsaan Loy deserve some credit to have recomposed it. The loop hole or the weak link of the movie was singing and lyrics, a movie revolving around music needs good music, good lyrics, and powerful singing, to make the compositions great. Farhaan’s voice is so weak, he can’t even talk properly and trying to sing, OK he did the slow number 'tum ho toh' well, but then anyone can sing those ones, even Jatin sung 'rooth ke humse' well in JJWS, but that didn't make him spoil other songs, Farhaan's voice just doesnt has that energy, that power to shout and match a crowd 20-25 thousand fans. Anybody and everybody can sing Sonu and Shaan's numbers, even i can, but it takes a real effort, a real singer to put his feet in AR Rehmaan, Sukhwinder or KK's shoes, this was an album that could only have been served justice had it been done by KK. It is ridiculous for a person of Farhaan’s intelligence and knowledge to commit a blunder like Himesh Reshamiya. I mean I know how do I look, how do I sound, even a kid knows it did in exams, and what are it's strengths and weaknesses. How can these professionals not know where they stand, why do they all want to sing and show themselves on silver screen, why can’t they just do what they are good at and let the specialists do what they should.

Richard Marx’s number ‘keep coming back’ really sums up the movie well, “You know a place buried deep in my heart, Nobody else can see, Something in you has taken some kind of hold on me, I don't know why I keep coming back to you”. So simple and so true, you need to go back and fill in that hollow space, that emptiness before you can again be happy, and that’s what all the friends did, they got together for that one performance they missed, and were all regretting for ten long years.

Dasvidaniya another winner from Vinay Pathak, and yes it is his first production venture. Some people have that thing, that Midas touch, like Vinay Pathak, Ranveer Shorey, Irfan Khan, Rahul Bose who just turn anything they do into a special treat, and specifically in situational comedies that too very contemporary topics. Dasvidaniya, I came across this movie due to this typical song mumma, and then “alvida” was the one that took me away by a storm, and I realized that Kailash Kher too is blessed with that touch, may it be a song from days when he was a mere amateur, allah ke bande to teri deewani to mumma or “alvida”, or even saiyaan for that matter, and how can I not mention jalwa re jalwa from Sarkaar Raaj, he has emerged a winner. “alvida” is such a true song; it’s about truth and accepting that truth bravely.

This movie Dasvidaniya, I always assumed to be a follow up to Bheja fry, and so always thought that it'd be a continuation of where Bheja Fry left us. Frankly I had no idea what Dasvidaniya meant until I saw the movie, I always thought it must be some variant of Bheja Fry in Bengali. But to my shock in the title itself I was very much assured that this film was going to be much more serious and mature than Bheja Fry coz Dasvidaniya means goodbye and the movie carries a tag line the best goodbye ever. I had those notions going through me that it will have a sad end and I better get up and leave it. But then I had full trust in Vinay and his team, that even if they make you cry it'll not be because an aamir khan is crying with a kid for some reason that doesn’t really cater to masses, it'll be because you'll feel attached to this character, you’ll cry because an ordinary man is hurt.
Bheja Fry came some time back and was an out and out comedy, a movie where you laugh like crazy, even when you are watching it alone. Bharat Bhushan was a singer who used to carry his scrapbook with all his songs, poems and pictures, and the manner in which he used to pack it and keep it so safely in so many packets and the noise those packets would make twice each time he would take out his scrapbook and twice he would pack his scrapbook. Situational comedy(Sitcom) to me has been best form of comedy that is always very true and you really relate to it and laugh that much more, coz you see yourself in it(I really never ever liked govinda’s foohad kind of comedy), how can one leave out Friends out of the list of Sitcoms, the best sitcom series ever.
While Bheja Fry was out and out comedy, Dasvidaniya has more than mere comedy to it, it has sorrow, it has tragedy, and above all it connects to you and the shots that opened the movie were so real that one could feel there itself ki it is me. Amar making his to-do lists, a loving mother so very disturbed for TV or remote not working. It was all so real in the first frame itself, and then the boss, he was so very mumbaiya... I was touched by the movie and just can’t imagine how people can do such work that is so real.
For me when Amar comes to know about his cancer, one could feel him saying, FUCK, this cannot happen to me, I'm not like this, it isn’t meant for me, this is not how it was meant to be, what happens to my mom, his arguments with the doctor were so very real and justified coz these arguments were his last hope. How often we get stuck up in situations where we just pray that something happens and the nightmare breaks…. I like songs and the way “alvida” was infused into the storyline was just how a song should be recognized and respected and treated.
What I liked was Amar's quest to win back, or rather say goodbye to whatever he lost all his life at various stages. In his urge to say those three magical words to his childhood and only love Neha, he ends up playing with her daughter and having dinner with her husband and mother-in-law, and that was really the only option he had, and then when he finally conveyed those feelings, for which he waited all his life, one could feel the sense of accomplishment and sense of losing it forever. This is what these movies nowadays manage to portray, which was no way visible in those silly days of black and white movies, when dilip kumar was assumed to be a great actor. Even Neha’s reaction was so very well measured and presented when she got the message from Amar, it was all too real to take. The way Amar told her that he loved her all his life and the way he left the place without complicating the matters for a married lady and left without even talking or listening to her, one can still feel the emotion.
To me the most touching scene was encounter with his brother at home. I mean they were actually fighting over issues from their past, which were so common and close to everybody’s life, younger brother going for a love marriage and elder brother sacrificing his dreams, to take better care of an ill mother, and Amar just trying to convince Vivek to take their mom with him, without once again complicating the issues and crying out loud that he was dying, just trying to convince that its now the younger bro’s responsibility to take care of their mother. And then when Vivek actually comes to know about Amar’s illness and cries main aapko nahi marne doonga, again a kind of emotion where a person is crying I don’t want to lose it, GOD just save me this time, I’ll never ever do anything wrong, I’ll never leave my mom and bro; that for me has been the scene that can make anybody feel what it is like, losing a loved one; that too me, is being family, despite of all the differences, relations are above everything else.
Amar’s relation with his Dr. Friend was so touching, how they were chatting in their silly coded language when they talked over phone, after a long gap, Amar going all the way to see his friend once before Dasvidaniya, I could easily relate to why a person like me came down to a place like a community site from google, it’s all about friends. And an emotion that could have gone unnoticed, but for Rajat Kapoor, who has played each of the characters he ever took with full loyalty and hardly seems to act in a role, he just lives that role, how so ever small it may be. Remember his role in Bheja Fry, where he was stuck up between his wife whom he really loved and his girl friend whom he got involved with but was regretting the relationship, and who actually was a good guy by nature, yes had a bit of arrogance, but deep down loved his wife and was not such a bad person. He once again sprung up a great effort. His getting caught up between his wife and a real childhood friend about to die, trying to convince Amar to stay and get treatment, just trying to repay the bada wala tu rakh le, that Amar gave him all his life, but knowin that it was all too late. A movie I have watched more times than Bheja Fry and Delhi Heights and Bachna Aie Haseenon, and recent one Dil Kabaddi(but yes less than Dil Se re dil se re, SRK mind-buster), and don’t mind watching if I come across it here and there.

A R Rahman is back with a bang, with twin weapon, where in Ghajini he sounds like Classical South Indian of Rahman, in Yuvvraaj he shows his is true mettle Rahman, what he's made off and what can he do. HAIL Rahman, for quite some time there were good songs, courtesy new kids on the block like Atif and Mustafa, supported by contemporary seniors like KK and of-course Mahesh Bhatt, but the rich, the gala, the orchestra, the symphony was missing, also since I've left south, I was missing that typical south touch, that we had for films like rangeel, humse hai muqabla, and the like.

Great Job Man, you truly rock. Ghajini is a movie I've been waiting for, for more than one reasons, one it was a remake from south(they are generally good, at least I like them), then Asin(shes a mallu), then yes Aamir's new look(has nothing to do with Aamir, its just the look). The first song aired had some good music and Asin was looking good as expected, but only after i got my hands on the music of Ghajini was I actually able to feel good for music. In a very simple song like tu meri adhuri pyaas, also Rahman can do wonders. only he can think of using two voices even in a straight forward song like this, and he infuses life in a song when he actually does it. I hate Sonu Nigam at a personal level because he puts too much in his singing where nothing is needed, he doesn't sound relaxed when he sings, and yes I hate him that extra bit because of aapno Sandeep Acharya, but this is what a maestro like Rahman can do, he doesn't go by stature of a singer, but gets what he wants from them, and uses them only to an extent up to what they are required. Even Sonu Nigam can be found doing a chorus and playing a supporting role in this opening song tu meri adhuri pyaas, to Javed Ali, the lead singer in the song, Great job man. Then next song to be aired was behka, a typical A R Rahman southish dose, but a good number. All in all a good compilation to go with a remake from south.

But then this was the real one that not only inspired me but actually forced me to write this, yes its A R Rahman at his best and at his biggest. In fact he also eseems to enjoy a big orchestra, and when his music gets a canvas that only someone like Subhash Ghai, or Sanjay Leela Bhansali can give here and may be Priya'n back home in south. It seems from the promos that both Ghai and Rahman have enjoyed the music and canvas, and whats more, for a change Gulzar's lyrics (the geela geela paani kind of) have real rich music to go with them. I remember Maachis was a movie where the music was rich and lyrics were by Gulzar. Anyhow I've always felt that Gulzar's lyrics are perfect match for Rahman's music, the synergy was evident in Dil Se (my personal favorite movie, music was also good, but SRK is another GOD in entertainment industry). All the tracks of Yuvvraaj were meant for a theatrical presentation and needed a larger than life canvas to be painted and Subhash Ghai really has given A R Rahman his due for creating such a symphonic treat. I have written earlier also that i hate Sonu at a personal level still Rahman has again used him so beautifully, and credit goes to Rahman alone for these great scores.

This time I felt Rahman has gone a step further in making use of chorus that has always been instrumental in pumping that extra bit in his songs, remember mustafa mustafa or jiya jale, or even those early days of roja, he just uses chorus so beautifully, and in fact he has been pioneer of using male chorus voice regularly, which was never given its due share. This person knows how to toy around with all the sounds that he can get, may it be a budiya ki awaz from roja, or the huge orchestra that he uses to create such beautiful symphonies, or an over smart extra effort Sonu or for that matter even a dhali hui, bhooli bisri Lata. He can use any kind of sound he's given. Then again on topic of going a step further in terms of chorus, he has started using full time, full fledged singers like himself, sonu and others as instruments to create melody, just listen to tu meri adhuri pyaas and infact all the numbers from Yuvvraaj, he has used the singers like instruments, and they have sounded really incredible.
I would love to see him do a number like Govinda Govinda from Sarkar, if ever Ramu gathers courage to do a Sarkar-3 (it is a tough ask but expect the unexpected from Ramu). back to Yuvvraaj I had actually started hating Subhash Ghai flicks after Ram lakhan, then yes with Khalnayak he actually started doing blunders, and Trimurti was end of his thought process and show-man image, accept for background score for on screen Anil Kapoor, and SRK and Anjali, I would not have been able to motivate my self to sit in theatre, and yes such a blunder came during "those were the best days of my life", I mean I could not understand where could something have probably gone wrong, when people like Subhash Ghai (acclaimed Showman), Mukul S Anand (who can forget tthe great Agneepath, probably ABs only movie that i liked), Anil Kapoor (munna bhai), Jacki Shroff (Ghai's Hero), and SRK (the only person who could have challenged AB, while he was still in business, and yes my favourite) are sitting and working together. Oh my GOD, what a blunder. And since then it was downhill for the Showman, with Yaadein (everybody attached to it would wish he had not signed the film). But this time once again the canvas looks good painting is done well, the Symphony is at its Rahman best, so probably should be a good show, i have no doubts that the film will Bomb, but should probably should be a audio-visual treat definetly. For me I'am still gathering courage to watch the movie, i'm afraid that would A R Rahman's music be able to save me from a likely massacre.
I'm surely lining up Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Ghajini.

today a friend came up with a problem that i had witnessed a few months ago on the institutes computer. a problem related to the kind of problem that we face with the pen drive so often where double clicking does not open up the drive instead just opens up the option box to select what should be used to open this drive and blah blaahh blllaaahh.
Actually what happens is that there are smarter viruses that don't exactly perform a virus act but do some thing that is quite normal, like creating an autorun file, and file does not contain complete information so when a drive is double clicked it goes to the autorun file and does not get anything there and ultimately the drive does not open. here are a few tools that can recover a PC suffering from such problems.
just download and run'em, they'll take care of everything. any ONE should do the trick.
download 1
download 2
download 3
download 4
download 5

(Click n a picture to view it clearly)
Here’s a sure shot tutorial on how to configure new Type-II modem being distributed by BSNL, that is ZTE’s ZXDSL 531B.

I’m not sure about the earlier ones but this is the one they’re distributing right now.

Step 1. Plug-in the line from splitter to LINE(marked 1 in screenshot below), desktop to LAN1 (marked 2 in screenshot below) and line from adapter in POWER (marked 3 in screen shot below)

Step 2. Now, go to network connections (Start -->Control Panel -->Network and Internet Connections --> Network Connections) and right click LAN connection -->Properties -->Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) -->Properties and fill in details as shown below in screen shot.

IP Address: 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Preferred DNS Server: 61.1.96.69
Alternate DNS Server: 61.1.96.71

Step 3. Open Internet Explorer and type 192.168.1.1 in address bar, and key in username and password as shown in screen shot. Fig 9

Username: admin
Password: admin

Step 4. Click on advanced -->WAN in the left hand panel, and configure as shown below.

Step 5. Click on advanced -->LAN in the left hand panel, and configure as shown below.

That’s it your done save and reboot your modem.

Here the tutorial splits into two, do you want your connection to be always ON (all you need is turn on the modem and you’re automatically connected to internet) or conventional kind where in you key in a user ID and password to connect.

Case I: Key in a user ID and password to connect.

Step 6. Go to Start -->Control Panel -->Network and Internet Connections --> Network Connections in the left hand panel click on “create a new connection” and follow as shown below.

Case II: Always ON internet.

Step 6. Open Internet Explorer and type 192.168.1.1 in address bar, and key in username and password

Username: admin
Password: admin

In the right hand panel go to Advanced -->WAN and tick all VPI/VCI combinations except 0/35 and press remove button as shown in the screenshot

Step 7. Next, click on add button and follow as shown in the screenshots below.

Step 8.(i) Now add new VPI/VCI like show above but use

• 8 /35 in “fig to choose VPI/VCI” screenshot
• Bridging instead of PPPoE
• And keep on clicking next and save in last.

(ii) Add new VPI/VCI like show above but use

• 0 /100 in “fig to choose VPI/VCI” screenshot
• Bridging instead of PPPoE
• And keep on clicking next and save in last.

(iii) Add new VPI/VCI like show above but use

• 0 /32 in “fig to choose VPI/VCI” screenshot
• Bridging instead of PPPoE
• And keep on clicking next and save in last.

(iv) Add new VPI/VCI like show above but use

• 8 /81 in “fig to choose VPI/VCI” screenshot
• Bridging instead of PPPoE
• And keep on clicking next and save in last.

(v) Add new VPI/VCI like show above but use

• 8 / 32 in “fig to choose VPI/VCI” screenshot
• Bridging instead of PPPoE
• And keep on clicking next and save in last.

(vi) Add new VPI/VCI like show above but use

• 14 / 24 in “fig to choose VPI/VCI” screenshot
• Bridging instead of PPPoE
• And keep on clicking next and save in last.

At last you go to Advanced -->WAN you should have following configuration.

Finally go to Advanced -->LAN and check that disable DHCP server should be ticked and should look like below

Save your changes and reboot the router, after reboot you should be automatically connected to the internet without dialing PPPoE dialer from the computer.

You can download preconfigured file and go to your modem setup after step 3 and got to Management -->settings -->update and browse to the following file (click here to download)

Once updated go to Advanced -->WAN --> and edit VPI/VCI 0/35 and keep on pressing next and just change the user ID: demodata and password; demodata to your ID and password.

"Rajasthan Technical University (RTU Kota)
M. B. A. (Part - I) Examination, April —2007
Information Technology for Management (ITM) - Total Marks: 70


SECTION A

1. Discuss importance of information as a resource. Also describe the types of information needs at the various levels of management.

2. Define Strategy. What are the critical success factors and key issues in implementing International Information Technology in the LPG era?


SECTION B
3. What do you mean by client/server computing? How does it differ from networking? Also differentiate between LAN, WAN and MAN.

4. What is Internet? How does it differ from Intranet? What do you mean by the term Artificial Intelligence and discuss about the major application areas of AI research.


SECTION C

5. Critically analyze the various management and IT Issues which are of a great concern for senior management in the changing world of information.
6. ‘Although computer provides enormous benefits to the man, it can’t. replace human beings at all’. Discuss and throw light on social imp act of Information Technology applications.


SECTION D

CASE STUDY

Bacardi Martin well known worldwide for alcoholic beverage, initiated its operation in India in 1997. There are 12 offices and latest information technology is used. Focus of the company had been"

1. Discuss important issues in software project management.
2. Explain any one COCOMO Model, Rayleigh Curve.
3. Write short note on project management/scheduling and how does PERT/CPM help in project management/scheduling.
4. Explain various risks and their counter strategies.
5. How is project finance different for software projects as compared to other project finances?
6. Explain procurement management and resources planning and estimation as applicable to SPM.
7. Explain function point analysis and CASE tools.
8. What are some special characteristics of MS project.
9. Explain various testing techniques. Generation and importance of Test Cases.
10. Write a short note on ISO.
11. Write a short note on capability maturity model (CMM).