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Na milne ke liye kya loge?

I don't normally write movie reviews on my blog, but the masterpiece I watched a couple of days ago truly deserved a mention. Here's review I felt essential to post onto Rotten Tomatoes-- Satish Kaushik's Milenge Milenge should go down in the annals of history for being the perfect throwback to the 70s in the 21st century. And I don't mean that in a good way. Lets begin with its "inspiration" from Serendipity(2001). Now while that was a passably likable movie , a clichéd plot, dull songs, and tired performances ensure that all similarities end there. The same old hero , with the same old "devil may care" attitude, that supposedly makes him cool, the same old heroine, with her "someone somewhere is made for me" attitude and a bunch of geeky , dorky friends, who lack even an ounce of character, and nothing more than props make this excuse of a movie more unbearable than it was meant to be. I looked hard for a single frame in the movie that

Globalization, as I see it...

So I'm trying to read a blog in Hindi. Google Chrome : This page is in..wait for it....Malay. Would you like to translate it? Me : Cancel Google Chrome : This page is in Galician. Would you like to translate it? Me : Cancel Google Chrome (3rd times a charm) : This page is in ...HINDI (yayyyyy!). Would you like to translate it? Me( giving up) : Yes Google Chrome : Translation failed. me : .....