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Finally I watched the movie 'Socha Na Tha'

When the movie was released on 2005, I was in the last few days of my college life. That time, I had a notion that I would not find the movie much interesting. Besides, it employed a new one from Deol khandhan, Abay Deol. And he does not have the good looks of our traditional heroes also. So, I skipped it that time. But when I watched his last year's release 'Manorama Six Feet Under', I decided to watch his other movies also. And Ayesha Takia is another reason, she portrays every character so well. I should really appreciate her work in the movie, Dor. Still, I did not find the opportunity to sit for this movie, mostly because the DVD shoppes in my locality in Bangalore did not have it in stock. Sometimes, I was in short of time to watch it in a movie channel. But, after coming to Japan, I got a chance to watch it(through broadband). It's simple love story but with different approach. A rich father's son(Viren) goes to see an unparented girl(Aditi) to respect his ...

A trip to the Toyota City

On the 3rd of November, I had a trip to the Toyota City along with my friends. Toyota City is the headquarters of currently world's largest automobile manufacturer, Toyota. As the day was a Japanese holiday, we had planned for the tour quite earlier. We were informed that the tour is conducted everyday by Toyota management & is absolutely free. But I had always a question of why, why a powerful business house like Toyota would conduct such a free trip! Anyway, we left very early with the idea of reaching the Toyota City through a single journey of subway. But alas, we had to change three trains, two of them being the Meitetsu trains. And it was only then when I really got a first idea of the outskirts of Nagoya City. Toyota City is about 45 mins of journey from the most of the Nagoya city subway lines. I should mention the nearest train station in fact, as we did not find any train line directly linking to the Toyota City from Nagoya. After we got down at the Toyohashi station,...