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I was looking for Aaja Nachle review on different websites and looks like the reviews are on different extreme based on which website you follow as there is no consistency in the ratings and it varies hugely between 1.5 stars to 4 stars.

Here are some reviews from different websites:

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Burrp has released a widget which allows to embed the burrp search functionality in blog making one to boast of some cool features in there blog. What that means ? Visitors to your site can search for Pizza in Bangalore from your blog and see the results in your blog .

Burrp has rich database for restaurants reviews which can be leveraged in blog by using search widget . Following functionality are there is the widget which I think is useful :

• Auto completion for the areas in the city so for Bangalore Widget (which is running here) if people type in K then they get suggestion for the locality starting with K in the type box.
• Showing the search result in the widget which has phone number of the place , rating and cost of the meal.
• Ability to send the address of the restaurant from the search result as SMS without leaving the blog.

For me down side of the widget is that it is not a wordpress widget in the true sense and require some plumbing but considering this is first version we can expect improvements in future versions.

Try it out here , remember you can search only in Bangalore :
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Mumbai Mirror and Buzz18 has published the review for Saawariya & Om Shanti Om . Mumbai Mirror has given 3/5 for Om Shanti Om and 2/5 for Saawariya whereas Buzz18 has given 4/5 for Om Shanti Om and 3/5 for Saawariya.

On expected line Om Shanti Om is total masala movie with SRK hogging the limelight as Buzz18 put it “is 98.35 per cent of the film!” , “you have to leave your brains out” and “Hit! Hit! Hit! The masses will love it; the classes will love it too! The NRIs will gobble it up and froth over it and the youth, even though they may not get certain references to the Bollywood of yesteryears and even the line “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn”, will love it! SRK is King.” Mumbai mirror summed Om shanti Om by saying “clearly, a better musical to catch this big-ticket weekend, though it’s not quite the greatest weekend ever.”

Saawariya I thought will be critically acclaimed if not masses acclaimed is looking a loser on review front or may be SRK well oiled PR worked his charm on the critics also . Buzz18 has shorter review of the two film it reviewed and I quote “story of Saawariya has nothing much to offer” , ” it drags horribly” but finally it has some nice words “We’d recommend you watch the film” . Mumbai Mirror is critical to the point of criticizing the movie and hardly has any good word for the movie. and ends with “Saawariya is not even vaguely poignant, touching or weepy. It misses you almost entirely. ”

Looks like Om Shanti Om has delivered on this promise of masala movie and Saawariya has failed to deliver on his promise of a great movie .

Let us know which movie you are watching first by taking a quick poll here. See the complete review here and here.

Update :

Here is the Video review for om shanti om

Here is Video review for saawariya

I use to go to jagran for news in hindi , today when i went it redirected me here. Looks like Jagran hosting has been taken over by yahoo . I found the new layout quite refreshing . Font is good , layout is good and content is for everyone . Surprising part is Jagran site is different from yahoo hindi site which is also hosted at yahoo so we have two different content site on Yahoo India serving same set of users . This is anyway good for users like me .

Network18 group has launched a hindi website josh18. This is great news for Hindi reader as there are very few sites in Hindi .Network18 has got some of the best sites like ibnlive and moneycontrol and hopefully they will maintain the standards to the same level in term of content and presentation. Unlike other sites like TOI and ndtv there sites , barring moneycontrol are more stable , doesn’t have popups for each page and are very elegant . They should move moneycontrol also to ibnlive.com \ buzz18 platform which are more elegant.