I decided to take a break today from work after an enormous amount of work I put in yesterday as described in my earlier post. So I took the liberty today of watching Umaro Jaan. So how was it you ask? Well let me put it this way. If there was ever a test to see how big an Ash fan you are, here it is. Go and sit through Umrao Jaan. I did.

I wouldn’t have gone for this movie in first place but yesterday I was enticed into doing it when Ash tempted me to eat the ‘forbidden apple’ while watching ‘Rendezvous With Simi Garewal’ and I regret it every bit.

J. P Dutta has made the big switch from war movies to musical and I think he fails miserably (in fact his talent at handling war movies also came into question with LOC).
Umrao Jaan (Aishwarya Rai) is the story of a beautiful girl who is forcibly sold into a brothel, falls in love with a young Nawab (Abhishek Bachchan) on her first dance and as events unfold looses her love. The Nawab’s father is opposed to their love and throws him out. But one fine day the Nawab dumps his love as hastily as he picked it up and returns to his palace and then it is upto her to win him back with the help of Faisal( Sunil Shetty) who is also madly in love with her. But she is again dumped by her lover, by her family and pretty much everyone else. Phew even my dumbest friend who applied for MS didn’t get so many rejects.

The point is that the story wants you to believe that they both are madly in love with each other when the screenplay has taken no pains at all to build such emotional bond. The plots seemed loosely connected or was it the slow pace that put me to sleep. But, what is sad is the fact that J.P. Dutta has learnt nothing from LOC. The era of three and half hour films is over and today good editing ( as recently seen in Lage Raho Munnabhai) is everything. And though this is supposed to be a musical the songs are rank mediocre. Annu Malik seems to be running out of inspirations.

As for Ash, yes she dazzles you with those looks but clearly its not enough to carry the movie through. After the movie I tried to remember one Ash movie that has turned to be a Box Office super hit and surprisingly there was none. I hope she gets her priorities right soon because she can’t ride this wave of popularity without results forever. Her age is going to catch up with her one day and then she would look like someone who was famous for sometime. Wake up Ash.

As for her die hard fans, my advise is don’t go for this movie unless they promise you a dinner with Ash or something like that.

I had been neglecting my site for quite sometime now. For freelancers like me, it is the only way to show our work and get more work. God has been great to me and as far as work is concerned things don’t look bad. However there comes a time in your life when you need to decide whether to take up client work or provide support to community, update your free stuff . For the last few months I knew I needed to look into my themes and solve many issues relating to it. With the release of widgets it became essential for me to provide support for it in all my themes. IE7 launched officially just some few weeks back. Checking compatibility of my themes with the new browser was of utmost necessity for me and for my users.

Like my other friends in theme community, I too get a lot of emails on a daily basis. Sometimes the question asked are repetitive . So finally I have decided to take a drastic step this month.

I have started work to update my themes. It’s a massive amount of work. I have around 40 themes to update (I think it would turn 50 soon ). I have created a separate domain www.kaushalsheth.info which would contain all the info related to the updated themes in a more precise , clean and perhaps more organized manner. I have added an FAQ section below each theme which I would start filling with the questions that are asked regarding the pertaining theme and answer to them.

Already Abstrakt, Abstrakt3c , Blue Horizon , Maple Leaf , Eastview , Anthosia , Aclide have been updated. If you are using any of these themes, its my sincere request to download the new version and update your theme to get the most out of it

This is perhaps one of the coolest Wordpress theme I have ever made. The theme is based on a totally liquid layout created by Arcsin. Its made in Shades of Gray and hence the name.

So what’s cool about this theme. Well I have added Theme Options to this theme. The admin of the blog would be allowed to choose the width that he likes for his blog. He can select from 3 options namely

1. Maximum Width
2. Medium Width
3. Minimum Width

The option page would be something like this.

Accordingly the theme would modify its width without breaking any content.

The theme also supports Widgets.

Preview:

Demo: here Download: here

Piping hot Daal Batti and soft Missi Rotis. What a combination? Pride of every Rajasthani. And while savoring this there was another ‘hot’ combination on TV.
Hrithik Roshan and Mandira Bedi.

It was an irony playing out there, the lively, energetic Dhoom series being promoted through the dull and dead ICC Champions Trophy. I have had two anticlimaxes in this week with Don and Jaanemann. Just hoping that the West Indies stand up to the bulldozing Australia. Keeping my fingers crossed this time.

On a more positive note, saw DHOOM 2 trailers and boy!! they do have an international feel when it comes to action albeit an inspired one. Hope Sanjay Gadhvi this time does a better cover up job( I have stopped expecting original movie magic). DHOOM was too much of TORQUE. This time I am betting on a mixture of MI2 and Transporter 2 but lets see how clever Gadhvi gets.

Mandira Bedi , on the other hand must be giving out a sigh of relief. Imagine having to play romantic comedy with Charu Sharma of all people with a crowd of retired men staring on. May be its time for a new face or maybe its time for a new sport what with cricket increasingly becoming a draggard. ICC Champions Trophy could have been a
carnival display but I guess, by hosting the matches at so few venues, BCCI has scuttled the proverbial golden goose. The teams were also in such poor touch they seemed to come out and play with a hangover.

Lets hope good sense prevails. Till then back to Rajasthan Calling and crispy Khasta Puri.

I am turning workaholic. I just can’t seem to take a break. Think of it who will ever work on a Sunday and that too when he is on a vacation. But there are some urgent steps that need to be taken for the site and my network of sites as such.

• First of all I know the current organisation of all my themes is in mess.
• Secondly I know IE7 is out and I need to look into my themes and check whether they work well with the new browser
• Also I am just unable to help people who comment on my blog

So today I worked the whole day in organising my themes and creating a new space for it on my brand new site KaushalSheth.info. I have started work on the site and hopefully by this month end you would have all the themes updated and ready to use. Also I would look into all the comments , suggestions that I have got and try to incorporate them in themes.

As of now Abstrakt theme has been updated to version 2 and it supports Widgets now.

Please note plenty of action is going to come this week. So please don’t forget to bookmark this site and come daily to see something new.