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We launched uberPOOL in Delhi about two months ago, since then hundreds of thousands of Delhiites have shared their rides, saved money, helped cut down emissions and more importantly, shared moments on the go.

When you request for an uberPOOL ride, we match you with a rider heading in the same direction — realtime. The magic happens when you get matched with a long lost friend, a recruiter (yes, this happened) or a colleague who you’d never met in office.

Starting today, we’re launching: #SharedMoment. Share your most interesting uberPOOL moment over next 2 weeks, some of the most interesting ones will win free uberPOOL rides for a month and a whole lot of goodies!

How can you share? Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook, you choose the medium but make sure you tag us.

People share their uberPOOL moments with us all the time.

While most of us love the savings:

I just saved ₹ 84.40 by riding uberPOOL in New Delhi. Ride uberPOOL — share your ride, split the cost.

— Ankur Kathuria (@ankurkathuria) January 18, 2016

Some just like meeting new people:

Tried uberPOOL today. Met a colleague who I’d never met in office. #networking #uberpool @Uber_Delhi

— Rishi (@rishikandra) January 6, 2016

Uber Pool is pretty cool. Made a new friend. Loving how #Delhi is embracing #OddEvenFormula with optimism. @Uber_Delhi. #DelhiOddEven

— sanjay sarma (@nick_sarma) January 5, 2016

Some find the experience interesting:

My first @Uber_Delhi Pool ride this morning was unexpectedly super fun and hilarious. 🙂 Oh also Traffic FREE! #OddEven love you kejru hahah

— Aakanksha Kapoor (@aakanksha26) January 7, 2016

and our favourite, some are just left awed after getting matched with a fellow commuter:

@Uber_Delhi just dropped off Jaspreet to GK. First ever Uber Pool Drive! pic.twitter.com/prjW1JvXOQ

— Quickdraw (@quickdraw_46) December 22, 2015

There’s more to uberPOOL than just savings, you’re helping your city, you’re sharing your ride, and you’re sharing moments. Get ‘pooling, Delhi.

Short Reviews

Before taking a little time off from blogging, thought of posting quick reviews of some of the movies I saw off late.

Iron Man2 (IMDb)
Bigger is not always better. Much awaited sequel disappointed, oh so much!
In order to go GRAND they ended up making it dull and predictable. Yes, Iron Man 1 was better. Rating: 2.5/5

Shutter Island (IMDb)
Definitely the best film of 2010, so far. The Scorsese-Caprio duo can never go wrong, period. Make you sure you can this one, unlike any Martin Scorsese film you’ve ever seen before. Rating: 4.5/5

Shaun of The Dead (IMDb)
Into Zombie and British comedy flicks? Then this is the best combo out there, dark humor, zombies killing people, gore, you name it, this one has it all! Rating: 3/5

How to Train Your Dragon (IMDb)
Light hearted, animated film about the clash between Vikings and Dragons and how this one young viking lad befriends one of the most dangerous dragons. Clean comedy that you can take your kids too, they will enjoy! Rating: 2.5/5

Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (IMDb)
Many people missed out on this gem, because of the absurd reviews. I beg to differ from all the reviews that rated this movie below average. A brilliant film, clean comedy and very, very riveting. Now I feel, Ranbir Kapoor is one new actor to watch out for. Rating: 3.5/5

Traitor (IMDb)
Good, but nothing exceptional. One time watch. Rating: 2/5

Julie & Julia (IMDb)
Real life based, worth a watch. Watch this Youtube video of Julia Child before watching the movie, you’ll be able to appreciate Meryl Streep‘s work even more. Rating: 3/5

Its Complicated (IMDb)
Fun but predictable, one time watch. Alec Baldwin is awesome!

Crazy Heart (IMDb)
I fell in love with Jeff Bridges all over again. No one could have possibly played the middle aged alcoholic Country singer better, no wonder he got the Academy Award for it, and of course, his previous contributions to the World of Cinema. Highly recommended, and make sure to grab a copy of the original soundtracks, awesome. Here’s the link for Amazon:

Step Up 3D: Trailer

It seems to be the era of 3D, it all started with Avatar, followed Alice in Wonderland, then How to Train your Dragon, and now, Step Up 3D!
From the trailer it looks good, same as the previous ones, dance – dance – dance and no story, I like it! 😉
Here, check it out:
Release date: 6 August 2010

Raavan: Teaser

So, finally its out, teaser of Mani Ratnam‘s Raavan.
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai
(via: Passion for Cinema)
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LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha: Review

Speechless! I had great expectations from this movie, and trust me; it didn’t disappoint me even a bit! Three stories, running in different time lines, and each one of them equally engaging and brilliant! You will laugh almost all throughout the movie but you are sure to be dumbstruck at times.

LSD is the baap of all reality TV shows you’ve ever seen before, so upfront, so blatant, it hits you hard right where it should! Ok, how blatant? I saw people leaving the middle of movie, not 2-3, close to 15 viewers left as the movie started to get more and more ‘disturbing’ , probably for them. The best part of the movie remains the all new start cast, no one and I mean no one, in the whole movie was a familiar face, which works with the whole theme, and allows you to somehow connect to the 3 stories. Watch out for characters like Shruti’s father and Atul, I’m sure you must have come across such characters in your life.

Dibakar Banerjee continues to catch the ‘essence’ of regional lingo, from the curses to casual conversations, everything was realistic, or shall I say neorealist. LSD has set a standard for cinematography in the Indian Film Industry; the whole movie gives you the feel of watching ”footages” from a mobile, digicam and a CCTV which gave a sense of hyperrealism. The concept behind LSD (as far as I’ve done my research) was to show something we’re used to seeing at home, or something what we see on our computers, cell phones , but not on a big screen, not something you’d go to watch at theaters. They made sure that the light is not up to the mark or the camera angles are inappropriate at times, but nor once would you have problem understanding the scene or problem with visibility. All this ‘feel’ was maintained by keeping such cinematography, not even once would you feel that you’re watching a movie. Nothing in the movie felt larger-than-life, which maintained the aesthetic, had there been familiar faces in the movie or had the movie been shot in a “normal” way, the charge of the scenes and emotions wouldn’t have had even half the impact. LSD has a runtime of approximately 108mins, out of which last 20mins did get a little slow and honestly; I did lose a little interest. But make sure you catch LSD, you won’t be disappointed, either you’ll be ‘offended’ or you will come out astounded, very high probability of latter though.

Look out for the dialogs in the movie hilarious and strong, and, please please do try out the soundtracks if you haven’t! Kudos to Nikos Andritskis (Cinematographer), Sneha Kanwalkar (Composer) and of course, Dibakar Banerjee.

Dibakar is the director to watch out for; he has done it again for the third time!

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Here’s the a video of Dibakar and Nikos explaining why they went digital:

Rating: 4/5

Year: 2010

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1608777

Movie Site: http://www.lsdthefilm.com