Gadgets 360 With Technical Guruji: Tech Tips [Aug 19, 2023]

Your smartphone battery begins degrading the moment you start using your new smartphone and its ability to hold power degrades as you continue to charge and discharge the battery. However, there are ways to slow down the aging process and keep your battery health safe for a longer period of time, allowing you to go longer between charges.

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Is Chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' Communal? Morari Bapu Answers

Preacher Morari Bapu was recently invited at Cambridge University to narrate the 'Ram Katha'. In an exclusive conversation with NDTV, the preacher narrates his experience and also talks about his meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

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"Trailer Was Attached To Gadar 2...": Dulquer On King Of Kotha

Actor Dulquer Salmaan is all set for the release of his film King of Kotha touted to be a gangster and a high-octane action drama. Aishwarya Lekshmi, Dulquer Salmaan and Shabeer Kallarakkal attended the song release and trailer showcasing the event of the movie.

Taking about the making of the movie actor Dulquer Salmaan told ANI, "The most memorable thing of our gangster films of either been some great dramas or they've been out and out messy entertainers. And when I heard the script for the first time, I feel like it had the drama and the story that this genre really needs all of the characters in the film, like if you remove one character you can't tell the same story."

He added, "If we thought of how to kind of blend both these extremes of gangster films that we love. So this has the drama and the story and the writing, how to make it more mainstream, more commercial, more entertaining for the audiences in cinema. This has a nice blend of both."

He continued, "We started in 2020, and I became the producer because I wanted to protect our film. Many times it happened that we were damaging the film in some way from the production sites, perhaps we were not giving the budget to it, not releasing it properly, not marketing or distributing properly. So I felt that if I produce myself, I will be able to do all that is right for the film. To mount such a big film, a big studio was needed, so we are making this film with Zee Studios, they have been good partners since the beginning."

"In India, we all have a belief that if the time is good, everything will work, maybe their time is very good, so we can also benefit from it. The trailer was attached to the Gadar 2 trailer and Gadar 2 became such a big hit. We can't have a bigger marketing than that, because people might have seen our trailer even now. So we hope that we can also ride the wave of right time."

Taking about the film Actor Aishwarya Lekshmi said, "Even though it's a gangster drama, the emphasis was on the story and how well it was written. There are a lot of characters. Every character is well-written and is important and crucial to this film.

On top of all that, it was well mounted and for a gangster drama of the scale to actually come to fruition and be a brilliant film, it needed that budget, which I think Wayfara Films and Zee Studios provided."

She added, "My character's name is Tara and Tara is a strong girl. How was Tara's life ten years ago and ten years later, I got the chance to do that research and show it on screen. She believes a few things, and she fights for a few things, that she believes are right. But that gangster's girlfriend, that conflict also seemed interesting to me There is a little conflict in his family that every woman can relate to because she truly loved Raju. That conflict would be liked by Raju, maybe the audience likes more music, I like Tara And Raju's track which is very interesting"

Taking about his role actor Shabeer Kallarakkal said, "For me first the story work and to top it off Dulquer playing as lead and his production, what better combination I  can ask when storyline is brilliant my character also absolutely brilliant for me to do it."

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट: हिमाचल में दिहाड़ी मजदूरों, कारोबारियों पर भी मौसम की मार

हिमाचल प्रदेश में कुदरत के कहर के बाद कई जगह तबाही का मंजर नजर आ रहा है. राज्य के कई जिलों में भूस्खलन हुआ है और मलबों में अब तक जिंदगी की तलाश जारी है. माना जा रहा है कि अब तक करीब दस हजार करोड की संपत्ति का नुकसान हिमाचल प्रदेश को हो चुका है. कई मुख्‍य सड़कें टूट गई हैं. ऐसे में पहले की तरह पर्यटक भी यहां नहीं पहुंच रहे हैं, जिससे दिहाड़ी मजदूरों और कारोबारियों को काफी मुश्किल हालात का सामना करना पड़ रहा है. शिमला से परिमल कुमार की ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट...

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Review: Guns & Gulaabs - Marvellously Whacky Crime Drama

Smartly written, slickly crafted and wonderfully acted, Guns & Gulaabs, created by Raj and DK, is a marvellously wacky crime drama that harks back to the 1990s and sees the darkly piquant side of men (and a couple of women) who derive perverse pleasure from murder, mayhem and meanness.

The deliriously spry Netflix series pans out in a twisted and toxic universe peopled by opium dealers, gun-toting gangsters, a vicious knife-wielding assassin with seven lives, an anti-narcotics officer with a troubling past that catches up with him and two diffident men with debilitating daddy issues.

The gulaabs referred to in the title and in the name of the small town in which the story is set are outnumbered in this amoral world where adults and schoolboys alike thrive on crossing the line. A 'line of control', however, runs through a local dhaba and separates it into demarcated and inviolable spaces for two warring gangs.      

The handful of innocents who reside in Gulaabgunj, nestled in the hills and dotted with opium fields, are at the mercy of the two criminal cliques, one of which operates out of a place called Sherpur, 30 km away. They battle for control over the spoils of an illegal opium business that functions outside the purview of the cultivation of poppy under government licence.

Guns & Gulaabs starts off with shots of a poppy farm, a sequence of two schoolboys discussing the girls they are in love with, and a chase scene that ends with a killing in broad daylight. So, all three key components of the plot - opium, love and violence - are packed into the opening moments of the series.

Other secondary elements, including a rivalry between two school students for the class topper's badge, emerge as the plot thickens and culminates in a dizzyingly rollicking, action-packed finale - an episode that is numbered 7 and 8, runs nearly an hour and a half and has an intermission.

Everybody in Gulaabgunj and Sherpur has an ulterior motive and a self-serving plan. These nefarious plans change frequently as the crooked men chase or flee from others of their kind. As small-town noir meets 90s nostalgia in a landscape where the air is thick with intrigue, the soundtrack is laced with snatches Hindi film songs from three decades ago.      

The man murdered at the beginning of Chapter 1 is Babu Tiger, trusted aide of Gulaabgunj crime lord Ganchi (Satish Kaushik) and estranged father of motorcycle mechanic Tipu (Rajkummar Rao). Ganchi is furious at losing a key gang member and plots a reprisal. Tipu, in contrast, is almost relieved that his father is dead.

Tipu is rid of his father. Jugnu (Adarsh Gourav) isn't. The latter is Ganchi's only son and reluctant successor to his father's empire. Narcotics bureau officer Arjun Varma (Dulquer Salmaan), who was a deputy commissioner of police in Delhi when a 60-crore scam (Bofors?) rocked the nation, is transferred to Gulaabgunj with a brief to clean up the place.

A hired killer, Atmaram (Gulshan Devaiah), working for the Sherpur gang led by Nabeed (Nilesh Divekar), Ganchi's former protégé, is on the prowl armed with a slasher. Nobody in Ganchi's gang is safe as long as Atmaram - his name has Chaar Cut prefixed to it because of the manner in which he kills - is out and about.  

Arjun Verma does not arrive in this crime hotspot a day too soon. Ganchi has just swung a deal with Sukanto (Rajatava Dutta), representing a Calcutta drug cartel. He has a month to acquire seven times the amount of opium that he usually produces.

It is this deal and its shifting dynamics that are at the centre of Guns & Gulaabs. The farmers, the gangsters and the buyers go into overdrive to make sure that Gulaabgunj produces the requisite amount of refined opium for the Calcutta drug mafia. Arjun and his department swing into action to prevent the supply.

Alliances are forged, the police officer's relationship with his wife Madhu (Pooja A. Gor) drifts to the brink when a past liaison Yamini (Shreya Dhanwanthary) returns to haunt him, and matters of the heart come to the fore in uneasy circumstances. Tipu writes a love letter to school teacher Lekha (TJ Bhanu 'Parvati Murty') and it boomerangs on him.

Nobody in Gulaabgunj appears to be high on opium, but whisky, which flows free in Ganchi's den, turns risky at one point, triggers a crisis and pulls a reluctant Jugnu, Chhota Ganchi, into the thick of the action. Talking of reluctance, Tipu, too, is an unwilling inheritor of his father's dodgy legacy although he has two unintended kills to his credit and with his spanner at that. The deed earns him the sobriquet of Paana Tipu.

If Tipu does not remember his father fondly, it is not only because the dreaded gangster left his mother for another woman. Baap ajeeb qism ka jantu hota hai (Fathers are strange creatures), he says in one scene. For Jugnu, the struggle with his inheritance is not so much about hating his father and growing out of his shadow as about earning his old man's validation. I want to make dad proud, he says.

Woven into the narrative and visual design of Guns & Gulaabs is a sustained tribute to the early 1990s, and the Hindi cinema and music of the decade in particular. The plot and the soundtrack are littered with sounds, songs and references of the era. The series is a popular culture geek's delight.

The names of the characters reflect an period that predates the birth of Rahul and Raj on the big screen - Gangaram, Lalkishan, Chandralekha, Mahendra, Atmaram... The titles of several of the chapters are drawn from songs/films of the 1980s and 1990s - Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain and Raat Baaki.... One chapter title takes off from a Bryan Adams number.

Not just that, the series has a love ditty (composed by Aman Pant, who produces a delightfully retro background score) in the voice of Kumar Sanu. Among other things, the series designs the Satish Kaushik credit on a calendar.

And, not to forget, there's a mention of the cult kung-fu film, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, which Tipu watches with his best friend Suneel (Goutam Sharma, who also plays one of Suneel's two twins, with his real-life twin Gourav Sharma portraying the other).

Guns & Gulaabs is studded with a quartet of wonderful performances from Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan, Gulshan Devaiah and Adarsh Gourav. The larger cast of actors is no less impactful, with TJ Bhanu shining the brightest in a male-dominated series that touches upon the theme of gender and notions of masculinity in surprising ways. Pooja A. Gor and Shreya Dhanwanthary have much less to do, but they, too, make their presence felt. Vipin Sharma as Ganchi's righthand man Mahendra is solid.

Guns & Gulaabs watchable all the way, is a magnificent combination of stylistic elan and storytelling chutzpah.  

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Caught On Camera: Passengers Escape In Nick Of Time As Bus Catches Fire

A scary video of passengers escaping a bus moments before it caught fire on the side of a busy road is going viral on social media. The incident took place in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday, as per the BBC. Quoting local media, the outlet said that fire was caused by an electrical issue. It added that no one was injured. The unexpected event took other car drivers by surprise and traffic was affected traffic on the lane. The short clip was released by the police in Argentina.

Watch a bus catch on fire in Argentina #bus #busfire #argentina pic.twitter.com/qxLlALdHFp

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As the video begins, a small fire is seen at the back of the bus and the passengers getting off it and running away.

A few seconds later, the fire intensifies and engulfs the entire bus. It even covers the part of the road due to the fuel spilling over. A vehicle passing by narrowly escapes catching fire.

By this time, the entire stretch of the road is seen covered in flames and thick black smoke surrounding the spot. Moments later, the entire bus is seen engulfed in flames and smoke getting thicker.

However, firefighters reached the spot quickly and douse the fire.

The remains of the bus are seen in the final moments of the 22-second video.

Security cameras for the Buenos Aires police captured footage of the incident that took place on the General Paz highway.

Social media users were shocked by the footage. Some of them wanted to know if it was an electric bus. Others prayed for the well-being of those who escaped just in time.

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शिमला : भारी बारिश में पेड़ गिरने से कैफे हुआ क्षतिग्रस्त

हिमाचल प्रदेश के शिमला में भारी बारिश से जगह-जगह पर भूस्खलन हुए. नतीजतन कई घरों में भी बड़ी दरारें आ गई. शिमला में 103 लैंडमार्क के नजदीक के कैफे पर एक पेड़ गिरने से काफी नुकसान हुआ. इसी पर देखिए परिमल की ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट.

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