A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Sep 2019 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

Hi Friends,

September starts with the birthday of my little one who is now going to become a teenager in 1-2 years and already have a love-hate relationship with me based on my responses of her asks. This is really difficult as now I need to focus on her to take care of her and don't waste my time on things that are not giving anything in return like press releases posts which are not bringing me any benefits. Let's focus on bringing the best in you by going back to school and relearning all the techniques to study and work on all the skills which can help me for the rest of my life. 

1. #TheLifesWayReviews - #Technology in #Shuffle Mode Play in MP3 Players - This remains one of the biggest pain points to date as the Shuffle keeps playing the same songs again and again. It can be in the car entertainment system, iPod, and even the music player in smartphones. Maybe the software developers in any of the audio players' sector will be working on the same currently or there must be some audio player which can help me in this feature. 

2. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Sep 2018 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra #1800thPost - Last year it was my 1800th post but now I have reduced the same to just less than 1500 posts and more I will reduce in the days to come and only keep those written by me and none of the press releases anymore on my channel. It doesn't matter to me if the traffic is coming to my channels or not as I am enjoying all the content I can create in my limited time here on Planet Earth. This will be my 1455th blog post just as a reference to how much I will reduce them from here.

3. #TheLifesWayReviews - The Spy @NetflixSA Mini-TV Series #Thriller #TrueEvents #TheSpy - I really love watching Web series and this one was really great which was based on the true events of a Spy who really sacrificed himself for the love of his country and saved thousands of lives in the process. Netflix alone doesn't offer a range of series as most of the people completed all the favorite ones during this lockdown and started looking for other OTT platforms too and now a lot of companies in India are offering all the OTT platforms contents as a part of the packaged deal if you take their fiber network connection which is really good. 

In September 2020, I have finally reached the 2x speed to listen to audiobooks reducing the time to complete books in a faster format. What I observed is that you do need to keep listening to the particular sections of the book or may be referred to the paperback or kindle editions after listening to the same once. Maybe I can write a blog post or shoot a video explaining what I learned during the process of lockdown and achieving all my goals which I always wanted to do.

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#TheLifesWayReviews - RAAT AKELI HAI @NetflixSA #Movie #Crime #RaatAkeliHai

Hi Friends, 

Raat Akeli Hai is the new crime drama movie which was released on Netflix on 31st July 2020 and is directed by Honey Trehan. The movie stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte and Ila Arun in a powerful performance which also has Shweta Tripathi, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Swanand Kirkire, Nishant Dahiya and Aditya Srivastava. 

The movie is a murder mystery of Raghuveer Singh played by Khalid Tyabji on the night of his second marriage to Radhika Apte. The whole family and relatives go quiet about the murder and bring in a small town cop Inspector Jatil Yadav to solve the case played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. As the investigation progresses, he comes to know that he has already met Radha played by Radhika Apte as she tries to run away from her parents some 5 years ago. Around the same time, Raghuveer Singh's wife and the driver are also killed by a mercenary. 

The crime drams is really fast-paced and slowly unpacks the mystery behind the murder and the other selfish motives of all the characters one by one. Jatil Yadav falls in love with Radha as he is a bachelor whose mother played by Ila Arun always tries to find a suitable bride for him wherever she goes. The scenes between Ila Arun and Nawazuddin are really funny and the dialogues are really good.

The crime-solving capability and character of Jatil Yadav are tested as the whole system is against him and doesn't want him to solve the case as the family is against the outsider Radha who gets the share in the property due to her marriage with Raghuveer Singh. They want to put the blame on her and looking for an opportunity to throw her out of the house and may kill her on the way. The locations look really real as the movie is shot in Lucknow and Kanpur. 

The film never felt like it's limited budget release or digital platform release but made on the scale of a full feature film and rises way above the other feature film releases too in recent times. The acting of Radhika Apte and Nawazuddin Siddiqui is amazingly great and the tension building between them is great to watch. Raat Akeli Hai has a rugged and rustic look to the whole drama and it feels really real and believable. 

The movie is produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Abhishek Chaubey and written by Smita Singh and is available on Netflix to watch if you have not seen yet. This movie is 1000 times better than the last released movie of Nawazuddin named Ghoomketu on the ZEE5 digital platform. If you are a fan of Nawazuddin you should not miss this Singham style fun without beating anyone, killing anyone or any other un-necessary macho action. RATING 4/5

Cheers!!!

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CONSPIRACIES @NetflixSA #Drama #TrueEvents #Documentary

Hi Friends,

We always have some of the other questions which raise some kind of doubts in our mind. Earlier when there was no Wikipedia or the internet, people used to read about the same in the library in some of the printed books or old newspapers. They will dig deep into all the news articles, encyclopedias, and specific books written on the topics of conspiracies. We are always intrigued by the unsolved mysteries in our lives and our brains are automatically attached to solving those on our own. 

Netflix series on Conspiracies showcased 12 episodes 42-44 minutes long on various mysteries that still are open for discussions where people have all kinds of opinions. The List of those episodes are underneath - 

1. Nazis - Has Hitler actually killed himself or it was staged and he escaped? 
2. The Royal Family - Mysteries related to the Royal families and their affairs? 
3. The Cold War - How did it all started and who was behind this? 
4. Disappearances - Looking at some of the famous deaths and disappearances
5. The Hollywood Files - Various mysteries related to the film industry
6. Aliens - People claiming to have encountered some kind of mysterious life from other planets
7. Assassinations - Mysteries surrounding the deaths of JFK, Pope John Paul 1 and others
8. Murder at the Vatican - Roman Catholic church and the mysteries related to the establishment
9. Faking the Moon landings - Whether the moon landings were just staged to beat Russia space program? 
10. Pearl Harbour Coverup - Did it actually happened or could have been saved because they got information beforehand? 
11. Drugs, Pop, Punk and Death - Various music artists like Jim Morrison, Rolling Stones and mysteries related to them
12. The Lockerbie Plot - The mysteries related to 9/11, Pan Am Flight 103 and many others

Each episode covers some of the questions you might have and they will give you both sides of the arguments and keep the discussion open for your brain to further delve into those topics. The series is from 2015 and I watched the same last year but somehow kept thinking should I reveal the plot or what shall I say about all these things. But this is one of the topics that will have different impacts on every brain as someone might have more interest and well-read on certain topics and for the other, it will be the first time. It does open your mind to don't take anything whats showcased to you without any further investigations. Always check and challenge all that's taught to us by our schools and colleges. It's always great to research and digs deep into the topics you find interesting. We now have unlimited resources at hand which can help us in the same venture like the internet and Wikipedia and other sources which can really give us some perspective. 

Do check out these amazing 12 episodes and learn a lot about history and how people, countries and governments used it to their advantages? Mark Bazeley is the narrator behind all these documentaries. RATING 3/5

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SPACE FORCE @NetflixSA #WebSeries #Comedy #Drama

Hi Friends, 

Space Force is an American Comedy-drama on Netflix which is currently running and worth every second of your time. This web series was launched on Netflix on 29th May 2020 and is created by Greg Daniels and Steve Carell who plays the lead role as General Mark Naird who is tasked to start the United States Space Force and put the boots on the moon by 2024 by the POTUS. Lisa Kudrow plays Maggie Naird, wife of General Naird and Diana Silvers plays Erin Naird, daughter of General Naird. John Malkovich plays Dr. Adrian Mallory who is Chief Scientist at Space Force. The show is a comedy-drama that plays the fight between the various departments within the US agencies and the fight between the force and the brains. There is always a fight between the might of the brain vs might of the ammunitions. Jimmy O. Yang plays Dr. Chan Kaifang and Tawny Newsome as Captain Angela Ali.

Space Force Season 1 consists of 10 episodes which run for around 35 minutes per episode. The comic timing of Steve Carell needs no introduction and the cast contains many people represented from all over the world. There is an episode where they mention India and Prime Minister Modi that's because of the fact that India is growing to be a superpower and Netflix can't win if it is not able to harness into the Indian Markets of video on demand. The season is launched around the same time SpaceX and NASA are working on the commercial launch of the #LaunchAmerica program to reach International Space Station and it definitely brings the interest of people around the world into a series which is kind of science fiction along with setting the boots on the moon.

General Naird not only needs to take care of the growing demands faced by various agencies and POTUS but also within his family he needs to take care of. He also needs to fight against the minds and risk-taking abilities of scientists which he thinks are very less as compared to the people in the forces. His way of looking at things is totally different from his team of scientists and sometimes he learns from them and sometimes they learn from him. This web series showcases just the tension between various relationships General Naird has with his various resources at the base camp while he discovers himself too.

The Space Force despite the huge star cast is not binge-worthy as it goes very slow and events are situational and the General then finds his way through the same on a day to day basis at the workplace and in his own family life. It's the story of survival as the Space Force and taking the people on the moon with various variables entering the situations on a day to day basis. The Chinese space program is what Space Force is competing against and it's the same kind of humor American TV series, and movies focussed on Vietnam or Russia or Hitler earlier from Rambo to many other movies by just including new types of social media channels into the equation especially twitter. Overall, if you like to watch workplace tensions in a comedy series based on the mission to the moon without any kind of logic then do watch the same and you won't regret it because Season 2 will also come as they end the Season 1 on suspense and much more to look forward to. RATING - 3/5

Sawubona!

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A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Jun 2019 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

Hi Friends, 

June 2019 had so much in store from Disney on Ice to various other phone launches and I was using Netflix to watch all the content I have been missing and reviewed it too. Again this time of the year I have taken a connection for some time and going through the stuff I have not seen between the last year and now. 

1. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Jun 2018 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay - https://www.thelifesway.com/2019/06/a-memoir-this-month-last-year-jun-2018.html - My whole journey on the blog is specifically told in all these memoirs and whatever I have received is because of this blog. The fame and the name are just because of The Life's Way and I hope I will continue to do something big with the same. 

2. #TheLifesWayReviews - Chopsticks - #Movie #Drama #NetflixOriginal @NetflixSA #Bollywood - https://www.thelifesway.com/2019/06/thelifeswayreviews-chopsticks-movie.html - I really loved with comedy-drama movie starring Abhay Deol and Mithila Parker. I don't think we have seen Abhay after that in any of the other movies. I recently saw Mithila'a another movie named Karwaan but that was more popular because of the Irrfan Khan and recently Bollywood lost him to cancer.  

Aashish Rai Jain in Kimberley Diamond Mines

3. Unique @FUJIFILM_SA @InstaxS #miniLiPlay Hybrid Camera Launched At #PrintLifeSA Exhibition - https://www.thelifesway.com/2019/06/unique-fujifilmsa-instaxs-miniliplay.html - Last year some of my photos were showcased at the exhibition by Fujifilm at their PrintLife SA expo held at Sandton City and thereafter they also launched one of the latest Hybrid cameras to take on the instant camera market further. Last year, Canon and other manufacturers like HP also entered the industry with their own instant film cameras and printers. 

4. P(hone) In On Your Holiday @HuaweiZA #HuaweiP30Series #RewriteTheRules #MobilePhotography - https://www.thelifesway.com/2019/06/phone-in-on-your-holiday-huaweiza.html - P30 series of smartphones was the talk of the nations around the world and this time on Friday they virtually launched the P40 series of smartphones without the Google ecosystem due to recent restrictions placed on Huawei by the US government. Though in a small amount of time, Huawei has come up with its own HMS Core and HMS Apps in the Huawei App Gallery and recently launched a competition for developers to earn around USD 300k in prizes by submitting their apps. I also attended the launch virtually but somehow was not able to win any of the prizes from the launch event which was worth more than R500k. 

5. #TheLifesWayGoals @HuaweiZA #MTN702WALK #Target25km 28Jul19 - Week 4 #HuaweiWatchGT - https://www.thelifesway.com/2019/06/thelifeswaygoals-huaweiza-mtn702walk.html - This post is more of a product review of Huawei Watch GT as compared to the preparation of the race. I really loved using the device but there were several missing technologies in this version of the watch and soon they launched the second version which resolved many of these issues and still in the market. I am still using my Huawei Watch GT but the straps have broken during my April 2020's 180kms walk using the device. 

Sawubona!

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EXTRACTION @NetflixSA #Movie #Action #Thriller

Hi Friends, 

Extraction is an action thriller movie launched on Netflix on 24th April 2020 and is directed by Sam Hargrave and written by Joe Russo whose graphic novel named Ciudad the movie is based upon. The movie is going to keep you on the edge of your seats because it's a high-level action drama and loud bullet noises. This will remind you of the John Wick series of killing throughout the movie with a twist of using a teenager instead of a dog whom the main character Tyler Rake played by our "Thor" Chris Hemsworth. Sam Hargrave also played one of the roles in the movie as Gaetan who is a partner of Tyler. Tyler is a black ops mercenary whose team gets paid to bring back the kid who gets kidnapped from Mumbai and taken to Bangladesh. 

Pankaj Tripathi plays a 15 seconds scene as the father of the teenager who gets kidnapped by the Bangladeshi Crime Lord named Amir Asif played by Priyanshu Painyuli and the teenager Ovi Mahajan is played by Rudhraksh Jaiswal. It really felt good to see Pankaj's talent being noticed by the visionary directors of the Avengers: Endgame. Randeep Hooda also plays as Mahajan's henchmen Saju Rav also trying to save the kid in his own way without paying the second installment of money and taking the mercenaries out by himself. Golshifteh Farahani plays Nik Khan, the mercenary Boss who contracts the assignment for her team and also hires Tyler to run the extraction for money. 

The action is endless and the killing continues from the start to the end with some scenes in between calmness without any loud gunshots. The story is about the run and chase to reach the extraction point hence the name of the movie. Some of the Bollywood songs from the 1990s are being played in the background during one of the chase sequences and the makeup of Amir's girlfriends is over the top for showcasing India and Bangladesh in general. The movie builds up your interest but then you feel why all this killing and how can a National military and forces are going to let their people die just to fulfill the commands of a goon. The overall story doesn't offer anything new you have not seen in any of the movies and it feels like a copy-paste from the John Wick kind of series with directors and actors from the Avengers series and integrating Indian fans too to get more audiences for Netflix India and other countries. But I still feel John Wick is a much better film and the series offers something mysterious in each of its different chapters. RATING 2/5

Sawubona!

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