Travelogue: Ramoji Film City

My friend Simon and I have had unsuccessful plans to visit Ramoji Film City (RFC, the largest film studio complex in the world) in the past. All those times it was a wild goose chase for us as someone or the other from our friend circle couldn’t make it on time, eventually we scrapped all the plans.

Last week I have been to home for vacations. And this time Simon and I managed to visit RFC. There are ample of packages to visit RFC nonetheless we opted for a regular one-day trip offered by a private travels. We covered the below events in exact order.

• Eureka
• Caterpillar show
• Vintage bus tour
• Photoshoot
• Lunch @ Alampana
• Kripalu caves
• Spirit of Ramoji Show and
• Stunt show

The trip was enthralling and worth sharing. 

My Turn-ons of the trip:

•  Hoola-hoop twirled by a lady performer was Stupendous. I couldn’t capture the stunt but this is what it was like.
• Delicious hyderabadi biryani was available at regular restaurant rates.
• Spectacular locations and
• Pollution free air.

My Turn-offs of the trip:

• Potty rooms @ the entrance (can’t compete with the counter parts of multiplex locations, huge scope for improvement) and
• Hot sunny weather.

P.S: Apart from RFC trip I felt titanic difference in pollution (excessive use of motor-bikes, people in Hyderabad prefer motor-bikes to bicycles to go to next street) this time in Hyderabad. I became ill because of the pollution and I am bit scared to relocate in Hyderabad now because of the pollution.I may come up with another article in regard of my contribution towards conservation.

Travelogue:Tour De Aurangabad....

Traveling is one of my interests. From long time I am planning to post an article about a travelogue. Off late I have been to Aurangabad, to cover Bibi Ka Maqbara (aka Replica of Taj), Ajanta, and Ellora Caves. With this tour I have covered all the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Maharashtra.


Ajanta Caves are rock-cut cave monuments dating from the second century BCE, containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art" and "universal pictorial art". My friend tried to capture beauty of Ajanta and Ellora in the below clips.

Clip1: @Ajanta

Clip2:@Ajanta

At Ellora Caves temples and monasteries were built between the 5th century and 10th century. The 12 Budhist (caves 1-12), 17 Hindu (caves 13-29) and 5 jain (caev 30-34) caves, bulit in proximity, demonstrate the religious harmony prevalent during this period of Indian History.

Clip3:@Ellora

P.S.: Uploading the videos to blogger is a nice learning experience. And its funny to watch myself from behind.

Weekend Buzz....

I have been to Ind-SL third test match(day-4) at Breborne last weekend. I would like to share the trivia here.

Sad: Sachin fielded at deep cover point/backward (who was farthest from our stands :( )

Happy: Where as Sehwag/Sreesanth fielded in deep mid wicket/square leg (who was closest to our stands :) )

Boost:  Sreesanth was interactive with audience (waving at them, giving thumbs up to them)

Dismay: Where as Sehwag was very dissociated with audience.

Observation: Sreesanth’s run-up was almost equal to the radius of the stadium, where as Zaheer’s was around 50% of that of Sreesanth's.

Deny: Almost 20,000 audiences appealed for an lbw to Harper whose response was a negative.

Phenomenon: SL lost five wickets on day-4. Out of which, one was before we stepped in the stadium, and one was after we stepped out of the stadium.

Comfort: Indian team was much disciplined in the ground. And eventually won the match :) :) :)