Best facing Best

Browsing through and found this interesting piece a couple of weeks back but then waited for this date to post so as to make it more relevant-

Exactly two years back it happened - leading run scorer in tests faced a delivery from leading run wicket taker in test at Adelaide - yes you guessed it right - Brain Lara was leading run scorer who went past Allan Border in the same Adelaide test and he faced Shane Warne who was the leading wicket taker then. I don't know when it happened before that day. Some one said it happened after about 100 years - I have no records about that. However, I can see it happening again in next July-Aug when India tours Srilanka - hope fully our master blaster Sachin who I hope would surpass Brain Lara and face the spin wizard Murali who is a leading wicket taker now.

Don versus Don

While the campus is confluencing - I had an opportunity to watch a couple of movies from the LAN here - both happened to be Don, yeah the old one and the new one. Having not seen any movie since long time - I found both of them refreshing and entertaining. The first one was classic and Amitabh was too good in both the roles. I thought it would be difficult to resist Sharukh after seeing Amitabh - but to my surprise, the show here was run by Farhan Akthar - who managed to create interest by potraying the pseud image and the changed times - the global locations, hi-technology security devices, the diary was replaced by a small disk, police vans were replaced by helicopters and chartered flights and the list goes on. If the older version was all about showing emotions and anger, the newer one was all about displaying shrewdness. The director stuck to the original, scene to scene to begin with, but smartly hijacked the story in the second half. While, the original version followed the formula - Good wins over the Evil , the latest version chose to justify that "Don ko pakdna mushkil hi nahin naa mumkin hain"!!!