A Lion’s eye on the Bulls and Bears
“In India, companies may fall sick, but promoters rarely do!”
😆 Bull Run is born in Pessimism & grows in Skepticism and matures in Optimism
😯 We are past Pessimism…so which stage are we now as the Sensex approaches 27000 !
🙄 Skepticism!?…Optimism!?
Saw Salman Khan’s KICK on Idd Night ….Mindboggling….actually the Mind Boggled !….and needed to be Kick Started !
Inox Multiplex at Nariman Point ,Mumbai was relatively empty….they need to reduce their Ticket rates….but if you think the Multiplex attracts only the Elite…think again….the row behind was occupied by one who was discussing his Police Cases & FIRs in Hindi Slang with another similar who he bumped into in the Interval…not even in whispers
…….quite understand Salman Khan in the movie when he asserts “mujko samajh ne ki koshish ne kar…Dil mein aata hoon, samajh mein nahin”…as he moves from Devi Lal Singh to becoming Devil all for a noble cause of orphaned children !
….Wife Nergis was wondering where was Nargis Fakhri in the movie !…had to tell her she was the item girl in the item song….she was then wondering where was Jacqueline Fernandez !?…told her she was ‘Dr Psycho’ and the other item girl in the other item song…scintillating solo though !
….so what’s with this Female casting ! ? Bollywood attracts…Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan while Nargis Fakhri is an American of Pakistani descent (Father’s a Pakistani & Mother’s a Czech ) though has never been to Pakistan
…. interval was longer than the first half as Multiplex Chain needs to make some Revenues through endless Ads and F & B Sales……though wife & I enjoyed their Rs 99 ‘Simply Baked Potatoes’…comes in six variations…had to have coke …first time in a year !….because they sell only 4XL Mineral Water Bottles and I did not have a strolley with me !
…the 4 & 5 Star Ratings for ‘Kick’ from some Film Critics in leading Media deserve a ‘Kick’….. but then the ‘Bhai’ does take care of them ! even if he shrugs “Who Cares !”
So what was good about ‘Kick’!?….well for one,Salman’s line above…and for another,Jacqueline Fernandez’ scintillating sexy solo in an item song…and I quite liked the cameo villan’s role enacted by Nawazuddin Siddiqui….very good actor
….and it’s broken collection records grossing Rs 93 crs in it’s first weekend !…definition of a ‘Super Hit’ coming along when it grosses over Rs 200 crs soon !
….that my friends is the state of India’s mindset !….all necessities….Onions & Tomatoes & Salman Khan Movies !….we crib on inflating prices of the former but pay Multiplex Money and say ‘paisa vasool’ to watch the latter get a ‘Kick’ & appeal to our heart while destroying our mind unless we haven’t any or have left it at home !
Bangalore or Bumbai ! ~ oof ! these Babus & Legislators
Just back from Bangalore or should I say Bengaluru….where this time I experienced worse traffic than ever before…and there too the Rains have been elusive in June though the weather is far more cooler than Mumbai
Was amused to see a Karnataka Legislative Assembly Green Tagged Honda CRV with Driver and a Full Family in it….Austerity is only for the Masses while for Legislators gas guzzling CRVs are alright !
Then at Mumbai Airport was awaiting my car and noticed this Bureaucrat’s Official Car parked quite brazenly just outside the Arrival for a long time with the driver hovering around it…where over five minutes would invite car parking charges
Special Privileges ~ some official and some not, but taken for granted ~ for the Babus and those Elected to Legislate !…. while Masses are subject to Rules & Regulations or else Bribes !
Is it just a coincidence that Both States Karnataka & Maharashtra are currently headed by Congress Chief Ministers !?
Have tagged this post also in ‘Chuckle’ but there’s little to chuckle on this !
😥 Government or Corporates Want Money ? Simple ~ Just tap 1200 million Indians !
😥 Unless there is a rollback the Indian Public will have to pay 14.2 % more for Railway Passenger Fare and 6.5 % for Rail Freight…the NDA Government has just announced this increase which had been planned by the UPA but deferred till post election
😈 The Way I see this is that the Government has already derailed the Indian Public with this huge Rail Hike…… Next in queue are the Corporate Vultures…..in this Bullish Market they are licking their lips to feed on the Indian Public and seduce and sucker them yet again with IPOs at obscene premiums !
👿 SEBI is facilitating them by announcing liberal measures in the garb of attracting Retail Investors back to Equity Markets !
🙄 Invest in Equity !? Yes,of course but do exercise Caution !
😯 BSE & NSE should have these statutory warning Boards up !
😐 Should try being a Stand Up Comedian !…the Reality is that I’m not !….and it’s not a Laughing Matter
😆 Swam this early Sunday morning after ages and after losing 20 kgs…the trees around have definitely grown taller & thicker… 🙂 earlier my trunks would have looked good only on an elephant !… 🙁 counted just four in the pool & all 60+ women & all swimming like professionals while I was floating on my back pretending to do backstroke… 🙄 Methinks I need to change my timings… 😉 am told late night is cooler in all senses !
😀 There are some witty guys out there….
😆 You are in a a bull market, When…..
…You offer your broker a car each morning so he doesn’t need to take the Mumbai local to get to the terminal by before 9 am.
…The pink papers are the first to disappear from your lap when you fall asleep on a flight.
…Every third executive works through the day with a Stock Portal minimized on the computer screen
…The excitement in otherwise pin-drop offices is not about Kolkata Knight Riders’s victory but PTC India Financial hitting another circuit.
…Old-timers get nostalgic about V P Singh’s 1985 Budget and Manmohan Singh’s game-changing 1991 Budget but conclude ‘this one is different.’
🙄 …Some one says the Sensex will hit 100,000 by 2020 and people say ‘That late?’
😯 …You use the wizened ‘Book your profit’ line in evening conversation and people arch their eyebrows with that elevator look as if your clothes didn’t fit.
😐 …Experts say it would be better for investors to await corrections to buy on declines but ‘you are not going to be able to catch these declines as smartly as you think you can.’
😥 …The most self-confessed wretched are not those who didn’t buy the right stock but those who complain they didn’t buy enough.
…You feel so wasted on Saturdays and Sundays you re-read the weekday stock quotations.
😛 …The favorite fantasy is salivating with the thought of ‘If I had bought 50,000 shares of Suzlon Energy @ Rs 8…’
… Half the country is watching Stock channels
…The real work of the day begins only after 3:30 pm.
…An entire country that was struggling to fund the confidence to price stocks on retrospective earnings has started using that seductive ‘based on FY17 earnings…’
…Conservative companies, which used words like ‘accruals’ even as recent as mid-May now pepper every third line with qualified institutional placement.
…A broker calls a company not to ask ‘Will the next quarter be good?’ but ‘Any block of shares available?’
…Gurus recommend we short gold, disinvest surplus real estate and laugh at eight per cent tax-free paper
…The best ear-raiser at a party is ‘just yesterday, I was speaking to a fund manager in Singapore.’
…You need to get to your retail broker’s office at 8:45 to get the chair closest to the trading terminal.
😥 ….. At 3.30, you wish the markets are on till 5.