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The GINA Light Visionary Model by BMW is a concept featuring
a flexible fabric skin stretched over an articulated
metal frame, meaning the car can change shape



Developed by BMW Group Design and unveiled yesterday, the concept
 is meant to provoke discussion about the possibilities
 of car design in the future.



Doors open upwards and outwards, creating folds in the material that disappear
when the doors are closed again




For maintenance, the engine cover opens along its center.



Features such as headlights are hidden beneath the skin and only
 become visible when needed.



The seamless car body of the GINA Light Visionary Model




The body consists of only four elements. The largest component extends from the front of
the vehicle to the edge of the windscreen and down the sides to the rear edge
of the doors. The large side panels start at the front where the rocker
 panels emerge and run across the rear wheel arches into the rear.
 The fourth component is the central rear deck element.

The most striking example of this is the headlight design. In normal position,

 when the headlights are not active, i.e. when there is no necessity to 

illuminate the road, they are hidden under the special fabric cover. 

As soon as the driver turns on the lights, the contour of the front end changes. 

Activated by the metal structure that lies beneath it, the previously 

closed fabriccover opens to the right and left of the BMW

 kidney grille and reveals the BMW double head-lights. 

The rear and the rocker panels of the 

GINA Visionary Model can also adapt both the shape and function to

 the driving situation in hand. Both can change the shape of their outer 

skin to meet the driver’s requirement for 

particularly dynamic motoring.

he rocker panels demonstrate the formal versatility of the GINA Light Visionary 

Model with an equally impressive performance. The air duct can be optimised 

if required. A corresponding movement of the metal structure results in an 

adjustment of the rocker panel contour to allow for better airflow. 

At the same time, an additional protruding rocker panel line emerges.

 The aerodynamic optimization and the length of the line 

can be infinitely adapted to the driving situation at hand.

Innovative body structure introduces new functional dimensions

BMW cars

Break Ke Baad

Rating : 4/10
Release Date : 26th November, 2010
Time : 115 minutes
Director, Co-Writer : Danish Aslam; Co-writer : Renuka Kunzru; Music : Vishal - Shekhar
Starring : Imran Khan, Deepika Padukone, Lilette Dubey, Shahana Goswami, Yudhistr Urs, Navin Nischol, Sharmila Tagore

This is one of the films where you know exactly how everything will turn out from the beginning. You know the central characters love each other right from the opening credits, you know how every twist and turn will resolve itself. And your only hope is that the director & script writer make it so much fun that you still enjoy yourself. They try but don’t succeed.




Imran is Deepika’s neighbour and classmate from time immemorial. He’s the calm, measured one, the one who sorts things out, the one who makes sure the relationship keeps going ahead. Imran works with his Dad at their cinema hall, hates it there but doesn’t know what he wants to do. Deepika is the fiery, flighty one. She is very sure she’s going to be an actress, even though her mom (Sharmila) is dead against it. She gets admission in a course in mass-comm in Australia and decides to go for it. How does Imran & her relationship survive this huge test ? Will their love survive ?



I liked the opening credits but hated the opening scene (Imran in front of a mirror, very corny). Deepika came across nicely, pulled her role off and looked stunning, right from her opening scene in a low slung sari. All characters were so half baked, however, that it doesn’t hold your attention. All conflicts are storms in a teacup as well and in real life would never threaten a lifelong relationship. So what we’re left with is the music (v uninspiring), the acting (Deepika was good, the rest were patchy) or the jokes (few funny moments, some from Yudhistr, some from Deepika and a couple from Lilette)


So, we’re left with a sometimes funny, rarel interesting, mostly boring film which struggles to hold our interest, especially break ke baad….

Three Kings

Rating : 8/10
Release Date : 1st Oct, 1999
Time : 114 minutes
Director, Co-Writer : David O. Russell; Co-writer : John Ridley; Music : Carter Burwell
Starring : George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis, Nora Dunn

Quite simply one of the best war movies that I have seen. Illustrates extremely simply the emotions and consequences of war – bereavement, loss, pain, suffering, abuse of power, the question of there being no right or wrong, greed, corruption, camaraderie, loyalty, ethics and most of all, the fallacy of war itself. The hollowness of the thought that war leads to peace or comes without significant collateral damage.


George Clooney and three other soldiers discover a map which points to locations where they believe Saddam has stashed gold stolen from Kuwait. They decide to make an unauthorised trip to get the same for themselves. However, they soon find out that things are not that easy or what they seem and find themselves dragged into the thick of things between local Kuwaiti’s and the remnants of the Iraqi Republican Guard. A journalist is also tracking the story and along with the entire setting and other cast also help add to the overall tension.



The scripting, performances, photography and editing of this film is exemplary. George Clooney is every inch the smooth soldier, who is calm, not hawkish or blood thirsty, the man with the plan, who is looking to look the other way but then when some events occur, is equally unflinching in his decision to dive right in purely on humanitarian grounds. Mark Wahlberg is really good as the trigger happy soldier, the new father who just wants to go home and would rather not get involved. Ice Cube plays an interesting character as well. Ready to follow but yet has a mind of his own. And the fourth soldier, well-meaning white trash, Spike Jonze is clueless, absolutely willing to follow his idol, Mark Wahlberg to the ends of the earth.



Script-wise, the most amazing thing is that it brings out messages very subtly – America’s clueless foreign policy, Saddam’s greed, the blind, unthinking way soldiers follow instructions and how power just always seems to corrupt. Editing ensures that the edge of your seat and you become inseparable. And the sets throw up one surprise after another – the caves that they visit are reminiscent of Aladdin’s caves – yielding one surprise after another.



The film is intelligent, well thought out and well planned. It provokes thoughts by planting stimulus rather than hammering it in. I really wish we could make Indian films like this…