Rocking Chennai Express - A typical sambar and sandalwood creation

Chennai Express is the kind of non-toxic comic entertainer where the most damaging double-entendres you'd get is a Tamil word that sounds like Angelina Jolie's name.

Deepika as the runaway Tamilian girl who piles on to the North Indian mithaiwala stranger to escape marrying the boorish fiancee back home in her village in Tamil Nadu.

Some of the long shots of the train winding through green area is breathtaking. And Shah Rukh's first meeting with Deepika's father over a bridge over a fast-flowing river is shot with amazing brio.

There's a wonderfully-shot sequence where Shah Rukh has to carry Deepika to a temple over hundreds of steps. Deepika here goes from amusement and mockery to a sense of belonging and pride in her man's arms. It's a moment built with care and love.

But then, such tender affection really has no place in this comedy of cultural dispossession where the Punjabi boy Rahul gets embroiled in Tamil girl Meena's family affairs and comes out... well not quite wiser. But filled with self-mocking laughter.

Shah Rukh pokes a whole lot of good-natured fun at his now-aging lover-boy persona. There are tongue-in-cheek references to Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and several other Shah Rukh Khan films and songs including the introductory South Indian lines from the "Jiya jale" song in "Dil Se".

Want to Block Calls & Text Messages from a particular number?.. - Nokia Lumia Windows Phone got update for this facility

Nokia has started rolling out an app to its Lumia Windows Phones that enables the blocking of calls and SMS messages. In an update to the Extra + Info application, Nokia has added an additional settings area in Windows Phone that lets owners block specific numbers from calling or sending text messages. The app also integrates into the phone section of Windows Phone, where you can simply tap and hold on a number to add it to the block list.

 

As the Nokia Lumia 1020, Lumia 520 and Lumia 925 all come with the Windows Phone 8 GDR2 update preinstalled, those users can expect the new call blocking and SMS filtering options update to roll out to them over the next few days or so.

Users can enable the feature by heading to their Settings menu and tapping on Call + SMS filter once they’ve gotten the updated the Extras + Info application from the Windows Phone Store.

The list of reasons why Windows Phone users should only consider purchasing Windows Phones made by Nokia just keeps getting larger and larger. Although Microsoft, reportedly, added the ability to enable SMS and call blocking to Windows Phone 8 with the GDR2 update, it has left it to individual Windows Phone manufacturers to implement in their devices, meaning it’s possible that Samsung and HTC users won’t see this kind of functionality for some time.