Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been a speaker and performer like no other — his absolute enthusiasm for his company is electric in person, turning ordinary corporate events into raw displays of emotion that are often criticized but never forgotten.
“My general philosophy these days is not to expect too much, but I can’t deny that [the attention] feels nice. People now tend to look at me beyond the glamour and the looks,” she says, shrugging her shoulders.”The morning after a film releases, your phone is flooded with messages. It’s a beautiful high. But you can’t let it get to you. You have to get right back to work.”
Less than 15 minutes before I’m meant to arrive at her home, Deepika Padukone sends me a text message asking if we could delay our appointment.
“Can we meet half an hour later? Flying out to Macau for IIFA tonight. Have errands to run,” she tells me.
Some 40 minutes later, I’m in the elevator heading upstairs to meet Bollywood’s new queen.
It’s been a turnaround year for the 27-year-old actor, who’s had four back-to-back box office hits in 12 months (Cocktail, Race 2, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Chennai Express).
Touted as an action comedy, 2 Guns for most part, delivers it.
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg play the roles of two cons who’s background come to play spoil sport in what otherwise should have been one last mission as a team. Soon each is pitted against each other and once they know their real backgrounds, they unite on a common goal.
The movie takes the route of old Telugu multi-starrers when heroes are friends at first, then hate each other and then come together for one last bang in the third act 🙂
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg bring the amount of star power and chemistry and required for the roles and pull it off pretty easily.
Even though a fan of Denzel Washington, I watched all his movies on TV. This is the first I watched on big screen. And there lies some disappointment 🙂