Health Update: Run for your health and happiness!

Running is the most natural exercise for a human being. When a small infant starts walking, he tries to run as it is more natural for him. Due to the benefits of running, millions of people all over the world are running and the numbers are constantly increasing.

The advantages of running are enumerated below:

Heart: The maximum benefits occur in the heart as the muscles of two ventricles which pump out blood become thicker and both the interiors of these chambers become larger in size by 20 percent. This enables both the ventricles to pump out more blood with each beat.

The heart rate reduces and goes down to 40-50 per minute. Giving the heart time to relax as each beat pumps out more blood than usual. This also enables more blood supply to the heart muscles, giving it more power.

'Char Din Ki Chandni', full of loud slapstick humour (Hindi Film Review)

Film: "Chaar Din Ki Chandni"; Starring: Tusshar, Kulraj Randhawa, Om Puri, Anupam Kher; Directed by: Samir Karnik; Rating: ** 1/2

Don't ask who's who, what's what, and why things happen here. And your life will be much easier while watching this utterly scrambled comedy. A homage to those magnificent maestros of mirth David Dhawan, Anees Bazmi and Rohit Shetty, "Chaar Din Ki Chandni"(CDKC) takes the theme of outrageous festivity to a new high.


Characters, all 27-28 of them, are either screaming, guffawing, burping or performing one or the other bodily functions that we are squeamish about when not watching a boorish comedy.

Movie Review : Kahaani : A rare film that can claim to be a game-changer

"Kahaani" is not an ordinary thrill-a-minute film about a search for a missing person.

Film: "Kahaani"; Starring: Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nawazuddin Siddiqui; Directed by: Sujoy Ghosh; Rating: ****

This is a great time to be a movie buff. Within a week of "Paan Singh Tomar", which should incontestably win Irrfan Khan the National Award for best actor, comes "Kahaani" in which Vidya Balan is so flawlessly resplendent that one suspects the next year's National Award too is already reserved for her. Dirty deeds forgotten.

Playing Vidya Bagchi, a non-resident Indian (NRI) who lands in Kolkata heavily pregnant and immeasurably distressed by the disappearance of her husband, Vidya Balan doesn't hit a single false note in the entire graph of her character's fascinating journey.

Regional talent wins top honours at 59th National film awards

New Delhi: Regional actors and filmmakers swept the top honours, including best feature film, best direction and best actor titles, at the 59th National Film Awards announced here Wednesday. But Bollywood didn't fail to mark its presence, as Vidya Balan was named the best actress for her bold role in "The Dirty Picture".

The best feature film award was shared by Marathi film "Deool" and Kannada movie "Byari", while the winner of the best direction award was Gurvinder Singh for his Punjabi film "Anhe Ghorey Da Daan" -- the film also won the best cinematography title.

Marathi actor Girish Kulkarni was adjudged the best actor for his role as a good-hearted simpleton in "Deool".