Top Indian Web Sites – May 2008

More than 28 million people in India (age 15 and older) accessed the Internet from home and work in May marking a 27% increase over the same period a year ago, according to comScore. Since Internet users in India represent only 3% of the population there is significant potential for continued strong growth. According to […]

Kismat Konnection – Dud at Box Office

Kismat Konnection has failed to resonate at the U.S. box office. No surprise, indeed. Kismat Konnection is after all a piece of trash. As SearchIndia.com wrote in the review of this crappy movie: There is nothing in Kismat Konnection that lifts it out of the usual Bollywood trashy mold. The story is banal, the acting pedestrian, […]

Mongol Brings Genghis Khan to Life

Mongol Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun Director: Sergei Bodrov Now Playing at: Ritz Five Philadelphia (as of July 20, 2008) Language: Mongolian (with English sub-titles) One of history’s colorful characters, Genghis Khan a.k.a. Temudgin was the great Mongol leader who lived from 1162-1227. Released in June in the U.S. to mostly favorable reviews, […]

Screw Kismat Konnection: Watch Dark Knight

Kismat Konnection – Dud at Box Office Making crappy movies like Kismat Konnection is a sin. Reviewing such crappy movies – and giving them undeserved publicity – is a greater sin. Watching Kismat Konnection less than 24 hours after watching The Dark Knight featuring the peerless Heath Ledger as the Joker is nothing but Karmic […]

Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit Calls $2.5B Loss Progress

If a $2.5 billion loss is progress (even if it’s half the $5.1b loss of Q1), then our greedy desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit uses a different dictionary from the rest of us. This morning struggling financial services giant Citigroup announced a loss of $2.5 billion for its second quarter ended June 30, […]

Dark Knight – Heath Ledger’s Dazzling Swan Song

If Heath Ledger were not already dead, we’d have surely killed him with our bare hands for being careless with the prescription drugs that took the life of this amazing actor prematurely in January. To watch Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight is to rejoice in a performer who had reached the ne plu ultra, […]

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