The Last Stand Review – ‘Negger is Back!

By Naveen Arnold Schwarzenegger – the Terminator, the Governator, the maid-Impregnator, and one of the most famous action heroes of 80’s and 90’s, is back in the Kim Ji-woon directed The Last Stand. After doing a couple of guest appearances in the moronic Expendables 1 & 2, Arnold returns in a lead role after nearly […]

Quiz of the Day – On Rajinikanth

So you folks think you know all there’s to know about Rajinikanth, the Tamil Superstar nonpareil. Now before you ask Rajinikanth who, read this brief introduction. I’ll bet you my Kingdom that most of you schmucks won’t get the right answer to the below quiz. Don’t beg or bug me for any hints, clues, suggestions […]

Starving Beggars have Few Smartphones

Just yesterday, we read an article in an Indian newspaper that 25% of Indians go to bed hungry every night. And a few minutes back, we stumbled upon a Nielsen survey showing India with a low rate of smartphone penetration compared to the other BRIC countries. (Nielsen map of India is erroneous as it chops […]

Ulaga Madayan and the Art of Torture Mechanism – Shankarlal Review

Human despair seldom leads to great truths – Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin, p.338 (Library of America series) Rarely has a caricature as morbid, as pathetic, as avaricious and as over-worshipped as Kamal Haasan stalked the dark eddies, gullies and nooks of Tamil cinema. Bad as this perverse apparition and Ulaga Madayan (Kamal Haasan) is when he […]

Poll on Raghu Yandamuri’s Unborn Child

With Montgomery County prosecutors deciding to seek the death penalty for Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri charged in the heinous murders of 10-month-old Saanvi Venna and her 61-year-old grandmother Satyavathi Venna, there’s an important issue that has receded into the background – the fate of Raghu Yandamuri and Komali Alokam’s unborn child. Raghu Yandamuri’s Unborn Child […]