SI Likes Pengal Yendral Poiya Poithanaa

Every once in a while, I find a Tamil song that endears itself to me. My current favorite is Pengal Yendral Poiya Poithanaa from the film Neethaane En Ponvasantham. Yuvan Shankar Raja has sung the track, for which the music is composed by his father Ilayaraja. The song has a measure of depth, a rarity […]

Khiladi 786 BO – Disaster, Mega Disaster

Even the crap-loving Indian movie fans have rejected Akshay Kumar’s latest crap-show Khiladi 786. For the opening December 7-9 weekend, Khiladi 786 grossed a mere $228,967, one of the lowest in recent months for a Bollywood film featuring a big star in a leading role. It’d be unrealistic to hope that the failure of Khiladi […]

Cast Away – Why did I Waste My Time

Oh God, Wilson! Never Again, Never Again, Never Again! – Tom Hanks’ character Chuck Noland in Cast Away I’ve said time and again that the majority of my classless, crass Indian and NRI readers wouldn’t be able to locate their hanging scrotal appendages a.k.a balls with two hands and a flashlight! When one of the […]