If you go by the critics, Akshay Kumar’s latest film Khiladi 786 has as much to do with quality as NRI Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri with non-violence, which is zilch! Released today, the Akshay Kumar-Asin-Mithun Chakraborty film is earning withering scorn from reviewers in India. Here are excerpts from a sample of reviews of Khiladi […]
Those Jobs aren’t coming back. Steve Jobs to Barack Obama on bringing back some Apple manufacturing jobs from China to America With $121.3 billion in the bank, Apple plans to invest a mere $100 million in American manufacturing. That’s a piddling 0.082% of Apple’s mega cash hoard, the big chunk of which is stashed away […]
For the most part of human existence, our planet was a carnalcopia. You could screw any one without worrying about consequences. Father, mother, girl, boy, son, daughter, brother, sister, friend, foe, dog, cat, goat, uncle, aunt, buffalo (some Tamils still do it), cousin, grandma, niece, grandpa, neighbor etc, no problemo. Anybody was fair game. Game, […]
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. If there’s a better novel than Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece Lolita, I’ve yet to encounter that book. Lolita […]
An Oslo court has convicted Telugu couple Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni and his wife Anupama of child abuse and sentenced them to prison terms of 18-months and 15-months respectively. Upset over their son’s bed-wetting problems, the couple seem to have adopted harsh steps to stop it. Kurt Lir, Head of Prosecution, Oslo Police Department, told Indian media […]
Aamir Khan starrer Talaash has done well at the U.S. box office. For the November 30-December 2, 2012 opening weekend, Talaash raked in $1.64 million. Talaash released on 172 screens and had an average gross of $9,527. Shahrukh Khan’s recent film Jab Tak Hai Jaan took in only $1.94 million over a 6-day weekend. Here’s […]