Indian viewers of the superb Brazilian film Elite Squad – The Enemy Within (2010) can take great comfort that there are other countries in the world as screwed up, as corrupt and as rotten as Mera Bharat Mahaan. Elite Squad – The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2 – O Inimigo Agora é Outro), a […]
By Naveen Once upon a time a new director graced the Tamil film industry. He soon gained name and fame with some very successful films. The simpletons from Tamil Nadu started taking him seriously as a director and that’s when this fellow realized these fools will lap up anything he throws their way. First he […]
The wise souls at SI have long held that Tamil film director Gautam Menon puts out mostly trashy films. Menon’s Tamil film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010) was a piece of junk. But trash too finds eager takers in some quarters (hint: it’s a two-word South Indian state starting with T) and was lapped up by a […]
By SI Commenter Mnx542 Watched Dhoni today in Chennai. Sad to see that including me, there were only about 30 people in the theater with a capacity of over 310. I was a bit doubtful about how the movie would turn out to be but all my doubts vanished as the movie started playing. A […]
Even the most successful of businesses sometimes make asses of themselves with incomprehensibly stupid decisions. Yesterday, it was the turn of India’s top newspaper group Times of India to display its jackass colors. Not content with putting out iPad apps for its two flagship newspapers, Times of India and Economic Times, Times Internet Limited, the […]
On the occasion of Charles Dickens’ 200th birth centenary, it’s time to look at what the acclaimed British writer thought of Indians. Here’s what the dickhead Dickens wrote after the 1857 mutiny/First War of Independence: I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully […]