Our first introduction to the Hammer and the superhero who wields the powerful weapon was not a bad deal. We watched Thor a short while ago and while we certainly didn’t leave the theater in a giddy euphoria, we didn’t feel shortchanged either. Superhero movies often come with an extra dimension, the extraterrestrial dimension, and […]
To describe the new Telugu movie 100% Love (Naga Chaitanya, Tamannaah Bhatia) as a hopelessly silly piece of trash would be to bestow an extravagant compliment on the clumsy grotesquerie. That in this day and age, 100 plus years into the motion picture business, some Telugu people put out such rank amateur stuff and then […]
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled….Sorrow is properly […]
Given our fondness for eating, we never miss an opportunity to stuff food into our mouth. In the course of our restless gustatory wanderings, we came upon this food item. Most Indians know the name of this food item though they’d be hard-pressed to identify it by looking at the below picture. 😉 Let’s see […]
(For SI Blog reader Kreacher) A riveting and ultimately moving tale of two young boys in Kabul set against the depressing backdrop of political violence and the frayed social fabric of Afghanistan, Kite Runner is a film of stunning beauty. And of horrific cruelty in its stark depiction of life in the war-torn land. Kite Runner […]
Fellow Jihadis, our generous Pakistani benefactors 😉 and my countless acolytes, a few short hours ago after recklessly thrusting my head and chest into the path of two American bullets I boarded a stealth, radar-evading CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Abbottabad in the wee hours of the night to embark upon my journey to a new […]