Netflix Hits 10m Subscribers

Attesting to its growing popularity, online movie rental service Netflix has hit the 10 million subscriber milestone. Great for Desis As we wrote 14 months ago, for movie buffs living in the U.S., Netflix is an excellent source of Bollywood, Kollywood, Hollywood and foreign language movies. Whether it’s the crappy Drona, the ugly Dostana or the fine […]

Upcoming Movie Reviews on SearchIndia.com

Here are the upcoming movie reviews on SearchIndia.com: * 13 Tzameti, a French movie directed by Gela Babluani * Billu Barber (Irrfan Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Lara Dutta) * Delhi 6 (Abhishek Bachchan and voluptuous Sonam Kapoor) * The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey & Stephen Baldwin) * A Wednesday, a much acclaimed film featuring Naseeruddin Shah and […]

Citigroup Lost $18.72b in 2008; Greedy Desi Pig Vikram Pandit Took Home $1m

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit disclosed that his pay for 2008 was $1 million in testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee this morning. Folks, remember Citigroup lost $18.72 billion in 2008 including $8.29 billion in the fourth quarter alone. And fired 73,000 employees. Vikram Pandit also got about $26.7 million in stock (1.094 million […]

Incredible India – 9; Pigs in Khaki

The latest instalment of Incredible India focuses on the atrocities by the Indian police and starts with an Only-in-India story of the rape of a rape victim by the police (no typo there, we mean rape of a rape victim). * Anyone who is the least bit familiar with India knows that many members of the […]

After the Wedding – Lovely Danish Movie

Say what you will but India is undoubtedly the CMC of the world, the Crap Movie Capital of the world. Yes, we can already hear the tipsy, patriotic yokels coming out of the woodwork yelling out – Oh, you are not aware of the cornucopia of alternate movies that never make it to the U.S., […]