2008 has so far turned out to be an annus horribilis for fans of Tamil and Hindi movies. If you are sick of crappy movies like Dasavatharam, Sarkar Raj, Tashan, Bhoothnath, Kuruvi and Azhagiya Tamil Magan coming out of the Augean pits of Bollywood and Kollywood we don’t blame ya. So are we. Sick to the […]
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg’s and his fellow principals at Dreamworks SKG are close to a deal with Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADA Group that will provide them with $500 million-$600 million to create a new movie venture, according to Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Although a new comer to the entertainment business, Reliance ADA Group […]
Firefox 3 debuted today to a grand response – by 10:30PM EST, the popular open source browser had been downloaded 2,751,944 times. No, we are not surprised. We’ve been using Firefox for years. And happily, may we add. Here are some of the highlights of Firefox 3: * Offers over 15,000 improvements, including the smart location […]
The bigger our Indian movie stars, the greater the bullshit that falls from their lips on occasion. The latest to earn the title of BS King is none other than our Ulaganayagan (Universal Hero) Kamal Haasan, whose embarrassingly bad Dasavatharam is now running on movie screens in several continents. Some of Kamal’s recent comical statements […]
Sarkar Raj has crashed at the U.S. box office in its second week. This trashy Bollywood movie’s second weekend gross was down by 73.8%. (Please click here for Sarkar Raj opening weekend gross collection data.) Featuring the three Bachchans, Sarkar Raj is a piece of trash from Ram Gopal Varma, the director who last year […]
Movie critics across a spectrum of publications have found Kamal Haasan’s freak show Dasavatharam less than satisfying. Here are excerpts from a sample of Dasavatharam Reviews: NDTV (T.S.Sudhir): Dasavathaaram, unfortunately, remains just a film with its USP of 10 Kamals. This Kamal does not blossom the way he did in Indian or Nayakan, Appu Raja, […]