The fedora is there. And for sure, there’s Harrison Ford beneath the fedora. Yes, Steven Spielberg is there again – calling the shots behind the camera as director, as he was for the previous three Indiana Jones movies. But the magic just ain’t there in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which […]
Update: Tamil Nadu Bhavan Re-opened by NYC Health Dept Our earliest memories of South Indian restaurants are of dark and dingy interiors, food served in dirty plates or banana leaves and water poured into tall tumblers by sweat-drenched waiters in the dusty small towns and cities of Tamil Nadu in South India. Four decades and […]
May 18, 2008 will forever remain a dark day in Indian cinema. After all, this is the day when Indian cinema made an ass of itself on the world stage. If reports are correct, today is the market screening of that Tamil horror show Billa at the Cannes Film Festival. No one in his right […]
Before the Rains Language: English Year: May 2008 Actors: Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Linus Roache, Jennifer Ehle Director: Santosh Sivan Producer: Mark Burton Music: Mark Kilian Screenplay: Cathy Rabin When bimbos like Kareena Kapoor and Nayantara or buffoons like Abhishek Bachchan and Ajith Kumar show even a faint spark of acting talent, we are startled. […]
Bhoothnath is a disaster at the U.S. box office. This crap of a movie grossed a pitiful $330,246 in its opening weekend (May 9-11, 2008) in the U.S. Eros Entertainment was the distributor for Bhoothnath in the U.S. It’s no surprise that Bhoothnath was a damp squib at the box office here. As SearchIndia.com wrote […]
New Developments on Satyam Fraud *Indian IT Crook Satyam Names Insider A.S.Murty CEO *Indian Outsourcing Crook Ramalinga Raju Arrested *Satyam Board Kicked Out, Hooray * Ram Mynampati Vows to Stay at Satyam; Kick Him Out * Trading in Satyam Still Halted on NYSE * We are Big Time Crooks, Confesses Satyam * 53,000 Satyam Coolies […]