By SI’s Tokyo Correspondent Nirvana for Indians anywhere on the planet comes in three forms – Curry, Cricket and Cinema (Bollywood or its Southern variants Kollywood and Tollywood). The world may be better than Indians at several things but none can beat us in food and cricket. And nobody, nobody can make trashier movies than […]
(For SI Blog reader Rmadasu) No, I’m not Soju-fied! At least not completely. Hey, even I can’t gulp 750ml in one go. What do you think I am, Rajesh Khanna or Raghuvaran? 😉 Of Pigs, Chimps, Aishwarya & Salman Now I’m not making things up about Aishwarya Rai and Salman Khan’s ancestors being Pigs and […]
Truth be said, I’ve seen more Korean films than Kannada movies! The Kannada film industry makes the trashy Kollywood, Tollywood and Bollywood look like they produce nothing but masterpieces. Kannada films had their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, it’s been in precipitous decline. I present below one of my favorite Kannada songs […]
The only group of people for whom Bullett Raja is appropriate are masochistic Indian moviegoers who derive their jollies from painful lashes on their back. The rest ought to stay at home than subject themselves to this puerile attempt at movie-making. Insufferable Garbage – Beginning to End From the opening “encounter” scene on a rural […]
Car Pooja in Progress at a U.S. East Coast Hindu Temple As a Hindu, albeit a non-believing one, SI is mad as hell. What’s wrong with us Hindus that we should be so flagrantly, blatantly discriminated against by America! Hey Narendra Modi, where are you when we Hindus need you most? Watching Muslim Wankers This […]
[I am] one part creative, one part strategist, one part producer, one part inventor, one part video editor and one part South Indian. – Gramovox co-founder and CEO Pavan Bapu on his Linkedin Profile When the gramophone was introduced in America in the early part of the 20th century, it was magic. In the 1920s, […]