By Naveen Anil Kapoor’s eagerly anticipated Hollywood offering Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol released Thursday night in the U.S. exclusively at IMAX theaters. Anil’s Hollywood fans could hardly contain their excitement and paraded to the nearest theaters in numbers that make the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd seem like Monday morning gathering at the local Hindu temple. […]
With each new movie, Anushka Sharma’s characters turn more sluttish. Bowing to gravity the top cover keeps slithering down, defying gravity the bottom vestments keep going up and demo’ing the geometric construction of an equilateral triangle the distance between the legs keep getting wider (during the dances). Hey, what gives? A short while ago, in […]
We just subscribed to the iPad version of Encyclopaedia Britannica for a princely sum of $1.99 a month. Well, what do we think we did first. Yes, schmucks, yes. We searched for our Bollywood stars on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Guess what? There are some surprises here. Real big surprises! We found separate profiles for trash […]
King Khan’s super hero movie Ra.One has drawn ho-hum reviews from Indian critics. Here are excerpts from a bunch of Indian critics: NDTV But, on the whole, RA.One is far too derivative to take anybody except the most gullible of moviegoers… But, sorry, this isn’t ‘the next level’ of Hindi cinema, let alone superhero flicks. […]
7Aum Arivu is a silly bore that bizarrely seeks to meld fictional Tamil history, fictional Tamil pride and fictional biological warfare for the sole purpose of bamboozling Tamil movie fans into parting with their real money. Silly, Lifeless Film The movie builds on the myth of a historical martial arts fighter and medicine man called […]
For some odd reason, Biryanis have become a big thing on the East Coast lately. From Massachusetts to Georgia and perhaps even beyond, it seems like every other day a Biryani place is opening up in one city or the other on the Eastern seaboard. In Edison, New Jersey, the two well-known Biryani places are […]