No surprise here. After sweeping the Golden Globes, Slumdog Millionaire has now received 10 Oscar nominations including three for music maestro A.R.Rahman. But we are mighty peeved that our other favorite – Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino – failed to receive even a single nomination. The 81st Annual Academy Awards (i.e. Oscars) will be awarded on February […]
iPhone is still on a roll. Apple said today it’d sold 13.7 million iPhone units in 2008 (including 4.36 million in Q4 alone), well ahead of its target of 10 million for the year. Apple customers are also downloading applications in a big, big way. Over half-a-billion apps (that is 500-million for the mathematically disadvantaged) […]
Here’s Take 2 of Incredible India containing some of those only-in-India incredible stories: * Priests at an Orissa temple performed a special purificatory ceremony after the visit of a Dalit minister. There must be a special place reserved in hell for the Brahmin swines who still engage in obnoxious discriminatory practices in many parts of […]
We are starting a regular segment called Incredible India that’ll highlight incredible stories and facts that can only be Made in India. Here’s a selection of some of the incredible stories and facts to come out of Incredible India: * Two minor Indian girls were married to frogs in a remote village of Villupuram District in […]
Chandni Chowk Collapses – Down 80% Confirmed – Chandni Chowk a Mega Box Office Disaster Akshay Kumar, Akki or by whatever asinine appellation you are known, please slit your wrists (and do let the blade sink deep).That’s the only way to ensure you don’t inflict such hideous perversity on hapless viewers ever again. Folks, no matter what […]
This Amitabh ‘Big Mouth’ Bachchan fella is a strange creature. The guy just can’t stop bitchin bakwas (nonsense). This clown can’t act. His son wouldn’t recognize acting if it slapped him in the face. His daughter-in-law is clueless in the acting department. Bachchan Sr doesn’t know diddly about the movie business (or for that matter […]