Villu Review – Revoltingly Bad Tamil film star Vijay’s last two films were not merely pitiful disasters but also turned out to be hideous torture for viewers. Given Vijay’s pathetic track record lately, we wonder whether his new movie Villu is more of the same trash. Let’s take a quick look at some of Vijay’s […]
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the finest Made-in-India movies (non-Bollywood, of course) we’ve watched in recent years. The movie has mostly gotten the critics oohing and aahing over it. Here’s a look at excerpts from some of the prominent reviews for Slumdog Millionaire: Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal: “Slumdog Millionaire” is the film world’s […]
We are Big Time Crooks, Confesses Satyam If Shakespeare were writing Hamlet today, the bard would probably write Something is rotten in the state of Satyam. A few hours ago (17:40 EST), Indian IT services provider Satyam Computer Services announced that promoters’ stake in the company may have been reduced. Some hours before that, Satyam put […]
Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.  – the late Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (p.258) Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science and international relations at Harvard University for over five decades, died on December 24.
In these hard economic times, if your 2009 New Year Resolution is to cut back on wasteful spending and save money for the rainy days ahead, we suggest you start in the fading days of 2008 by skipping this piece of stolen junk called Ghajini. Yes, the Hindi Ghajini is the same stolen piece of […]
We’re off to watch Ghajini (Hindi) & won’t be posting or processing comments for several hours. You may read the review of Tamil Ghajini here.