Americans Empty Bedpans Over Shriya Saran In the long journey of our life, we’ve wasted countless hours in so many frivolous pursuits. But none more frivolous than reading those trashy Mills & Boon romances – You know those ridiculous, pulp novels where girl meets domineering boy…sparks fly…boy and girl fight and part…girl pines for boy…time […]
Thus spake Denzel Washington’s character Joe Miller in the classic film Philadelphia (1993) after Tom Hanks’ character, the dying AIDS lawyer Andrew Beckett, congratulates him on surviving his first gay party. Miller is actually explaining how homosexuals were viewed in most American families in the early 1990s as AIDS was beginning to ravage the gay community. […]
Ever since we dined at Hoysala a few weeks back, we’ve been hooked, line and sinker on that fine delicacy from the South Indian state of Karnataka – Pineapple Gojju. So this Diwali we set out to make this remarkable invention of God (believe us, something as non pareil as the Pineapple Gojju is beyond the ken of […]
We had heard in several quarters that Tamil film director Gautam Menon’s upcoming movie Vaaranam Aayiram (Surya) is inspired by the Tom Hanks movie Forrest Gump. So we got the Forrest Gump DVD from Netflix and watched it last night. If (a big if) Forrest Gump is indeed the source for Vaaranam Ayiram, it’d be […]
Ajith’s Shame – Hey, Even Genelia’s Better than Him Several movie critics have shown the middle finger to Ajith’s latest crap show Aegan. Not surprising since Aegan represents one of the low points of the Tamil movie industry. Here are some excerpts from various reviews of Aegan: BehindWoods: With that saggy little plot and actors […]
Nayantara, Aamir Khan (in the forthcoming movie Ghajini), Amrita Arora, Saif Ali Khan, Lara Dutta, Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham, Esha Deol ….the tattoo-ed list of the Indian glitterati goes on and on ad nauseum, ad infinitum. Forget the Bollywood and Kollywood stars, who in any case thrive on the oxygen of publicity. Even a sober Jewish friend of […]