To all the Indian schmucks who failed to make it to the IITs and graduated from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, Periyar Maniammai University, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University et al, we say take heart. All is not lost, there’s still hope even for y’all imbeciles. 😉 Ever […]
Kaminey is not Pulp Fiction. In more ways than one. Since some SI readers have repeatedly brought up Pulp Fiction as the progenitor for Kaminey, we went over to Blockbuster on Sunday and rented the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film (Dr.UnkHaf D. Aktar, we’ve added $2.54 to your account). Having watched Pulp Fiction, our verdict is […]
(Recommended by SI reader Boopalanj) Preoccupied as Indian film-makers are with regurgitating trash, the documentary as an art form is virtually absent in Bollywood or any of its smaller regional siblings. That’s odd when you know the cornucopia of material available to Indian film-makers. Given that the blighted land is rife with corruption, rampant cruelty, […]
(Recommended by SI reader shadowfax_arbit) Slipped the Alai Payuthe DVD into our player. Directed by Mani Ratnam, Alai Payuthe features B-grade Tamil film star Madhavan with Shalini (now Ajith’s wife) playing his heroine. Madhavan is not a bad actor but we wonder if anyone gives a flying f**k for this Nai-kutty (puppy) faced fella. After […]
As we were dining at Rangoli in Chantilly (Northern Virginia) the other day, we were eerily reminded of what our favorite essayist Macaulay wrote in his piece on the Prussian king Frederic the Great. The food at Frederic’s eccentric father Frederic William’s place, Macaulay wrote, was so bad that even hunger loathed it. Odds are […]
Boy, these are hard times for restaurants in the U.S., particularly for Indian restaurants that are starting to see long and dark shadows fall over them. Real hard times, folks. Market researcher NPD has just put out a report that traffic for casual dining restaurants in the U.S. declined 4% in this year’s spring quarter […]