(For SI blog reader Kurf) It’s past midnight, here on the East Coast. And here we are, the gin-soaked desis popping the DVD into our Panasonic player to watch the Martin Scorsese-directed film The King of Comedy. Featuring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, the movie debuted in the U.S. about 27 years back. We […]
Boy, oh boy, what a movie. Folks, Kick-Ass, which debuts in theaters across the U.S. Friday, is an absolutely delightful superhero film. In a 100-years million years, the monkeys in Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood et al can’t dream of making such an entertaining movie. Wild Ride A high octane film bursting with energy, Kick-Ass accelerates from […]
People needed to know the real Salman Khan. A certain image of mine was constantly being projected to my fans, which was untrue….I felt that it was just being unfair to me as well as to people who were being bombarded with only negative reports about me. So it was high time I changed that […]
Schmucks, we ain’t talking of the Prophet here but A Prophet. Verstehen? Nein? Dann halt deine klappe. Blessing our good fortune and thanking Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood et al for not releasing any films lately, we headed for Philadelphia yesterday for some Chaat and to watch the French movie A Prophet. While the Chaat at Desi […]
by SI blog reader Racer44 (Readers: SI’s comments follow this essay) Having completed over 92 years since its inception (the first silent Tamil movie Keechaka Vadham was released in 1917), it is only obvious that we ask ourselves, where is Tamil Cinema headed? (ignoring, of course, naysayers like SI who say that it’s headed from […]
We should just believe in hope and trust and love and that’s all is going to get us through to everything. – Bollywood starlet Sonam Kapoor at a candlelight vigil near German Bakery for the victims of the February 13 blast. Source: DNA