In Incredible India, dogs and humans have one thing in common – they both are forever running behind some useless thing. Visit any Indian village or town, you’ll be sure to find a bunch of feral-looking dogs chasing a bus, a stranger, young kids, cows, the mailman or other dogs. Ditto with Indian humans. They […]
By Naveen Anil Kapoor’s eagerly anticipated Hollywood offering Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol released Thursday night in the U.S. exclusively at IMAX theaters. Anil’s Hollywood fans could hardly contain their excitement and paraded to the nearest theaters in numbers that make the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd seem like Monday morning gathering at the local Hindu temple. […]
By Naveen With the engaging preview of Contagion doing the rounds on cable for the past couple of weeks, my curiosity had been whetted as to what all these A List actors were doing in the same movie. When I was asked by SI to review Contagion today, I was not going to be the […]
We wouldn’t be surprised in the least if our readers, schmucks as many of them undoubtedly are, do not recognize the movie title In a Better World. Since improving your entertainment quotient is our self-inflicted punishment, know it now that In a Better World is a Danish-English-Swedish (or Danglish in our neologism of the day) […]
As we were desultorily scanning Bloomberg News on our iPad while lying in bed, we stumbled upon some rather interesting news: * Facebook is banned in China. Yes, the country of 1.2 billion hackers, low-wage slaves, destroyer of American jobs and nemesis of Indians can’t access the social networking site. Maybe, it’s all for the […]
Deiva Thirumagal has the odious perversion of not merely being stolen (from the 2001 Hollywood film I Am Sam) but also the dubious distinction of being a downright trashy movie. Too Hard for Vikram Folks, one of the biggest disappointments of Deiva Thirumagal is Vikram’s mediocre acting. Truth be said, Vikram is not even a […]