We are Family is We are Garbage, Say Critics Listen, Baby, ain’t no mountain high Ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wide enough, Baby. If you need me, call me, no matter where you are No matter how far. Don’t worry, Baby Just call my name, I’ll be there in a hurry You don’t […]
A short while ago, we received an e-mail that we’ve reproduced verbatim below: Hello, My name is Matt Porter, and I am a filmmaker and recent New York University graduate. I am searching for an Indian couple, ideally a husband and wife, over the age of 50 who would both be interested in acting in […]
Even kids like Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor are doing better than Akshay Kumar at the box office these days, so much better . In the second weekend at the U.S. box office, the kids’ I Hate Luv Storys did more business than Akshay’s Khatta Meetha in the second weekend. Folks, the second weekend U.S. […]
(For SI blog reader Racer44) As we’ve said time and again, everything in India is different. Be it the notion of honor, treatment of women, matters of love, poverty, child labor or corruption, in all of these and more India is sui generis. Mostly for the worse. Hell, even a simple English word encounter has […]
Kung Fu lies in everything. How we put on the jacket. How we take off the jacket. Everything is Kung Fu. – Jackie Chan’s character Mr. Han to Dre (Jaden Smith) in Karate Kid. If there’s one thing that inflames us more than the abominable sight of Indian adult ‘actors’ like Abhishek Bachchan, Trisha Krishnan, […]
Desi girl Anamika Veeramani is the 2010 Spelling Bee champion. Anamika’s winning word at the 2010 Spelling Bee finals held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington DC this evening was stromuhr. (And we predicted the winner this morning. No kidding, folks. Read our comments and posts from earlier today.) The 14-year-old girl is an […]