Don’t the loveliest of movies sometimes come from the unlikeliest of places. Who’d have thought that one of the finest crime films we’d see in a long, long time would come from tiny Austria (annual film production of Austria=15% of Telugu movies in a year). Hey, how many of you Bollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood fanatics […]
Folks, if there’s one Bollywood star whose movies unfailingly guarantee disaster lately at the U.S. box office, it’s Salman Khan. The hopeless actor is the kiss of death at the box office, a nightmare for the audience and misery for the Bollywood producers and distributors. Over the last few years, Salman Khan has amassed a […]
(via iPhone) Devuda, Devuda. 😉 We are inside the movie hall waiting for Telugu movie Ek Niranjan (Prabhas, Kangana Ranaut) to start. Puri Jagannadh of Pokiri fame is the director. Already 55 minutes behind schedule. What the heck does Ek Niranjan mean? No matter. It probably wouldn’t make much difference anyway. There are about 100 […]
(Recommended by SI reader kurf) Something very good or something very bad in life, there’s got to be an Indian connection. Right, na? After watching the lovely horror film Halloween (1978), we were wondering what the Indian connection could be. Eureka. As the credits started rolling, there it was, our Indian connection – Krishna Rao. […]
20% of Avatar Work Still Incomplete The mailman brought us our latest issue of the New Yorker (Oct 26, 2009) yesterday. And what do we find? A huge, 13-page piece on James ‘Titanic’ Cameron and his upcoming 3D/2D movie Avatar, the director’s first movie in 12 years. In production for over four years, the $230 […]
Some get their highs from Snow White. Some derive their highs via curry. Some wet their thighs over Aamir. Over the last couple of days, we watched both Cavite and its Bollywood spawn Aamir (you can stream them both on Instant Play, if you have a $8.99 Netflix subscription). We watched the Tagalog language Cavite […]