Say what you will but India is undoubtedly the CMC of the world, the Crap Movie Capital of the world. Yes, we can already hear the tipsy, patriotic yokels coming out of the woodwork yelling out – Oh, you are not aware of the cornucopia of alternate movies that never make it to the U.S., […]
If Danny Boyle had made Salaam Bombay, would the movie have been subjected to the same venomous attacks that some members of the Bollywood ignorati have heaped upon his new award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Most likely, yes. A lot of calumnies would have been heaped upon Danny. After all, Danny is a gora, a westerner from the […]
Even as Slumdog Millionaire continues to reap awards and greater glory in its heady race to the Oscars, some folks have slammed the movie as vastly inferior to, and even a copy of, the critically acclaimed Brazilian film Cidade de Deus (a Portuguese language movie released in 2002). Not a Copy No, Slumdog Millionaire is […]
Of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search 2009 competition, eight are desis (many seem to be South Indians). Often referred to as the Junior Nobel Prize, the Science Talent Search is America’s oldest and most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors. Seven former finalists have won the Nobel Prize. Numbering […]
So you thought the big-chested Mallika Sherawat or the flat-chested Aishwarya Rai were the most lusted after Bollywood actresses by those drooling wastrels plonked in front of their monitors. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Our UK gal Katrina Kaif is the hottest lady for Indian Internet users. Sayeth who? Google in its 2008 Zeitgeist report for India […]
Stay away from Yuvvraaj. Just keep way from this dungheap of a movie that’s offensive beyond redemption. Rain Man (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise) is a great Hollywood classic, the winner of four Oscars. Yuvvraaj is an ugly, pitiful Bollywood copy of Rain Man that offers nothing but dollops of misery to unsuspecting moviegoers. Dustin […]