(The below post is based on a tip from Satya, a regular reader of the SearchIndia.com blog. Thanks.) The thieving scumbags of the Tamil movie industry have done it again – they have stolen a nice Hollywood movie called Judgment Night (1993, Director: Stephen Hopkins), made a few cosmetic changes and called it Saroja. First […]
Brokeback Mountain – the name evokes memories of the critically acclaimed movie from director Ang Lee featuring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. But few remember that Brokeback Mountain was based on a short story of the same name by Pulitzer Prize author Annie Proulx. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that Proulx has […]
Saroja – Outright Theft of Judgment Night Make no mistake – Saroja is not a great movie or a must watch movie by any stretch of imagination (pl click here to read Saroja – Outright Theft of Judgment Night). But, this is a big but, Saroja is a lot better than the usual garbage that […]
Ever since we read John Kennedy Toole’s brilliant book The Confederacy of Dunces, we’ve wanted to visit New Orleans. We finally got to visit New Orleans earlier this year, about two and half years after Hurricane Katrina basically destroyed the city. As we pulled into the Ninth Ward driven by morbid curiosity to see one […]
Unless you are a complete idiot or a troglodyte, you know who Craig Newmark is. Assuming for a moment that you are one of those out to prove that the dodo is not extinct, let’s introduce Craig Newmark to you. Craig Newmark is the Craig of Craigslist and the man single-handedly responsible for destroying the […]
Tamil Nadu has a burning problem. This is a disturbing trend that no other Indian state has shown over 40 years. Take a look: * When Tamil movie superstar Rajinikanth’s marriage was on the rocks in the 1980s, an anguished fan doused himself with kerosene outside the star’s house in Chennai and burnt himself to death […]