Before the Rains Language: English Year: May 2008 Actors: Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Linus Roache, Jennifer Ehle Director: Santosh Sivan Producer: Mark Burton Music: Mark Kilian Screenplay: Cathy Rabin When bimbos like Kareena Kapoor and Nayantara or buffoons like Abhishek Bachchan and Ajith Kumar show even a faint spark of acting talent, we are startled. […]
Bhoothnath is a disaster at the U.S. box office. This crap of a movie grossed a pitiful $330,246 in its opening weekend (May 9-11, 2008) in the U.S. Eros Entertainment was the distributor for Bhoothnath in the U.S. It’s no surprise that Bhoothnath was a damp squib at the box office here. As SearchIndia.com wrote […]
Multiple bomb blasts rocked the Indian city of Jaipur today. Early reports suggest that several dozen people have been killed. One news report said over 60 people were killed in six blasts. Dozens of other people have been injured. Capital of the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, Jaipur is known as the Pink City for its pink […]
Some Bollywood movies hit the big screen more dead than alive. Like the scarily mediocre Bhoothnath, for instance. There were all of 11 people for the 6:30PM show on Friday at the Regal Cinemas in New Jersey. Yes, less than a dozen people for the 6:30PM show on opening night. And you know what? In retrospect, […]
Having conquered the world’s markets, China’s countless millions have now embarked on a new mission – to master the English language, the global language of art and commerce. The New Yorker has an interesting piece on the Chinese’ obsession with English in the latest issue: China has been in the grip of “English fever,†as […]
(Tashan Fares Miserably at U.S. Box Office) Even the inmates in the asylum or a tramp on the Mumbai streets would have made a better movie than this Friday’s Bollywood release Tashan. What in the heck were the bozos at Yash Raj thinking when they unleashed a trashy movie like Tashan! Utterly bereft of anything […]