Akshay Kumar aka Trash King for his insufferably trashy Bollywood movies is back. This Diwali, Akshay Kumar’s Action Replayy will fight Golmaal 3 (Ajay Devgan) for the chance to dip into the wallets of Bollywood fans. If you believe the rumors, Action Replayy is inspired by the old Hollywood blockbuster Back to the Future. We […]
Many of us are conditioned or wont to think of terrorists as unschooled baboons or idiots brainwashed into following their leaders’ bidding. Not so. Not so. The New York Times Magazine had an interesting piece yesterday which argues that: [I]n the ranks of captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
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 […]
Movie critics are hammering Yash Raj Films‘ new movie Badmaash Company. In recent years, Yash Raj Films has established a strong reputation for putting out trashy films and Badmaash Company doesn’t stray from that self-destructive course. Here are excerpts from a sample of critics. NDTV: Badmaash Company is a proof that the Yash Raj Films […]
by SI blog reader Racer44 (Readers: SI’s comments follow this essay) Having completed over 92 years since its inception (the first silent Tamil movie Keechaka Vadham was released in 1917), it is only obvious that we ask ourselves, where is Tamil Cinema headed? (ignoring, of course, naysayers like SI who say that it’s headed from […]
Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid The Wall Street Journal on Saturday featured an interview with Hamas traitor Mosab Hassan Yousef, a confessed spy for Israeli security agency Shin Bet, a convert to Christianity and also oldest son of a Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef. In the interview, here’s what the Hamas traitor Mosab […]