If it’s Friday, it’s time for another tiresome Bollywood movie! Such has been my miserable kismet for several years now. And 2 States did not turn out to be markedly different from the usual wretched Bollywood tripe except for a few amusing moments here and there before the de rigueur happy ending. North-South Conflict Based […]
Who needs Bollywood when you have U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NYC Preet Bharara to provide better entertainment on a Friday by re-indicting former NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. 😉 I have not the slightest doubt that this Friday’s Bollywood release Bewakoofiyaan has no hope against the might of the Bharara-Devyani juggernaut and […]
Bollywood film Highway, director Imtiaz Ali’s lift of the two-decade old Hollywood movie The Chase, has fared poorly at the U.S. box office. For the opening February 21-23, 2014 weekend, Highway could manage a gross of only $286,495. Highway’s opening weekend performance is pathetic for a Bollywood director of Imtiaz Ali’s stature. Highway is Imtiaz […]
The road to power is paved with hypocrisy….and casualties. Never regret. – Vice President Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) in House of Cards Season 2, Episode 9 For less than the cost of a Bollywood movie ticket, once again I got to watch 13 episodes of a top-notch political drama – House of Cards, Season 2. […]
If you schmucks thought all the cool products in the world emerge only from the womb of giant corporations like Apple or Sony, you’d be so wrong. Thanks to the paradigm shift wrought by the Internet, even unknown individuals with limited resources but bright ideas can get funding to realize their giant dreams. In 2014, […]
Does the action genre of films require the least imagination, least talent, and the least intelligent/least demanding audience? Yes, to all of the above. To borrow a phrase from Bollywood jackass Akshay Kumar, I’d say most action films belong to the ‘leave your brains at home‘ category. Be it Kollywood, Tollywood or even Hollywood, action […]