Despite all the hype, hoopla and the glitzy ads, casino cities in the U.S. like Las Vegas (NV) or Atlantic City (N.J) have little to offer other than a ring of tacky casinos with endless miles of slot machines, skimpily-clad waitresses serving drinks and cheap buffets. A few years back, we went to Atlantic City […]
All ye cheapo desis in the U.S., cheer up. Here’s one more freebie for all you pukkat loving punks. Bollywood distributor and marketer Saavn is bringing Hindi movies to online video service Hulu. Owned by NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners, Hulu offers TV shows, movies and clips free to U.S. viewers. Five […]
(Recommended by SI reader guruprasad) Just received the High Noon DVD from Netflix. Released in 1952, the 85-minute movie features Gary Cooper and our beloved Grace Kelly. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, the movie went on to win four Academy Awards including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. High Noon is not our first Gary Cooper film. […]
Who the f*** cares if our Bollywood bozos and the Indian multiplex owners are in a standoff over sharing the booty from the pathetic run of Hindi movies. There are plenty of alternatives from Hollywood in the coming weeks, according to the print edition of the Sunday New York Times (May 3, 2009), which had […]
Just finished watching Chop Shop (2007) on DVD. Written and directed by young Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani with a cast of ‘non-actors,’ the 84-minute-long Chop Shop is a nice movie centering around a young boy Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco) working in an auto repair shop in Queens, New York. Displaying a maturity beyond his years, the […]
Hus ke liye hai Pakistan, ladh ke lenge Hindustan (We achieved Pakistan laughing; we will take India fighting) – Pakistani Soldiers, sometime in the early 1960s around the time of the 1965 Indo-Pak war (cited in Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi P.401) Fast forward 44 years Pakistan is on the verge of collapse as a failed […]