(For Aditya) Not since we smoked pot in secret for the first time – in our college loo of all places – have we derived so much pleasure. (Like our former President Bill Clinton, we didn’t inhale… Ha ha, as if you believe us.) Really, rarely have we seen a Hindi movie with mucho gusto […]
How is it that Muslims dominate among the top Bollywood stars and directors despite accounting for a mere 13.4% of India’s population? Khan, Akhtar, Abbas You can’t watch a Hindi movie without stumbling over a Khan or Akhtar these days. Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Zayed Khan (yuck), Fardeen Khan (yuckier), Saif Ali Khan, […]
Bollywood fans in the U.S. have sent a loud and clear message to Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor et al and director Subhash Ghai – We just don’t think your pathetic shit of a movie Yuvvraaj is worth our time or money. Bollywood moviegoers in the U.S. have shown Yuvvraaj the middle finger. And Big Time. For […]
(Thanks to felecofcornwall, a reader of the SearchIndia.com blog, for recommending The Exorcism of Emily Rose.) With bulging eyes and dropping jaws we watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose (directed by Scott Derrickson & starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson and Jennifer Carpenter) on our television set this morning. A work of extraordinary beauty, The Exorcism of […]
Salman Khan’s latest crap show Yuvvraaj has deservedly received much scorn from movie critics. One of the ugliest films to emerge out of Bollywood in recent days, Yuvvraaj is a poor excuse for entertainment. Here are excerpts from some of the Yuvvraaj reviews: IBNLive: Yuvvraaj uses scale and grandeur to compensate for the fractured script, […]
Stay away from Yuvvraaj. Just keep way from this dungheap of a movie that’s offensive beyond redemption. Rain Man (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise) is a great Hollywood classic, the winner of four Oscars. Yuvvraaj is an ugly, pitiful Bollywood copy of Rain Man that offers nothing but dollops of misery to unsuspecting moviegoers. Dustin […]