Dostana, the perverse Bollywood abomination starring those three non-actors Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra, has not exactly taken the U.S. box office by storm. For its opening weekend (November 14-16, 2008), Dostana came in at No-16 with a total gross of $645,604. The movie had an average of $8,724, which is lower than […]
The new James Bond thriller Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig) has had a decent opening at the U.S. box office. For its opening weekend (Nov 14-16, 2008), Quantum of Solace came in at No-1 at the U.S. box office with a total gross of $70.4 million, way ahead of the previous Bond flick, Casino Royale […]
Dostana Plunges 66% at Box Office Ugly Dostana – So-So at Box Office Can someone quickly hand us a long piece of rope so that we may hang Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra together on the nearest tree and spare millions of Bollywood fans further agony from this troika’s simian antics on the […]
American moviegoers emptied their overflowing bedpans over the head of ugly Bollywood and Kollywood actress Shriya Saran. A mediocre and unpretty actress, Shriya Saran will find it very hard to live down the humiliating rebuff from U.S. moviegoers to her Hollywood misadventure The Other End of the Line. Shriya’s ghastly English movie not only opened […]
Thus spake Denzel Washington’s character Joe Miller in the classic film Philadelphia (1993) after Tom Hanks’ character, the dying AIDS lawyer Andrew Beckett, congratulates him on surviving his first gay party. Miller is actually explaining how homosexuals were viewed in most American families in the early 1990s as AIDS was beginning to ravage the gay community. […]
We had heard in several quarters that Tamil film director Gautam Menon’s upcoming movie Vaaranam Aayiram (Surya) is inspired by the Tom Hanks movie Forrest Gump. So we got the Forrest Gump DVD from Netflix and watched it last night. If (a big if) Forrest Gump is indeed the source for Vaaranam Ayiram, it’d be […]