Predictions are boring. So 2008-ish. Since we are no Nostradamus or Sahadeva, we’ll instead talk about what we’d like to see. The following are some of the items on our Wish List for 2009: * LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran surrender to Indian security forces and plead to be hanged for his crimes against humanity. * Desi […]
Desperate to cure ourselves of the horrific trauma of watching that stolen shit Ghajini, we were eager for some purifying Ganga Jal. And we found our moksha in the new Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino (in limited release now in the U.S.). Gran Torino is that rare all sizzle and all steak movie. If you thought […]
(Thanks to Guruprasad.S, Satya, Zaid, Viswajithkn & other readers of the SearchIndia.com blog for recommending Satya.) Even a hideous performance by the modern-day Lady Macbeth a.k.a. Urmila Matondkar can’t mar the beauty of this gangster flick Satya. And all physical evidence to the contrary, we refuse to believe Ram Gopal Varma is still alive (If […]
Throughout history, smart people have devised so many clever and novel ways to waste time – wrestling, bull fighting, cock fighting, Tamil trash, Bollywood garbage, ogling, playing pocket billiards and that weird game cricket. But surely nothing can beat Google’s YouTube video site as the best designed time-wasting service ever. The latest comScore report released […]
(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, […]