Tashan Fares Miserably at U.S. Box Office

Tashan has fared badly at the U.S. box office with one of the poorest openings for a Bollywood movie in recent months. Starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, Tashan comes from Yash Raj Films. For the opening weekend (April 25-27, 2008), Tashan came in at No-24 with a gross of $301,226. Average […]

Chinese Develop English Fever

Having conquered the world’s markets, China’s countless millions have now embarked on a new mission – to master the English language, the global language of art and commerce. The New Yorker has an interesting piece on the Chinese’ obsession with English in the latest issue: China has been in the grip of “English fever,” as […]

Ultimate Korangu’s Billa for Cannes? – What a Shame!

For the sake of the honor of Tamil Nadu and 77 million Tamils worldwide, we hope that the reports of Ajith’s Billa being screened on May 10 at the Cannes Film Festival turn out to be false. Featuring the two non-actors Ajith and Nayantara, Ajith’s Billa (the remake of the old Billa starring Rajinikanth) is one of the ugliest Tamil […]

Tashan Review – Total Garbage

(Tashan Fares Miserably at U.S. Box Office) Even the inmates in the asylum or a tramp on the Mumbai streets would have made a better movie than this Friday’s Bollywood release Tashan. What in the heck were the bozos at Yash Raj thinking when they unleashed a trashy movie like Tashan! Utterly bereft of anything […]

Rajinikanth Deserves Better than Gayathri

If Gayathri Sreekanth undertakes her ophthalmological work with the same callous carelessness as her shoddy biography of Tamil film star Rajinikanth (The Name is Rajinikanth), there must be a lot of unfortunate souls moving about in Chennai with blurred vision, or worse, without any vision. Besides being a pathetic attempt at hagiography, almost every page […]

U Me Aur Hum Crashes in U.S. – Down 73.3%

U Me Aur Hum, Ajay Devgan’s ugly copy of the fine Hollywood flick The Notebook, has crashed at the U.S. box office in its second week (Please click here for U Me Aur Hum opening weekend gross collection data.) For the April 18-20 weekend, gross collections for U Me Aur Hum fell 73.3% to $171,503. […]

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