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Luck by Chance, the new Indian movie by and on Bollywood, has not been lucky at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend.

Luck by Chance opened at No-32 and had a pitiful total opening weekend gross of $216,918 (source: boxofficemojo).

The movie opened in 61 theatres and had an average of $3,556.

Here’s how Luck by Chance fared compared to a few other prominent Bollywood movies in the opening weekend at the U.S. box office:

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India is truly fertile soil for a cornucopia of those weird only-in-India stories. Here’s instalment 7 of Incredible India.

* A sick man in the South Indian state of Kerala died after the dilapidated stretcher on which he was placed broke into two and he fell to the ground. If the end result wasn’t so tragic, it’d be funny. Here, read the full story in the Hindu. (Thanks to Cool Frog_20)

* The Indian masses are literally and figuratively powerless. Six decades after Independence, Uttar Pradesh (the North Indian state from which at least seven Indian Prime Ministers hail), faces a daily power shortage of 2,500MW. And we are not even in the summer months yet. The state’s power crisis is going to get worse in the next fiscal year.

* You have a court case pending in India? Not to worry, Continue reading »

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Indian buffoons of various hues including B.S.Yediyurappa (Karnataka Chief Minister), Ashok Chavan (Maharashtra Chief Minister), Anbumani Ramadoss (Union Health Minister), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan Chief Minister), RSS secretary K.Narahari et al have been ranting and raving, fretting and fuming against the ‘Pub Culture’ after the unsavory incident in Mangalore where women customers were beaten up by biped monkeys belonging to the Ram Sena.

So WTF is this pub culture?

Is that a mere euphemism to criticize girls drinking at pubs and bars.

And what is wrong with women drinking or having a good time.

When politicians like Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi can have a chinna veedu, when Haryana politician Chander Mohan can become Chand Mohammad to have a second wife, when Continue reading »

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