Halloween Count – 29 Kids Turned Up

It’s 7:57PM ET and only 29 kids turned up for the ‘Trick or Treat’ candies this year. Over the years, we’ve seen a gradual decline in the number of kids coming out. Maybe, the kids are scared of the bogeyman or is it the Swine Flu outbreak that makes the parents wary of sending the […]

Music We’ve Recently Acquired – 3

We’re suckers for anything old. Why do you think we’re besotted with budiyas like Rajshri, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Madhavi, Tabu, Meenakshi Seshadri, Vimala Raman et al. 😉 It being Friday, we sauntered over to Apple’s digital media store iTunes and bought ourselves a bunch of mostly old Hindi songs, tracks that we’ve already listened […]

Word of the Day – Mome

No, it’s got nothing to do with mommy, you oedipal weirdos. 😉 Although Mome (pronounced mohm) is considered an archaic word by our copy of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition, p.800), we’ve come across a few contemporary instances of its use. The term means blockhead or fool.

London Dreams is Crap, Say Indian Movie Critics

London Dreams – Humiliating Box Office Disaster No go, folks. You can skip London Dreams, according to Indian movie critics who have thrashed the movie (featuring Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and the Mallu midget Asin). Here are some galling excerpts from the reviews of a sample of Indian critics: * NDTV: London Dreams is a […]

Quote of the Day – Theodore Roosevelt

No triumph of peace is quite as great as the supreme triumph of war. – Theodore Roosevelt cited in The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (edited by Jay Parini) p.368 By the way, there’s a nice interview with Gore Vidal in The Atlantic.

Ek Niranjan Review – Ek Dum Garbage

Oh, whip me please. Harder, harder. If you are the whip-me, please whip me kind that loves to fork out $12 and get a stinging flagellation in return then this Ek Niranjan vile trash is for you. Sick Shit Folks, Ek Niranjan is so much worse than we feared. Who let Ek Niranjan director Puri […]

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