Veteran Kannada film actor Vishnuvardhan, who shot to fame with his memorable portrayal of the character Ramachari in the 1972 classic Nagarahaavu,died today of cardiac arrest in Mysore. He was 59. Although Vishnuvardhan acted in dozens of films in a 37-year career, he was best known for his role of the embittered young man Ramachari […]
The last few times we spoke to NYC Indian restaurateur Satinder Sharma, a.k.a. Sati the man seemed to delight in badmouthing his rival desi restaurateur, the Bollywood star Shiva Natarajan (crocodile in the pond, very insecure, bad execution of Dhaba, anger management issues, a whiner et al were some of the juicy epithets Sati hurled […]
In these cold winter days, we’ve more time than we know what to do with. So we do what we know best – watch movies or read books. These are some of the movies we’ve watched recently: * Au Revoir, les enfants (French) – A charming movie we watched last night on Netflix Instant Play. […]
Hey, no one ever accused our desis of overpopulating the Mensa cadre. So, is it a big surprise that the desi schmucks in the U.S., many of whom wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between class and crass if their lives depended on it, decided that Christmas is the season to feast, alas, not […]
Aghast over reports from SI readers that Bollywood trash like 3 Idiots had grossed $2.1 million in the U.S over the 5-day Christmas weekend yours truly rushed over to the nearest liquor store to seek solace in Bacchus. We were set on buying the Chteau Graves de Liron 2007 ($8.99), recommended by the Wall Street […]
We were reading the weekend Wall Street Journal (the print version not online) a short while ago and found these interesting statistics: * Wholesale Price of 1 KG of Cocaine in Colombia – $1,200 * Wholesale Price of 1 KG of Cocaine in Panama – $2,300 * Wholesale Price of 1 KG of Cocaine in […]