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Amitabh Bachchan’s Paa continues to struggle at the box office.
In its second weekend at the U.K. box office, Paa’s gross fell 56% from an already low base.
Here, see how badly Paa has fared in the second weekend at the U.K. box office compared to a few other prominent Bollywood films:
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(For SI blog reader Araj)
Purdue University student and IIT alumnus Vikram Subbarao Buddhi, who recently received a 57-month prison sentence for threatening the U.S. President, Vice President, Defense Secretary and their families, allegedly threatened his father Kota Subbarao Buddhi with a knife in the U.S.
Vikram’s father Kota Subbarao Buddhi was in the U.S. at the time, presumably to help Vikram with his legal problems.
That’s just one of the interesting incidents we uncovered in an examination of court documents related to Vikram Buddhi’s case.
911 Call Made
According to the West Lafayette Police Department, Vikram Buddhi’s father Kota Subbarao Buddhi called 911 (an emergency crisis assistance number in the U.S.) on June 6, 2007 to allegedly complain that his son had threatened him with a knife. Continue reading »
When a Bollywod movie grosses less than a Harman Baweja film in the opening weekend at the box office, there are only two words in the English language to describe its miserable fate: EPIC DISASTER.
Yes, folks.
Ranbir Kapoor’s Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year has fared miserably at the U.S. box office.
So bad that even Harman Baweja’s What’s Your Rashee had a higher opening gross ($169,005).
There can be no bigger shame for Rocket Singh’s main star Ranbir Kapoor and the movie’s producer Yash Raj Films.
In the December 11-13, 2009 opening weekend at the U.S. box office, Rocket Singh could manage only a pitiful $164,649.
Just in case you are wondering, Aditya Chopra of Yash Raj Films is credited as the producer of Rocket Singh.
Rocket Singh, which came in at No-25 for the December 11-13 weekend, opened in 70 theaters giving it an average gross of $2,352.
If you really want to see how horribly Rocket Singh has fared at the U.S. box office compared to a few other prominent Bollywood films, here look at the below numbers:
Disaster in UK Too
Yes, Rocket Singh has fared pitifully at the U.K. box office too.
Here see Continue reading »
The Road featuring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Charlize Theron is a must-watch Hollywood film.
Based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning eponymous novel, The Road is directed by John Hillcoat.
Please find here SearchIndia.com’s review of The Road.
The Road is currently in limited release in the U.S.
Here are the showtimes for The Road in major cities of U.S.:
The Road Movie Showtimes in New York
New York City, NY
AMC Empire – Read the Review
234 West 42nd St
New York, NY 10036
Ph: 212-398-3939
Dec 13|10:25 AM|11:20 AM|1:05 PM|2:25 PM|3:50 PM|5:10 PM|6:35 PM|7:50 PM| 9:20 PM|10:40 PM
Dec 14|11:20 AM| 1:05 PM|2:25 PM|3:50 PM|5:05 PM|6:35 PM|7:50 PM|9:20 PM|10:40 PM
Dec 15|11:20 AM| 1:05 PM|2:25 PM|3:50 PM|5:05 PM|6:35 PM|7:50 PM|9:20 PM|10:40 PM
Dec 16|11:20 AM| 1:05 PM|2:25 PM|3:50 PM|5:05 PM|6:35 PM|7:50 PM|9:20 PM|10:40 PM
Dec 17|11:20 AM| 1:05 PM|2:25 PM|3:50 PM|5:05 PM|6:35 PM|7:50 PM|9:20 PM|10:40 PM
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The Road Movie Showtimes in New Jersey
Paramus, NJ Continue reading »
Surely, never has the bleak, woebegone, wretched aftermath of the apocalypse been so spell-binding.
The whiners may complain that The Road does not rise to the level of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning eponymous novel on which the movie is based (say, which movie ever lives up to the book) but don’t count us among the surprised if the movie comes up high among the Oscar contenders in the coming months.
Powered by solid performances by the lead pair and propelled by a novel story, The Road (directed by John Hillcoat) is one of the most fulfilling movies we’ve seen this quarter.
Plumped for The Road
Even after reaching New York City, we were in two minds yesterday: To watch The Road or see the new Clint Eastwood-directed, Morgan Freeman-starring film Invictus.
Finally, we decided on The Road because we had already read McCarthy’s fine book and since we like Viggo Mortensen more than Morgan Freeman.
So off we headed to AMC 25 in midtown Manhattan to watch The Road.
There were about 40 people for the 11:20AM show. Not bad for an early show on a cold Saturday (or maybe it was the lure of $6 tickets before 12PM).
Faithful Tale
Essentially hewing to the story in the book, The Road is the moving account of a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they make their way south (to escape the harsh winter) in the aftermath of an unexplained apocalypse that has taken most life-forms with it including the larger part of the homo sapiens.
Bleak is the picture you see on the screen.
The trees are leafless, car wrecks are littered across the landscape, tis’ bitter cold but fires rage along the ridges above and there’s gray dust everywhere.
Must be the gray dust from the ashes of a great, devastating, all consuming fire.
Constant rain and rumbling earthquakes that shake the ground violently add to the grim ambience.
As the father explains in the early minutes of the film:
The clock stopped at 1:17. There was a long shear of bright light and a series of little concussions.
For the few human survivors left, survival is a hobbesian struggle since there’s little food left for the crops are all long gone.
And the road ahead is metaphorically and literally a hard struggle. Continue reading »
No Avakai pickle or Gongura Pulusu for Telugu bidda Vikram Subbarao Buddhi.
It’s gonna be bland American prison food for Vikram Buddhi for some more time.
U.S. District Court Judge James Moody today sentenced IIT alumnus and Purdue University student Vikram Subbarao Buddhi to prison for a period of 57 months in the United States vs Vikram S.Buddhi case.
This means that Vikram Buddhi who has been languishing in a Chicago jail for the last three plus years will continue to be a guest of the U.S. Correctional system.
Vikram Buddhi’s Crimes
On June 28, 2007, Vikram Buddhi was found guilty on 11 counts of the following offenses:
* Making a threat against the President and Vice President of the United States
* Making a threat against the wife of the President and Vice President of the U.S.
* Making a threat against the U.S. Defense Secretary
* Using an instrument of Interstate Commerce to threaten to unlawfully damage and destroy buildings and real property by means of fire and explosives
Background
Vikram Subbarao Buddhi came to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D in mathematics at Purdue University in 1996 on a F1 Visa but subsequently began working on a master’s in industrial engineering.
Hateful and Threatening Messages
According to U.S. Secret Service documents, the following are some of the hateful and threatening messages Vikram Buddhi posted online.
* In a message with the subject Call for Assassination of GW Bush, Buddhi wrote on 12/13/2005 on a Yahoo Finance message board:
…Go Iraqis!…Rape and kill the Anglosaxons…No mercy…Kill GW Bush…Rape and kill Laura Bush…Kill Dick Cheney the White fat pig…Rape and kill Lynne Cheney…kill Donald Rumsfeld the old geezer crook…Rape and kill the Anglosaxon Republicans… Continue reading »
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