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Pak Loving Chutiya Khan’s MNIK Struggles in India

Bollywood, Box Office 7 Responses »

Feb 192010

Hooray, God exists.

Ram, Allah, Christ or wateva the name of that guy in the sky is exists.

Shahrukh Khan oops Pakistan loving Chutiya’s latest round of garbage My Name is Khan seems to be having a hard time in India.

South Asian Muslims may be boosting ticket sales for My Name is Khan in the U.S. because of its anti-American story-line but reports from India paint a grim picture.

Here’s a sample of Indian reports on the movie’s struggle to get the crowds into the theatres:

* NDTV:

After a bumper opening, Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name Is Khan is being cold-shouldered by the audience here. Cinema hall owners blame the “non-entertaining content” of the movie.

“There is a huge fall in My Name Is Khan ticket sales. While it was just 30 percent Wednesday, it is only 20 percent Thursday. The film is not being appreciated because of the content,” Amit Awasthi, manager (programming and operations) of Spice Cinemas, told IANS.

* Rediff:

My Name is Khan opened with a bang at the box office, earning a whopping Rs 85 crores (US $18m), but it saw a drop in business from Monday as the word of the mouth was not good enough to sustain the film. Continue reading »

Leader Review – Hang the Swines

Telugu Movies 5 Responses »

Feb 192010

In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and glibber in the Roman streets;

- Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1

If the Indian penal code contained a provision for stringing up rotten film-makers and their stars, Leader (mis)director Sekhar Kammula and his menagerie comprising Rana Daggupati, Richa Gangopadhyay and Priya Anand would be standing at the gallows today with the noose round their necks waiting for the hangman to pull the stool from under their legs.

That folks churn out such garbage and have the temerity to call it a film bodes some grave tragedy to our land, a state not unlike ancient Rome in the days preceding Caesar’s death.

Leader is our third Sekhar Kammula movie (Godavari and Happy Days were the earlier slights).

Some movie directors get better with each film.

But with this Kammula clown (responsible for story, screenplay, dialog and direction of this Leader), evolution works in reverse.

This was one Telugu film where the audience was openly laughing, not out of joy but a sneering laugh at the shit on the screen.

The story – if you dare call this sleeping pill a story – in a nutshell is about a young NRI from America stepping into his late father’s shoes as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh after the old man is killed in a landmine blast.

If like us you think that’s hardly an entertaining topic for a film, the rest of the movie is worse.

A total bore of how our hero Arjun (Rana Daggupati) hangs on to his chair even as we get crude caricatures of the corruption of our politicians.

Nagarjuna School, eh?
Rana Daggupati, the hero of Leader, is a distinguished alumnus of the Nagarjuna School of Acting.

Unless you are a complete schmuck, you know that means if acting slapped Rana on the face he wouldn’t recognize it. Continue reading »

Watching Sekhar Kammula’s Leader

Telugu Movies 2 Responses »

Feb 182010

We must be gluttons for punishment.

Sekhar Kammula’s Godavari and Happy Days were junk.

Still, here we are waiting for Telugu Movie Leader written and directed by this Sekhar Kammula to start.

Perhaps, we have a masochistic gene. Wateva.

Leader features Rana Daggubati, Priya Anand, Richa Gangopadhyay, Tanikella Bharani, Sushasini and Kota Srinivasaa Rao.

Music is from Mickey J Meyer.

Big crowd, guys. There are over 100 people in the theater. And people continue to walk in.

God, we hope our $12 is not down the drain.

We’ve seen pictures of this Richa babe. Looks cute. Let’s see if she can deliver the acting goods.

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Small Plane Flies into Austin Building

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Feb 182010

A small aircraft slammed into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas a short while ago leaving two people in the building unaccounted for.

Details are still sketchy but a big fire has broken out at the building.

The building is located adjacent to the local FBI office on a busy highway in Austin.

Update 3
The building into which the pilot rammed the plane was an IRS office. Read more at the NYT.

Update 2
The pilot is said to have stolen the plane from Georgetown airport (north of Austin) and crashed into the building intentionally. Prior to stealing the plane, he’s reported to have set fire to his house.

By the way, how easy is it to steal a plane?

Update 1
The Homeland Security Department is saying the incident is not terrorism related.

SI Reads Quran -3; Allah No Bra-Burning Feminist

Books, Religion, Reviews 14 Responses »

Feb 172010

Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid

Defenders of Islam and its holy book Quran often seek to rebut charges of severe treatment of Muslim women by pointing to the book’s liberal divorce provisions for women, sanction for widow remarriage, Allah’s denunciations of harsh treatment of the fair sex et al.

Well, that defense certainly has some truth but it’s not the full story when it comes to women and the Quran.

You see, when it comes to the distaff sex God (Allah) seems to have made a Faustian bargain. What he giveth women with one hand, he more than taketh away with the other.

Again, while there are several positive points vis-a-vis treatment of women in the Quran Allah’s Cadillac sometimes makes abrupt U-turns on the Islamic highway leading us to the inescapable conclusion that God (Allah) is no bra-burning feminist.

Here’s some of the evidence from the pages of the Quran itself to support our conclusion that Allah ain’t no die-hard feminist:

God commands you that a son should have the equivalent share of two daughters. (Sura 4, Aya 11)

Sure, you may be tempted to argue that the Quran is a reflection of its times, and of hard, strife-ridden life in the arid Middle East desert of the 7th century AD.

If that is indeed your point, we’d like to counter that God is supposed to stand above such mundane constructs as time or geography.

Now if you think Aya 11 is an aberration, here read this verse:

If any of your women commit a lewd act, call four witnesses from among you, then, if they testify to their guilt, keep the women at home until death comes to them or until God shows them another way. If two men commit a lewd act, punish them both; if they repent and mend their ways, leave them alone. (Sura 4, Aya 15 and 16)

Again and again and again, we encounter women getting shafted at the hands of God (Allah) while men tend to get a relatively easy pass.

Read this verse providing divine sanction to polygamy:

If you feel that you will not deal fairly with orphan girls, you may marry whichever [other] women seem good to you, two, three or four. (Sura 4, Aya 3)

To those of you still in two minds, the following verse in the Quran that explicitly allows physical violence against women should set to rest all doubts on where God (Allah) stands in respect to women:

If you fear high-handedness from your wives, remind them [of the teachings of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. (Sura 4, Aya 34) Continue reading »