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A tragedy with a happy ending?

Ha ha ha, you think we’ve gone completely bonkers.

So, can there really be a tragedy with a happy ending?

Yes, indeed if you are familiar with the sorry account of Lisbeth Salander’s life.

For those of you who get off on thrillers, the late Swedish writer Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is a must-not-miss book.

The last volume in Larsson’s trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest brings forth the familiar set of characters – the oddball, anti-social, much maligned and much wronged Lisbeth Salander, the aggressive investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium editor Erika Berger plus a whole bunch of new ones you haven’t encountered previously.

If Larsson’s first book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo focused on the disappearance of Harriet Vanger and the second volume on sex trafficking, in the third volume the author turns his gaze upon the Swedish state security agency SAPO and a small but dangerous top-secret organization within it called The Section that has wreaked havoc on Lisbeth’s life in the name of state security. Continue reading »

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Oh, the disgrace.

If Shahid Kapoor had any shame at all, he’d abandon Bollywood and settle down in a remote Himalayan hamlet.

Badmaash Company is the third disaster to befall him in recent months and follows the inglorious performances of Chance Pe Dance and Paathshala.

As for Yash Raj Films, time the bozos found a new vocation.

Miserable Showing
Folks, Badmaash Company has not fared badly at the UK box office. Au contraire, the new movie has fared miserably.

For the May 7-9, 2010 opening weekend, Badmaash Company could manage a total gross of a mere £54,699, less than half of Shahid Kapoor’s Kaminey, which released in fewer theaters.

Badmaash Company’s per theater average of £1,823 is equally unimpressive, lower than even Shahid’s Paathshala and Chance pe Dance.

For those who have arrived lately, Parmeet Sethi (as Kuljeet Singh) lost out in that blockbuster DDLJ and now the fella has lost the audience in his directorial debut Badmaash Company.

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Badmaash Company Review – Worth Missing

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It does look like Akshay Kumar is turning into the new Salman ‘Flop’ Khan.

Whatever Akshay touches these days is turning into dross.

Akshay Kumar’s latest movie Housefull is having a hard time at the box office, i.e. the U.S. box office.

For the second weekend, Housefull did worse than even his trashy Kambakkht Ishq.

For the May 7-9, 2010 weekend, Housefull came in at No-26. The film notched up a total gross of $247,432 and an average gross of $3,017 in the second weekend.

Here’s how Housefull has fared in the second weekend compared to a few prominent Bollywood films.

Folks, Akshay Kumar is the new Salman Khan of Bollywood.

Related Stories:
Critics Bugger Akshay Kumar’s Housefull
Housefull Review: Decent Movie; Don’t Believe the Critics

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A few minutes back, as we were checking out Pak-loving Chutiya Shahrukh Khan’s films on Netflix in response to a comment from SI blog reader VJcool, we stumbled upon DDLJ, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to all ye ignorattis, in the Instant Play section.

Like most real desis, we’ve of course seen this DDLJ nonsense several times.

But hey, what’s the problem with ogling at supposedly mother-to-be-again Kajol one more time, right?

We’ve already had a glass of gin and are sufficiently high.

All we need is a good, well-filled out fantasy gal for the night! Thank God, she doesn’t have that size-zero fixation.

And people do fill out well in all the right places during pregnancy, right? ;)

Truth be said, the woman already has a reasonable pair of knockers.

In any case, Kajol would do in the absence of Charlize Theron!

Excuse us will you while we pour ourselves another glass of Gilbey’s Gin and mix it with some 79-cent Seltzer Water from the supermarket.

By the way, Seltzer Water is better than Club Soda because it contains less adulterants and is closer to pure water.

So, here we are in bed with a glass of Gin on the adjacent stool, watching the opening scenes of DDLJ with the late Amrish Puri a.k.a Chaudhry Baldev Singh feeding the pigeons and droning on about London Shaher and how he’s an alien here even after half a lifetime in the city.

We’ll update this post as and when we can rouse ourselves from our gin-filled stupor.

Update 1
Well, we’ve met Simran’s family.

Her strict father (Amrish Puri), the convenience store owner in London, with a nostalgia for all things Indian, her sister Chutki and mother Lajjo.

Ha ha, we’ve also seen Kajol in the skimpy white blouse and skimpier white skirt dancing in the rain as the dress clings to her body showing off her assets as she sings Mere Khwabon Mein. ;)

The white skirts billowing high, we espied Simran (Kajol) lifting her nice kinda darkish legs high. Nice glimpse of her pretty thighs too. We likey, much likey. Continue reading »

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Movie critics are hammering Yash Raj Films‘ new movie Badmaash Company.

In recent years,  Yash Raj Films has established a strong reputation for putting out trashy films and Badmaash Company doesn’t stray from that self-destructive course.

Here are excerpts from a sample of critics.

NDTV:

Badmaash Company is a proof that the Yash Raj Films formula is irrevocably broken.

The posturing stars, snazzy styling, foreign locations, plastic textures and necessary dash of family values simply can’t cut it anymore.

Badmaash Company is a staggeringly tedious film, which takes two hours and twenty three minutes to give us the moral science lesson that honesty is the best policy.

IBNLive:

Packed with lazy clichés and convenient plot-holes, “Badmaash Company” is unforgivably long and insufferably boring. The acting — from all four leads — is nothing to speak of, and Sethi’s direction is amateurish to put it politely.

….Flogging the infamous Yash Raj Films formula of stylish costumes, gorgeous foreign locations and hip dance numbers, Sethi delivers a film that is entirely superficial and staggeringly dull. I’m going with one-and-a-half out of five for director Parmeet Sethi’s “Badmaash Company”. Unless you enjoy being punished, stay far away from this one. Continue reading »

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We may or may not have a soft corner for Shahid Kapoor.

But we certainly don’t have a soft corner for garbage like Badmaash Company.

No Redeeming Elements
Badmaash Company is the latest piece of shit to emerge from the Augean stables of Yash Raj Films.

Folks, we tried hard, really hard to come up with some redeeming feature in Badmaash Company.

Alas, we came a cropper.

No, no, no. A peek of that bimbo Anushka Sharma’s 34B (??) globes encased in a golden yellow itsy bitsy bikini or the generous display of her fair upper thighs was definitely not a turn-on.

By the way, if we really want to see some skin or tit-show of a sluttish-acting gal there are plenty of night-clubs and go-go girls in our area. Why head to a theater to see an inferior B-grade product!

At its most basic, Badmaash Company is a boring, predictable, moral tale of the importance of not resorting to devious means to make a quick buck.

Badmaash Company Movie Review Sponsored by Air-Savings.com

Forsaking his father’s advice to pursue an MBA, our young man Karan (Shahid Kapoor), in a desperate rush to get rich, resorts to chicanery to make big bucks and in the process parts, first, with his family and, then, from close friends and girlfriend Bulbul Singh (Anushka Sharma). Continue reading »

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