Enthiran Box Office – Unimpressive Average Gross Enthiran Review – Orgy of Stupidity Emmathitanga Ayyo, Emmathitanga (they’ve cheated us, God, they’ve cheated us). A BIG disappointment. 🙁 A.R.Rahman and Shankar have taken Tamil music fans for a ride with the Endhiran album. Endhiran’s music is nowhere in the class of Rahman’s Slumdog Millionaire or his […]
* Edge of Heaven – Set in both Germany and Turkey, this is a lovely German-Turkish film (English subtitles) with a strong, engaging story. When an old man accidentally kills his Turkish hooker-mistress in Germany, his university professor son is most upset by the incident and sets out for Turkey to locate the woman’s daughter […]
Run from the South Indian Impostor (File photo) In our ceaseless, unrelenting quest for a good Dosa, we’ve been known to haunt the major highways and small bylanes of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia in an obsessive-compulsive-ferocious frenzy. Kinda like Dr. Hunter ‘Gonzo’ Thompson searching for the American Dream in Las Vegas. […]
Der Spiegel: You could have started a company in Silicon Valley and lived in a home in Palo Alto with a swimming pool. Why did you decide to do the WikiLeaks project instead? WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we […]
The English word rabies is said to derive from the Sanskrit term rabbas meaning to do violence. Source: Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk P.81 Here’s a short excerpt from Palahniuk’s fine book: As I understand it, you have two types of rabies. There’s your “dumb” type, where you never go […]
Some SI blog readers came in their jetties at the mere mention of Madrasapattinam and hailed it as an exceptional, classy film and in the same breath damned Thillalangadi as a piece of shit. Well, the makkal theerpu (people’s verdict) is different. Folks, the Tamil makkal have spoken and spoken decisively in favor of Thillalangadi. […]