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Despite all the noise and hoopla, the Imran Khan-Sonam Kapoor crap movie I Hate Luv Storys is NOT setting the box office on fire.
Here’s how the mediocre shit fared in the second weekend at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood movies:
(For SI blog reader Racer44)
As we’ve said time and again, everything in India is different.
Be it the notion of honor, treatment of women, matters of love, poverty, child labor or corruption, in all of these and more India is sui generis. Mostly for the worse.
Hell, even a simple English word encounter has a completely different – and murderous – meaning in India.
Wait, we forgot to tell you about India’s Hospitals, the decrepit government hospitals that is.
As anyone the least bit familiar with India’s government hospitals knows, these buildings are straight out of Josef Mengele’s grotesquerie.
A visit to these inglorious mortuaries is worse than passage through the Hades.
Patients sleeping on the floor, dogs eating newborns (no, we’re not kidding), absent doctors, insistent demands for bribes, use of expired medicines and non-functioning equipment are all par for the course in India’s government hospitals, the sole hope for the country’s poor.
* Now comes disturbing news from India that the government-run Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur in the north Indian state of Rajasthan is infecting poor children with the deadly AIDS-causing HIV virus and Hepatitis by giving them infected blood.
When the incidents first came to light last year, the Umaid Hospital authorities quickly denied their culpability and passed the buck to others. The same hospital even got a ‘clean chit’ in an official report a few months back (Source: Hindu).
Hey, what’s new. In Incredible India, the unclean invariably get a clean chit. Continue reading »
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