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Buffoon + Bimbette = Garbage oops Khatta Meetha

 Bollywood, Entertainment, Reviews  16 Responses »
Jul 232010
 
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Khatta Meetha Box Office: Disaster, Big Disaster

What happens when Bollywood’s buffoon-king Akshay Kumar meets Kollywood’s bimbette-queen Trisha Krishnan?

According to critics, the answer is foul-smelling garbage.

Indian movie critics have lashed out at Khatta Meetha, the new Bollywood film featuring Akshay Kumar and South Indian starlet Trisha Krishnan.

Here’s a sample of unflattering reviews for Khatta Meetha directed by Priyadarshan:

India Times

Khatta Meetha  lacks wit and sarcasm and by no means can be termed as a political satire. Rather it’s a blatant and full-blown melodramatic tale of corruption that one has witnessed in zillion films before. The writing branches into too many subplots from politics, family, romance but seems disjoint rather than appearing multifaceted. The family characterizations of a powerless patriarch (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), scheming siblings and the ridiculed younger son protagonist (Akshay Kumar) are quite reminiscent of Anil Kapoor’s  Saaheb  (1985).

Akshay Kumar continues his buffoonery which is not much to speak about. Trisha has nothing notable to deliver in her Bollywood debut. None of the countless character artists are worth a mention. Continue reading »

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Salt Review – Angelinaaah! Rocks in Action Flick

 Hollywood  5 Responses »
Jul 232010
 
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I’m not a spy.

I’m a businesswoman….Please let me go home.

(Brutal torture by North Korean agents follows.)

I’m not a spy. I’m not a spy.

- Evelyn Salt inside a North Korean prison

Folks, we’ve just returned from the midnight show of the new Angelina Jolie film Salt.

Of course, like all most action movies Salt too is a wildly implausible tale featuring the CIA, Russian spies, moles, assassination attempts on top Russian and American leaders, nuclear bombs, fast car chases and lots and lots of bang bang, dishoom dishoom.

But the movie is also a helluva entertaining ride if you are into these senseless but well executed Bourne-style action films.

Angelinaaah’s Show, Completely
Undoubtedly, the star of the show is Angelina Jolie.

And what a jolly time Ms.Jolie offers viewers.

Gosh, we came (well, almost) at the sight of her literal and figurative pyrotechnics. ;)

The woman is electrifying on the screen. Really.

Makes her performance in Mr and Mrs.Smith (2005) look like a warm-up act. No kidding.

Gee, What Panache
There’s no high-wire act the 35-year-old Hollywood actress doesn’t tackle in Salt – walk the high ledge of a tall apartment complex, jump out of an helicopter without a parachute into the Potomac river, kill a whole barge of Russian spies, escape from a CIA building, survive brutal torture by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il’s henchmen, jump from the top of one fast-moving truck to another on the highway or hijack a police car.

And more.

By God, the 90-minute film is one lengthy adrenalin rush.

Who needs cocaine with Angie baby around!

All of it rendered with an extraordinary degree of panache.

It’s hard to think of any other Hollywood actress accomplishing what Angeline Jolie does in Salt with anywhere near the same degree of excellence. Continue reading »

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Amazing America – A Surfeit of Intelligence

 Amazing America  1 Response »
Jul 212010
 
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If the Al Queda troglodyte Osama bin Laden can take responsibility for anything beyond 9/11, it’s for the phenomenal growth in the U.S. intelligence apparatus – both domestic and overseas as well as counter-terrorist organizations.

The Washington Post the other day had an interesting piece on the explosive, untrammeled growth in U.S. intelligence organizations post 9/11.

The gist of the Post piece:

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

Here’s a snapshot:

* U.S. intelligence annual budget – $75 billion, 2.5x the figure on 9/10/2001 (the $75b figure excludes several military and domestic counterintelligence activities)

* 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private firms are said to work on programs concerned with counter-terrorism, homeland security and intelligence in 10,000 locations across the U.S.

* Some 854,000 people hold top security clearances

* 50,000 intelligence reports are published each year, a lot of it likely unread and/or unacted upon

Most of our intelligence folks must be total schmucks because we’re often (at least publicly) in reactive mode whether it’s tackling the guy in the plane or ferreting out the guy in the cave trying to attack us or stopping the Taliban laying the IEDs in Kandahar province. :(

Some Known U.S. Intelligence Agencies

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Director of National Intelligence
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Continue reading »

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500 Million Clowns Dicking Around on Facebook

 Digital Media, General  8 Responses »
Jul 212010
 
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was blowing the trumpet this morning that the social networking web site he founded has amassed 500 million users.

Well, that’s quite a milestone.

As Facebook has grown, we guess rivals like Google’s Orkut and Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace are becoming less relevant given that users want to gather at the social networking site that has the maximum number of their friends and family members.

By the way, that 500m number includes us as well although we don’t spend much time on it.

The main reason we’re not that much into Facebook or its rivals is that we’re in the evening of our lives and not craving new friends or looking to connect with old ones.

We guess Facebook (and others of its ilk) are wildly popular with the younger (<30-years) crowd who see it mostly as a forum for harmless clowning, banter, flirting, online sharing of photos et al.

And to think we grew up in a world where being connected (socially or otherwise) meant no more than a distance of 1 or 2 km and the telephone was something only a privileged few had.

Times have changed. And how!

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Baluchi’s Rakesh Aggarwal: A Million $$ Nightmare

 Diaspora, Food, People  11 Responses »
Jul 202010
 
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Poor Rakesh Aggarwal could soon become Poorer Rakesh Aggarwal.

Poorer?

Yes, after all, the owner of the Baluchi’s Indian restaurant chain in New York City might now have to fork out close to a million dollars ($967,000 to be precise) in a proposed legal settlement with some of his current and former employees.

Our heart goes out to the Aggarwal bloke.

A million dollars is still a lot of money.

Plus the whole legal process of the last 18 months, including the depositions, must have been very stressful to Baluchi’s owner Rakesh Aggarwal.

We won’t be surprised if the legal strain has subtracted a few years from Rakesh’s life.

Origin of Baluchi’s / Rakesh Aggarwal’s Nightmare
Rakesh Aggarwal’s nightmare started in November 2008 when some of his former and current employees sued Rakesh and his Baluchi’s Indian restaurants alleging unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime wages, misappropriated tips, unauthorized deductions from their wages and unpaid spread-of-hour wages among other things.

The employees, who were waiters, cooks, dishwashers or delivery persons, alleged violation of federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law. Continue reading »

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Women’s Liberation and Other Thoughts

 General  2 Responses »
Jul 202010
 
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(Landed in our inbox courtesy Sonny Chatrath)

Thoughts from a Man’s heart.

Thought 1

When we are born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers.
When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity.
When we die, our widows get the life insurance.
What do women want to be liberated from?

Thought 2

The average man’s life consists of:
Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going,
Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; Continue reading »

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