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We are Family is We are Garbage, Say Critics

Listen, Baby, ain’t no mountain high
Ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wide enough, Baby.
If you need me, call me, no matter where you are
No matter how far. Don’t worry, Baby
Just call my name, I’ll be there in a hurry
You don’t have to worry.

- Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell’s hit song featured in Stepmom (1998)

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Listen schmucks, we’re not going to prejudge the quality of the upcoming Bollywood movie We Are Family (a remake of the 1998 Hollywood film Stepmom).

No, we’re not gonna pre-judge the movie before the movie’s release this Friday.

That wouldn’t be right, wouldn’t be fair, would it?

So what if Kareena Kapoor can’t recognize acting if it stung a deep incision into her size-zero derriere or if producer Karan ‘pansy‘ Johar’s previous movies are crappy pieces of shit or if mom-to-be Kajol is a shrieking witch way past her prime. As for Arjun Rampal, let’s all just agree that a log of wood would emote better.

Ain’t no way we’re gonna pre-judge We are Family. ;)

Stepmom – Decent Tearjerker
A short while ago, we watched the Susan Sarandon-Julia Roberts film Stepmom and while the 12-year-old movie certainly is no masterpiece that’ll have you gushing all over it, the film is decent.

A paisa vasool, as you dolts in India would describe it.

The film is rescued from the run-of-the-mill castoffs by superior acting from Susan Sarandon and young Liam Aikey, who plays her little son Ben in the film, acceptable performances from Julia Roberts and Ed Harris and sparkling dialogs.

Sure Julia ‘Pretty Woman‘ Roberts, she with the bewitching smile that leaves a wet stain on the front of your trousers, is alright but she doesn’t jolt the screen like Susan Sarandon does. Ed Harris is in a supporting role, as the fella often is. This time, as the husband/ex-husband Luke Harrison.

Reversal of Roles – Engaging Film
Obviously, even you non-Mensaites have recognized by now that this movie has something to do with a step-mom, right? Continue reading »

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For the last couple of days, we’ve been playing with NDTV 2.0, an upgrade to the eponymous Indian TV news channel’s application for the iPhone 4.

NDTV-Live on iPhone 4 Review - Yet Another Mediocre App

NDTV2.0 Live TV on iPhone 4 Review - Mediocre Application

We weren’t too happy with the previous 1.1 version of the NDTV app and hoped the upgrade would have fixed some of the shortcomings.

Also, the new Live TV feature in the NDTV upgrade caught our attention.

Hell, who wouldn’t want to watch a leading Indian news channel live, right?

And at 99-cents a month the pricing sounded right to these cheapo desis.

So we quickly hit the subscribe button for NDTV 24×7 , the English news channel, even though we were – and still are – unclear as to how we’d be charged (whether by our iPhone carrier AT&T or by Apple iTunes).

Still Work in Progress
Like its predecessor, NDTV 2.0 too is work in progress.

This time, our main interest was the Live TV feature and so this review focuses on that aspect.

We tried Live TV on both WiFi and 3G.

On WiFi, the application works mostly but crashes on a few occasion. Continue reading »

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