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The Chutiya deserves it.

By God, Akshay Kumar deserves Thank You’s humiliating failure at the U.S. box office for the garbage he’s shoveling at Bollywood fans for the last few years.

Folks, Akshay Kumar’s latest trashy movie Thank You is not a failure of ordinary proportions.

Au contraire, Thank You is helluva disaster.

A tsunami of a disaster.

For the opening April 8-10, 2011 weekend in the U.S., Thank You grossed a pitiful $247,760 in what looks like Akshay Kumar’s worst showing here in recent years.

The movie came in 26th and had an average gross of $2,693.

Here’s how Thank You fared at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood films (please see below table): Continue reading »

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Bitter, Bitter, Bitter.

Stone Ruination India Pale Ale ($5.99 for a 1Pint 6fl Oz bottle)) is likely the bitterest beer we’ve drunk in our life.

No kidding, folks.

If ever a pleasant aroma was misleading in its taste, it’s Stone Ruination India Pale Ale.

This orange yellow beer packs a strong, pleasant fruity aroma of orange peel and, maybe, even peach.

But take a sip.

It’s bitterness defined.

Definitely, way more hopped than your average beer. Continue reading »

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered five affiliates of accounting firm PriceWaterhouse India to pay a $6 million fine in connection with sloppy auditing of crooked Indian software firm Satyam Computer Services which collapsed spectacularly in January 2009.

Satyam engaged in fraudulent financial accounting by falsifying the company’s revenue, income, earnings per share, cash, and interest bearing deposits.

The sloppy audits by the affiliates Pricewaterhouse india enabled the massive fraud engaged by the top management of Satyam Computer to go undetected for several years.

After Satyam Computer’s fraud came to light in January 2009, the price of Satyam’s American depository shares (listed then on the New York Stock Exchange) plummeted and institutional investors in the U.S. lost over $450 million.

The five PriceWaterhouse India affiliates that are in the doghouse are Continue reading »

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