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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Strikes Gold at U.S. BO

 Bollywood, Box Office  4 Responses »
Jul 182011
 
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ZNMD 2nd Wknd BO – Better Than Singham 1st Wknd

Hey, who’s surprised?

Not us.

Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara has found favor with moviegoers, as the wise SI predicted.

For the July 15-17, 2011 opening weekend, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara did close to a million dollars. Well, $960,548 to be precise.

The movie came in at No-15 at the U.S. box office and had an average gross of $9,605 (a very good average, in our not-so-humble opinion).

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’s box office performance is a lot better than all but a handful of Bollywood films.

We’re pleased as punch to tell you that Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara did better than that Bollywood murderer Salman Khan’s Ready and Dabangg. ;)

With Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’s strong showing, we expect Zoya Akhtar is now a hot commodity in Bollywood. Good for the babe.

Here’s how Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara did compared to a few prominent Bollywood films in the U.S.:

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara U.S. Box Office

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Some Nice iPad Apps for Indians

 Digital Media, General, Tablets  7 Responses »
Jul 182011
 
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Indians have been slow to climb on the bandwagon of the iPad or other tablets, presumably because of the price and the absence of WiFi in most homes in India.

Not surprisingly, Indian developers have been slow to build applications for the iPad or for its successor, the iPad 2.

But in the U.S., the iPad is making strong inroads with consumers and to some extent among corporates as well.

Anecdotal evidence suggests Indians in the U.S. have slowly started hopping on the tablet train.

Since the iPad is by far the largest selling tablet in the U.S., we’ll assume desis are mostly buying the iPad rather than the Samsung Galaxy, HP TouchPad, the Blackberry PlayBook, Acer, Asus or any of the other tablets.

Here are a bunch of apps for the iPad that Indians are likely to find useful:

* Yupp TV – One of the best apps for the iPad.

Yupp TV provides Live TV access to NDTV (English and Hindi), Times Now, ET Now, Raj Music (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam), Zoom (Hindi), Jaya Max (Tamil) and more. There’s also a separate NDTV iPad app but we prefer the Yupp TV version of NDTV since there’s no buffering and it starts quickly.

And did we tell you Yupp TV is free. ;)

Yupp TV for iPad Offers Live Indian TV Channels

* Times of India – An excellent free application for India’s most read English newspaper. This one is perhaps the only Indian newspaper built specifically for the iPad. We’ve looked a couple of times but couldn’t find any other Indian newspaper app built expressly for the iPad.

Times of India for iPad

Times of India for iPad

* Galatta Cinema – Indian movie fans will love this free app with its strong focus on South Indian cinema. Unfortunately, the Galatta app works only in portrait mode but not in landscape mode.

Galatta for iPad

* Desi Radio – If Indian music be your addiction, then Desi Radio is a must-have app.

With tons of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam and English radio stations, there’s a cornucopia of music here.

* Netflix – No, Netflix is not just for Hollywood DVDs anymore. There are quite a few Bollywood movies in Netflix’ Instant Play including recent trash like Tees Maar Khan.

Besides our above favorites, there are several Indian language dictionaries and some cricket apps. We skimmed through a bunch of them but didn’t find them alluring enough to download.

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Borders Finished; 11,000 Employees Screwed

 Books, General  2 Responses »
Jul 182011
 
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Finito!

Our favorite brick and mortar book store chain, the troubled Borders Group is shutting down after failing to find any bidders.

Over the years, we’ve lost track of the number of books we’ve purchased at Borders stores in NY, NJ, PA, CA, DE and MD.

Not just for books, we headed to Borders for magazines, music CDs and Coffee as well.

We confess that at one point in the 20th century when our home was close to a Borders store we even read a few books completely free by sitting in the air-conditioned comfort of the store.

Hey, two of our favorite music collections (Ennio Morricone’s three-CD 50-Movie Theme Hits and Inglourious Basterds) came from Borders.

As we type this post, we’re listening to the haunting music in Morricone’s Il Trio Infernale.

Borders Store at Madison Square Garden, NYCBorders Store at Madison Square Garden, NYC
(iPhone Photo by SearchIndia.com)

Why Did Borders Fail

Borders failed for many reasons.

* Shifting Loyalties – As the Internet became more pervasive and online booksellers like Amazon offered books much cheaper than Borders, we and countless others shifted our loyalties to save a few bucks. While we all are to blame, we’re not completely culpable because books increasingly became very expensive. As we cut down our purchases at Borders, we started buying at Amazon. It was only when we found a 40%-off coupon in our e-mail, that we’d head to Borders. Continue reading »

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Indore Patalpani Accident – Going, Going, Gone!

 General, Photography  9 Responses »
Jul 182011
 
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Who says life is certain?

Tragedy sometimes strikes with stunning, cruel swiftness.

Here, watch the below video of an unfortunate incident that occurred today at the Patalpani Water Falls in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.


(Via Vasanth’s FB account)

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Incredible India 62 – Wife’s Blood Makes Him Strong

 General  12 Responses »
Jul 182011
 
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Man, it’s been a month since SI’s last installment of Incredible India, those only in India real-life stories.

Here we go with another episode.

* All these years, we deluded ourselves into believing that the way to get strong is to eat nutritious food and visit the gym regularly.

Hell, what do we know!

SI blog reader Rohit Reddy writes to inform us that in some instances the road to good health and strength is paved with blood in India.

A native of Madhya Pradesh with a yearning to be strong took a different tack to achieve his goal – drinking his wife’s blood regularly.

Bizarre as it may sound, we are not kidding.

Here, read this excerpt from the Times of India:

A 22-year-old woman in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh has told the police that her husband drank her blood for the past three years. “He used to take a syringe and draw blood from my arms,” Deepa Ahirwar said. “He would then empty it in a glass and drink it. For three years he did this on a regular basis, threatening me of dire consequences if I revealed this to anyone.”

Deepa was married to an agricultural labourer, Mahesh Ahirwar, in Shikarpura village in 2007. A few months after the marriage, Mahesh started drawing blood from his wife’s veins and consuming it. He said it made him strong and did not stop even when Deepa was pregnant.

* We’ve heard of accounts being presented to the government at the end of the financial year.

But at the famous Tirupati temple in South India the officials presents the annual accounts to ‘Lord Venkateswara,’ the presiding deity of the temple every year on July 16 in annual Anivara Asthanam festival.

Weird, these practices of the Hindus.

* In India, being taken to the police station for questioning is full of risk for the suspects, who disappear, are encountered, blinded, raped or just tortured to death, irrespective of the fact that all suspects are innocent until a court declares otherwise.

Fayaz Usmani, a suspect in the recent Mumbai blasts, was taken by the police for questioning on Saturday and before you know it the man’s dead!

Strange, indeed.

The Mumbai Police say they didn’t kill him! ;)

Related Stories:
Man drank wife’s blood for 3 years in Madhya Pradesh
CID probe ordered into death of blasts suspect

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