By Naveen Sajid Khan’s HIMMATWALA (2013) is touted as the official remake of the eponymous 1983 super hit movie starring Jumping Jack Jeetendra and her thighness Sridevi. Unless you are a newbie to Bollywood, you know that Super Hit and Super Shit are highly synonymous in that industry and most sane humans say the 1983 […]
If Himmatwala 1983 had any virtues, it was the wanton display of Sridevi’s ‘thunder thighs’ to a nation of drooling idiots. Alas, Himmatwala 2013 lacks even that ‘merit’ given that Tamannaah Bhatia is rather effete in the thighs department. The reviews are starting to come in for Sajid Khan’s Himmatwala remake and they’re crucifying the […]
Like most odious Bollywood films, Himmatwala (1983) has its origins in South India, or what North Indians mischievously refer to as gaand Bharat. In 1981, a South Indian director with the unpronounceable appellation of Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao cobbled up a plain awful movie in the Telugu language called Ooriki Monagadu starring Krishna and Jayaprada (who won notoriety […]
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This town is full of men who deserve to die. – The Samurai to the inn-keeper in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece Yojimbo As we were watching Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961), an eerie feeling of seeing one of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns crept over us. You know, a stranger drifts into a small town where bad things […]