Peepli Live has not set the box office here on fire despite Midget Khan aggressively promoting it in the U.S. Aamir Khan left no stone unturned in promoting his production Peepli Live, supposedly a satire centering round a media circus on an Indian farmer’s proposed suicide to get government benefits. The heavy promotion notwithstanding, Peepli […]
Hey, no one ever accused our desis of overpopulating the Mensa cadre. So, is it a big surprise that the desi schmucks in the U.S., many of whom wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between class and crass if their lives depended on it, decided that Christmas is the season to feast, alas, not […]
If you take a crappy Indian novel like Five Point Someone and pee all over it, is it any surprise that the end result should turn out to be a piece of mutated trash called 3 Idiots. And to those of you who mindlessly blabber that 3 Idiots has nothing to do with Five Point […]
In these hard economic times, if your 2009 New Year Resolution is to cut back on wasteful spending and save money for the rainy days ahead, we suggest you start in the fading days of 2008 by skipping this piece of stolen junk called Ghajini. Yes, the Hindi Ghajini is the same stolen piece of […]
(For Aditya) Not since we smoked pot in secret for the first time – in our college loo of all places – have we derived so much pleasure. (Like our former President Bill Clinton, we didn’t inhale… Ha ha, as if you believe us.) Really, rarely have we seen a Hindi movie with mucho gusto […]
Just when we were resigned to the prospect of drawing a blank yet again in our Odyssean quest for fine Hindi movies, comes along a delightful Bollywood aberration called Taare Zameen Par. With its offbeat and gripping story supported by fine performances from the key players, Taare Zameen Par is an easy movie to love. Taare Zameen […]