Following on a Financial Times story last week, the WSJ (subscription required) today has a piece on Bollywood looking to tap funds on London’s Alternative Investment Market. Indian Film Co, an affiliate of Network 18 will list on AIM today following upon Bollywood film maker and distributor Eros International listing on the AIM last year. And […]
Yahoo CEO Terry CEO Terry Semel, who has deservedly been criticised for his rich pay package and not doing enough to counter the Google juggernaut, has resigned. Semel will now be non-executive chairman. Acknowledging widespread dissatisfaction with Yahoo’s recent financial performance, Semel said in his resignation letter: This is the time for new executive leadership, […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has vowed to run a dignified campaign, has attacked his rival Hillary Clinton for her “personal, financial and political ties to India” in a memo leaked to the New York Times by the Clinton camp. The caustic memo referred to Hillary Clinton as D-Punjab, a reference to Hillary’s […]
Superstar Rajnikanth and director Shankar have both come up short in the new Tamil movie Sivaji The Boss. A flawed movie in many respects, Sivaji fails to scale the lofty heights that one expects when the two top-guns in the Tamil film industry come together. We loved Shankar’s last film Anniyan and enjoyed Rajnikanth’s 2005 […]
Jhoom Bore Bore Jhoom would be a more apt name for this sleeping pill of a movie. Utterly bereft of any entertainment value, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom has no artistic raison d’etre and is an all-out assault on commonsense. Yet another sophomoric love story, Jhoom Bore Bore Jhoom’s only redeeming feature is an above par performance […]
Ah, the reach of Bollywood. It never ceases to surprise us. Who’d have thought the burka-clad Afghani women are as entranced by Bollywood films as much as we are. Indeed they are. Roshana … makes a face at us, then folds her hands together under her chin and puts on a dazed-by-romance smile, looking kind […]